Post by Lone Wanderer on Aug 29, 2019 18:52:44 GMT
Christian atheism is a form of cultural Christianity and ethics system drawing its beliefs and practices from Jesus' life and teachings as recorded in the New Testament Gospels and other sources, whilst rejecting supernatural claims of Christianity.
Christian atheism takes many forms: some Christian atheists take a theological position in which the belief in the transcendent or interventionist God is rejected or absent in favor of finding God totally in the world (Thomas J. J. Altizer) while others follow Jesus in a godless world (William Hamilton). Hamilton's Christian atheism is similar to Jesuism.
Beliefs
Thomas Ogletree, Frederick Marquand Professor of Ethics and Religious Studies at Yale Divinity School, lists these four common beliefs:
• The assertion of the unreality of God for our age, including the understandings of God which have been a part of traditional Christian theology.
• The insistence upon coming to grips with contemporary culture as a necessary feature of responsible theological work.
• Varying degrees and forms of alienation from the church as it is now constituted.
• Recognition of the centrality of the person of Jesus in theological reflection.
God's existence
According to Paul van Buren, a Death of God theologian, the word God itself is "either meaningless or misleading".
-- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_atheism
-- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Christian
Christian atheism takes many forms: some Christian atheists take a theological position in which the belief in the transcendent or interventionist God is rejected or absent in favor of finding God totally in the world (Thomas J. J. Altizer) while others follow Jesus in a godless world (William Hamilton). Hamilton's Christian atheism is similar to Jesuism.
Beliefs
Thomas Ogletree, Frederick Marquand Professor of Ethics and Religious Studies at Yale Divinity School, lists these four common beliefs:
• The assertion of the unreality of God for our age, including the understandings of God which have been a part of traditional Christian theology.
• The insistence upon coming to grips with contemporary culture as a necessary feature of responsible theological work.
• Varying degrees and forms of alienation from the church as it is now constituted.
• Recognition of the centrality of the person of Jesus in theological reflection.
God's existence
According to Paul van Buren, a Death of God theologian, the word God itself is "either meaningless or misleading".
-- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_atheism
-- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Christian
