Book Review: III. Systematic and Apologetic Theology: Irenic Theology

Systematic Theology - Volume I

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 ...

Systematic Theology: Task and Methods

method or conceptual discipline, but rather represented a way of life and a discovery of one’s self. The philosopher was much more a spiritual adviser than a professor. He exhorted his students to mold themselves through a conversion of attention and through spiritual exercises to follow the paths of wisdom. As Pierre Hadot has noted, the discourse on the transcendent and the spiritual experien...

The Significance of Systematic Theology

The two previous articles in this three part series on the subject of systematic theology [published in the Conservative Theological Journal – see footnotes] dealt with the definition of systematic theology as well as the contribution that dispensational premillennialism makes to systematic theology. This final article of the series gets to the most fundamental issue by answering the question, ...

Liberation Theology

The liberation-theology movement was partly inspired by the Second Vatican Council and the 1967 papal encyclical Populorum progressio. Its leading exponents include Gutierrez, Leonardo Boff of Brazil, and Juan Luis Segundo of Uruguay. The liberationists have received encouragement from the Latin American bishops, especially in resolutions adopted at a 1968 conference in Medellin, Colombia; othe...