Should Christian Theology Engage With Atheist Secular Ideologies?

Question 1

Marxism offers a comprehensive analysis of the world and articulates how the workers can liberate themselves from oppression by developing a ? society. Christianity offers an account of the world centred on the creation of human beings by a ? ?

Answer 1

Socialist.

Loving God.

Question 2

In Marxism, the analysis is ?; in Christianity, the analysis is spiritual. If Christian thought adopts elements of ? then it’s abandoning the Christian world view.

Answer 2

Economic.

Marxism.

Question 3

Others argue that Christian theology has a strong record of engaging with new insights (? development that have brought about a better understanding of how our universe first came about led to a re-evaluation of ?).

Answer 3

Scientific.

Genesis.

Question 4

From Genesis 2:19 onwards, God gives humans a duty to learn about the world when he asks man to name the ?, birds and ? animals.

Answer 4

Livestock.

Wild.

Question 5

Some Christians believe that God can be encountered in all things, including human ?, making “? ?” possible.

Answer 5

Thought.

Christian Marxism.

Question 6

Jose Miguez Bonino argued that “the ? scheme can’t be taken as a ? but rather as a method which has to be applied to our own reality in terms of this reality”.

Answer 6

Marxist.

Dogma.

Question 7

Boff argues that liberation for Christians must draw inspiration from the Gospel, and that ? can never be allowed to become a central principle of Christian thinking. Christians must reject ? closed, monolithic ? system that denies God and the dignity of the human person.

Answer 7

Marxism.
Marxism’s.
Socialist.

Question 8

If Christian theology applies to all aspects of human life then, arguably, it must engage with ? thought.

Answer 8

Secular.