Sentences with phrase «also as a theologian»

I write not only as one engaged in the wider debate but also as a theologian of one of the communions I hope to see involved in this effort.

And still in our world, when the «academic study of religion» often nudges theological reflection to curricular margins, it remains possible to think of oneself not simply as a scholar of religion but also as a theologian.

Not exact matches

In a bold move over the weekend, theologian and writer Rob Bell marries cartoonist David Hayward, also known as the nakedpastor.

The importance of Hamann's thought, as David Bentley Hart has noted, «would be difficult to exaggerate not only [because of] the immensity of his influence upon all the great European intellectual and cultural movements of his age, but [also for] his continued significance for philosophers and theologians.»

However, as I also said in the review, His Eminence states that he was provoked into writing the book because theologians who talked about divine attributes tended to treat mercy as a marginal attribute of God, because traditionally it was thought that mercy did not pertain to God's essence.

Since it sees the mandate as a relationship between the bishop and the theologian rather than the university, the Bevilacqua proposal also places the responsibility for securing the mandate on the Catholic theologian, not on the university.

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.

But Protestant and Orthodox thinkers have also been brought under his spell, as witness The Beauty of the Infinite by Orthodox theologian David B. Hart, a tour de force justly acclaimed as one of the most suggestive theological contributions of recent years (see the FT review, March 2004).

It turns out that Niebuhr is also one of President Obama's favorite theologians, as I detailed in an article earlier this year.

Theologians of nature, who take the evolutionary reality of the world seriously, also find it attractive as a noninterventionist way of speaking of God's agency in history and nature.

For instance, Dr Gary Habermas, an evangelical US theologian who is known for his academic work on the biblical evidence for the resurrection also regularly gives presentations on the shroud as supplementary evidence.

The process thinkers of our time who have turned their attention to the religious question — the process theologians, as they are usually called — are sure, however, that there is another and sounder conception of God, one which makes love the clue to the divine nature and manner of working in the world and one which is also in accordance with what we know to be going on in that world.

In Greenberg we find a theologian who calls on Jews to validate the realities of statehood and power» an almost Hobbesian affirmation of what survival requires in a world where Auschwitz is possible» and who also calls Jews and Christians to revise radically their theologies as the first step in the project of perfecting and redeeming the world as partners in covenantal pluralism.

The book not only offers a comprehensive argument defending priestly celibacy that answers many of the objections found today, it also acts as an excellent introduction to an important 19th - century theologian whose rediscovery can only be positive.

This is also seen in the difference between those who see Jesus as in some way embodying a universal principle, as is the case of theologians in the tradition of Schleiermacher, and those, like the great Swiss theologian Karl Barth, who stressed that humans can in no way sit in judgment on God's revelation.

Non-Russian Orthodox such as the Greek Zizioulas and the Romanian theologian Dmitru Staniloae have also had wide influence.

If, therefore, a theologian is to do his duty, despite his eccleslality he will also be critical of the Church, he will produce creative controversy in order to reconcile what is as yet unreconciled.

But, to say it once again: This dialogue is conducted in the hope of an ever new reconciliation be - tween the individual and the collective consciousness; nevertheless, it may easily - be replaced by a theological monologue unless the theologian accepts the indisputable faith of the Church also as his own condition for this dialogue.

While mission historians such as Gustav Warneck, John Foster and Kenneth Scott Latourette argued that mission should be included within church history, a small minority of theologians also suggested that it be placed within systematic theology.

So long as those who call themselves theologians are essentially passive, what they communicate about the nature of theologizing is also essentially passive.

Yet in his 1519 Leipzig debate with Catholic theologian Johann Eck and his 1521 speech at the Diet of Worms, Luther also contended that councils had erred and contradicted each other, as when the Fifth Lateran Council overturned Constance's decree that councils were above popes.

Q.: Theologian James Sellers has countered this claim by arguing further that «needs» also include a need for community interaction, which in turn requires giving and sharing as well as getting.

We find them in the treatise On Divine Names by Dionysius the Areopagite, where God is true Being and Goodness and Beauty, but also in the triadic analogies explored by Augustine in his treatise On the Trinity, where God is compared to Memory and Intellect and Will, as well as in the triads of nouns fashioned by theologians inventing terms for God in new languages.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

Here the center of controversy has been another Fuller theologian, Paul K. Jewett, who also serves as dean of the Young Life Institute offering theological education to the staff of a popular evangelical youth movement.

Orientation which acts as the all - embracing is thoroughly godless; godless also is the theologian who places his god in causality, a helping formula of orientation, and the spiritualist who knows his way about in the «true world» and sketches its topography.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Paul's teaching has stirred many reforms and renewals led by great theologians such as Augustine, Luther, Pascal, Wesley, and Barth; but Paul has also been derided and denounced.

The criticism of Scripture as norm has also come from those theologians who have been most deeply affected by Christian responsibility for the Holocaust.

Just as the attitude of the Sufis toward the religious teachings of Islam was a revolt against the jurists who stifled the true spirit of religion in order to preserve its form, their attitude toward God was also a revolt directed against the theologians and the philosophers.

I recall sitting in a classroom in a huge Southern Baptist seminary a quarter of a century ago, hearing my own favorite Professor John Doe explain all Mullinsism as being not only Southern Baptist but also «conservative [Wilhelm] Hermannian» (after a German theologian we had been taught to call an «I - theologian» more than a «God - theologian»).

It is also, of course, a «rejoicing in the presence of the beloved,» as the theologian H. Richard Niebuhr put it; but neither presence nor union is love's prior condition, and while each would be a welcomed and hoped - for goal, that goal is not demanded.

Heller notes, it is also risky for theologians simply to ignore scientific developments, as many do, for they may then unwittingly retain in their thinking elements of older, scientifically obsolete World Pictures.

As it happened, the week of the book expo was also the death of John Macquarrie, a Scottish theologian of the Anglican persuasion.

Several prominent theologians also described God's love for humanity as that of a mother who offers care and provision to her dependent child, both in her womb and in its early experience in the world.

To be mentioned also are the work of theologians such as Karl Rahuer in his Theological Investigations, and specialized historical studies, often by Catholics like Hubert Jedin, Otto Herman Pesch and Vinzeng Pfnür, on the Reformation period and the Council of Trent.

It also places this form of trinitarianism into conversation with process theologians such as Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki and Joseph Bracken who embrace a metaphysics of internal relatedness in all things.

His John Templeton Foundation (est. 1987) supports scientific research at top universities in such fields as theoretical physics, cosmology and evolutionary biology, and also supports informed dialogue between scientists and theologians.

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

But it is also as though the empirical theologians seldom got around to describing the consolations of religion.

Lanzetta also points to abusive claims after the Council of «a material completeness of the Bible» by theologians such as Hans Kung.

My reflections arose, as I have indicated, in part from formative books and teachers, but they also grew out of grappling with Scripture (one of the lightning bolts here was the simple but profound insight of realizing once again the ineradicable connection of form and content — for instance, what is said in a parable can not be said in any other way), and with the complex business, endemic to academic theologians, of, as Kierkegaard would put it, becoming a Christian (not in general or for someone else but in particular and for me).

The American religious empiricist so understood could accept what these postmodern philosophers and theologians have elucidated without dismissing them as nihilists; but these postmodernists, in turn, also are close enough to the American religious empiricist to hear their critique of postmodern anti-realism and subjectivism.16

Recently I have been reading and studying the five theological orations by St. Gregory the Theologian (also known as St. Gregory of Nazianzus where he was Bishop....

See also Cobb's «Theology as Thoughtful Response to the Divine Call,» in Jennings, Theodore W., Jr., ed., The Vocation of the Theologian (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985, pp. 104 - 119).

Although they cite the Baptist theologian Timothy George in a way that shows his awareness of the ground - breaking work of the World Conference on Faith and Order at Montreal in 1963 on «Scripture, Tradition, and traditions,» Noll and Nystrom make no systematic use of his insights; they also neglect to note the phraseology of Pope John Paul II when he called for further study on «the relationship between Sacred Scripture as the highest authority in matters of faith and Sacred Tradition as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God» (Ut Unum Sint, 79)» a formulation that I think may hold the best promise of resolving the question since the sixteenth century.

The medieval theologian claimed, as do also present - day fundamentalist Christians, that the writers of the Bible wrote inerrantly through special revelations vouchsafed to them.

But even if the grand design of liberating millions through a new gospel should fail to pan out, Funk also has a more modest and realistic aim: «If we are to survive as scholars of the humanities, as well as theologians, we must quit the academic closet.

Theologians like James Packer and Clark Pinnock are correct in arguing that the Bible must be read as a whole, coherent organism, for it is not only human words but also God's Word.

Perhaps it is fair to say that as a matter of fact it has been the theologians who adopt an evolutionary perspective who have also been most inclined to welcome this newer knowledge, although it is of course true that theologians of other persuasions have also been prepared to employ (to a greater or less degree) the findings of one or other of those schools of thought.