Recent Dissertation Topics in Theology

[Ahimsa]

“Prophetic Catholicism: Appropriating John Courtney Murray, S.J., In Postmodern America”

“Christian Liberation and Postcolonial Consciousness: Jean-Marc Ela’s Reappropriation of African Subjectivity Perspectives”

“A Good Appetite: A Thomistic Approach to the Study of Eating Disorder and Body Dissatisfaction in American Women”

“Agency and the Elderly: A Christian Ethic of Care”

“In Good Company: The Body and Divinization in Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, SJ and Daoist Xiao Yingsou”

 

[grannymh]

“Prophetic Catholicism: Appropriating John Courtney Murray, S.J., In Postmodern America”

“Christian Liberation and Postcolonial Consciousness: Jean-Marc Ela’s Reappropriation of African Subjectivity Perspectives”

“A Good Appetite: A Thomistic Approach to the Study of Eating Disorder and Body Dissatisfaction in American Women”

“Agency and the Elderly: A Christian Ethic of Care”

“In Good Company: The Body and Divinization in Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, SJ and Daoist Xiao Yingsou”

From the link.

“Theology mediates between faith and culture,” he [T. Howland Sanks] writes. “Therefore, as the cultural context changes, so does theology. And in the last 40 years the social, cultural and historical context has changed dramatically.”

A clarification needs to be made.

While it is true that the social, cultural, and historical context of our environment has changed dramatically, it is the current, various forms of secular or modernist type theology which has changed from that of Catholic theology. It is apparent that some, not all, Catholic theologians and theologians to be have shifted the source of theology from Divine Revelation to that of the current common culture.

It is not that Catholic theology, itself, has to change in order to meet the needs of our neighbors. It is that the applications of “Love thy neighbor” which have to be modernized in order to harmonize with diversity. Breaking down barriers should be a normal result of delving into the Catholic theology of human nature as created by God. It is not appropriate to conclude that Catholic theology, itself, is changing because of the cultural context.

The mediation bit quoted in the link is very misleading. It leaves the impression that all theology can change and has to change because the historical and cultural context has changed. This is not how Catholicism operates.