Liberal Theology

Liberal theology may refer to

  • Liberal Christianity also known as liberal theology, is an umbrella term covering diverse, philosophically and non-mystic biblical text belief within general Christianity that became more popular in the 20th century
  • Liberal movements within Islam
  • Liberal religion

Similarly the broad attributes liberal, liberation and modernism are also attached to political trends within religions:

Christianity
  • Liberation theology, a 20th century social theology, mostly Catholic
  • Progressive Christianity, a 20th century theology of contemporary Protestant Christianity characterized by willingness to question tradition, acceptance of human diversity with a strong emphasis on social justice or care for the poor and the oppressed and environmental stewardship of the Earth.
  • Roman Catholic Modernism, an early 20th century term, mostly used by Pope Pius X for declaring certain trends being heresies
  • Postmodern Christianity, theology related to postmodern philosophy
Judaism
  • Liberal Judaism, a UK liberal movement
  • Progressive Judaism, several liberal movements
  • Reform Judaism, two movements, one from the UK, and one from Germany (notably in the US and Israel)

Famous quotes containing the words liberal and/or theology:

    “The power of consumer goods ... has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.”
    —Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975)

    “... the generation of the 20’s was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.”
    —Ann Douglas (b. 1942)