Constructive Theology

Author : Jason A. Wyman Jr.
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506418619
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Constructive Theology written by Jason A. Wyman Jr. and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, constructive theology hasn’t been viewed or conceptualized as a movement or trend in theology on its own as a whole. Questions arise as to what constructive theology is, where it came from, why it considers itself “constructive,” and why constructive is something different from the ways in which theology has been done in the past. This book traces the overall historical arc of constructive theology, from proto-movement through the present. Inklings of constructive theology emerged well before it began to take any formalized shape. At the same time, an important shift occurred when a group of theologians decided to create the Workgroup on Constructive Theology. Further, even as the workgroup continues to work collectively, producing textbooks, statements, and methodologies concerning theology, many theologians who are not part of the workgroup or may not even know it exists have adopted the moniker of “constructive theologian.” The book also considers the term “constructive” itself, offering possible reasons and historical contexts that led to this distinction being made in contrast to “systematic” theology and its subcategories. Constructive theology speaks to a very specific, historically situated emergence in the academy generally and in theology’s attempts to engage those shifts specifically.

Author : Serene Jones
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451416299
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructive Theology written by Serene Jones and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coordinated by Serene Jones of Yale Divinity School and Paul Lakeland of Fairfield University, fifty of North America's top teaching theologians (members of the Workgroup on Constructive Christian Theology) have devised a text that allows students to experience the deeper point of theological questions, to delve into the fractures and disagreements that figured in the development of traditional Christian doctrines, and to sample the diverse and conflicting theological voices that vie for allegiance today.

Author : Marion Grau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567695182
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What is Constructive Theology? written by Marion Grau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential introduction to contemporary constructive theology charts the most important disciplinary trends of the moment. It gives a historical overview of the field and discusses key hermeneutical and methodological concerns. The contributors apply a constructive perspective to a wide range of approaches, ranging from biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial studies to comparative, political, and black theology. What is Constructive Theology? shows how diverse and interdisciplinary constructive theology can be by exploring key themes in the field. The contributors explore the porous boundaries between Christianity and other religions, reflect on contextual, liberation and constructive theologies from Africa and from Black British perspectives, explore the connection between embodiment, epistemology and hermeneutics, and take a constructive approach to the dangerous memories and theologies of colonial histories in Belgium and Native Americans in the United States. This sampler of the field will help you rethink theologies and find constructive alternatives.

Author : Molly Claire Haslam
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823239403
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Constructive Theology of Intellectual Disability written by Molly Claire Haslam and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to how little theological research has been done on intellectual (as opposed to physical) disability, this book asks, on behalf of individuals with profound intellectual disabilities, what it means to be human. That question has traditionally been answered with an emphasis on an intellectual capacity--the ability to employ concepts or to make moral choices--and has ignored the value of individuals who lack such intellectual capacities. The author suggests, rather, that human being be understood in terms of participation in relationships of mutual responsiveness, which includes but is not limited to intellectual forms of communicating. She supports her argument by developing a phenomenology of how an individual with a profound intellectual disability relates, drawn from her clinical experience as a physical therapist. She thereby demonstrates that these individuals participate in relationships of mutual responsiveness, though in nonsymbolic, bodily ways. To be human, to image God, she argues, is to respond to the world around us in any number of ways, bodily or symbolically. Such an understanding does not exclude people with intellectual disabilities but rather includes them among those who participate in the image of God.

Author : Peter Crafts Hodgson
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664254438
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winds of the Spirit written by Peter Crafts Hodgson and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextual theology; postmodernism and theology.

Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780748607983
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and Contemporary Science written by Philip Clayton and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is part of the Edinburgh Studies in Constructive Theology series, which aims to provide a dialogue between the history of Western theological traditions and the contemporary interpretative context. Intended for those with no particular historical or theological training, it guides students through the core theological issues, searching out common ground by surveying the classic works of the theological tradition.

Author : Veli-Matti Krkkinen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802868533
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christ and Reconciliation written by Veli-Matti Krkkinen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-26 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christ and Reconciliation Veli-Matti Karkkainen develops a constructive Christology and theology of salvation in dialogue with the best of Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths. Karkkainen's Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World is a five-volume project that aims to develop a new approach to and method of doing Christian theology in our pluralistic world at the beginning of the third millennium. Topics such as diversity, inclusivity, violence, power, cultural hybridity, and justice are part of the constructive theological discussion along with classical topics such as the messianic consciousness, incarnation, atonement, and the person of Christ. With the metaphor of hospitality serving as the framework for his discussion, Karkkainen engages Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism in sympathetic and critical mutual dialogue while remaining robustly Christian in his convictions. Never before has a full-scale doctrinal theology been attempted in such a wide and deep dialogical mode.

Author : William R. Barr
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructive Christian Theology in the Worldwide Church written by William R. Barr and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shai Cherry
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644693429
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coherent Judaism written by Shai Cherry and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coherent Judaism begins by excavating the theologies within the Torah and tracing their careers through the Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Any compelling, contemporary Judaism must cohere as much as possible with traditional Judaism and everything else we believe to be true about our world. The challenge is that over the past two centuries, our understandings of both the Torah and nature have radically changed. Nevertheless, much Jewish wisdom can be translated into a contemporary idiom that both coheres with all that we believe and enriches our lives as individuals and within our communities. Coherent Judaism explains why pre-modern Judaism opted to privilege consensus around Jewish behavior (halakhah) over belief. The stresses of modernity have conspired to reveal the incoherence of that traditional approach. In our post-Darwinian and post-Holocaust world, theology must be able to withstand the challenges of science and history. Traditional Jewish theologies have the resources to meet those challenges. Coherent Judaism concludes by presenting a philosophy of halakhah that is faithful to the covenantal aspiration to live long on the land that the Lord, our God, has given us.

Author : Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467440485
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trinity and Revelation written by Veli-Matti Karkkainen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-19 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Pentecostal theologian Veli-Matti Karkkainen develops a constructive theology of triune revelation and the triune God in dialogue with Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths. Karkkainen's Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World is a five-volume project that aims to develop a new approach to and method of doing Christian theology in a pluralistic world at the beginning of the third millennium. With the metaphor of hospitality serving as the framework for his discussion, Karkkainen engages Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism in sympathetic and critical mutual dialogue while remaining robustly Christian in his convictions. Never before has a fullscale doctrinal theology been attempted in such a wide and deep dialogical mode.