TY - BOOK ID - 82116613 TI - The anthropological character of theology : conditioning theological understanding PY - 1990 SN - 0521390699 0521093287 0511520182 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Anthropomorphism KW - Cultural relativism KW - Revelation KW - Theology KW - 219 KW - God KW - Inspiration KW - Supernatural KW - Relativism, Cultural KW - Ethnology KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Relativity KW - Symbolism KW - Propaedeutics of theology KW - Methodology KW - Analogieën. Antropomorfisme (theodicee) KW - Corporeality KW - Propaedeutics KW - Anthropomorphism. KW - Cultural relativism. KW - Revelation. KW - Methodology. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:82116613 AB - This study looks at the various ways in which theological conclusions are affected by the rationality of those who produce them. The author's critique of the study of theology arises out of a conviction that theology has to establish its credibility as a mode of understanding if it is to be of value. In considering what follows once it is recognised that - since theologians are human - their conclusions are affected by the nature of human thought, Dr Pailin offers a clarification of faith, belief and reason, and how they are related to each other. The book shows that while theology can no longer credibly pretend to divine authority in determining the truth in all disciplines, it is committed to understanding the fundamental character of reality as a whole. Against the conservative backlash in religious thought, and the secularist trend towards scepticism when references are made to the reality of God, the author takes up the challenge of current thinking to show that it is possible for theology to affirm God's reality in a positive way which is, at the same time, self-critically aware of the human character of thought. ER -