Sentences with phrase «christian dogmatic»

I often feel more spiritually «connected» to people of faith in other Religious Traditions than I do to those whose Christian dogmatic beliefs that I share.

Henry also praises Barth for returning divine omnipotence to its proper, preeminent place in Christian dogmatics.

It is not accidental that Barth's recovery of Anselm precipitated the change in his program from «Christian Dogmatics» to «Church Dogmatics.»

Hence today I feel much more confident to develop a doctrine of God and to treat the subjects of Christian dogmatics in that perspective.

The teaching of Christ in the gospels is full of exhortations to «works righteousness,» however inconvenient they may prove for certain established strains of Christian dogmatics, and the episode of the young ruler is wholly lacking in the sort of exegetical ambiguities that might allow for reassuring evasions of that sort.

If misuse were the criterion of elimination, the whole of Christian dogmatics would have to be abolished.

Even though Christian dogmatics moves beyond the doctrine of God to include anthropology, creation, Christology, ecclesiology, etc., these belong to that one overarching topic, Pannenberg declares.

In 1984 he and Braaten edited Christian Dogmatics, a two - volume systematic theology that was for a decade a standard text in Lutheran seminaries.

Many of the Protestant scholastics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were animated by similar concerns as the authors of Christian Dogmatics were: to defend a distinctly Reformed confessional identity, and at the same time claim continuity with the age - old tradition of the Church.

Christian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholic edited by michael allen and scott r. swain baker, 416 pages, $ 36.99

The contributors to the anthology Christian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholic beg to differ.

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Unfortunatly you are mistaken, Comunisum is just another type of dogmatic religioin and Hitlers army (the people who did the actual killing) was almost exclusivly christian.

Bonnette writes from a Christian and sometimes specifically Catholic perspective, and obviously strives to be fair to those with whom he disagrees, except for the most dogmatic proponents of scientistic materialism, whom he effectively skewers.

In my early Christian days, I was incredibly dogmatic and rigid.

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

Hmmm, I believe the Catholic Church may not be the only Christian tradition where there is confusion between dogmatic theology, moral theology and pastoral theology.

I think Nietzsche's desire was prophetic, the God of Dogmatic Absolutism is «dead» for many Christians.

I find SBNRs are more likely to be open to reality, less dogmatic, less pushy, than Christians or Muslims.

On the other hand, as memoria, faith makes it clear that Christian faith is a dogmatic faith which is tied to a certain content, a fides quae creditur.

I grieve when Christian preachers make dogmatic assertions about people they say will be lost.

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And this christological position would be correlative with a soteriological position which would insist on the necessity of Jesus for Christian existence, and yet not in any dogmatic or supernaturalistic sense.

But when he received a company of Jews, mindful of centuries of Christian persecution and futile dogmatic debate, he simply greeted them with outstretched arms: «I am Joseph, your brother.»

Newman confronted me on my own ground — that of the importance of doctrinal orthodoxy — and demanded that I examine what my dogmatic principle meant for my Christian life.

Ultimately, then, God would be conceived as Other and as Holy; perhaps as the «normative» Judeo - Christian - Islamic tradition has asserted all along in its much maligned dogmatic theology; while leaving mystical assertions of identity and oneness suspect.

to be a «christian» is to not to adhere to a dogmatic version of his life codified in literature (i.e. the bible and the church that formed in his absense) but to be «christ like».

Not to mention, lumping all Christians into the anti-science crowd is not only absurd, it's narrow minded and dogmatic.

The Roman and the Greek Orthodox churches were estranged from each other and excommunicated each other in 1054 due to differences in their dogmatic formulations of the Christian faith.

It happens more often in the eastern world by dogmatic communists (atheists who are fed up with those crazy Christians ruining everything).

But from the perspective given in faith as articulated in dogmatics, the Christian thinker must undertake to unmask the errors of hostile beliefs.

Notice how the Porchers agree with Heidegger here [partly (via George Grant) through the indirect influence of Strauss], and notice how my view is that modern = technology or «mastery» and nothing but is either a dogmatic denial or a unrealistic dissing of the Christian contribution to what's good about being modern.

Attacks by Christian theologians such as Barth upon this whole enterprise are justified in so far as there was for a long time a tendency to regard the discussion with unbelief as a kind of prolegomenon to dogmatics itself.

(Dogmatics I, pp. 62, 79; Revelation and Reason, pp. 16, 213; Emil Brunner, Man in Revolt: A Christian Anthropology, p. 61.)

The methodological section of the Dogmatics is supplemented in a valuable way by Revelation and Reason: The Christian Doctrine of Faith and Knowledge.

But on the other hand, as a matter of course, Socrates is not an essentially religious ethicist, still less a dogmatic one, as the Christian ethicist is.

Any Christian that disagrees is too close minded, too indoctrination, too dogmatic to understand the very simple reason why... Truth, so far as religion is concerned, is in the eye of the beholder.

In Not Every Spirit: A Dogmatics of Christian Disbelief (1994), Morse argues that faithful skepticism is a biblical no less than an ecclesial imperative.

In «Tayloring Christianity» (December), Matthew Rose argues that Charles Taylor, in his widely discussed book A Secular Age, «denigrates the Christian past by seeing it merely as a dogmatic stage in our advance to the progressive present.»

I do too, and what I observed when I participated in such a group was that in fact, these groups are at least as dogmatic as any Christian church is in cramming down the throats of attendees the notion that «God is whoever / whatever you want he / she / it to be», and there can not be any absolute concept of God.

Judgment as to whether Barth's theology adequately interprets the moral demand in the Christian life must await the completion of his Church Dogmatics.

The liberals have been more conscious of the need of applying human intelligence to the quest for the truth of the gospel, and chastened by an awareness of the fallibility of the human mind, they have been less dogmatic in asserting that God has given to them the full and final disclosure of Christian truth.

Post-conciliar theology makes it clear that many new questions still await an answer, that many opinions in both dogmatic and moral theology must again be discussed and even revised, including matters which are important for the Christian life.

This is the point where I can not accept Karl Barth's position as a simple restatement of the original Christian view, not even his position in the Church Dogmatics (K. Barth, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik, II, I [1940], pp. 698ff; III 2 [1948], pp. 524ff, 714ff.)

In some periods, Christians need to be awakened from their dogmatic slumbers; and this is still widely the case, for dogmatism destroys sensibility as the letter kills.

(Christians like to say they do nt believe in religion but have a relationship with God - I guess because religion can be dogmatic and insincere, but, they are religious as in spiritual.

Anyone who has been engaged in teaching is well aware of the fact that there is no surer way to kill interest, and we may add no more certain way to destroy the sense of Christian freedom, than by dogmatic teaching in the worse sense of the term.

As we saw in the first chapter, Christian fundamentalism first became evident when one section of Protestants, sharing a particular set of dogmatic convictions, unconsciously imposed these on the Bible.

In the third and last volume of his Dogmatics, The Christian Doctrine of the Church, Faith and the Consummation, his basic hermeneutic principle is evident in the way he treats faith in the context of the ekklesia, the ekklesia being the presupposition of faith.

For example, in The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption, volume two of his Dogmatics, he treats the work of Christ before the person of Christ, thereby following through on the famous dictum of Melanchthon: hoc est Christum cognoscere, beneficia eius cognoscere (to know Christ is to know his benefits).

In the third lecture we are shown what Christians did with that original belief, why they constructed impressive but perplexing dogmatic formulations, and what relation these credal structures have to the faith by which the Christian community actually lives.