Secular humanism is a philosophy,belief system or life stance that embraces human reason,secular ethics,and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma,supernaturalism,and superstition as the basis of morality and decision making.
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was a German Reformed theologian,philosopher,and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity. He also became influential in the evolution of higher criticism,and his work forms part of the foundation of the modern field of hermeneutics. Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought,he is often called the "Father of Modern Liberal Theology" and is considered an early leader in liberal Christianity. The neo-orthodoxy movement of the twentieth century,typically seen to be spearheaded by Karl Barth,was in many ways an attempt to challenge his influence. As a philosopher he was a leader of German Romanticism.
John Edmund Hare is a British classicist,philosopher,ethicist,and currently Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University.
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence,knowledge,values,reason,mind,and language. It is distinguished from other ways of addressing fundamental questions by being critical and generally systematic and by its reliance on rational argument. It involves logical analysis of language and clarification of the meaning of words and concepts.
The University of Chicago Divinity School is a private graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries. Formed under Baptist auspices,the school today lacks any sectarian affiliations.
Elias Kifon Bongmba is a Cameroonian-American theologian.
Nancey Murphy is an American philosopher and theologian who is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary,Pasadena,CA. She received the B.A. from Creighton University in 1973,the Ph.D. from University of California,Berkeley in 1980,and the Th.D. from the Graduate Theological Union (theology) in 1987.
Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential,and agency of human beings,whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
Moral syncretism consists of the attempt to reconcile disparate or contradictory moral beliefs,often while melding the ethical practices of various schools of thought.
Graham John Ward is an English theologian and Anglican priest who has been Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford since 2012. As Regius Professor,he is ex officio a member of the College of Canons and Cathedral chapter of Christ Church,Oxford. He is a priest of the Church of England and was formerly the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Philosophical Theology and Ethics and the Head of the School of Arts,Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester. Previous to that he was the Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics (1998–2009) and Senior Fellow in Religion and Gender (1997–98) at the university.
Katie Geneva Cannon was an American Christian theologian and ethicist associated with womanist theology and black theology. In 1974 she became the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA).
Religious values reflect the beliefs and practices which a religious adherent partakes in. Most values originate from sacred texts of each respective religion. They can also originate from members of the religion.
James M. Gustafson was an American theological ethicist. He received an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University in 1985. He has held teaching posts at Yale Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies (1955–1972),the University of Chicago as professor of theological ethics in the Divinity School (1972–1988),and Emory University as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Humanities and Comparative Studies. He retired in 1998 after 43 years of teaching and research,after being Woodruff Professor of Comparative Studies and of Religion in the Emory College and Graduate School of Arts &Sciences. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award for "creative and lasting contributions to the field of Christian ethics" on January 7,2011,at the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in New Orleans.
James F. Keenan is a moral theologian,bioethicist,writer,and the Canisius Professor of theology at Boston College.
Werner Günter Adolf Jeanrond was Professor of Systematic Theology with special responsibility for Dogmatics at the University of Oslo. He is retired.
The following is a bibliography of John D. Caputo's works. Caputo is an American philosopher closely associated with postmodern Christianity.
Marcia Y. Riggs is an American author,the J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics,and the Director of ThM Program at Columbia Theological Seminary,a womanist theologian,and a recognized authority on the black woman’s club movement of the nineteenth century. She was one of six Luce Scholars named by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) and The Henry Luce Foundation,Inc. as Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2017-2018.
Mark D. Jordan is a scholar of Christian theology,European philosophy,and gender studies. He is currently the Richard Reinhard Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of the Studies of Women,Gender,and Sexuality in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Gilbert Meilaender is a prominent American Lutheran bioethicist and theologian. He is Senior Research Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University,and served on the President's Council on Bioethics from its founding in 2002 until its dissolution in 2009.
Teresia Mbari Hinga is a Kenyan Christian feminist theologian who is a professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University in California.
