The Craft Of Innovative Theology

Author : John Allan Knight,Ian S. Markham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119601555

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The Craft of Innovative Theology by John Allan Knight,Ian S. Markham Pdf

A comprehensive collection of resources showing students of theology how to prepare and write creative research-oriented material The Craft of Innovative Theology: Argument and Process delivers a thorough examination of the method of producing and writing creative theological theses and projects, explaining to students how to write elegant, innovative research-oriented articles. Through a collection of papers written by distinguished scholars, the text exhibits numerous examples of well-executed creative writing on topics as varied as theodicy and evolution, and artificial intelligence and baptism. Each article includes an introduction by the editor that serves to guide the student through the material and elucidates what makes the work stand out as exceptional. The articles are also annotated to assist with the appreciation of the methodology and style used by the author. The Craft of Innovative Theology assists theology students in improving their research writing to a point where they’ll be ready for a Masters’ thesis or PhD dissertation, and is an excellent resource for a research methods course in a graduate program. The works incorporated by the editors include: A thorough introduction to God and the Incarnation, including knowing God through religious pluralism An exploration of God and church, including racial stigma and the southern Baptist public discourse in the twentieth century, and the appropriateness of baptizing artificial intelligence A discussion of God and the world, including where humanity has come from and where we’re going, and the challenges posed by biological evolution to Christian theology A treatment of God and ethics, including sin and the faces of responsibility Perfect for students of postgraduate theology and research methods courses, The Craft of Innovative Theology: Argument and Process will also earn a place in the libraries of students in courses that prepare them to write a Masters’ thesis in theology or to begin shaping their PhD dissertation topic.

Author : Perry Shaw,Havilah Dharamraj
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783684267

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Challenging Tradition by Perry Shaw,Havilah Dharamraj Pdf

The surge of theological education in the rapidly growing church of the Majority World has highlighted the inadequacy of traditional Western methods of thinking and learning to fully accomplish the task at hand. The limitations of current theological education are embodied in the formation and assessment of the master’s or doctoral dissertation; processes that follow a linear-empiricist tradition developed in the West and exported to the Majority World. Challenging Tradition: Innovation in Advanced Theological Studies highlights the need for these traditions to be reconsidered in every context throughout the world. Drs Shaw and Dharamraj, with their team of contributors, present innovations in research and documentation that demonstrate how we may better prepare theological leadership through means that are contextually relevant and locally meaningful.

Author : Lanny Vincent
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532608698

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Innovation Theology by Lanny Vincent Pdf

Innovation Theology: A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration invites seminary leaders to explore an uncharted territory--theology for innovating. This unexplored terrain of practical and applied theology holds gems of substantive and practical wisdom for innovating in the marketplace, society, and church. Innovation Theology brings theological perspectives to the challenges of innovating and promises to transform how we make sense of change and where (and why) we choose to innovate. Innovation Theology makes the case that God continues to create and continues to invite us, through change, to co-create new value for others (i.e., innovate). Innovation Theology explores where discovery, invention, and value creation intersect (or not) with the intentions of God. Not to be confused with workplace spirituality, business ethics, or critiques of technology, theology for innovating can encourage scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to aim their innovating toward the common good, not just in response to the invisible hand of the market. Innovation Theology invites us to make meaning before money, aim for plumb lines before bottom lines, and reattach extrinsic to intrinsic value. The one for whom all things are possible is interested, invested, and engaged in innovating. Are we innovating with him, or not?

Author : Peter Furlong,Leigh Vicens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009249386

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Theological Determinism by Peter Furlong,Leigh Vicens Pdf

Theological determinism and its relationship to creation, free will, evil, and other topics, are analyzed by fifteen philosophers and theologians.

Author : Aku Visala,Olli-Pekka Vainio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000790047

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Theological Perspectives on Free Will by Aku Visala,Olli-Pekka Vainio Pdf

Free will is a perennial theological and philosophical topic. As a central dogmatic locus, it is implicated in discussions around core Christian doctrines such as grace, salvation, sin, providence, evil, and predestination. This book offers a state-of-the-art look at recent debates about free will in analytic and philosophical theology. The chapters revolve around three central themes: the debate between theological compatibilists and libertarians, the communal nature of Christian freedom, and the role of free will in Christology. With contributions by leading scholars, the volume provides a valuable overview of current arguments as well as novel openings and ideas for further discussion.

Author : Avery Robert Dulles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Theology
ISBN : 0717119963

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The Craft of Theology by Avery Robert Dulles Pdf

Author : Lanny Vincent
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532608803

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A Primer on Innovation Theology by Lanny Vincent Pdf

What does innovation have in common with theology? More than you might think. Both are ways people attempt to make sense. Both have to do with value and knowledge creation. Both have much to say about change and how we respond to it (or not). And both affect human culture and physical realities with implications for generations to come. A Primer on Innovation Theology explores the territory where innovating and theology intersect. At this intersection, the Primer pours a theological foundation for innovators who aim to create new value for the common good, realize sustainable more than acquisitive value, and pursue generous and just relationships more than merely transactional ones. Adapted from the larger, original volume Innovation Theology: A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration, A Primer is intended for lay audiences, especially innovators, intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and investors who are theologically curious about their own roles and responsibilities. Change is unrelenting. How we choose to respond can insolate, insulate, or innovate. If we choose to innovate, our aim is to create new value for others. The success and failure of these aims may reveal whether we are innovating where the plumb lines of God may be more important than the bottom lines of our efforts, in other words, in the company of God.

Author : Leigh Vicens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009270441

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Christianity and the Problem of Free Will by Leigh Vicens Pdf

Central to the teachings of Christianity is a puzzle: on the one hand, sin seems something that humans do not do freely and so cannot be not responsible for, since it is unavoidable; on the other hand, sin seems something that we must be responsible for and so do freely, since we are enjoined to repent of it, and since it makes us liable to divine condemnation and forgiveness. After laying out the puzzle in more depth, this Element considers three possible responses—libertarian, soft determinist, and free-will skeptic—and weighs the costs and benefits of each.

Author : Avery Dulles
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015034283559

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The Craft of Theology by Avery Dulles Pdf

Illustrates how a "post-critical" theology can draw on the riches of scripture and tradition as it reflects on the faith of the church in new contexts.

Author : Sam Mahlstadt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984807500

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Creative Theology by Sam Mahlstadt Pdf

The foundational belief that drove the writing of this book is that there is something about creativity that is deeply theological. I believe that if we explore the relational force of creativity and the Creator, we will uncover something both fascinating and life-changing. I call this a creative theology.

Author : Kathryn Reklis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199373062

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Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination by Kathryn Reklis Pdf

Beauty, bodily knowledge, and desire have emerged as candidates to reorient theological reflection by subverting the fragmentation of the self wrought by Western Enlightenment philosophies and the political and economic regimes those philosophies fund. Reklis returns to a particular moment in the history of Protestant Christianity and its collusion with the creation of this modern, rational subject: the publicly rehearsed theological debates regarding the series of 18th century Atlantic world revivals known as the Great Awakening and the work of pro-revivalist theologian Jonathan Edwards.

Author : Matthew Ryan Robinson,Inja Inderst
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783374070305

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What Does Theology Do, Actually? by Matthew Ryan Robinson,Inja Inderst Pdf

»What Does Theology Do, Actually? Observing Theology and the Transcultural« is to be the first in a series of 5 books, each presented under the same question – »What Does Theology Do, Actually?«, with vols. 2–5 focusing on one of the theological subdisciplines. This first volume proceeds from the observation of a need for a highly inflected »trans-cultural«, and not simply »inter-cultural«, set of perspectives in theological work and training. The revolution brought about across the humanities disciplines through globalization and the recognition of »multiple modernities« has introduced a diversity of overlapping cultural content and multiple cultural and religious belongings not only into academic work in the humanities and social sciences, but into the Christian churches as well.

Author : Paul Avis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134609383

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God and the Creative Imagination by Paul Avis Pdf

'A mere metaphor', 'only symbolic', 'just a myth' - these tell tale phrases reveal how figurative language has been cheapened and devalued in our modern and postmodern culture. In God and the Creative Imagination, Paul Avis argues the contrary: we see that actually, metaphor, symbol and myth, are the key to a real knowledge of God and the sacred. Avis examines what he calls an alternative tradition, stemming from the Romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth and Keats and drawing on the thought of Cleridge and Newman, and experience in both modern philosophy and science. God and the Creative Imagination intriguingly draws on a number of non-theological disciplines, from literature to philosophy of science, to show us that God is appropriately likened to an artist or poet and that the greatest truths are expressed in an imaginative form. Anyone wishing to further their understanding of God, belief and the imagination will find this an inspiring work.

Author : Justin Ariel Bailey
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493437825

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Interpreting Your World by Justin Ariel Bailey Pdf

Whether we interpret Scripture or culture, it matters what we do, not just what we think or feel. How do we live with our interpretation, and how do we live it out? This book helps us understand how culture forms us as political actors, moves us aesthetically, shapes the rhythms of our lives, and connects (or disconnects) us from God and neighbors we are called to love. The goal is to be equipped to engage culture with greater fluency and fidelity in response to the triune God. This short, accessible introduction to the conversation between theology and culture offers a patient, thoughtful, and theologically attuned approach to cultural discernment. It helps us grow our interpretive skill by training our intuition and giving us a slower, more deliberate approach that accounts for as much of the complexity of culture as possible. The book explores 5 dimensions of culture--meaning, power, morality, religion, and aesthetic--and shows how each needs the others and all need theology. Each chapter includes distinctive practices for spiritual formation and practical application. Foreword by Kevin J. Vanhoozer.

Author : Steve Taylor
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334058472

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First Expressions by Steve Taylor Pdf

Seeking insight from the real-life development of the earliest expressions of emerging church from their birth, through times of adolescent angst and into the reality of adulthood, this book offers a unique insight into the long-term sustainability of fresh expressions. Presenting the lived practice of the church in mission through a longitudinal lens, and eschewing the rose-tinted approach, it considers the reality of emerging churches - their birth and death, their creativity and conflict, their dreams and despair. A picture of a church that is neither gathered and parish nor independent and networked emerges as the biographies of mission are brought into dialogue with a very ancient expression of mission, the birth of Philippians as a first expression of church in Europe..