dialectics and faith
Jay Lemke (JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU)
Mon, 13 May 96 16:11:15 EDT
>Therese offers us an interesting historical-cultural comparison
>to a tradition that values preservation and nurturance as
>enshrined in the community's covenant with its God. In contrast
>to some modernist emphases (see earlier postings in this thread)
>on only creation and destruction.
>
>What is particularly interesting to me here is the view Therese
>brings us from its theology that while eternal, the covenant
>and the faith that rests on it, are not static and outside
>history, but dynamic, dialectic, and bound into history.
>
>It is this aspect I'd like to hear more about. How does the
>faith in this community ground itself in something seen as
>necessarily changing in interaction with history?
>Dominant models of Christian theology (probably with important
>recent exceptions) identify faith with unchanging revealed
>truths that stand outside history in themselves (though
>inside in their applications). What is Faith like when it is
>dialectical? What can such a view tell us about the missing
>element of dialectics: the Power that Preserves? JAY.
>
>
>JAY LEMKE.
>City University of New York.
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JAY LEMKE.
City University of New York.
BITNET: JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM
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