As I find the time over the next few days, I will be posting a summary of and engagement with Bataille’s Theory of Religion. I discovered this text during an independent study of theories about desire in the 20th century [note: same one Matt's been posting such delicious little essays because of.] — I read The [...]
Tags: Desire, duration, human consciousness, Immanence, intellectual imagination, philosopher, Self-Consciousness, theologian, theory of religion, transcendence
What, exactly, does a theologian as theologian have to say about films? Or, really, about popular narrative altogether? There is a need to ask this question, because “theological criticism” is frequently attempted — not least by myself over the history of this blog, with varying success — but infrequently considered on its own, as a [...]
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A while back, I posted about how each theologian needs to define theology in order to credibly proceed in his chosen science. In the ensuing comment-dialogue, it became apparent that back of my assertions lay a conception of two kinds of theology: frozen (or static) theology and progressive (or dynamic) theology. This conception seemed to [...]
Tags: church dogma, divine faith, intellectual knowledge, karl rahner, kinds of theology, nature of theology, rc church, revelation, sufficiency of scripture, theologian
One of the tasks of every theologian must be to determine the answer to this question. He or she knows the tradition in which they long to work—but the temptation will always be to regurgitate what previous theologians have written. The value of such regurgitations is purely rhetorical or commemorative, a maintaining of inherited knowledge. [...]
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