A Theology of Religious Change

A Theology of Religious Change
Author: David Zehnder
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2011-06-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1610973593

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A Theology of Religious Change asks a simple question with a complicated answer: Why do people change religious faiths? The study invites its readers on a trek through sociological and psychological literature that suggests many causes of religious change. Moving beyond a mere catalogue of motives for conversion, the author explores how a theological account of conversion and the doctrine of election can be broadened, strengthened, and reformulated in light of the complexity of faith's human side. This book seeks to guide pastors, church workers, and theologians in their task of communicating the message of good news effectively by drawing attention to the diverse factors influencing religious change.

A Church that Can and Cannot Change

A Church that Can and Cannot Change
Author: John Thomas Noonan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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Noonan's analysis of the development in Catholic moral teaching on usury, contraception, religious freedom, slave-holding, and divorce.

Methods for the Study of Religious Change

Methods for the Study of Religious Change
Author: A. F. Droogers
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781781790434

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Aims to redefine the study of religion as the study of worldviews, of ideas which are active in shaping the world. It argues that the study of religion should focus on people's worldview-making capacities and should contribute to the critical analysis of global problems and the promotion of cultural and spiritual respect across religions.

Radical Theology

Radical Theology
Author: Jeffrey W. Robbins
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2016-08-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253022126

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"Radical theology" and "political theology" are terms that have gained a lot of currency among philosophers of religion today. In this visionary new book, Jeffrey W. Robbins explores the contemporary direction of these movements as he charts a course for their future. Robbins claims that radical theology is no longer bound by earlier thinking about God and that it must be conceived of as postsecular and postliberal. As he engages with themes of liberation, gender, and race, Robbins moves beyond the usual canon of death-of-God thinkers, thinking "against" them as much as "with" them. He presents revolutionary thinking in the face of changing theological concepts, from reformation to transformation, transcendence to immanence, messianism to metamorphosis, and from the proclamation of the death of God to the notion of God's plasticity.

Does God Suffer?

Does God Suffer?
Author: Thomas Gerard Weinandy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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The author of this book challenges the contemporary view of God and suffering. Calling upon scripture, and the philosophical and theological tradition of the Fathers and Aquinas, he advocates the incarnational truth that the Son of God actually does experience human living, including suffering.

Historical Theology

Historical Theology
Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725234068

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Change is a universal phenomenon that commands the attention of the historian. For Christian theology, change raises special difficulties. How are we to reconcile the notion of the revelation of an unchanging God, who is abiding truth, with the notion of the pervading mutability of all human affairs? This problem, which is as old as religion, is intensified by the Christian belief in the fullness and finality of the revelation made through Jesus Christ. Professor Pelikan begins his study of historical theology with this basic problem and traces the origins of the difficulties that inevitably follow upon the admission of the possibility of change. His investigations lead him to critically examine the dogmatic solution of Vincent of Lerins, the later dialectical interpretation of Abelard, the approach of Thomas Aquinas, and finally, the nineteenth century's Adolf von Harnack to propose a working definition of Christian doctrine and of the task of the historical theologian. Pelikan's work is a perceptive and penetrating study of the interaction of history and theology. Theology must be historical because man is historical. To neglect history, or worse still, to renounce it, is to deny man and theology their common future. Historical Theology is a worthy introduction to a task that must continually seek to weld past, present, and future into a living whole.

A Theology of Religious Change

A Theology of Religious Change
Author: David Joshua Zehnder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2011
Genre: Christianity and the social sciences
ISBN:

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Christianity in the Modern World

Christianity in the Modern World
Author: Afe Adogame
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317166531

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What is the state of Christianity today, and what might it look like in the future? In the West, the story for a long time has revolved around decline and the loss of monopoly status, but how are these shifts changing the practice of Christianity or individual belief? Similarly, the rapid growth of Christianities in the Global South has been well reported, but the continuing complex intersections of mission Christianity with indigenous religions are less well known. Large-scale flows of people across increasingly fluid borders mean that not only does immigration sometimes significantly boost Christian numbers in a given country, but that different forms of Christianity shift traditional religious landscapes. How will emerging trends such as 'reverse mission' from the Global South affect Christianities in areas more used to sending rather than receiving missions? As the majority of believers shifts from the West to the Global South, how will issues such as homosexuality be played out theologically, politically and individually? Will new virtual churches manage to create viable long-term communities? How does new festival Christianity function in the religious life of an individual? The divergent and oftentimes contradictory state of Christianity in the modern world fuels questions about its place and future in the world: in politics, education and healthcare. This book brings together cutting edge research on the most recent changes and trends in Christianity worldwide. Contributors drawn from the USA, UK and Europe, Africa and East Asia offer an invaluable breadth of coverage, expertise and disciplinary perspective at the intersections between sociology of religion, theology, politics, education and human geography.

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion
Author: Lewis R. Rambo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 829
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199713545

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The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world. Scholars from a wide array of religions and disciplines interpret both the varieties of conversion experiences and the processes that inform this personal and communal phenomenon. This volume examines the experiences of individuals and communities who change religions, those who experience an intensification of their religion of origin, and those who encounter new religions through colonial intrusion, missionary work, and charismatic and revitalization movements. The thirty-two innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. The essays also offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, political, feminist, and geographical-on methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.

Paradigm Change in Theology

Paradigm Change in Theology
Author: Hans Küng
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1989
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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Can a unifying pattern or 'paradigm' be found in Christian theology in spite of the apparent range of different theories, methods and structures which exist in theology today? Taking Thomas S. Kuhn's definition of 'paradigm' as their starting point, 'ann entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques shared by the members of a given community, ' an international group of scholars systematically explores this question. --From publisher's description.