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"Did God Really Say That?" Theology in the Age of Reductionism |
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Contents |
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Note: page numbers correspond with pdf version of study
Ch 1 Introducing the Context 1
The Emerging Context of Theology 1 What and Who Emerge from Theology’s Context 3 Shaped by Our Underlying Theological Anthropology 6 Hybrid Theology: Theology on Our Terms 8 The Basis for Distinguished Theological Trajectory 12 The Coherence of God’s Self-Revelation 15 The Unavoidable Challenge of the Face of Theology 19
Ch 2 The Globalization of Reductionism 21
The Emergence of Reductionism 22 The Scope of Reductionism 24 Reductionism Exposed and Made Explicit 29 Jesus, ‘the Presence of the Whole’, Exposes Reductionism 30 Paul Confronts Reductionism 34
Ch 3 Theological Formalization of Reductionism: Negative and Positive Theologies 39
Negative Theology 40 Positive Theology 46 Statements of Affirmation, Assertion, even Dogmatism 48 Statements of Systematization 56 Statements of Inclusion 58
Ch 4 The Theological Task Made Whole 63
Accounting for the Theological Task 63 Clarifying the Theological Task and Its Terms 67 The Heart of the Theological Task 72 Doing Egology or Living Theology 75
Ch 5 The Outcome of Whole Theology 85
Divided Theology 86 The Human Condition and Anthropology 95 Theology without the Veil 104 Theology Made Whole 109 The Seeds of New Wine Theology 119
Ch 6 The Relational Outcome of Whole Theology and Practice 123
The Relational Outcome Unfolds 123 The Gospel of Wholeness 128 Sprouting New Wine 131 The Challenge of What on the Cross and Who to Follow 139 New View of the Cross 139 The View from the Cross 142 Who to Follow 150 The Relational Outcome of Church in Likeness 153 Jesus’ Post-Ascension Discourse for Ecclesiology to be Whole 155 Paul’s Basis for the Ecclesiology of the Whole 165 The Academy in Likeness of Its God 173 “The language you use will be the Word you get” 173
“The interpretive framework,
lens and hermeneutic you use will be “The epistemic process you engage will be the theology & practice you get” 182 The Nature of Old Wineskins and the Flow of the New Wine 187
Ch 7 Theological Education in the Age of Reductionism 193
The What of Theological Education 194 Understanding the Nature of the Word Used for Its Purpose 194 Knowing the Word’s Identity Used in Its Curriculum 199 The Who of Theological Education 202 The How of Theological Education 208 The Three “AREs” of Jesus’ Pedagogy: 209 The Competing Dynamic of Theological Education 214 Ongoing Reciprocal afterWord 218
Scripture Index (Primary Source) 223
Bibliography (Secondary Source) 226
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