Tag: constructive theology
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How Free is the God of Constructive Theology?
Schneider, Laurel C. and Ray, Stephen G., Jr., editors. Awake to the Moment: An Introduction to Theology. Westminster John Knox Press, 2016. My recent reading and reflecting on The Freedom of God and Human Liberation prompted me to revisit and reconsider Awake to the Moment, an introduction to constructive theology. Would that text look different…
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More on “Tradition in Action”
Notes on Awake to the Moment1, “Tradition in Action” (69-104): The second chapter of Awake to the Moment discusses Christian “tradition” as a resource for constructive theology. What most readers probably think of as tradition, “sets of shared meanings and practices that repeat, or have continuity with, the past” poses both “problems and possibilities” for…
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Notes on “Tradition in Action”
As I continue slowly wending my way through Awake to the Moment1 in the short breaks between working on class, here are a few summary notes of the first couple of pages in the next chapter, “Tradition in Action”: Tradition needs to be flexible enough to enable its adherents to respond to a changing world…
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Meeting the Cloud of Unknowing in the Union Hall
Finishing up the first chapter of Awake to the Moment1, “What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Context and Questions,” here are my summary notes and comments: It is difficult to know anything, but particularly difficult to know God, who is infinite and mysterious. The doctrine of revelation doesn’t eliminate the need…
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Past Ways of Knowing
Still engaging with Awake to the Moment1 and still looking at “what resources and ways of thinking we might bring to bear” on addressing the central questions of theological knowledge from a constructive theological point of view (26); the third “suggestion” on this score is “Learn from Others in History Who Have Thought about Knowing”…
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Pay Attention to the Relationship between Knowing and Power
Slowly making my way through Awake to the Moment, here are my summary notes and comments on the next couple of sections of “What Do We Know and How? Context and Questions”: Still looking at “what resources and ways of thinking we might bring to bear” on addressing the central questions of theological knowledge from…
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“Make Room for Skepticism”
Here’s another tiny bite of theology – my summary notes and comments on the next few pages of Awake to the Moment, which include the first couple of sections of the chapter on epistemology, “What Do We Know and How? Context and Questions” (19-34): Summary Notes: The authors start out talking about the end of…
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Waking Up to the Moment
I’m starting out the theological year by reading Awake to the Moment: An Introduction to Theology.1 This book has sat reproachfully on the “read me” shelf almost since it came out in 2016, while other preoccupations kept pushing it aside, so I’m getting to it at last with a mixture of relief and excitement. Although…
Matters of Interpretation 