Christian Theology

This essay looks at some common ground among postliberals. Among the beliefs that postliberals share is an insistence on the importance of biblical narrative, especially the Gospels. Jesus Christ is the central character of the Bible. However, postliberals do not believe that everyone must agree on a single starting point for theological knowledge. Postliberals also believe in Trinitarian theology: "For postliberal Catholics and evangelicals, the doctrine of the Trinity is an identity description of the God narrated in the Bible and articulated in classic Christian creeds" (95). Although postliberal theology does not provide a comprehensive vision, it has made important contributions to Christian thought.

Chapter 8: "Christian Ethics in America"

Christian ethics as a discipline began in the twentieth century in America. Theologians who influenced this discipline include Walter Rauschenbusch, a proponent of the social gospel, Reinhold and H. Richard Niebuhr, Catholics such as John Ryan and John Murray, and Howard Yoder, a Mennonite. The true subject of Christian ethics is the church. Protestants tried to create a Christian civilization in the United States. They wanted America to serve as a model society, where people could engage in commerce and lead peaceful lives: "The close relationship between Christian ethics and American church history is not surprising insofar

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ociology, politics, economics, and deconstruction. Chapter 12: "Empirical Theology and its Divergence from Process Thought" American empirical theologians worked from a naturalistic perspective. They believed there was no supernatural realm disconnected from nature. Since everything is, in some way, of nature, then God must necessarily be of nature, too, although God, in a different way, sustains nature. Another concept is that nature cannot be described in terms of substrates such as spirit, matter, substance or energy. The true naturalists refused to see nature as a hierarchy of orders because all orders participated in the real: "From the standpoint of ontological parity, God is no more or less real than a fictional character or a passing thought" (169). The three forms of naturalism (descriptive, honorific, and ecstatic) are empirical in methodology. The empirical theologian recognizes genuine discontinuities in nature. Chapter 13: "Interstitial Integrity" This essay is written from an Asian Pacific American (APA) point of view. Most APAs in America must endure the prejudice of mainstream society that regards them as foreigners. The majority of APAs are Christian, yet a difference exists between Western Christ
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