Sentences with phrase «christians in a quandary»

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While Crosby's interest in this article is limited to Tertullian's quandary (and our own) of relating the elements of the Christian university, that is, philosophy, literature, history, and the liberal arts, to the life of redemption and faith, the underlying issue at stake seems easily to extend beyond intellectual culture.

Of the recurring quandaries in Christian theology — suffering, sin, ignorance and death — suffering, historical suffering, appears to have become the chief concern of Protestant theology in the latter 20th century, replacing the «Classical Protestant accent on sin and God's answering word of forgiveness.

In deciding whether to think of Jesus as a priest, the early Christians faced a quandary.

The ineluctable connections between Christian violence, its global magnification through the West's colonial reach, and the hard quandaries of religious conviction thereby slowly unleashed were in fact sustaining forces within the evolution of modernity.

This leaves me in a bit of a quandary, since the subject I want to address is what it might mean for a university to be Christian.