Theological Studies: An Encyclopedic Positioning: An Encyclopedic Positioning

Author: Abingdon
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: In this book, glory belongs solely to God, which is called: "God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble." Christian thought and scholarship are not only a tradition of Western and European intellectual culture and remain its fundamental structural elements to this day, but have also become a part of Chinese intellectual and academic traditions. From a modern academic perspective, studying the history and reality of Christian thought and society is a task for Chinese academia. In the context of modern academia and society, Christian theology faces a crisis of pluralism. This is primarily evident in internal pluralism (the distinction between theological disciplines) and external pluralism (dialogue between theology and other disciplines). Theological research is plagued by a crisis of positioning. Due to the obstruction of the path toward the uniqueness and wholeness of theological enterprise, the object and task domains of theology are fragmented and disintegrated into a chaotic aggregate of individual entities.