Banyak kalangan teologi menanggapi pertanyaan-pertanyaan dari ilmu-ilmu lain. Misalnya pertanyaan dari ilmu kedokteran: apakah kloning diperbolehkan? Banyak juga karangan teologi yang mengangkat masalah sosial dan menantang ilmu sosial, misalnya: apakah harus digunakan analisis sosial berpola konflik? Sering juga karangan teologi memakai seni ilmu-ilmu lain, umpamanya ilmu sastra-cerita dipakai…
Dogmatika adalah suatu dalil-ajaran, atau suatu rumusan tentang suatu kebenaran keagamaan. Di dalam Kekristenan, dogmatika adalah bagian dari ilmu teologi yang ada sangkut pautnya dengan isi pengakuan iman Gereja Kristen. Demikianlah buku ini disusun dengan maksud agar pokok-pokok iman Kristen digeluti dengan saksama. Dengan menyebutkan "masa kini" bukan seolah-olah buku ini hendak mengangka…
Sikap anti-teologi sangat berpengaruh dalam kebudayaan Kristen modern, baik di Barat maupun di Timur. Namun sebenarnya sikap ini adalah penyimpangan besar dari naluri Kristen pada abad-abad yang lalu. Lagi pula, mengingat bahwa agama Kristen dalam dasawarsa terakhir abad ke-20 ini menghadapi tantangan dan kesempatan yang luar biasa, maka penolakan teologi hanya membawa bencana. Sebaliknya, kita…
Rowland showcases here the dominant contemporary approaches to doing Catholic theology. Chapter 1 offers a summary of the two International Theological Commission (ITC) documents on the discipline of Catholic theology. These documents set out the general principles which should govern any approach to Catholic theology (at least according to the ITC). The subsequent chapters each focus on one of…
What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? In recent years, Enlightenment secularization, as it appeared in the global spread of political structures that relegate the sacred to a private sphere, seems suddenly to have foundered. Unexpectedly, it has discovered its own parochialism―has discovered, indeed, that secularization may never have taken place at all. With the “…
With the publication of his two early works, Black Theology & Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), James Cone emerged as one of the most theological voices in North America. These books, which offered a searing indictment of white theology and society, introduced a radical reappraisal of the Christian message for our time. Joining the spirit of Malcolm X and Martin Luth…
Templeton Foundation Character Project's Character Essay and Book Prize Competition award winner! What does it mean to love God with all of our minds? Our culture today is in a state of crisis where intellectual virtue is concerned. Dishonesty, cheating, arrogance, laziness, cowardice--such vices are rampant in society, even among the worlds most prominent leaders. We find ourselves in an eth…
In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the modern condition: a hyperpluralism of beliefs, intellectual disagreements that splinter into fractals of specialized discourse, the absence of a substantive common good, and the triumph of capitalism’s driver, consumerism.