Religion and the Human Future An Essay on Theological Humanism

The Shape of Theological Humanism 34 stresses the social character of human existence rather than the solitude of the garden.the ...

The Humanist Imagination 35 the self that fashion the self. Michel Foucault, while profoundly interested in self-fashioning, wou ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 36 now called neohumanism, intimations of which we have noted above. Neohumanist thinkers like ...

The Humanist Imagination 37 articulates a multidimensional perspective on human life through the use of a range of metaphors abo ...

This chapter is about theology – the ancient and constantly revised traditions which inquire about the meaning, truth, and goodn ...

Thinking of God 39 demand to make general claims of meaning and truth. They do so not only on conservative, religious grounds, b ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 40 fails to make a normative claim on human life. It is a short step from the principle of und ...

Thinking of God 41 or “second” naïveté that is reflective as well as responsive.has always felt the twofold claim of way of reco ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 42 means “truthful explaining” of divine appearances, then theology sides with critique and be ...

Thinking of God 43 In this creedal expression, critical thinking is at the service of religion. Critique extracts the articles o ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 44 He attacked the possibility of using biblical revelation to provide a solid basis for theol ...

Thinking of God 45 from the dream of religion is to “cease to be the victim, the plaything, of all those hostile powers which fr ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 46 text. Instead, he accepted the idolatry of every theology and religion, saying, “Only God h ...

Thinking of God 47 we do – we can identify this thing as a chair or a dog)? We can do so because thingspossible for us to know t ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 48 “one in the many” (the being of all entities, which is truth or goodness) to a more determi ...

Thinking of God 49 thinking is that it substitutes a necessity of thinking (we must think an unmoved mover) for the necessity of ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 50 to grasp the absolute. Hegel understood the historical dimension of spirit; he did not gras ...

Thinking of God 51 dimension of human experience which satisfies the expectations aroused by the name God. Theologies in this me ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 52 non-being, nothingness. In those events, Tillich was even willing to speak of “ecstatic hum ...

Thinking of God 53 freedom of its proper motivation toward noble and true ends, even as it actualizes freedom. Conversely, theis ...