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	<title>Theology in the 3rd Millennium</title>
	<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com</link>
	<description>Exploring the Shape of Theology in the 3rd Millennium</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Basis for Theology</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2008/07/30/a-basis-for-theology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Religious Experience</category>
	<category>Theology</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2008/07/30/a-basis-for-theology/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	One of the most interesting questions in theology and religious philosophy, at least for me, is why certain individuals and cultures opted for a particular religious framework. While this is certainly a complex issue, one can speculate at what might have been happening with seminal figures (i.e. Elijah, Moses, Jesus, Siddartha, Lao Tsé, etc.) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abandonment of the Weak</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/08/07/abandonment-of-the-weak/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/08/07/abandonment-of-the-weak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Theology</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/08/07/abandonment-of-the-weak/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	There is a general theme in liberal theology these days that really irks me.  It represents a picture of a god that is distant and not participatory in any real sense.  This trend can be seen in the neo-deistic ideas that relegate God to a maintenance person keeping the water flowing and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What problem does &#8220;Lure&#8221; solve?</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/what-problem-does-lure-solve/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/what-problem-does-lure-solve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Science &#038; Religion</category>
	<category>Process Thought</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/what-problem-does-lure-solve/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The process thinkers seem to think that characterizing divine action as &#8220;lure&#8221; solves some problems for theology and science.  But what does it solve?  Most seem to think it solves the problem of supernaturalism without losing divine action.  But does it?  I don&#8217;t see how.  After all an influence must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Theology</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/05/21/doing-theology/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/05/21/doing-theology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 20:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Theology</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/05/21/doing-theology/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In past centuries most theologies began and proceeded from within a constrained circle.  Usually the constraint was defined by a scripture, scriptures, or religious and theological traditions.  All one has to do is look at the educational institutions for theology around the world and their curriculum to see this.  Theological departments are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Perfection</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/04/05/the-problem-of-perfection/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/04/05/the-problem-of-perfection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Theology</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/04/05/the-problem-of-perfection/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I don&#8217;t know when the idea of perfection arose in human thought. It certainly appears in the axial age when philosophy blossomed both in the East and the West.  From that period the major religious systems arose and they were all world rejecting in some fashion. They all point to a perfection in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Risk of Love</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/02/18/the-risk-of-love/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/02/18/the-risk-of-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Theology</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/02/18/the-risk-of-love/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Love has to be one of the most talked about and written about things in the world. The apostle Paul has a wonderful definition in 1 Corinthians.  I would add one thing to Paul&#8217;s list. Risk.  I think it is important to add this for two reasons. First it is an obvious element [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temperament and Theology</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/01/26/temperament-and-theology/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/01/26/temperament-and-theology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Theology</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/01/26/temperament-and-theology/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Theologians all have a given temperament just like anyone else.  Should it be any wonder that features of that temperament would be reflected in their theological approach and the ensuing content that emerges.  I have often wondered about the psychological dynamics of great thinkers and how it effects what they produce.  It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Experience of the Holy</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/01/19/the-experience-of-the-holy/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/01/19/the-experience-of-the-holy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Religious Experience</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/01/19/the-experience-of-the-holy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	After all these many years for some reason I remember very vividly an experience I had as a teenager.  As with many teenagers I was troubled.  Being a very shy person, I found it difficult to fit in with the gregarious goings-on in high school.  It seemed,at the time, that most everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theology as an Engineering Endeavor</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/01/06/theology-as-an-engineering-endeavor/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/01/06/theology-as-an-engineering-endeavor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Theology</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2007/01/06/theology-as-an-engineering-endeavor/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Both theology and engineering are systematic endeavors.  In engineering systematics is unavoidable.  Systematics means completeness, coherency, and compliance with all available knowledge.  The reason engineering must be systematic is because if it is not bridges fall down, airplanes crash, and people die.  As a result engineering must correspond to the reality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pray Boldy</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2006/12/27/pray-boldy/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2006/12/27/pray-boldy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Theology</category>
	<category>Religious Practice</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2006/12/27/pray-boldy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	There is a concept in Christianity and Hinduism call kenosis (i.e. self emptying).  I think this concept is apt in that in God&#8217;s living aspect there is a limitation on God.  The characteristics of life itself are finitude and temporality.  If God is a living God then this is a limitation that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appealing to the Intuitive</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2006/12/09/applealing-to-the-intuitive/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2006/12/09/applealing-to-the-intuitive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Theology</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2006/12/09/applealing-to-the-intuitive/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The history of theology and philosophy is rampant with what I would call the reductionist program.  Certainly there is an order to the cosmos that is reflected in rational thought.  All one has to do is look to the &#8220;summas&#8221; of various thinkers over the years to see the massive volume of thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Feeling for Things</title>
		<link>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2006/11/27/a-feeling-for-things/</link>
		<comments>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2006/11/27/a-feeling-for-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Petermann</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Science &#038; Religion</category>
	<category>Religious Knowledge</category>
	<category>Natural Theology</category>
		<guid>http://theology3m.blogsome.com/2006/11/27/a-feeling-for-things/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Of course, there are various reasons for the steady decline of participation in traditional religion.  Is there any doubt that there is also a steady secularization in societies?  The reason I would like to focus on is the incredulity of many religious claims found in the traditions.  Most of  the traditions, [...]]]></description>
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