dialectical theology

American

noun

a form of neoorthodox theology emphasizing the infinite tensions, paradoxes, and basic ambiguities inherent in Christian existence, and holding, against rationalism, that God is unknowable to humans except through divine grace and revelation.

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Most of the continental resistance churches were informed by a dialectical theology.

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