Sentences with phrase «apologetic task»

There is a hint here that the sandwich may substitute for the meat, with presumably troubling implications for Newbigin's apologetic task.

This new apologetic task is not unlike other apologetic tasks undertaken by Christianity in other periods, especially at the time the biblical tradition encountered the Greco - Roman world in the first centuries of the Christian era, from Paul to Augustine, and at the time of the transition from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modernity, including the great reformations of Europe and the Americas.

Stackhouse sees a «third great moment» now upon us when theologians must attend specifically to the apologetic task.

He had the rare gift of relating ideas to circumstances, and felt that his particular apologetic task was to show the relevance of the Christian revelation to the hard problems of history.

Part of the apologetic task of Christian theologians is to show the reasonableness of this belief.

The «confessionalist» bias of much modern theology ill equips us for this ecumenically open, apologetic task.

The apologetic task is to test for truth, not necessarily to vanquish opponents.

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That's the point I was gesturing at with my comment about the different tasks of apologetics and dogmatics: Apologetics has its place, but it should not be allowed to distortapologetics and dogmatics: Apologetics has its place, but it should not be allowed to distortApologetics has its place, but it should not be allowed to distort dogmatics.

Other tasks, too, besides interpreting Scripture face theologians, tasks both intramural (dealing with the church) and extramural (dialoguing with the world)- tasks of phenomenological analysis of theologies past and present and of apologetics, philosophical, evangelistic, and defensive - but these can not be spoken of here either.

Karl Barth famously attacked apologetics — the attempt to offer a persuasive account of Christian belief on mutually agreed - upon grounds of reason — as a misguided task, part of the failure of theological liberalism.

In the same essay, Davison puts forward the case for continuing to use theological language, even when it might be strange, because «it is the task of apologetics to make things clear and on other occasions it is the task of apologetics to cut through the vapid familiarity of our time and present something unfamiliar, glorious and true».

A theology of police work is no answer, but a religious message that seriously addresses itself to the problems of violence and the need for order and authority within a democratic, legal framework must be, as I see it, a central task for the theologian and for Christian apologetics.

If we accept these strictures for theology, then it follows that contemporary theology must be alienated from the Church, that it can be neither kerygmatic, dogmatic nor apologetic, and thus its deepest immediate task is the discovery of its own ground.

That task can be specified more exactly: it is to capacitate students» minds quite specifically for apologetics, for making well - warranted cases for theories about what can and can not be known about God, what should and should not be done in fidelity to God's nature and action.

But the task of apologetics — making Christian belief intelligible — remains inescapable.