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Wait, You’re Not Deconstructing?

By Filings on Mon, 02/14/22
Bible, Theology & Philosophy
Deconstruction
Systematic Theology
Thomas Aquinas

“I felt, for a time, unmoored. Like many seminary students, I had been praying for years to a God who I had pictured as being just like me, only larger….What happened during those early years of my academic study of theology was a kind of deconstruction. More properly, it was a correction.” - C.Today

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JD Miller

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Wed, 02/16/22

This sounds like a conversation I had a few days ago. I used the term “deconversion” since I was referring to someone who had left the faith. I was told I should be using the term “deconstruction” since that was the term that many were using. I explained that “deconstruction” could simple be reformation and that although some deconstruction stories did lead to deconversion others could lead to a more Biblical view of theology.

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