From Wikipedia:
Theopoetics is an emerging field of interdisciplinary study, combining elements of poetic analysis, process theology, narrative theology, and postmodern philosophy.
Theopoetics suggests that instead of trying to develop a “scientific” theory of God such as would a Systematic Theology, theologians should instead try to find God through poetic articulations of their lived (“embodied”) experiences. It asks theologians to accept reality as a legitimate source of divine revelation, and suggests that both the divine and the real are mysterious — or, irreducible to literalist dogmas or scientific proofs.
Theopoetics is an emerging field of interdisciplinary study, combining elements of poetic analysis, process theology, narrative theology, and postmodern philosophy.
Theopoetics suggests that instead of trying to develop a “scientific” theory of God such as would a Systematic Theology, theologians should instead try to find God through poetic articulations of their lived (“embodied”) experiences. It asks theologians to accept reality as a legitimate source of divine revelation, and suggests that both the divine and the real are mysterious — or, irreducible to literalist dogmas or scientific proofs.
From PeterRollins.net:
Pyro-theology describes a very specific theological enterprise. It is not a systematic, constructive or narrative theology. It is not concerned with building upon, supporting or altering the current understanding of Christianity. Nor is it interested in calling the presently existing church to a deeper fidelity to its ideals. Rather it represents a fundamental questioning these ideals and signals an approach to faith that claim the central event of Christianity is nothing less than a type of white-hot fire that burns up all we believe about ourselves, our gods and our universe. Pyro-theology thus offers a genuinely different theological approach to that found within the contemporary literature embraced by churches today.
Pyro-theology describes a very specific theological enterprise. It is not a systematic, constructive or narrative theology. It is not concerned with building upon, supporting or altering the current understanding of Christianity. Nor is it interested in calling the presently existing church to a deeper fidelity to its ideals. Rather it represents a fundamental questioning these ideals and signals an approach to faith that claim the central event of Christianity is nothing less than a type of white-hot fire that burns up all we believe about ourselves, our gods and our universe. Pyro-theology thus offers a genuinely different theological approach to that found within the contemporary literature embraced by churches today.
