Contemporary Theologies - An Outline by Domenic Marbaniang

Domenic Marbaniang: Contemporary Theologies - Outline: UNDERSTANDING THIS AGE Modern Period (19th & Early 20th Centuries) Post-Modern Period (Late 20th Century) Post-Postmodern Period

UNDERSTANDING THIS AGE Modern Period (19th & Early 20th Centuries) Post-Modern Period (Late 20th Century) Post-Postmodern Period (21st Century) MODERN PERIOD (19TH & EARLY 20TH CENTURIES) Rationalism Scientific Temper Utopianism Secularism Skepticism Liberalism POST-MODERN PERIOD (LATE 20TH CENTURY) Mood Against Truth (No Absolutes) Rejection of Reason Emphasis on Style over Substance Privatization of Morals (Morals are personal) Pluralism Image or Virtual Culture Rejection of Metanarratives POST-POSTMODERN AGE (21ST C) Intense Globalization and Trans-nationalism Intense Fundamentalism Return to Modernism Between Modernism and Post-modernism Neo-romanticism (Attempting to turn finite into infinite) Pseudo-modernism (Internet Culture of Clicks, Likes, and Downloads) LIBERALISM Friedrich Schliermacher, Harold De Wolf Rationalism and Scientific Temper Genesis 1-11 as Mythological. Not Literal. No Original Sin. Hyper Contextualization of Theology Emphasis on Natural Theology (Natural Religion) Anti-orthodoxy, Anti-traditionalism Scientific Method Emphasis on Experience or Empirical Research Undermining of Sin Division of Jesus of History from Christ of Faith Rejection of Fundamentals such as Trinity, Original Sin, Virgin Birth, Inerrancy of Bible, Atonement, Second Coming NEO-ORTHODOXY Karl Barth, Emil Brunner Emphasis on Biblical Encounter Revelation (Barth called natural theology as demonic; Brunner accepted it) Emphasis on the Transcendence of God. God is the “wholly other” Emphasis on Regeneration by Grace from Original Sin Personal Revelation, Not Propositional Revelation. Encountering Christ as the Word. Christo-centric Theology PROCESS THEOLOGY A.N.Whitehead, Teilhard De Chardin, Charles Hartshorne God is mutable, temporal, and passible (i.e. affected by the world) Everything, including God, is in process Everything in nature has value, every living being is equally important. Eco-centric Theology The world is in some sense part of God (Panentheism) God is in some sense a physical or material being. Emphasis on freewill God feels how we feel without feeling as we feel (e.g. God feels our fear of death but He doesn’t fear death) EXISTENTIAL THEOLOGY Soren Kierkegaard, Paul Tillich, Rudolf Bultmann Existence precedes essence Emphasis on Being God as the Ground of Being (God Above God) Christ is the manifestation of the New Being Authentic Existence Anthropo-centric Theology Demythologization SECULAR THEOLOGY Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Harvey Cox Secularization as a Biblical Process in History Emancipation of Church from State Religionless Christianity Church as Witness Church as Transforming Factor DEATH OF GOD SCHOOL Gabriel Vahanian, Paul Van Buren, William Hamilton, John A.T. Robinson, Thomas J. J. Altizer, John D. Caputo Contemporary culture is godless God is Dead Vs There is No God Do-It-Yourself Religion (Don’t wait for God) Anti-Traditional Engagement with (not isolation from) the World Churchless Christianity LIBERATION THEOLOGY Martin Luther Jr. King, Desmond Tutu, Arvind Nirmal, V. Devasahayam, Mary Daly, Rosemary Radford Ruether. Social Christianity Justice & Equality Black Liberation Theology Feminist Liberation Theology Dalit Liberation Theology Palestinian Liberation Theology DOMINION THEOLOGY R. J. Rushdoony, Gary North, Peter Wagner Christian Reconstructionism: Calvinism, Cessationism, Post-millenialism, Biblical Law Kingdom Now Theology: Apostolic and Prophetic Movement, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare 7 Spheres: Mild Dominionism. Christians must ascend peaks of the mountains of cultural influence: Arts, Business, Church (Religion), Development and Media, Education, Family, Government, (Health).

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