Sentences with phrase «anabaptist theology»

Shetler credits Anabaptist theology for both shaping his simple, minimalist aesthetic and instilling a penchant for labor - based processes.

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Not that I think bad theology is a good idea, but for Anabaptists, living the Kingdom and doing right (orthopraxy) has always taken precedence over theorizing about the Kingdom and being right (hyper - orthodoxy).

This book grows out of my experience teaching theology in a university divinity school that has no organic relation to any Christian denomination, was historically associated with the Reformed, in contrast to Lutheran or Anabaptist, branch of the Protestant movement, and has now become thoroughly interconfessional in both student body and faculty.

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

I think there has been a minority report in the West — St. Patrick, St. Francis, Duns Scotus, the Anabaptists, liberation theology, black theology, feminist theology, eco-theology, postcolonial theology - and they're providing alternatives to the dominant narrative that I think is inherently dangerous.

We have many Hutterites here and they have never been anything but humble and hardworking, though I think their theology is wrong because of the Anabaptist radical understanding.

Linguistically the word evangelical is rooted in the Greek word evangelion and refers to those who preach and practice the good news; historically the word refers to those renewing groups in the church which from time to time have called the church back to the evangel; theologically it refers to a commitment to classical theology as expressed in the Apostles» Creed; and sociologically the word is used of various contemporary groupings of culturally conditioned evangelicals (i.e., fundamentalist evangelicals, Reformed evangelicals, Anabaptist evangelicals, conservative evangelicals).

Lois Y. Barrett Director, is Assistant Professor of Theology and Anabaptist Studies at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana.

And about 3 years ago, after growing up Mennonite, I embraced the Anabaptist view of theology.

Interestingly enough, those who are more Anabaptist in their theology and ethos, tend to be more open to emerging church authors and issues.