Sentences with phrase «academic theologians»

"Academic theologians" refers to scholars or experts who study and teach about religion, spirituality, and religious beliefs. They look deeply into various religious texts, traditions, and philosophical ideas to understand and interpret them in an academic and intellectual way. Full definition
with the bogeyman of «Reactionary Thomists» still latent in the minds of academic theologians who otherwise know little about the debates involved.
This tension ¯ a tension that many felt had to be resolved ¯ was felt both by academic theologians like John Courtney Murray and the blue - collar Catholics who insisted they were as American as their Protestant «betters.»
God may be black for academic theologians, but this perspective has not trickled down to the majority of folk who preach and worship in the black church.
As Whitehead's thought became better understood among academic theologians and philosophers, it attracted a small but staunch group of followers who found his explanation of God to be both intellectually satisfying and religiously credible.
Perhaps Weil is neglected because she was not professionally trained in theology or personally acquainted with academic theologians.
Even today many academic theologians insist that the Christian faith is nonpropositional.
Braaten spent several years in the 1970s engaged in ecumenical discussions, sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School, that brought together leading academic theologians from across the spectrum of mainline Protestantism.
Academic theologians explicitly reject principles of Catholic orthodoxy, but are not (as they would be in the East) excluded from communion.
Academic theologians in the West may not put witchcraft high on the agenda, but it's the issue that hits ordinary African Christians full in the face.
With his Yale colleague Hans Frei, he forced academic theologians to face the particularity of Jesus Christ and his Church.
It is a document founded more upon the conclusions of modern sociologists and contemporary academic theologians.
McBrien and others whom he recognizes as belonging to the sacred college of academic theologians.
For example, although David Ford's work is much respected among academic theologians, and he is one of the most important public theologians in the UK, his name is probably unknown to most Christians in the U.S. Educated in Ireland, Germany and the U.S. (as well as in the UK), Ford brings a wide range of intellectual resources to bear on his interpretation of the faith.
The problem begins with academic theologians, whose education prepares them to write for a guild of fellow experts and whose careers can often be harmed by more popular writing.
Milosz was wary of the comfortable abstract formulas offered by the academic theologian; they seemed to have little to do with the horrible questions his life story had forced him to confront.
The difference between the author's insightful understanding of her chaplaincy role, and her professor's understanding of that role, illustrates the fundamental difference between a pastor and an academic theologian.
To be sure, academic theologians are not known these days for scholarship that has a direct benefit to believers and the communions to which they belong.
It struck a chord with many thoughtful Christians, but although some academic theologians, who have become increasingly detached from parish life, have pursued this radical agenda, the churches to my mind have lacked the courage sufficiently to relate the gospel to contemporary thought.
For most of our spiritual needs, we don't need the professional, academic theologian or Bible scholar.
In addition, the very first public notice of her was as a mystic, a label that has stuck to her, and academic theologians are not well disposed to mystics.
Academic theologians should not place the black church on the same level as prominent secular institutions.
These could not look to the churches for serious grappling with this important history, but academic theologians could participate respectably in intellectual discourse.
There is a sense, however, in which Barth never left the pastorate, for all of his work as an academic theologian — lectures, addresses, books, disputes, and sermons — was intended to serve and build up the church.
Lay Christians may contribute more on many of these theological topics than clergy or academic theologians.
For this subject is not only of immense practical importance; it also raises the most ultimate and profound issues for the academic theologian.
At this point absolute clarity and ruthless honesty are essential both for the academic theologian and for the parish priest.
Indeed, academic theologians have at times proposed that we drop it altogether.
They have much to teach us doting disciples of the academic theologians, many of whom have little recent contact with the sights and smells of the assembled people of God.
While he never regarded himself as an academic theologian, he transformed our understanding of the Christian faith by making the practice of justice an essential ingredient of its identity.
It taunts me that I am not a church theologian but just another academic theologian who continues to draw off the residual resources of Constantinian Christianity to fantasize about a church that does not and probably can not or should not exist, given the political and economic realities of our time.
Although I am not an academic theologian, I have recently been grappling with a seemingly insuperable problem which for centuries has stumped the best minds in Christendom: How could a good God be so slow to answer a prayer for patience?
Considering all the above, it is not surprising that academic theologians and observers from the historic churches would deny that Chilean Pentecostalism has a «theology.»
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