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| A major movement in western theology since the 1960s, which lays particular emphasis upon the importance of women's experience, and has directed criticism against the patriarchalism of Christianity. |
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| The term has come to refer to a movement which developed in Latin America in the late 1960s, which stressed the role of political action and orientated itself towards the goal of political liberation from poverty and oppression. |
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| A theological movement, especially associated with Duke University and Yale Divinity School in the 1980s, which criticized the liberal reliance upon human experience and reclaimed the notion of community tradition as a controlling influence in theology. |
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| A general cultural development, especially in North America, which resulted from the general collapse in confidence of the universal rational principles of the Enlightenment. |
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| A critical method which virtually declares that the identity and intentions of the author of a text are an irrelevance to the interpretation of the text, no fixed meaning can be found in it. |
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| Generalizing narratives, which claimed to provide universal frameworks for the discernment of meaning. |
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| His essays showed how a relatively unsystematic approach to theology can nevertheless give rise to a coherent theological program, including the Transcendental Method. |
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| A theological program created by Rahner that argued the recovery of a sense of transcendent could be achieved through a reappropriation of the classical sources of Christian theology, especially Augustine and Aquinas. |
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| A Swiss Roman Catholic who set out the idea of Christianity as a response to God's self-revelation, with special emphasis upon the notion of faith as a response to the vision of the beauty of the Lord. |
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| A term coined by Balthasar that the action of God and the human response can be seen especially in the events of Holy Week. |
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| A German Protestant theologian who explored the relevance of Christ to a suffering world, and developed a pioneering approach to the notion of a "suffering God". |
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| A German Protestant who argued that revelation could be discerned within the historical process. God conducts his self-disclosure through his actions, primarily in the history of Israel, and in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. |
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| Created a system of a "sign" to understand the end of the possibility of fixed, absolute meanings. It included the signifier, the signified, and the unity of the two. |
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| A Christian Feminist writer who explores how feminism can be used constructively to provide a new appreciation for certain early church figures, without losing sight of its critical and corrective role. |
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| A Feminist writer who suggested the term "God/ess" is a politically correct designation for God. |
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| A Christian Feminist writer who emphasized feminist reconstruction of pastoral theology by using sacrament, prayer, sermon, and community life as sources for healing and community. |
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| A Peruvian theologian who introduced the characteristic themes of what would become Liberation theology. |
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| Seen as a "tool of social analysis" which allows insights to be gained concerning the present state of a society, and means by which the appalling situation of the poor may be remedied. It also provides a political program by which the present social system may be dismantled, and a more equitable society created. |
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| The corruption of society, rather than individuals. |
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| A movement which concerned itself with ensuring that the realities of black experience were represented at the theological level. |
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| The affirmation of black humanity emancipating black people from white racism providing authentic freedom for both white and black people. |
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| A theologian who argued that God was black, and is identified with the oppressed, appealing to the strong preference of Jesus for the oppressed. |
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| A theologian who developed the schools of social interpretation which stressed the importance of culture and language in the generation and interpretation of experience and thought. |
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| Understanding of Christian theology that refused to accept the need for criticism or evaluation from sources outside the Christian faith itself. |
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| Cultural-Linguistic Approach |
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| This Post Liberal view, created by George Lindbeck, denies that there is some universal unmediated human experience which exists apart from human language and culture. It stresses that the heart of religion lies in living within a specific historical religious tradition and interiorizing its ideas and values. |
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| A Postliberal theologian who argued that Christianity already possesses a central grammar that regulates the structure and shape of Christian language. It is already inherent within the biblical paradigm, upon which theology is ultimately dependent. |
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| He argued that Christian ethics is concerned with the study of internal moral values of a community. To be moral is to identify the moral vision of a specific historical community, to appropriate its moral values and to practice them within that community. |
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| A movement looking at the need for Christianity to construct its own alternatives to both modernity and postmodernity. |
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