Conversion: To and From: Theology and our reflections
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date published 17/04/2008
 
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section Summary
 
 
Throughout this course we have studied the relationship between one's embedded and deliberative theology. We understand this relationship to be cyclical in nature; when one's deliberative, or second order theology, is reflected upon it can have the effect of altering one's embedded or first order theology. The dynamic between these two concepts is simple enough to understand. Though, what lacks simplicity in this arrangement is the origins of the relationship altogether. In order for one to reflect upon their own embedded theology, there must actually be an embedded theology in the first place. The roots of this first order theology can and should be called into question. If in any instance one's embedded theology is based solely on familial or social pressures, then whenever second order theology inspires sincere reflection upon it the embedded theology will morph to such a degree that knowingly, or unknowingly, a conversion will occur.

Keywords: Eldridge Cleaver, Leo Tolstoy, Saint Teresa, Benjamin Franklin
 
 
section Table of Contents
 
  1. A young child attending church on Sunday morning with his parents seldom does so out of need to worship.
  2. Building anything on top of a faulty foundation renders the likeliness of deterioration under stress very high.
  3. Eldridge Cleaver is certainly an example of a profound conversion.
  4. At some point in Franklin's life he began to place less importance on a specific sect's guidelines for worshipping.
 
 
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