Most of my exposure to “Theology” (as a discipline) has been to works and theologians that I now understand as being a certain kind of theologians (Systematic). As a Christian, I find Truth in the Bible as my sacred scriptures, but my understandings of the text are “heretical,” according to most. Constructing ways to discuss traditional ideas in new light and redefine what I (/we) mean by the terms that have a certain historical meaning and connotation for many is an important task.
Honesty with our historical tradition is imperative and is a large part of why re-imagining our theological message is such an important task for those of us who will be part of the future Church. In order to address the world with a wide spirit and attend to the tangible, we need to re-work many of the paradigms that are pragmatically bankrupt. We can find a multiplicity of meaning in our terms and find joy and humor as well as profound seriousness in that multiplicity. If our ways of doing theology can make such parallels, we can form more inclusive communities.
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