20 June 2012

pressing needs

What is the area of contemporary life that most cries out for theological analysis? Technology? Anthropology in the context of networked life? Economic injustice? Ecclesiology? Spirituality?

Even as I write this, I feel a certain unease. Is "theological analysis" really what is needed? If we take the phrase in the sense of examining a problem through the lens of a theological system or structure, I would have to answer no.

But if we mean by theological analysis a view of contemporary problems from the perspective of the journey of drawing near to God and our neighbor in love, then maybe the answer is yes.

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