Sökning: "HUMANITIES and RELIGION Religion Theology Systematic theology"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 69 avhandlingar innehållade orden HUMANITIES and RELIGION Religion Theology Systematic theology.
1. The Order of Value : Christian Theology and the Market Economy
Sammanfattning : This study explores the relationship between Christian theology and the market economy, with a particular focus on value theory. Its backdrop is the scholarly recognition of the historical intertwinement of Christian theology and secular society. LÄS MER
2. Perseverance without doctrine : Adorno, self-critique, and the ends of academic theology
Sammanfattning : The study approaches the question of the role and legitimacy of academic theology given a certain theoretical conception of the intellectual situation. From the perspective of a critical interpretation of some contemporary problems of theology, on the one hand, and some problematic aspects of secular thought, on the other, the study inquires into the notion of theology for a self-critical theoretical potential of general academic value. LÄS MER
3. Reconciliation and the Search for a Shared Moral Landscape – An exploration based upon a study of Northern Ireland and South Africa
Sammanfattning : In Northern Ireland and South Africa obstacles to reconciliation were found in these elements of a “moral landscape”: – Experiences of trauma, separation and inequalities, – Divergent views of the conflict and of “the other”, – Opposing identifications and loyalties, – Norms for interaction, – Contestant interpretations of values such as “peace” and “justice”. This study describes how these obstacles have been addressed in: 1) Efforts, particularly by ecumenical groups, to bridge the Catholic/Protestant divide in Northern Ireland. LÄS MER
4. The Dark Night : St John of the Cross and Eastern Orthodox Theology
Sammanfattning : Russian émigré theologian Vladimir Lossky's (1903-1958) claims in his classic study of 1944, The Mystical Theology of Eastern Church, that the emphasis on the experience of spiritual separation from God in Western mystical theology ultimately goes back to how Latin churches began to add the word filioque (and-of-the-Son) to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in the sixth century. In his explanation Lossky discusses the theology of the Greek fathers suggesting that the idea of the Spirit’s generation from both the Father and the Son both builds upon and generates philosophical ideas that conflict with the possibility of receiving personal experiential knowledge of God. LÄS MER
5. Constructivism, Essentialism, and the Between : Human Being and Vulnerability in Judith Butler, Steven Pinker and Colin Gunton
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the division between biology and the social by means of Christian theology. The question is approached by reading and interacting critical theorist Judith Butler, psycholinguist Steven Pinker and theologian Colin Gunton.With Gunton the author argues that a relational, but ‘weak’, ontology is needed. LÄS MER
