Yet in discussing what the church teaches about damnation, they showed that contemporary Catholic theology has outstripped popular beliefs about a fiery, subterranean hell.
He believed that orthodox Christianity no longer had any meaning to people because it did not discuss Christianity within the context of contemporary theology.
Sure, he is an agnostic, but his agnosticism represents the point at which contemporary theology must begin.
There are three overlapping uses of the term 'systematic theology' in contemporary Christian theology.
My book says: a personal God is unprovable, most unlikely, and all contemporary theology is superstitious twaddle insulting to a mature mind.
Spinoza determined to remove politics from contemporary and historical theology (e.g. disregarding Judaic law).
He says contemporary theology is being changed by evolutionary science.
However, the Renaissance had a profound effect on contemporary theology, particularly in the way people perceived the relationship between man and God.
Also in contemporary theology the word diakonia presents a variety of connotations and representations.
Martin Buber (Makers of contemporary theology).