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- Spiritual theology is that part of theology that, proceeding from the truths of divine revelation and the religious experience of individual persons, defines the nature of the supernatural life, formulates directives for its growth and development, and explains the process by which souls advance from the beginning of the spiritual life to its perfection.
www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opth-2020-0150/html?lang=enFoundations of Practical Spiritual Theology: Walter Hilton as ...
The unifying perspective of the theology of spirituality concerns practice and theory, mysticism and asceticism, the Bible and liturgy, and psychology and dogmatics. Thus, what is the theology of spirituality in the face of its growing significance and increasingly multi-faceted role?
- Adam Rybicki
Jun 26, 2020 · It argues that, faced with a changing world and numerous new (or perceived as new) phenomena, the theology of spirituality, as a scholarly area examining spiritual experience, is becoming a...
- Introduction and Definitions
- Theological Understanding and The Creator-Creature Distinction
- Theological Understanding and The Nature and Extent of Sin
- Theological Understanding and The New Creation and Final Judgment
The term “theology,” combining theos (God) and logos(word about, or study of), refers most literally to the study of God. Yet this term is used for the study of humanity, and sin, and salvation, and the church, and last things (and more). The reason “theology” may rightly be used of these other areas is this: theology is the study of God and his re...
One of the most important aspects of a Christian worldview is affirming what is sometimes called the Creator-creature distinction. God, as eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient, infinite, simple, and omnipotent, exists eternally independent of anything created and finite in the infinite fullness of life and joy as the Triune God. Since the world ...
Consider also some aspects of a correct theological understanding of the nature of our sin and of the salvation God has brought to us in Christ. One of the starkest contrasts between a Christian with a theologically-informed worldview and that of the culture of which we are apart is the basic understanding of why bad things happen and what to do ab...
Of the many areas of theology we could rightly consider further, may we look lastly to the difference a correct theological understanding makes regarding the end of history and the establishing of the new creation. Certainly there are areas here that have frustrated full consensus among thoughtful Christian thinkers over the centuries. We differ ov...
According to St. Thomas, theology is the study of God and all things in relation to God (see S umma Theologica I, q.1, art.3, ad.1). Spiritual theology is integral to this disciplined exploration into the saving truth revealed by God, preached by the Church and known by faith.
Jun 26, 2020 · It argues that, faced with a changing world and numerous new (or perceived as new) phenomena, the theology of spirituality, as a scholarly area examining spiritual experience, is becoming a branch of theological research of increasing importance.
- Adam Rybicki
- 2020
As a first example, the fundamental insight of feminist theology and spirituality is that everyone’s relationship with God is deeply influenced by gender as a social construct. That is, all aspects of human sexuality are shaped by social and cultural systems.
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Jun 26, 2020 · It argues that, faced with a changing world and numerous new (or perceived as new) phenomena, the theology of spirituality, as a scholarly area examining spiritual experience, is becoming a branch of theological research of increasing importance.
