Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central difficulty in Tillich's thought lies in his attempt to compound mystical and oceanic notions, such as "Being" and "The Demoniac" with a rigid and absolute ontological system. The result is confusion, not clarity; metaphysical jargon, not insight. Morality and Beyond does not succeed. It does nothing to lessen the gap between morality, which belongs to man, and religion, which belongs...
...book has one stylistic failing. The authors rely too heavily on sociological jargon; words such as ethos, anomie, and typology appear to often. Sometimes these terms clarify concepts that would otherwise be fuzzy and obscure, but frequently they merely make the writing ponderous and unnecessarily abstract...
...some followers of Paul Tillich who prefer the phrase "Ground of Being." Tillich has provided a whole glossary of terms for modern theological table talk, including "religious atheism"; many more come from such equally fertile German word-coiners as Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Whenever possible, theological jargon words are used in their German form. Heilsgeschichte, for example, is more learned than salvation history, and it is definitely one up to say Angst instead of anxiety or Wissenschaft instead of discipline. Says Dr. Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford: "You never refer to Barth's Church Dogmatics...
...takes fast footwork to keep up with the latest in theological fashions. Jargon changes, as theologians change, says the Rev. Karl Parker, executive director of the Association of Churches of Greater Houston. "It used to be 'atmosphere.' Then it became 'climate.' Now it's 'posture.' " Because Karl Barth's influence is generally on the wane in the U.S., the word "encounter"-meaning man's confrontation with God-is now slightly old hat. Bultmann's "demythologizing"-meaning to strip the Gospel message of its nonfactual elements-is still very much...
...Although - together with Professor Simpson - I would be the first to admit that much sociological jargon resembles gibberish, it is an interesting comment upon the difference in status between disciplines that we do not criticize physicians for talking about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, or physicists for talking about a "neutrino...