Sentences with phrase «christian practical theology»

in addition, Emory's graduate program in religion is conducted in a strong and hard - won interfaith environment, and any attempt to tilt the program toward an overemphasis on Christian practical theology would be greeted with a healthy suspicion and resistance from many religion professors.

But I suggest this is the problem with much Christian practical theology today: it separates serving God from serving the person.

Not exact matches

East Eastern Christians see a dichotomy of God and creation Eastern theologians are largely unaffected by modernism Eastern theologians do not agonize over the existence of God Eastern theologians systematize the transcendent, the miraculous, and the mystical into their theology, without a concept of «supernatural» Eastern theologians have coherent and helpful answers for most practical spiritual problems (such as during bereavement) Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and bereavement counseling; thus they do not outsource religious problems to secular experts.

The principal critics of practical theology therefore advocate a radical rejection of modern questions about reason and practice in favor of a discussion in which the most important questions about the meaning and validity of the Christian message are assumed, precisely so that the details can be intelligently debated.

The suggestion here is that the dominant interest unifying every course in a theological curriculum ought to be the interest guiding one of the three sorts of theology (constructive, critical practical, or apologetic), that is, interest reflected in one of the three ranges of questions congregations invite about their construals of the Christian thing (What is it?

The most appropriate means to arrive at a practical ethical theology is to articulate how Christians have understood, and do and should understand, the relationship between Christ and the moral life.

But although practical theology must use them, it still retains the primary task of critically appropriating and testing its own sources: the central events, stories and themes of Judeo - Christian history.

Although Thomas Groome in his widely celebrated Christian Religious Education (Harper & Row, 1980) does not actually use the term, he does in fact present a powerful practical theology of Christian education that constitutes the major reason for the book's success.

I am making the stronger claim, for which I am indebted to Julian Hartt, that ethics is at the heart of theology because the grammar of Christian discourse is fundamentally practical.

Ethics is at the heart of theology because the grammar of Christian discourse is fundamentally practical.

I understand theology to be a practical discipline — not in the sense that theology is concerned to provide solutions to particular problems, but in the sense that the grammar of Christian discourse takes its cue from the ways in which lives are formed.

In general, I wondered about Boulton's emphasis on the «practical»: If proper theology and proper Christian formation go hand - in - hand, which «speculative» (rather than strictly «practical») theologian would disagree?

Boulton, the president of Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, spends the bulk of his book «rereading» the Institutes with a focus on the practical dimensions of Calvin's theology.

Because theology is critical inquiry into the validity of Christian witness in every respect (faithfulness to itself, truth, fittingness), historical, philosophical, and practical theology are necessarily «in reciprocal relationship to each other» (67).

[48] J. Van Lin defines theology of religions as the theoretical and practical foundational ideas on the basis of which «Christians can determine their relationship to people of other living faiths.»

Each of them — practical theology included — is also theoretical: each requires for its effective pursuit the exercise of theoria — that is, the comprehensive envisioning of both the Christian witness and the theological task in their unity and complexity (cf. 67).

Because both systematic and moral theology are defined by interests in the integral unity of the «Christian thing» and the unity of theological inquiry, neither of them should be thought of as the «middle discipline» (cf. 50 - 51) between historical theology's formulations of what is normatively or faithfully «Christian» and practical theology's application of those formulations to practice.

Wood especially stresses the importance of resources from the social sciences that practical theology brings into play in envisioning Christian witness as a whole:

When it comes to theology and the practical outworking of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ for our life as Christians, Paul's writings are among the best.

I am relatively discouraged (although not despairing) about exactly how to take the next two steps: the development of a model for a Christian systematic theology that will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, the earlier model for a revisionist fundamental theology; and the development of a model for a public Christian praxis (or practical theology) which will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, both «fundamental» and «systematic» concerns.

These final essays are written from the perspective of practical studies, namely, pastoral care, Christian ethics and feminist liberation theology.

19 Schleiermacher called this «practical theology,» and he saw it as a theoretical undertaking, attending to normative rules implicit in authentically Christian practice.

Equally important, the two foci of each dimension of practical theology — one in the church and one in the world — help to encourage a dialectical relationship between the Christian faith community and other perspectives and efforts to shape our common life.

In this connection, I have acknowledged my new sense that there is a practical as well as a theoretical aspect to such credibility, and that theology must concern itself with the justice of the Christian witness as well as the truth of that witness if it is to vindicate the Christian claim.

Browning's central purpose is to show that all authentic Christian theology is governed by practical interests.

At the same time, the other theologies that have contributed most to explicating and justifying the metaphysical implications of the Christian witness seem to have been typically preoccupied more with theoretical questions of belief and truth than with practical issues of action and justice, and so have contributed only indirectly to clarifying and answering our central question.

Have been following your blog for over a year, and I love the way you combine theology with practical down to earth living as a Christian.

How do we reconcile the Christian theology of a reign of grace with the practical need to hold a higher standard for our leaders?

The purpose of courses in theology and ethics, then, would not be to explore ethical «positions» or «systems» of theological thought as such but rather to «help students to become practical Christian thinkers» (106).

The question is really how courses in Church history, missions and practical theology on the one hand, in systematic theology, Christian ethics and philosophy of religion on the other, are being taught.

An excellent comparison of Niebuhrian realism and liberation theology is McCann, Dennis P., Christian Realism and Liberation Theology: Practical Theologies in Conflict (Maryknoll: Orbis Bookstheology is McCann, Dennis P., Christian Realism and Liberation Theology: Practical Theologies in Conflict (Maryknoll: Orbis BooksTheology: Practical Theologies in Conflict (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1981).

About Blog Living Theologically makes theology practical and understandable for the normal Christian who loves Jesus and the gospel but hasn't formally studied doctrine.

About Blog Living Theologically makes theology practical and understandable for the normal Christian who loves Jesus and the gospel but hasn't formally studied doctrine.

This book, however, is not just a book which discusses Christian theology, but is a practical guide for parenting children from infancy to adolescence.

About Blog Living Theologically makes theology practical and understandable for the normal Christian who loves Jesus and the gospel but hasn't formally studied doctrine.