Religion and the Human Future An Essay on Theological Humanism

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1 Paul Ricoeur, “Faith and Culture,” in 2 See John W. de Gruchy, and Joseph Bien (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1975), p. 126.Chapter 4 The Logic of Christian HumanismConfessions of a Christian HumanistPolitical and Social Essays, ed. David Stewart (Minneapolis:

3 See James M. Gustafson, Fortress, 2006).University of Chicago Press, 1983). We address Gustafson’s position later in this book and show that theological humanism, precisely as theological, does not fall to the charge of anthropocentrism.Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, 2 Vol. (Chicago:
4 Alasdair C. MacIntyre, 5 John Calvin, the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Centuryof Notre Dame Press, 1998), p. 117.Ford Lewis Battles (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1960), I, 3, 1.Institutes of the ChristianA Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philsophy from Religion, 2 vols., ed. John T. McNeill, trans. , 2nd edn. (Notre Dame, IN: University
6 John Wesley, “The Way to the Kingdom” in 8 See Martin Luther’s 7 See H. Richard Niebuhr, Series (London: Epworth Press, 1944), p. 77.KY: Westminster John Knox, 1993).Lectures on GalatiansRadical Monotheism and Western Culture (1535) in Sermons on Several OccasionsLuther’s Works, vols. 26–7 (Louisville, , First
9 See Athanasius, “On the Incarnation” in 10 Paul Tillich, “Two Types of Philosophy of Religion” in (St. Louis: Concordia Press, 1963).(New York: Paulist Press, 1980).R. C. Kimball (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 10.Athanasius, ed. Robert C. Gregg Theology of Culture, ed.
11 See David Tracy, 12 For the use of Anselm’s ontological argument as a theological criterion, see PluralismDavid E. Klemm and William Klink, “Constructing and Testing Theological Models” (New York: Crossroad, 1981).Zygon: A Journal for Religion and ScienceThe Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of , 38, no. 3 (September, 2003):
495–528. Two very different twentieth-century thinkers, Karl Barth and Charles Hartshorne, each used this principle as well. See Karl Barth, Quaerens Intellectumand Charles Hartshorne, Theological humanism represents a distinctive use of the Anselmic principle to , trans, Ian W. Robertson (Pittsburgh: Wipf & Stock, 1975) The Logic of Perfection (LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 1962). Anselm: Fides
13 John Clayton, “The Otherness of Anselm” in 14 By analyzing the concept of the highest good in terms of the mutual infusion test theological claims.F. Summerell (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998), p. 15.of happiness and holiness this strand of thought not only draws on ancient The Otherness of God, ed. Orrin
themes in moral philosophy, but also anticipates modern forms of thought running from Immanuel Kant’s ethics to recent discussions.

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