Sentences with phrase «if theology»

Capitalism will succeed or fail based on the investments it makes in human capital, even if its theology continues to be one of individualism, consumerism, and greed.»

If your theology regards Catholic Christianity as the Whore of Babalon, and considers both Luther and Calvin to be heretics, you'll have a lot more difficulty finding resources, than if you consider Andrew Murray to be the world's best missionary, and Moffat's translation to be the ultimate English translation of the Bible.

If theology were to be truly parabolic in language, belief, and life, what would it be like?

This danger can be avoided only if theology is set within the larger personal and social context of a life of love of God and neighbor.

If theology's task is not to create coherent systems, how then are its claims to be tested?

If the theology of the Hartford Appeal — with its conventional theism, careful political neutrality and total lack of christological content — represents the trend of the «70s, then I'll be glad to swim against the tide for a while.

If theology of any sort is to have the energy and vitality today that European theology has had in its great periods in the past, it must respond to the new situation now as effectively as it responded to the challenges of the nineteenth century.

If a theology of work or paid employment can not be directly inferred from Jesus» casual observations on the economy of a peasant society, where can we turn for assistance?

So much of our theology must be held ever so lightly... this not only leads to more gracious and humble living, but also helps us when / if our theology changes.

If the theology of the early Bush is Pauline, his more recent stance is Hegelian, but without the dialectic and with America, not Prussia, in history's starring role.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the question of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.32

As he sarcastically noted, if theology only amounts to being a taxonomic catalogue of numinous sentiments, it would be unreasonable to demand a theological chair in a university, just as it would to demand a chair «for fine feeling, sense of honor, patriotism, gratitude, maternal affection, or good companionship, proposals which would be simply unmeaning.»

There are many ways of doing theology, and not all of them are strictly syllogistic; But if theology decays into illogical forms of Newspeak, it is false to itself.

If theology does not yield up true knowledge, it is not a science; and if it is not a science, it will find no place in a university.

If a theology or ideology gets defensive when challenged or ceases to challenge other ideologies or theologies, it ceases to be valid.

I think the key to determining if theology is an idol or not is peeling back the layers even deeper.

If theology is a way of life and a lens through which life is perceived and not simply a set of propositional statements, then teaching theology in the church should involve reflection on the life of the church — on worship and sacraments, ministry (ordained and lay) and mission.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for straight, upper - middle - class, Western men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and the rest of the world should conform to it.

If theology is truly to die, it must will the death of God, must will the death of Christendom, must freely choose the destiny before it, and therefore must cease to be itself.

But if our theology doesn't «work» for the least of these to whom Jesus first brought the gospel and through whom Jesus still presents himself today, then it doesn't work at all.

If theology can not offer man the absolutes of life, then no absolute standards of truth and morality are possible at all.

If theology is not tested in the lives and communities of the faithful, does it not risk becoming a kind of neognostic venture, without incarnational expression?

And so instead of theology being a set of - conceptual accommodations [to special interests] it looked to me as if theology should have a disciplining effect on the individual... to make belief in God, judgments and confidence in one's own self plausible through old - fashioned things like repentance, faith, hope, love.

If theology is to be vital, it has to be responsive to the social, political, economic and cultural realities which are «real» to that society.

If a theology of silver fishes emerges, one that respects the integrity of the Korean people and their beautiful peninsula, division theologies based on the division psychosis will be transformed into theologies that respect living communities of people and land.

If theology is not part of the Christian life, then other perspectives will dominate the churches» responses (or nonresponses) to society and to its own challenged beliefs.

If a theology relevant to the new World appears, and immediately is labeled «new theology», how is one to judge whether it is the genuine successor to the more orthodox theology of the past?

If theology merely consisted of summarizing the affirmations and thoughts of the Christians of past ages, an electronic computer could be designed to do it better.

, what came first: the theology encourages and creates the lack of empathy, or if theology endorses the lack of empathy people already have in their hearts.

We think things like, «Well if someone came to me and said convert or die, if your theology says that you've gotten your ticket to heaven and you can't lose it, well why wouldn't I just repent later live another day?

The mystery of atonement can be approached with new understanding if theology and psychology will look together at the same reality, however difficult it may be to do so.

If our theology is to be taken seriously by scientists and other intellectuals, it is imperative that we frame our theories of revelation in terms that reflect our living in the universe as it is described and understood by the best of contemporary science.

I firmly believe that if your theology does not lead you to ask this question, you have really bad theology.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.

If theology is to regain its status as a significant intellectual and practical activity within the church, the university and our broader cultural and public life, then seminaries and divinity schools will have to give renewed attention to this venerable but threatened discipline.

And conversely if her theology can stand these other tests, it will make no difference how hysterical or nervously off her balance Saint Teresa may have been when she was with us here below.

Yet if theology in its anxiety to protect God's innocence denies that the divinity of the God / Man has in fact made satisfaction to humanity for the evil inherent in the structures of existence, we fail to acknowledge the full passion of God's commitment to and involvement in his world.

If theology follows the Greek notion consistently, then the body is not included in the afterlife, and trying to find a way to keep the soul in readiness for this reunion just won't work.

On the other hand, if theology follows the Jewish notion, the bodysoul is kept in readiness for the final resurrection, but that doesn't seem compatible with our understanding of Jesus» resurrection as an immediate event and its implied promise that we too are united with him when we die.

Even if their theology about the future of the world differed, they were likely to agree that America was God's chosen nation.

If theology is possible today only on secularistic terms, the more candid way to say this is that theology is not possible today at all.

If our theology is really «true» it will lead us to look like Jesus and love like Jesus.

This writer distinctly remembers back in the»90s being told by a good and respected professor that he would be worried if the theology of Faith movement grew in influence in the Church, but not nearly so worried concerning its philosophy.

If our theology causes us to bind heavy burdens on people's backs, while creating rules, restrictions, and regulations for how to live life with God and others, and we stifle people's joy, censor their love, and chide them for their grace, it is no wonder that people reject us and our theology, and maybe the God we claim to follow as well.

The reality is that if your theology does not allow you to call men to act like men, your theology will fail in inner cities, high schools, bars, and, well, everywhere there are men.

If theology is going to reflect wholistically, that is, in terms of the picture of current reality, then it must do so in ways consonant with the new story of creation.

This writer distinctly remembers back in the»90s being told by a good and respected professor that he would be worried if the theology of Faith...

If theology must adapt to new scholarly findings, it can never be settled or complete.

Jesus loved theology and Bible study as much as the next person; but Jesus never loved theology and Bible study more than the next person, for if theology and Bible study does not lead us to love the next person, we have missed the entire point.

But it crosses my mind that if the theology does not reflect the heart of the Theos that it is supposedly about, then the theology is not correct at all, and the opposition you're discussing is not between «correct theology» and God's heart.