Creative Disobedience



Creative Disobedience

Introduction

In this book, the author has talked about that obedience is not an important element in a person's life in terms of their submission to God; however, they should be free to do what they want to. The author, Dorothee Soelle, is herself a theologian and has written numerous books on theology. She was a German Protestant feminist theologian and pacifist. As a theological writer and speaker, she was known worldwide. Soelle was one of the most prominent representatives of other Protestants. She criticized the idea of ??God's omnipotence and tried in their writings everyday life experiences, in particular the suffering, poverty, oppression and disadvantage affecting associate with theological content. Politically, it was the peace, women's and ecology movements involved.

Review of the Book

The doctrine of the omnipotence of God has been for them the subject of critical reflection. She was of the opinion that God is doing in this world depends on our actions ("God has no other hands than ours"). Soelle represented a political theology, which are characterized by a radical worldliness and a demythologizing of the Bible distinguished. Still was a determinative by feminism influenced mysticism that did without the idea of a personal God (Pinnock, 2003).

If it is true that Christianity seems to stand out for having placed at the center, among other things, the values ??of freedom and love, then the idea of ??obedience as commonly understood could create some friction within the Christian religion. Hence the need to think properly and thoroughly the notion of Christian obedience in its specificity may not coincide with the ordinary meaning of obedience. Because of its normative force obedience Christian challenge and challenged in the interaction with the freedom and love, and this is an inescapable time to hear and understand well, both for the faithful Christian as for the scholar of Christianity.

Despite this obvious importance, it seems to note a lack of attention to Christian obedience today. After the season reconcile and post-Vatican II, where the focus was still mainly catalyzed by obedience among Christians in the rethinking of practices and hierarchical institution of the Catholic Church, we ended up with a relative poverty of insights on most fundamental relationship between man and obedience to Christ-God, with all its consequences.

The author has written that these religious practices are not important for the purpose of life, the reasons for which a person appeals to it: they are a result of religious beliefs, motives are humanitarian ideals, and convictions are merely subjective, what matters are that those reasons are consistent with the paradigms value legislation (Mary, 2005). So the law, for example, has recognized the right to conscientious objection to military service for young people who, when there was a draft, did not want to perform, driven by religious or ideological reasons, the duty set forth, the Constitution. Without going into the reasons for absolute pacifism and the acceptability or otherwise of some defensive forms of violence, it is certain that the value of peace and the rejection ...