Sentences with phrase «american theological tradition»

In any case, the purpose here is not to study the British radicals but to describe this American theological tradition and to ask under what conditions it might become part of the very lively theological discussion going on right now in this country.

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On the other hand, the British had a greater sense of tradition and more theological sophistication than did the Americans.

Black theology's rootage in the tradition of that other great protest, schism, and reformation which produced the racially separate African - American congregations determines that it is not at all committed to that predominantly white - Western theological tradition which Hartshorne calls «classical theism.»

For excellent discussions of the need to recover the empirical side of the process tradition, see Lee, Bernard J., SM., «Two Process Theologies,» Theological Studies 45 (1984), pp. 307 - 319; Axel, Larry E., and Peden, W. Creighton, eds., Dean, William, Special Guest Coeditor The Size of God: The Theology of Bernard Loomer in Context (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987), also published simultaneously as the special January and May, 1987 issue of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Vol.

It was solely because of his religious conversion that he joined the political wars and made available the great Christian theological tradition to the American political debate.

Naturally, there are degrees of theological sophistication in this music, which reflects a wide swath of American religious traditions.

In The Myth of the Judeo - Christian Tradition (Harper & Row, 1970), Jewish theologian - novelist Arthur A. Cohen questions the theological appropriateness of the term and suggests that it was essentially an invention of American politics.

An analysis of current religious programming on American television reveals the influence of this shaping effect on religious programming also: particular religious traditions are presented to the exclusion of others; there are apparent similarities between the content of many religious programs and general television programming; and there are similarities in religious program formats and content even in programs from a range of different theological traditions and experience.

Referencing a text by the 18th century American theologian Jonathan Edwards, the work meditates upon an American orthodox theological tradition which perceives the natural world as clear evidence of the Divine and as a series of sequential «images», each of which is pre-figured in the bible.