Lesson in Manners Needed

Mazzeo, Peter M.

doi:10.2307/1296129

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“…With such a perspective at our disposal, allegorical exegesis must die. 66 An historical sensibility does not require us to participate in theological allegoresis, which are those attempts to repackage the same message in contemporary terms, because the same message cannot be retold. Modern theology is our theology, and it is often radically new.…”

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Honesty in Theology?

McKenna

2001

The Heythrop Journal

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There is risk of intellectual dishonesty in the act of modernizing traditional doctrines. One reason theologians reform traditional doctrines is that the original formulations have become incredible to them. This is seldom honestly admitted. It is further dishonestly claimed that new formulations have a direct conceptual link to the old as if the new were the old retold. However, many times the connection between the new theology and the old is in name only, with radically new understanding for an old term. Can we honestly say so? Theology should resuscitate questions of intellectual honesty that were present at the Liberal theology's origins in the interest of maximizing honest theological inquiry. Can theology construct an ethics of belief for itself?

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Honesty in Theology?

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2001

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