Sentences with phrase «tolkien as theologians»

2 untruths spoken by you in one sentence:: You are not dialogging with anyone but Luke because Societyvs has revealed your inadequacies as a theologian.

You are not dialogging with anyone but Luke because Societyvs has revealed your inadequacies as a theologian.

They are becoming as bad as the the theologians they despise.

Some scholars believe that Luther found his distinctive answer to this question very early and that his development as a theologian was mostly a matter of bringing his discovery to dear enough expression that it finally provoked its inevitable conflict.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

As theologian and bioethicist William F. May has often noted, we are preoccupied with death and the destructive powers of our world.

This really matters because, as the theologian George Eldon Ladd said, the Church is the primary agency of the kingdom of God.

In the end, as theologians like to say, Jesus is not so much a problem to be solved as a mystery to be pondered.

Alison Milbank's Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real is a remarkable accomplishment, chiefly because it forestalls any easy dismissal of Chesterton and Tolkien as troglodytes.

Hermeneutics is, as theologian Fred Lawrence has put it, «a being - present - to - the - world constituted by meaning»» provided one stresses that Gadamer considered this to be «more than a mere manifestation of meaning.»

As a theologian, I would say that the morality of enjoying horror should be considered in the context of the morality of enjoying anything.

Although Calvin is remembered primarily as a theologian and biblical commentator, his experience of the realities of public life in the cosmopolitan imperial city of Strasbourg had given him a new confidence to address the issue of Christianity in the public arena.

I write as the president of a Catholic university, not as a theologian at a Catholic university.

Many Priests are scientists as well as theologians and understand how ridiculous creationism is.

Cobb does acknowledge that «our task is to become aware of how we, as citizens, as theologians and as churches, share in sustaining and strengthening the structures of oppression and destruction which govern our world.»

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?

Generous orthodoxy also means that one embodies biblical virtues as a theologian and as a biblical scholar as one encounters those who come from other traditions.

Though acknowledging significant divergences between the Thomist schools and Holloway's thought, the editorial argued that Holloway had remained faithful to both the intentions of the Magisterium, which looks to St. Thomas as the theologian and philosopher par excellence, and to the essence of St. Thomas» project because he had attempted to synthesise theology with the scientific culture of his day.

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.

This makes the present moment both hopeful and dangerous, as theologians seek ways to overcome the polarization and assist Rome in needed academic and theological renewal.

The body of God, as theologians would say, is creation, understood as God's self - expression; it is formed in God's own reality, bodied forth in the eons of evolutionary time, and supplied with the means to nurture and sustain billions of different forms of life.

I'm trained as a scientist before I started training as a theologian.

That is why in the end, it is as a theologian — inadequate as this term must be in so strange a case — that one esteems Williams.

But, there is of course a great deal of evil in the world, and if God is indeed omnipotent, omni - competent, and omni - voluntarist, somehow God must be responsible for that evil either directly or — as theologians have phrased it — permissively.

Anne Rice has in fact reinforced the faith, as a novelist, in the same way that Pope Benedict has done, as a theologian.

The fear of God is only a gate, however, and not, as some theologians believe, a dwelling in which man can settle down.

Then in his Prologue he draws us into «Newman as theologian and spiritual guide».

This source of the questions does not lessen the value of their work as philosophy, but it does mean that their philosophical work was a part of their work as theologians.

As a theologian she would be obliged to defend the Christian faith.

As a theologian at the University of Tubingen in the first half of the 19th century, Mohler played an important role in Romanticism and encouraged a rediscovery of patristic thought.

As a theologian trained in ethics, I suppose I should be happy about....

On part of process theology, rarely anyone really answered - with exception perhaps B. Loomer, who understood himself as a theologian, to whom metaphysics interprets, but not constitutes «revelation.»

As a theologian I am preoccupied with the history of faith, or basic orientation, or controlling commitment.

«You, as a theologian, must understand...»

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).

This sort of comment reflects a tendency to revise the understanding of praxis: one's expectations of oneself as a theologian and of the actual possibilities of a transformative praxis as a whole are perhaps more humble and limited than they would have been 30 years ago.

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

And indeed, as theologian Charles McCoy emphasizes in discussing the biblical idea of covenant, God is always faithful (CCE 355 - 375).

Whether we find ourselves as theologians in the camp of the oppressor or the oppressed, what we have to interpret is a gospel of liberation.

The Humanae vitae debate opened my eyes to my critical responsibilities as a theologian.

Both authors — Birch as a biologist and Cobb as a theologian — are influenced by the philosophy of Whitehead.

As theologian, he was preparing himself through study.

We shall turn to ask if there is another image or images, actually or potentially more positive, of the minister as theologian that may help us deal with the contradiction that now exists between the clear Protestant call for the minister to be a theologian and his reluctance to accept the charge.

The evidences of what this emphasis upon the minister as theologian has done are very widespread in the history of the past four centuries.

And yet, if a Gallup poll were done of ministers of all denominations with the question, «Do you regard yourself as a theologian?»

They have, in two ways, intimidated ministers into disassociating themselves as theologians.

The older Protestant image of the minister as theologian was, or appeared to be, passive.

Over the past three decades Wolfhart Pannenberg has distinguished himself as a theologian of world renown.

Rather, he works as a theologian in subordination to a church pledged to witness to the nonviolent politics of the gospel.

As I saw all this, and saw too the effects of the regular practice of meditation on at least some of the men, I made a connection as a theologian — speculative, to be sure — that I had not seen before.