Theology in Social Contexts
Because theology is an attempt to appropriate the truth of Scripture in light of life’s questions, each theologian’s theological paradigm cannot help but be heavily influenced and directed by the particular questions that arise from his or her unique social location.
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...it was Luther’s immersion in the functionally semi-Pelagian soteriological paradigm of medieval scholasticism that caused him to rethink the doctrine of justification by faith.