Contemporary Theology (Essay Sample)

Contemporary Theology
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Contemporary theology refers to theological study and study of various trends that had occurred since post world war 1 to up to the present time. This are finding and focus on trends evolving around basic research within theological since the World War 1. Major issues that are addressed by contemporary theory, according to Enns includes charismatic movements, fundamentalism, evangelism, neo-orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodoxy among others ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"kydogDs2","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Enns, 2008)","plainCitation":"(Enns, 2008)"},"citationItems":[{"id":3,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/1380367/items/CG8SIUFH"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/1380367/items/CG8SIUFH"],"itemData":{"id":3,"type":"book","title":"The Moody handbook of theology","publisher":"Moody Publishers","source":"Google Scholar","URL":"http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Fq4yBG4--OUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq=The+Moody+Handbook+of+Theology.&ots=f3DK1nHYZr&sig=TFdtEQ0TLSAx8H8TwVo4LyLMWjw","author":[{"family":"Enns","given":"Paul P."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2008"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2015",5,1]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Enns, 2008).
Furthermore, contemporary theology has keenly focused in particulars of ethnicity areas and certain gender. Specifically it focuses on feminist theology, ethnicity theories and liberation theology. Studies for this trend reveals that different trend in theology has brought about various changes in the way of life ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"bbrriXhn","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Kimble & McFadden, 2002)","plainCitation":"(Kimble & McFadden, 2002)"},"citationItems":[{"id":4,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/1380367/items/AZZG38TP"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/1380367/items/AZZG38TP"],"itemData":{"id":4,"type":"book","title":"Aging, spirituality, and religion: A handbook","publisher":"Fortress Press","volume":"2","source":"Google Scholar","URL":"http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=kE_gKK6HNcQC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=The+Moody+Handbook+of+Theology.&ots=CE9pd_d9Ex&sig=35UCSahCLCNPS6pKuBHsNsw73dc","shortTitle":"Aging, spirituality, and religion","author":[{"family":"Kimble","given":"Melvin"},{"family":"McFadden","given":"Susan H."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2002"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2015",5,1]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Kimble & McFadden, 2002).
According to the Enns, the most contemporary theological topic that has been considered as the most relevant to the church today is the issue of interreligious and interfaith, under the topic of emerging churches. This is because, over the recent years, people all over the world have come up with different dogmatic believe that contravenes the real Christianity faith. This new philosophical and cultural interfaith has changed people’s beliefs and true worship God. Most of this interfaith are against Christianity values, and they support diversity above other beliefs. In fact, they indirectly attack Christianity, which emphasis on right and true beliefs ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"PLxchKGt","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Smith, 2001)","plainCitation":"(Smith, 2001)"},"citationItems":[{"id":5,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/1380367/items/T5JAH7UT"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/1380367/items/T5JAH7UT"],"itemData":{"id":5,"type":"book","title...