Change of Paradigm in Theology and the New Anthropology

Abstract

The Hellenization of Christianity has impacted the theological understanding of God and man. Early in the Twentieth Century, evangelical theology began to abandon the Greek presuppositions that had been the framework of theology for centuries. What impact has this process generated? This article presents a historical outline of the dehellenization in Protestant theology, describing how this process started challenging the timelessness of God of the classical theology, and how it impacted the understanding of human nature. In addition, this study will attempt to demonstrate that this paradigm shift offers to the Seventh-day Adventist Church a great opportunity to present its doctrinal system.

Key words: timelessness of God, biblical ontology, doctrine of man, Platonic

dualism, constitutionalism, emergent dualism