Talk:Religious liberalism

Anthropocentrism

"Anthropocentric" is not a description of religious liberalism, as the short description in this edit incorrectly stated. (And the "liberalism" in religious liberalism does not refer to left-leaning politics as the edit summary incorrectly stated; usage of the term "liberal" in the context of religious philosophy is not associated with a left–right political position: for example, one could just as easily be either a politically left-libertarian or right-libertarian "religious liberal".) Some theologians have argued that the idea in the Judeo-Christian traditions that humans are made in the image of God, and that humans are special because of it, is an anthropocentric idea, so even fundamentalist approaches to these religions are anthropocentric according to this argument, and anthropocentrism does not necessarily differentiate religious liberalism from religious fundamentalism in these religions. Theologians John B. Cobb, Matthew Fox, Nancy R. Howell, Sallie McFague, and Rosemary Radford Ruether, for example, have all formulated non-anthropocentric liberal theologies. See: Muray, Leslie A. (2008). "Ecotheology: the frontier between science and religion". Liberal Protestantism and science. Greenwood guides to science and religion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 105–112. ISBN 9780313337017. OCLC 141384748. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help) Biogeographist (talk) 15:16, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Hey! Side note, but since I'm pretty much the only involved editor here and this edit was so insignificant, you probably didn't need to go to the trouble of doing all this and posting it on the article talk page for all to see. Simply reverting with a quick note or dropping me a message on my talk page would more than suffice. I simply just made a poor edit, that's all. I think what I was pointing to was religious liberalism's relationship to centre-left and left-wing ideology in modern western societies. With anthropocentric, I was trying to convey that this type of religious adherence is centred around humanity and individual cognition, but obviously that was lost in the wording! Thanks for restoring the previous short description. ItsPugle (talk) 05:11, 21 June 2020 (UTC)