Sentences with phrase «secular meaning of the gospel»

The title The Christian Century gave to Hamilton's review of van Buren's The Secular Meaning of the Gospel: «There is no God and Jesus is His Son» rightly points out the paradoxical nature of this strange theology.3

This position has been stated with the greatest clarity and consistency, in my judgment, by Paul M. van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel.2 Van Buren argues that the attitudes of contemporary men are in every respect «secular» and that no presentation of the Christian witness can hope to be understandable which fails to reckon with this fact.

1963 saw the publication of John Robinson's Honest to God, of which I first heard in a one paragraph report in an Indian newspaper, and of Paul van Buren's The Secular Meaning of the Gospel.

The linguistic and biblicist vetos have been seen to be both arbitrary and unwarranted — which makes it all the more pathetic that Dr Paul van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel still seems to accept them as valid and to rule out «God - statements» as «meaningless» while at the same time his excessive Barthian christocentrism and bibliocentrism turns the patent intention of scriptural statement into a parody of their proper meaning.

(Paul M. van Buren, The Secular Meaning of the Gospel [New York: Macmillan, 1963], p. 8.)

An invitation to share one's blik (See Paul M. van Buren, The Secular Meaning of the Gospel [New York: Macmillan, 1963], pp. 100 - 101.)

Not exact matches

Those who are seeking for the «secular» meaning of the Gospel could well turn to Whitehead's doctrine of the secular functions of God.51 God holds the world together by offering his eternal structure of value to every particular experience so that everything happens in significant relation to the world order and the community of beings.

Finally, popular music, while not great poetry, is nevertheless full of metaphor and meaning, and some of it sees the gospel in the light of secular experience.

In many cases a labor union, the local Chamber of Commerce, a realty board, a mayor's commission, the P.T.A., or some community organization may be the key to the solution of some local problem, or the means by which «the secular relevance of the gospel» can be made manifest.