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Document Details : Title: Theology on the Margins and at the Crossroads Subtitle: Theology, Church, University and Society Author(s): BOEVE, Lieven Journal: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Volume: 90 Issue: 2 Date: 2014 Pages: 361-378 DOI: 10.2143/ETL.90.2.3032684 Abstract : In a thoroughly changed culture and society, what is the place and statute of theology in the domains in which it has belonged from of old: the university, the Church, and society? This paper develops the assessment that theology, which has no longer a self-evident roll, but appears to have shifted to the margin of what happens in these domains, can only fulfill its task well today if it refuses to fly away from this marginalization (for instance by pulling back into one of the three domains), but undergoes this knowingly and willingly. Still more: theology can be credible and relevant when it consciously takes its place starting precisely from the margins at the crossroads of university, Church, and society. |
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