Showing papers in "Theology in 2013"
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TL;DR: In this article, a collective attempt to map the terrain of Christian ecotheology on the basis of the metaphor of a journey is made, and various dimensions of this journey are identified and described.
Abstract: This contribution is a collective attempt to map the terrain of Christian ecotheology on the basis of the metaphor of a journey. Various dimensions of this journey are identified and described. The...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the contributions of two leading atheists, Richard Dawkins and Alain Badiou, to the Bible as a disordered and chaotic anthology of events.
Abstract: This essay begins by contrasting the contributions of two leading atheists. Richard Dawkins dismisses the Bible as a disordered and chaotic anthology. Alain Badiou, in contrast, engages it (specifically the writings of Paul) as material that creatively maintains fidelity to revolutionary events. Badiou’s insight is taken here as a prompt to explore the diverse biblical witnesses to creation, which, as in the case of the resurrection, resists conceptual control. The Jewish and Christian traditions of creation theology can thereby offer an opportunity to explore, in the company of atheists, the ambiguities of the biblical canons and the capillaries of their socially formative effects.
TL;DR: The authors argue for the necessity of what Bernard Lonergan calls "intellectual conversion" to distinguish scientific issues from metaphysical ones, and illustrate the confusions that arise when such conversion is lacking, and how such conversion can assist in moving the discussion about science and religion forward.
Abstract: The ‘new atheism’ has difficulty distinguishing scientific issues from metaphysical ones. Still many theologians and philosophers have the same difficulty. This paper argues for the necessity of something like what Bernard Lonergan calls ‘intellectual conversion’ to help make this distinction. Drawing on the work of physicist Lawrence Krauss and Augustine’s narrative of his own intellectual conversion, the paper illustrates the confusions that arise when such conversion is lacking, and how such conversion can assist in moving the discussion about science and religion forward.
TL;DR: In this article, a critical reflection on C. S. Lewis's rich apologetic method, especially in Mere Christianity, is presented, which is shown to mix an explicit appeal to reason and an implicit appeal to the ima...
Abstract: This study is a critical reflection on C. S. Lewis’s rich apologetic method, especially in Mere Christianity, which is shown to mingle an explicit appeal to reason and an implicit appeal to the ima...
TL;DR: In his essay ‘Fernseed and Elephants’ C. S. Lewis was highly critical of the New Testament scholarship of the time (1959), especially scholarly scepticism about the historicity of the Gospels as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In his essay ‘Fernseed and Elephants’ C. S. Lewis was highly critical of the New Testament scholarship of the time (1959), especially scholarly scepticism about the historicity of the Gospels. This...
TL;DR: The authors argue that for Lewis the interplay between Reason and Imagination is crucial, and that his own conversion to Christianity involved a profound reconciliation of these two faculties which he had lost.
Abstract: This article argues that for Lewis the interplay between Reason and Imagination is crucial. His own conversion to Christianity involved a profound reconciliation of these two faculties which he had...
TL;DR: The history, current status and possible future directions of the emerging field of ecotheology are discussed in this article, with the hope that Christian animism, the vision of a shared and verdant Earth saturated with divine presence, can religiously charge transformative responses to the crisis of unsustainable living.
Abstract: This brief essay offers an analysis of the history, current status and possible future directions of the emerging field of ecotheology based on an ecotheology colloquium meeting in San Francisco in November 2011. The essay ends with the hope that Christian animism – the vision of a shared and verdant Earth saturated with divine presence – can religiously charge transformative responses to the crisis of unsustainable living today.