Thinking the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American ContextFortress Press, 1 janv. 1991 - 456 pages "As the Christian movement nears the end of its second millennium, it faces a crisis that could not have been anticipated at the close of the first thousand years—or, indeed, by most of our own great-grandparents. … "Since the most conspicuous dimensions of the waning of Christendom have to do with material decline (the decline in church membership and active attendance of Sunday services, the decline in financial and physical prosperity, the decline of influence in high places), such analyses as there are usually belabor the obvious: something drastic is happening to the churches! … "Throughout most of its long history, Christianity has not required of its adherents that they should think the faith. The historical accident of its political and cultural establishment 15 centuries ago… ensured that a thinking faith would be purely optional for members of the church. … "But thought-less faith, which has always been a contradiction in terms, is today a stage on the road to the extinction, not only of Christianity itself, but of whatever the architects of our civilization meant by 'Humanity.' Only a thinking faith can survive. Only a thinking faith can help the world survive! " —From the Preface |
Table des matières
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| 57 | |
The Disciple Community | 67 |
The Meaning of Contextuality in Christian Thought | 69 |
2 Defining Contextuality | 75 |
3 Why Theology Is Contextual | 93 |
4 The Dangers of Contextuality | 110 |
5 The Process of Thinking Contextually | 126 |
17 Apocalyptic Consciousness and the Rise of Religious Simplism | 228 |
Conclusion and Transition | 237 |
The Discipline | 245 |
Elements of the Discipline | 247 |
18 Theology and Faith | 248 |
19 Theology and the Bible | 257 |
20 Theology and Doctrinal Traditions | 263 |
21 Theology and Experience | 272 |
What Makes for Contextuality in Christian Theology? | 141 |
Discerning Our Context | 145 |
8 Prisoners of Optimism | 158 |
9 Invitation to Theology | 169 |
10 Visions in the Night | 177 |
Components of Our Context | 197 |
11 The End of the Constantinian Era | 200 |
12 Religious Pluralism | 207 |
13 The Theological Impact of Auschwitz | 210 |
14 Marxism and the Revolution of the Oppressed | 213 |
15 The Rebellion of Nature | 219 |
16 The Nuclear Crisis | 223 |
22 Theology and Prayer | 282 |
23 Theology and the Church | 289 |
24 Theology and the World | 299 |
Theological Method | 325 |
26 Christian Apologetics | 342 |
27 Apologetic and Kerygmatic Theology in Relation to the Concern for Contextualization | 349 |
Knowing in Christian Faith and Theology | 369 |
29 Reason and Revelation | 388 |
30 What Is Revelation? | 402 |
31 Revelation and Reason | 417 |
32 Authority in Faith and Theology | 427 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Thinking the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context Douglas John Hall Affichage d'extraits - 1989 |
Thinking the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context Douglas John Hall Aucun aperçu disponible - 1991 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
apologetic aspect attempt authority become Bible biblical century Chris Christ Christian apologetics Christian belief Christian faith Christian theology Christology church conception concern condition confession contemporary contextual theology continuity creation creatures crisis culture dialogue dimension disciple community discipline discussion divine doctrine dogma dominant ethics existence existential experience fact forms George Grant George Lindbeck God's gospel hero system historical hope human Ibid illusion insists intellectual Jesus Karl Barth kerygma kind liberal living Luther matter means modern movement nature Niebuhr nuclear ourselves particular past Paul Tillich perhaps persons possible precisely present prophetic Protestant Protestantism quest question rationality reality reason reflection Reformation Reinhold Niebuhr religion religious representatives revelation Robert McAfee Brown Scriptures sense significant simply situation social society sola Scriptura speak spirit story Systematic Theology theologians theological community thing thought Tillich tradition of Jerusalem trans transcendence truth understanding University whole word worldly York
Fréquemment cités
Page 342 - The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Page 342 - Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
Page 103 - I'll go on, you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me...
Page 333 - To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews; to those under the law I became as one under the law — though not being myself under the law — that I might win those under the law.
Page 333 - And if I say I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain.
Page 342 - Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
Page 174 - Having no hope of improving their lives in any of the ways that matter, people have convinced themselves that what matters is psychic self-improvement: getting in touch with their feelings, eating health food, taking lessons in ballet or belly-dancing, immersing themselves in the wisdom of the East, jogging, learning how to 'relate,' overcoming the 'fear of pleasure.