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Secular theology is a term applied to theological positions influenced by humanism and secularism, rejecting supernatural metaphysical positions related to the nature of God. Secular theology can accommodate a belief in God, like many nature religions, but as residing in this world and not separately from it.
Aristotle's conception of God as the Soul of the World was such a secular concept.[citation needed] Historians such as Charles Freeman hold that the AD 325 Council of Nicaea did much to establish dualism in Christian thought. Dualism has greatly influenced religion and science as well. By desacralizing the natural world, dualism has left it vulnerable to exploitation and damage.
20th-century Christianity
Lutheran and sociologist
The field of secular theology, a subfield of
The movement chiefly came about as a response to general dissatisfaction with the Christian establishment's tendency to lapse into "
Other religions
Certain other religions besides Christianity have developed secular theologies and applied these to core concepts of their own traditions. Notable among such movements has been the Reconstructionist Judaism of Mordecai Kaplan, which understands God and the universe in a manner concordant with Deweyan naturalism.[9]
In
See also
- Agnostic theism
- Allegorical interpretation of the Bible
- Christian existentialism
- Death of God theology
- Demythologization
- Honest to God
- Jesus Christ and comparative mythology
- Liberal theology
- Nontheistic religions
- Pope Boniface VIII
- Secular humanism
- Secular religion
- Christian atheism
Notes
- ^ Peter L. Berger. "SECULAR THEOLOGY AND THE REJECTION OF THE SUPERNATURAL: REFLECTIONS ON RECENT TRENDS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2022.
- ISBN 0-664-22422-9.
- ISBN 0-06-067518-7.
- ISBN 0-06-067546-2.
- ISBN 0-06-067523-3.
- ^ "THE PRESENT FRONTIERS OF WESLEYAN THEOLOGY". Archived from the original on September 3, 2006. Retrieved 2007-09-14.
- ISBN 0-664-22355-9.
- ISBN 0-7546-3827-8.
- ^ "Mordecai Kaplan's Pragmatic Religion". Retrieved 2008-02-16.
References
- Harvey Cox, The Secular City (1965).
- Harvey Cox, Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology (1984).
- Clayton Crockett (ed.), Secular Theology: American Radical Theological Thought (2001), ISBN 0-415-25052-8
- Amos Funkenstein, "Secular Theology" in the Modern Age (1986)
- John Warwick Montgomery, The shape of the past: A Christian response to secular philosophies of history (1975)
- Wolfhart Pannenberg, Christianity in a Secularized World, (1989).
- John A. T. Robinson, Exploration into God (1967).
- ISBN 0-06-076207-1