Theological reflections of Dr. Barbara Thiering
David
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"In most dictionaries you will find an association of religion
with belief. From the legacy of the past, it is taken for granted
that to be a religious person means to believe in a certain
set of propositions, of the kind summed up in the creeds
of the Church. The main one is the existence of a superhuman
controlling power called God. Christian creeds add a belief
in Jesus as the Son of God, endorsed by a virgin birth and
resurrection, with an expectation of a second coming.
For the past two centuries the progress of a scientific culture
has made it very difficult for an educated person to believe
such propositions, dependent as they are on a supernaturalistic
world-view. Questioning people prefer to call themselves atheists.
An intermediate view held by liberal theologians treats doctrines
such as the resurrection as symbolic, and even the existence
of God is understood as symbolic of something infinitely beyond
ourselves. Yet there still has seemed to be something there that
had to be assented to in the form of words and language."