crisis theology

noun phrase
[L1462761]

Compounds

Combines

Forms

  • singular : crisis theology
  • plural : crisis theologies

Senses

  • neoorthodoxy especially in its pessimistic view of human nature that holds that humans and all human institutions are inevitably confounded by their own inner contradictions and that the resultant crisis forces humans to despair of their own efforts and possibly to turn to divine revelation and grace in faith