Chapter one, stupidity versus evil. So Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a 20th century philosopher and theologian and he's known for his writings but also he's known for his resistance to the Nazi system. He was born in the early 20th century to a prominent quite elite family. His father was um head of psychiatry at Berlin University, one of the most prestigious chairs in the country.
Wait a second. Why would he say that? Theological views are similar.
of a creative force or deity. I think that would be a mistake. And as Hans Kung, the theologian, once said, "How are we to explain there is something and not nothing?" Well, that's a question I'm happy to leave to the astrophysicists as to why, really, laws of the universe came and what is the meaning of the origin of existence? But I do feel confident there is no intervention of a deity in the origin of life and humanity.
From Aristotle to Adam Smith economics was a colony of ethics. And no philosopher or theologian worth his stipend was without his political and economic commentary. But it was always a political economy. It always embedded in a system of laws, of customs,
"In the fall before the 2008 election, the editor of the 125-year old publication Christian Century wrote, 'in the theological arena, liberal has become such a negative term that few want to use it.' And that's a discouraging conclusion from the journal that's probably been the most effective voice for liberal Christianity for over a century.
sorry God in science or theology and I can see how that would be perhaps you theological libraries and I could just look at it you know I had to
You are funneling, excluding God, instead of expanding. Another theological approach to that would be Octavia Butler, a famous African American female-- I believe she was queer-- sci-fi novelist. And her theology is, God is change, because change is inevitable.
And I'm going to first briefly summarise some of the high points of science over the last few centuries that touch upon theological, philosophical, and ethical issues. The main trend of science over the centuries is, as you know, has been to enlarge the domain of what
OK. I'm just going to read a little bit. of theological reductionism. And that's really all you have to know about Plato, I think.
okay but even at A Team level doing this whole model is really critical particularly the more diverse your team and Theological they drive our behaviors we have a phrase that we use within the
But here's the thing, everybody is going to hell. And it's not because they don't believe in God. And look, I'm a historian and a theologian. So, I study ancient biblical manuscripts. And if you truly understand what this book is saying, I don't want you to experience that.
The Puritans were not trying to promote capitalism. I mean, their concerns weren't even economic, right? It was just purely theological. I want to make a little amendment about that. Go for it. So, Vapor certainly described their motivation as purely theological. It's
And these are these deep oceanic currents. The French theologian and sociologist Jacques Ellul argued that there are the equivalents of these deep currents that are operating within individual human lives, these more powerful, more
She was an artist. She was a theologian. But she also, as it turned out, was a medical practitioner.
In the early decades of flash photography, commentators looked for appropriate language in which to write about it. If a theologically-based vocabulary suited some of its ends, if occasionally it was called "bottled sunlight," the most pervasive metaphor used to describe flash was the phenomenon of lightning.
He's a theologian named Brad Jersak.
He's a patristic theologian.
There'd be theologians who'd explain why God ordained that direction to be the proper direction for life.
were actually theologians, professionally theologians.
So it's connected theologically.
is we take uh theologies which were meant to help us
There's a theologian who talks about how any sexual relationship that you can see the end of-- it's not holy.
Stop being so theological.
Our priests had and theologians.
where he was a theologian.
1890s Russian Orthodox Christian theologians?
We can argue theologically and philosophically about things that can never be proven.
But for theological arguments, saying "listen you've got to be atheist or theist.
We had these big theological debates about, about it, and they won.
sometimes invoke theological differences to justify violence okay so it's really
Episcopalian or Unitarian, then you are liberal. So these are theological concepts that are really countered by a lot of evangelical or conservative or particularly fundamentalist Christianity
She may be theological. Maybe even mythlogical. She's not therapeutic, all right?
Now the first question is a theological statement.
Even though we may disagree theologically, that Muslims should not reject LGBT children.
who have already done work theologically around issues of gender equity and gender equality, who are now looking at sexuality as sort of a follow-up of that.
So it could be a theological idea.
be human authentically human as a theologian and once we one puts it in
So of course all religions have theological disputes and evolve in a way through that,
They got their scheme from a theologian, Nikolai Fedorov, late 19th-century Russian Orthodox theologian and teacher.
and obviously I'm not a theologian, but I feel that Islam, that's my faith tradition, it provides great platform for debate; has for the last 1400 years. In the last 1400
philosophers and for everybody in wisdom traditions and theologians all throughout time. It's really all about
were basically Calvinist in theology and obsessed with getting certainty about their salvation. Theologically, the Calvinists think we're all doomed from the start except for a tiny number of people who are saved. The critical issue then is you're all desperate to know whether you're saved. Hopefully to
in theology and science at the Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry.
And my question to you was what ended the Christian theological totalitarianism was enlightenment when there was the great thinkers and education
Paul Tillich, the Protestant theologian, said that all you need to know about a person you can learn by asking one question, what do you worship?
from a philosophical, theological point of view.
Then we move forward to about the fourth century and a theologian named St. Augustine appears.
little segment of uh of work I simply to be a theologian I'm primarily called to
not to be the case because most of our theologies even most western uh
She got her master's from Harvard Divinity School in theological studies, and her Ph.D. from Boston University was in American Studies.