Sentences with phrase «many younger theologians»

As a young theologian, he was horrified when in 1914 his professors, liberal Protestants to the last, signed a declaration of support for the Kaiser and the coming war.

As for the world of thought, the very furor the young theologian has aroused in academic Protestant circles proclaims him a portent of the first magnitude.

A number of presidents have suggested that young theologians will not seek the mandate.

A young theologian recently called from Switzerland had made an amazingly impressive debut at the University of Göttingen.

It was a risky doctrine to defend, especially for a young theologian early in his career.

The young theologian named Frenzel amassed a remarkable amount of sources and argued that the indissolubility of marriage was not contained in scripture, nor in the utterances of the Fathers nor the councils and could therefore not be regarded a dogma.

John Shea, a young theologian and author of three books, says that many fine thinkers of his generation prefer to «act out what they believe in social or political programs, or talk out their ideas in conferences and workshops, rather than write them out.»

Van Buren thought he had found a secular way of preserving the moral message of the New Testament, but to Thomas Altizer, a young theologian at Emory University, such an approach was theologically inadequate.

His spirited polemics are still worthy targets against which young theologians should test their skills.

The programme on Theology and Culture in Asia encourages young theologians and historians to study Asian Christianity and to write theology using Asian resources.

But I sense an even more heartening cause for rejoicing as I hear some of the young theologians talk here in the Southwest who recognize a significant thrust toward a new focus of theological thinking in what their colleague, Schubert Ogden, has done.

For the younger theologians who follow in the trajectory of Karol Wojtyta and Joseph Ratzinger, the solution to the problems of both the Church and the World is to preach Christ as the alpha and omega of all creation, even if this amounts to the presentation of a master - narrative.

His involvement in the ecumenical movement as a young theologian brought immense respect from older and better known men.

Readers may recall that the «Baxter controversy» has to do with Father Michael Baxter, a young theologian who is a disciple of Stanley Hauerwas of Duke University and was appointed to the theology department of the University of Notre Dame against the wishes of most of the faculty.

Even the «God is dead» movement of the younger theologians claims Biblical sanction for its insights.

With the 1966 publication of Radical Theology and the Death of God, a book he wrote with Thomas Altizer, Hamilton joined several other young theologians in shaking the foundations of the American theological establishment.

First of all, there is very little theology in America today: dogmatic theology has virtually disappeared, biblical scholarship is largely archeological and philological, church history barely maintains its existence as a discipline; and, in terms of German influences, Bultmann has replaced Barth as the guiding light of the younger theologians.

And, as Marsden notes, what they described, others celebrated, including a young theologian soon to join Harvard's faculty.

On the other hand, the work of other younger theologians like Schubert Ogden, in his book Christ without Myth and more recently (and admirably) in The Reality of God, has shown a way of employing the insights of a soundly based biblical hermeneutic within the context of a specifically process - thought understanding of the human situation and the world in which man's existence is set.

This provoked something of a crisis within me as a young theologian.

In Europe in the sixties, two young theologians, Wolfhart Pannenberg and Juergen Moltmann rejected the picture of a vertical transcendence.

Many younger theologians have allied themselves with one side or the other, but Placher recognizes the concerns and insights of both sides and seeks a via media between the two.

As a young theologian, I found this theory mind - blowing.

I used to try, like her and almost all young theologians and ministers, to reform the church to become more open - minded, less discriminatory and more inclusive, only to be met with stubbornness and even hostility.

Not exact matches

Younger Catholic systematic theologians are likewise moving past the strife between Rahnerians and Balthasarians that has paralyzed many systematicians in their 50s and beyond.

Some young (or older) theologians teaching at secular universities will also apply, I suspect, even though, since they do not teach at a Catholic institution of higher education, it will not be required of them.

Philo of Alexandria — though not a theologian but a first century Jewish philosopher — also did not hold to young - earth Creationism.

Frances Young — an emerging theologian whose contribution deserves the most careful examination — offers the following personal testimony:

Erik Erikson's description of Luther captures several elements in the lives of the «more unique»: «An individual is called upon (called by whom only the theologians claim to know, and by what only bad psychologists) to lift his individual patienthood to the level of a universal one and to try to solve for all what he could not solve for himself alone» (Young Man Luther [Norton, 1958] p. 67).

Here the center of controversy has been another Fuller theologian, Paul K. Jewett, who also serves as dean of the Young Life Institute offering theological education to the staff of a popular evangelical youth movement.

Anglican and Nonconformist theologians, philosophers, and writers (Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Frederic Dennis Maurice, Charles Kingsley), especially the Christian Socialists, were interested in the normative aspect of the problems of religion and society.15 In the younger generation several of these trends are blended: William Temple, John MacMurray, Maurice B. Rickett, Vigo A. Demant.16 Max Weber's influence in England never reached as deep as in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economics.

Political ethics as a central theological discipline now has a new intellectual identity and dignity, and many of today's young «political theologians» owe their ancestry to his creative work.

At first glance, Intelligent Design seems to offer hope: While eschewing the Young Earth theory of creationism, it acknowledges the need, deeply embedded in scientists and theologians alike, to recognize final cause, or telos, in the created universe.

In his years of declining health, younger liberal theologians had grown up who were infected with a revolutionary, third - world «romanticism.»

Younger process theologians have been as significantly influenced by Hartshorne as by Whitehead.

Mats Wahlberg, a young Swedish theologian and recent convert to Catholicism, has written a devastating critique of these modern theologies, one conducted with elegant argumentation and which seeks to vindicate more traditional approaches.

On the most general level, it signals a theme that one can perceive among younger Christian theologians in recent years: the return to tradition.

I suspect you are young and therefore, most of His truth has not been unveiled to you as of yet... as well as to your elite theologians.

And to speak in that fashion would be to say, with Dr. Paul Knitter of Xavier University in Cincinnati (one of the brilliant young Roman Catholic process theologians of our time), that we need to «recognize the possibility that other «saviours» have carried out... for other people» the redemptive work which as Christians we know in Jesus Christ.

Put no hope in the younger generation unless you have listened very carefully and heard that this only will happen in the next generation provided that someone from the older generation, you and I — the theologians, the thinkers, the teachers, the preachers, the progressive Christians — insist that this generation is brought up with, confronted daily with, required to think about the new questions and the new insights.

-- Will This Rock in Rio by Ken Lottis — Attack Upon Christendom by Soren Kierkegaard — Plan B by Pete Wilson — Electing Not to Vote edited by Ted Lewis — The Sacred Journey by Charles Foster — Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card — UnChristian by David Kinnaman — Resurrection of the Son of God by NT Wright — Church Without Walls by Jim Petersen — Repenting of Religion by Greg Boyd — Spontaneous Expansion of the Church Roland Allen — Unlearning Church by Michael Slaughter — The Open Secret by Lesslie Newbigin — When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert — The Ministry of the Spirit by Roland Allen — The Mission of God by Christopher J.H. Wright — An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches by Ray S. Anderson — Provacative Faith by Matthew Paul Turner — Transforming Mission by David Bosch — The Roman Empire and the New Testament by Warren Carter — I'm Fine with God; It's Chrsitians I Can't Stand by Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz — Jesus and Empire by Richard A. Horsley — Simply Christian by NT Wright — Jesus, the Jewish Theologian by Brad H. Young

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

Such was the icy response of John Bennett to a young Lutheran theologian defending Luther's two kingdoms doctrine against the negative judgments of Ernst Troeltsch and Reinhold Niebuhr.

The contributors are philosophers and theologians, young and old, American and British, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, and secular.

Bishop Robinson had brought to his argument the thinking of two theologians in particular, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German pastor executed by the Nazis, and Paul Tillich, an elder statesman of theology who had earlier escaped the Nazi tyranny.

As a young evangelical, I was looking for theologians who could help me break the stranglehold of liberal Protestantism and its faithless idea of religion as purely personal «sentiment.»

Why have the fragmentary works of this young German theologian acted like a delayed time bomb in America and come into their own so recently?

The second interactive investigates the Abrahamic scriptures by posing a range of questions to a panel of «experts»: faith leaders, educators, young people, theologians and an atheist philosopher.