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Originally Posted by Chris
I’m fairly certain he means theologically liberal, not socially liberal. Liberal theology is things like denying miracles, late-dating prophecies, reinterpreting classical moral theology in modern society, etc. etc. Especially popular from the late 19th century onwards. Former ABC Rowan Williams is a bit of a beardy liberal theologian.
Though I’d be careful about trying to pin modern political terms like ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’ on Jesus - not least because he walked the earth in an utterly different time where the societal structures within which we express our liberalism or conservatism simply didn’t exist. In any case, he’s not so easily defined.
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Thank you for the realignment of the context, I appreciate it. However, I would say that you can take away the modern political terms and still arrive at the objective conclusion that Jesus, as documented in scripture, was more more interested in helping people that today's political conservatives would object to.
The reason why this is relevant is that theology and its application to today's Church can never be divorced from the role of the Church wishes to play in society. A theological vacuum is meaningless in this sense.