Sentences with phrase «protestant liberal tradition»

However, I am bold enough to suggest that the Protestant liberal tradition has a message that needs to be reaffirmed today.

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Many of the great Liberal Protestant teachers of the tradition in the last generation have become disillusioned by the loss of their cherished conceptions of critical inquiry, courtesy, and academic standards.

Given all that, it is perhaps surprising that 55 percent of the Protestant congregations we studied — slightly more among conservatives, slightly less among liberals — report that they consider themselves strong standard - bearers of their denominational tradition.

Yoder needs to be read in the tradition of liberal Protestantism not only because he helps us recognize the strengths of that tradition, but also because he helps us see why that tradition has come to an end (which accounts for why he remains something of an outcast in mainstream Protestant theology).

Nevertheless, both the Catholic tradition and conservative Protestantism strike certain deep notes which, though not absent from liberal Protestant thinking and preaching, have been underemphasized to our great loss.

Furthermore, Christian teaching in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and especially among liberal Protestant theologians, accentuated the anthropocentric tendencies of the Western tradition.

While insisting that he was not tempted by biblical literalism, Karl Barth began his dogmatics by describing the liberal tradition of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Adolf von Harnack as «the plain destruction of Protestant theology and the Protestant church.»

They way Steve, Brigitte and aDK view the bible, for instance, is actually quite modren and less consistent with tradition than cetain liberal protestant denomination — they're calim that they are the keepers of Christian traditionals is just that: they're claim.