Sentences with phrase «agenda for theological»

The prime agenda for theological education, therefore, is theological.

First, it would mean a more or less common agenda for theological reflection, though one with an almost infinite number of different tasks.

I do not think Pentecostals should be so preoccupied with what is going on in these circles as to be distracted from making their own distinct contributions to the body of Christ and set the agenda for theological conversations they are uniquely qualified to further.»

Not exact matches

Surprisingly, many progressive Reform Rabbis have expressed public support for the Christian Zionists and the Christian right, knowing full well that the Christian right's theological and political agendas are contrary to the Reform Jewish community's longstanding progressive stance on civil liberties and human rights.

The theological side of the ledger was embodied by Harvey Cox's 1965 bestseller, The Secular City, with its argument for a radically secularized Christianity in which the world sets the agenda for the Church.

The problem, however, is that after World War 11 a Party of fundamentalists again adopted the evangelical label to express a «neo-evangeliical» agenda that included an intellectual apologetic for the theological articulation of classical Protestantism, a repudiation of fundamentalist separatism in favor of a more inclusive ecclesiology, and a renewed social agenda.

Insistence on the importance of that point for theological education is one of the major contributions of the Mud Flower Collective to the agenda of the debate about what makes theological education theological.

For functionalists like Kaufman or Peter Hodgson, Sallie McFague or John Hick, another agenda finally provides the criteria for evaluating theological symboFor functionalists like Kaufman or Peter Hodgson, Sallie McFague or John Hick, another agenda finally provides the criteria for evaluating theological symbofor evaluating theological symbols.

The not - so - hidden agenda was to make evangelical Christianity the spearhead for social reform — at least partly, one suspects, to gain credibility for it as a theological alternative.

Indeed, I still believe that the question of an adequate paradigm for theology as a public form of discourse remains the most important item on the contemporary theological agenda.

While his account is often sloppy, he is nevertheless right that the transhumanist agenda is a logical consequence of Gnosticism (which he and many others mistake for Christianity), and that this Gnosticism, which has theological roots in the Scotist - nominalist revolution in metaphysics, ever more exclusively shapes the modern cultural imagination and our understanding of what it is to be human.

At some future point the theological agenda must include the laying of foundations for a reconciliation of opposing camps.

When «The Gift of Salvation» speaks of «needlessly divisive disputes» between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals, it does not refer to the many weighty theological matters on which we still conscientiously disagree, such as sacramental theology, Marian devotion, purgatory, etc. «The Gift of Salvation» takes note of these matters, referring to them as «serious and persistent differences» which are «necessarily interrelated» with the affirmations we have made in common, and are thus future agenda items for us.

It takes us beyond the somewhat tired proposals for theological education that seem simply to recommend implementing various interest - group agendas.

As Waterman, for example, has observed, by far the most influential theodicy in the Christian West is that of St. Augustine of Hippo, whose voluminous and powerful writings set the theological agenda for more than a thousand years.

This reflects a disdain for the flesh, the body, for people and the planet, and the elevation of ideologies and theological agendas.

While the agenda of theological issues identified there for dialogue is very substantial and challenging for ecumenical partners,» (17) the sense of urgency to undertake the task is of great significance.

Believing, as he put it, that «the Gospel deserved better,» Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry became the key theological spokesman for the new evangelical agenda.

Steve de Gruchy: An Olive Agenda: First thoughts on a metaphorical theology of development This paper proposes a theological engagement with a metaphor that could transcend the duality between the «green» environmental agenda and the «brown» poverty agenda that has disabled development discourse for the past twenty Agenda: First thoughts on a metaphorical theology of development This paper proposes a theological engagement with a metaphor that could transcend the duality between the «green» environmental agenda and the «brown» poverty agenda that has disabled development discourse for the past twenty agenda and the «brown» poverty agenda that has disabled development discourse for the past twenty agenda that has disabled development discourse for the past twenty years.