Theology and Tradition

T H E Role of Tradition I N Modern and Contemporary Theology: Mediating Epistemic Divides

It is not inappropriate to understand the modern and postmodern periods in the West as representing two moments of intellectual revolution. The modern era was spawned by an intellectual revolution that upset the assumptions of medieval philosophy just as postrnodernism in the contemporary period is founded on an intellectual outlook that challenges the assumptions of modern categories.' In this...

"The creation we behold": Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason and the tradition of physico-theology.

ar from being the atheist that some have portrayed, Thomas Paine was a “scientific deist” who believed that the omnipotence and benevolence of God are evident in the structure of the universe. The epigraph above is one of his most elegant expressions of this view. What is more surprising than Paine’s reverence is that The Age of Reason (1794–95) appears to owe much to a tradition of Christian a...

A Green Theology? Theology and Ecology

A would adopt a new fashion, j u m p on a new bandwagon. At best it would endorse somewhat bela tedly--abst ract policies of resource management . At worst, it would blunder into grossly Selfish ecological programmes which effectively serve the interest of the rich and the powerful. There are m a n y shades of green! Some ecological policies are unacceptable in that they overlook disadvantaged ...

Psychology and "Outworn Theology"

Theology and Religious Thought