Sentences with phrase «christian thinkers»

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Nineteenth - century Christian thinkers such as Herbert Spencer and William Paley considered it proof of a divinely inspired order in nature.

All through the nineteenth - century leading Christian thinkers, while not condoning everything new, enthusiastically welcomed and embraced modernity.

2 By 1890 J. R. Illingworth, an influential Anglican theologian, was able to write: «The last few years have witnessed the gradual acceptance by Christian thinkers of the great scientific generalization of our time, the Theory of Evolution.»

Early Christian thinkers knew, writes Wilken, «something that has largely been forgotten by biblical scholars, and their commentaries are an untapped resource for understanding the Bible as a book about Christ.»

The reason for omitting all reference to this element is that many leading Christian thinkers today deny that Christianity essentially has anything to do with the sacred.

Together, the two men reminded Western Christianity of the truth (common to such central Christian thinkers as Paul, Augustine, Cle ment, and Pascal) that, as Lewis put it, «The question was no longer to find the one simply true religion among a thousand religions simply false.

Even Christian thinkers who did continue to use the language of friendship turned more often to the language of brotherhood, «preferring to represent themselves as brothers united in Christ by virtue of their faith rather than claim the name of friend on the basis of their own excellence.»

Only a few Christian thinkers have explored that trail, and their reports are conflicting.

Myers, host of Mars Hill Audio and one of the most respected Christian thinkers...

As for the so called contemporary christian thinkers..

The repeated efforts of Christian thinkers to avoid the association of faith with that authoritarianism have been only partly successful.

As materialists dismissed the soul altogether, Christian thinkers felt the idea more and more to be an intellectual embarrassment, associating it with denigration of the body and a superstitious view of creation.

As Christian thinkers we must not ignore them as key modern Christian problems.

Recall that from the third century onward the actions enjoined by scripture had posed a problem to Christian thinkers because action was perceived to be inconsistent with contemplation.

One is thankful that some Christian thinkers — and doers — have begun to awaken to the radical meaning of the Christian message.

Whether Christian thinkers as a whole will open themselves to learning from others in this way remains to be seen.

Parts of his answer were really somewhat conventional, and similar arguments had already been advanced by various Christian thinkers.

Contrary to present arrangements, the structure of the curriculum in regard to the need for educating practical Christian thinkers can not be dictated by any structure or map of the sciences.

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).

One chapter is an introduction to Christian faith as this is seen by Process Christian thinkers.

Mao had many admirers in the West, including Christian thinkers who hailed him as a «Christ figure.»

Now Nygren recognized these distinctions as ideal types or motifs which in many Christian thinkers and practices were mixed.

Some Christian thinkers insist that God is a «concrete object» — whatever that means....

Throughout the early 1900s, traditional Christian thinkers such as Lionel Thornton, 1 J. Scott Lidgett, and Charles H. Malik responded appreciatively to Whitehead's newly published writings by making careful use of Whitehead's concepts in their theological writings.

My favorite Christian thinkers?

Our last editorial discussed this radical separation of science and metaphysics which is so widespread amongst Christian thinkers.

Who are your favorite living Christian thinkers?

At several places in his discussion Harned notes how significant patience has been in the Stoic tradition, and, indeed, how that tradition influenced early Christian thinkers.

Our second preliminary question concerned the reason or reasons why Christian thinkers should be interested in process - thought.

In concluding the lectures, I should like to suggest that process - thought requires supplementation from at least three other areas of contemporary study and to urge that this supplementation will make it even more interesting to Christian thinkers.

Today, informed and reflective Christian thinkers tell this story very differently, not only as to its details but also its general tone.

He belongs to a group of Christian thinkers and activists who have risen to ecumenical leadership through the Youth Movement of the Central Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India.

He asks why serious Christian thinkers so often ignore dispensationalism.

I have long wondered why serious Christian thinkers, Catholic and Protestant alike, have not given more time to debunking this errant eschatological scheme.

An unapologetic defender of Israel's particularity and God's special love for the Jewish people, he has often found a warmer reception among Christian thinkers than....

Christian thinkers have long reacted with wonder as well as reverence to the thought of God embodied in a specific human form.

Along with this, the philosophical notions about soul, about immortality, about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had become so much part of the atmosphere of thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.

His primary commitments, however, are to Aquinas, whom he defends not only against modern criticism of the sort made by process thinkers but also against the older criticisms of Medieval Jewish, Muslim and even other Christian thinkers (e.g., Duns Scotus).

He writes: «While earlier generations of Christian thinkers tended to stress only the «already here» aspects of the New Testament kerygma, more recent scholarship has sought to reintegrate the eschatological «not yet» into their vision.»

Some Jews may bristle at Wyschogrod's belief that Christian thinkers such as Karl Barth can help correct errors that have crept into Jewish theology over the centuries.

To assume that Christian authors of the New Testament in the first century could have known what God had said elsewhere, and that Christian thinkers of the 20th century, on the basis of that Scripture, could pass judgment on any non-Christian revelation without thoroughly objective and unbiased study would be, at the very least, parochial.

For several generations, such leading Christian thinkers as Robert Boyle and William Paley had seen the intricate, interrelated parts of living creatures as irrefutable evidence of the wisdom, power, and goodness of the divine craftsman who had made them so carefully and thoughtfully.

Christian thinkers focus on the motives behind choices.

Christian thinkers concern themselves with the motives underlying individual choices about working, buying, producing, and sharing the economic pie.

Campus ministries should offer regular opportunities to study the Scriptures and the work of great Christian thinkers through the ages.

With respect also to earlier Christian thinkers and their various statements, there is Hodgson's further remark — which those of us who were his students vividly recall — that we must always ask something like this: «What must the truth be for us now, if people like that» — he was referring both to biblical writers and theologians in the past history of the Church --» «put it in the way they did?»

Here we must hasten to point out that among Christian thinkers over the centuries the conception of God has varied considerably more in expression than is often popularly supposed, and theologians have always wanted to guard themselves against the implications of such crude and concrete images of God as may have been prevalent in the popular imagination.

There are other Christian thinkers who believe that the new cultural situation must be taken a lot more seriously.

After all, they were prevalent enough among many pagans in earliest Christian times and it was natural for Christian thinkers as well as simple Christian believers to be influenced by them.