Sentences with phrase «just as these theologians»

Just as theologians have said that the revealed God remains the hidden God, so we can say that the power of the age to come in our midst means that signs of the kingdom, very real signs, are revealed to us while at the same time the kingdom remains hidden and is yet to be revealed in all its glory.

So, just as theologians and children's workers have asked for generations: what are we supposed to do with Noah?

Not exact matches

In these pages, papal biographer and theologian George Weigel rejects the notion that any thinking about just war ought to begin with a «presumption against the use of force,» as it seems Pope Francis has done.

I won't unfriend you because you believe differently than I do, I just don't need more theologians as my friends on Facebook who speak with such confidence when it comes to someone's place in eternity.

It is not just a «trifle» debate, you do a disservice to everyone when you act as if you have it right and we theologians are arrogant.

German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer acknowledged this reality in Life Together: Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.

Just as the people at Broadway learned that they must share their separate stories through their participation in the Eucharist, so those of us charged to be theologians must continue that task among the many churches.

Or will those churches now complete their sectarian withdrawal from the arena of public debate as their theologians and activists go on speaking to themselves as though they were living 350 years ago and economics were just a branch of biblical ethics?

He's usually a lot more nuanced about things... so please don't interpret this as a critique of him as a theologian or pastor, just a discussion around this particular idea that doubt is the result of a guilty conscience.

More than a few Catholic theologians speak about a «final fundamental option» on the boundary of death, rather than a purgatorial option, as the latter has to do only with those who die as «just souls» yet to be fully cleansed (see Edmund Fortman, Everlasting Life After Death).

Of course, there are interesting differences between these theologians, just as there were between Bonaventura and Calvin; and in some writers now, as of old, the logical implications are more adequately and rigorously worked out than in others.

Reinforcing in advance the claim I have put forth at the end of Part Two, Hartshorne went on to point out: «Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any [221] degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.»

This is a problem which has driven scholastic theology to the wall, and it is not insignificant that Catholic theologians have been hostile toward the idea of evolution, just as it is not accidental that when a Catholic vision of evolution did appear in the work of Teilhard de Chardin, it contained no idea or vision of analogia entis.

He emerged at an early stage as a star theologian - aged just 35.

Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.8

His article Christian Social Spiritualitypromotes Liberation Theology and he cites approvingly Jon Sobrino, just as Gerard Mannion quotes approvingly whom he calls «the esteemed moral theologian, Charles E. Curran.»

I personally identify as a theologian and minister in the Reformed tradition and usually not just a Calvinist (though I do love much of Calvin).

One of my favorite theologians put it this way: Jesus «dies as a criminal, under the curse of the Law — as if to say, «Look, I'm as guilty as you are in this situation because I set it up in the first place; let's just forget about blame and get on with the party» (Capon, The Mystery of Christ, 34).

Both Kavanagh and Jesuit theologian John Baldovin have shown how early Christian worship was a highly civic affair, just as the Church itself was from the beginning a public, urban institution.

Recently the great Hungarian Protestant theologian, Josef Hromadka, was quoted as saying that the Iron Curtain countries are realizing that there is a problem of man and not just of social organization.

Just a century prior, the Council of Constance (1414 — 1418) had condemned two theologians as heretics: Jan Hus and John Wycliffe.

This conception of just war was passed to the early modern age and known and used by such theorists as the Neoscholastics Vitoria, Soto, Molina, and Suarez, by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, the Puritan theologian William Ames, the theologically trained jurist Hugo Grotius, and others at the dawn of the modern era.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning procjust part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning procJust like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

Hermeneutic style will vary with mainline and evangelical, just as it does with the liberationist, feminist or process theologian, but the biblical underpinnings are essential.

Christians certainly include compassion as a form of love, and process theologians especially emphasize compassion in just that way that Yokota has described and appropriated for purposes of expounding and expanding Pure Land thought.

In this light, it is not the case that we would abandon a moral, religious, aesthetic or political life for a life of doing logic, but rather, we would not leave the moral life to the ethicists, the religious life to the theologians and customary religious practices, and the political life to the politicians and political scientists, just as we surely would not leave propositions in the hands of the logicians.4

Just as the attitude of the Sufis toward the religious teachings of Islam was a revolt against the jurists who stifled the true spirit of religion in order to preserve its form, their attitude toward God was also a revolt directed against the theologians and the philosophers.

Just as it is impossible to establish if Epimenides spoke the truth about Cretans, it is impossible to accept that our theologian has spoken the truth about God.

If liberation theologians, in solidarity with the victims of modernity, have no illusions about modernity's quest for «pure reason,» we are just as disillusioned about the quest for «pure religion» in classical sacralisms.

It is just here that we are confronted with the — in the best sense of the word — simple desire for truth on the part of our hearers, and nothing is so damaging to the reputation of the theologian as when his utterances produce the effect of parrot - cries which have ceased to be relevant to the hearer's grasp of truth or reality, and therefore so utterly irrelevant to his daily life.

Theologians have been just as far apart as that in their interpretations of Christianity, and what some of them have taught in the name of Christ passes comprehension.

If, as William James said, all religions are about an uneasiness and its solution, then for empirical theologians to accept history and just to leave people with that acceptance, as sometimes they did, may show people what they should be uneasy about but gives them no solution (VRE 400).

We forget that just as our most heated discussions on social media emerge from the context of a cultural conversation, so too did the treatises of theologians and activists past.

Just as Margaret Fuller, at the risk of grandiosity, once decided to «accept the universe,» process theologians and philosophers have decided, with the same risk, to «accept history;» When informed of Fuller's decision, Thomas Carlyle said, «By God!

Are there no other levels for a process theologian where human subjecthood might be examined just as fruitfully?

It established Packer not just as a man the theologians knew and respected but as a name known at every level of the evangelical world.

The irony of this situation would not have been lost on Waugh: after the dust clears, the Reformed theologians are pleading stoutly for works, and the Roman theologians are arguing just as energetically for sola Christi.

However and nevertheless, in the effort to describe their loyalty to the particular, empirical theologians sometimes begin, just as I have begun, preoccupied with generalities and with logics — a procedure which is ironic when it is not simply comic.

I know he is a world class theologian, but as I read his books, I can not help thinking, «Just get to your point!»

In the early 1920s, leaders in the Church of England asked one of their own, John Kenneth Mozley, to prepare a report on how theologians were dealing with the doctrine, particularly as the British were coming to grips with the implications of massive human waste in the World War just concluded.

Theologians in the «60s, discovering that the biblicism and antiscientism of their Barthian forebears would no longer serve as a defense against secular attacks, cast: about for a preserve of true religious experience that could not be explained away as just one of many parochial perspectives on the universe.

Couldn't one just as logically argue that the Vatican's refusal to permit even discussion of changes in church order — despite a quasi-consensus among Catholic biblical scholars, historians and theologians for perhaps 15 years — is the more basic complicating factor?

It is you who have been commissioned, you, just as you are, not as minister, as pastor or theologian, not under any concealment or cover, but you yourself have simply to discharge this commission.

One of my favorite theologians put it this way: Jesus «dies as a criminal, under the curse of the Law — as if to say, «Look, I'm as guilty as you are in this situation because I set it up in the first place; let's just forget about blame and get on with the party;» (Capon, Mystery of Christ, 34).

Just as liberation theologians have shown that human liberation can not be considered simply as an additional topic tacked on to an otherwise unchanged theology, so also changing the way human beings relate to the natural world can not be simply an additional item on the already overcrowded agenda of the churches.

Just as evangelical social ethics spreads across a wide spectrum from Jerry Falwell to Mark Hatfield, from Jimmy Carter to Carl Henry, so evangelical theologians demonstrate a cross section of hermeneutical approaches.

A group of theologians in India known as the «Re-thinking Group (a result of their book, Re-thinking Christianity, published just before the Madras Conference), was of the same opinion as Jones.

The procedure of the historian of religions is just as different from that of the theologian.

As is widely recognized, he is a philosophical theologian willing to ask basic metaphysical and moral questions and to engage in a close dialogue with the natural and social sciences just as many seem to be retreating from these conversationAs is widely recognized, he is a philosophical theologian willing to ask basic metaphysical and moral questions and to engage in a close dialogue with the natural and social sciences just as many seem to be retreating from these conversationas many seem to be retreating from these conversations.

The theologian is alienated from the Bible, just as he is alienated from God and the church.