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Christian existentialism is a theo-philosophical movement which takes an existentialist approach to Christian theology. The school of thought is often traced back to the work of the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) who is widely regarded as the father of existentialism.
The Pope points out that the church does not offer specific technical solutions, but rather moral principles to inform the building of such solutions. The economic themes include an attack on free-market fundamentalism , though a simplistic polarization of the free market model versus interventionist big government solutions is rejected.
Critics of Christian conceptions of God as all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful cite the presence of evil in the world as evidence that it is impossible for all three attributes to be true; this apparent contradiction is known as the problem of evil.
According to Kierkegaard, personal authenticity depends upon a person finding an authentic faith and, in so doing, being true to themselves. [clarification needed] Moral compromises inherent to the ideologies of bourgeois society and Christianity challenge the personal integrity of a person who seeks to live an authentic life as determined by the self. [10]
Open theism, also known as openness theology, [1] is a theological movement that has developed within Christianity as a rejection of the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology. [2] It is a version of free will theism [3] and arises out of the free will theistic tradition of the church, which goes back to the early church fathers. [4]
What Jesus reportedly said about bread and wine at the Last Supper passes the criterion of multiple attestation. [8]: 175 For example, the "Kingdom of God" motif appears in "Mark, Q, special Matthean tradition, special Lucan tradition, and John, with echoes in Paul, despite the fact that 'Kingdom of God' is not Paul's preferred way of speaking."
Process theologians thus stress that God’s power is relational; rather than being unaffected and unchanged by the world, God is the being most affected by every other being in the universe. [35] As process theologian C. Robert Mesle puts it: Relational power takes great strength.
Practice in Christianity (also Training in Christianity) is a work by 19th-century theologian Søren Kierkegaard. It was published on September 27, 1850, under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus , the author of The Sickness unto Death .