Sentences with phrase «apologetic theology»

In responding to such questions the church develops an elaborate system of apologetic theology and of moral rules much like those against which Jesus and Paul protested.

At the same time, Barth's polemic against the various ways in which apologetic theology had justified God - language was accepted.

In his apologetic theology Banerjea builds a Christian defense within the context of the teachings of the Brahma Samaj.

Whereas European apologetic theology responded brilliantly to the intellectual challenges of the modern world, it is not so well positioned to respond to the challenges that now face us.

He believes that even if European apologetic theology responded brilliantly to the intellectual challenges of the twentieth century world, it is not so well positioned to respond to the challenges that now face us, and he gives three reasons why.

Meanwhile, in mainline Protestantism the theological response to the so - called failure of religion in the modern world took two chief forms: the kerygmatic theology of Karl Barth and the existential or apologetic theology of Paul Tillich.

Call this combination of descriptive and normative inquiry apologetic theology.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

Not exact matches

It incorporates theology, anthropology, history, geography, theories and methods of communication, comparative religion, Christian apologetics, education methodology, and interdenominational relations!

When we study something like theology or apologetics we delight in attending to those arguments that only count in favor of our views.

In my review, I argued that the needs of apologetics ought not drive the development of dogmatic theology.

Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand, with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer Society, the 19th Century Working Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth Society).

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As if the seeming predestinarian «logic» of revelational theology (so fundamentally alien to the apologetic mindset) were not problem enough, there is the harsh apocalypticism into which Jesus is reported to have so deeply dipped his hands.

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Carl is the Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, TX, Associate Pastor of Cultural Apologetics at New City Fellowship, in Chattanooga, TN, and serves as adjunct faculty at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA..

While the Church must always continue to develop its exposition of the Faith through theology and apologetics, it should by no means neglect the power of beauty to affect human thinking, feeling and judgement.

I necessarily had to take a step back and defend my overall worldview, but not for the sake of apologetics, but to explain why I hold to the theology of human evil that I do.

The suggestion here is that the dominant interest unifying every course in a theological curriculum ought to be the interest guiding one of the three sorts of theology (constructive, critical practical, or apologetic), that is, interest reflected in one of the three ranges of questions congregations invite about their construals of the Christian thing (What is it?

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

A Christian theology that respects the meaning of the biblical narratives must begin simply by retelling those stories, without any systematic effort at apologetics, without any determined effort to begin with questions arising from our experience.

Among his writings are the following: Christian Apologetics in a World Community (InterVarsity Press 1983); Let the Earth Rejoice: A Biblical Theology of Holistic Mission (Crossway 1983); Christian Art in Asia, (Rodop Amsterdam 1979, distributed by Humanities Press); Themes in Old Testament Theology, (InterVarsity Press 1979); Daniel in the Television Den: A Christian Approach to American Culture (Western Baptist Press 1975; and Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation (Eerdmans 1971).

I must say that my own Systematic Theology was written before these seminars and had another intention, namely, the apologetic discussion against and with the secular.

The technical disciplines taught in universities and seminaries - technical dogmatics, ethics, spirituality, apologetics, missiology, historical theology, and so forth - find their value as they lead to richer biblical interpretation.

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.

Christian apologetics is a field of christian theology which aims to present a rational basis for the christian faith, defends the faith against objections and attempts to expose the flaws of other world views.

Apologetics has not had a good press for quite some time, owing partly to the rise of rationalist theology and partly to a decline in the use of scholastic philosophy in theological training.

Barth's list of poor substitutes included not only philosophy and myth, but every form of apologetics, natural theology and ritual practice.

The dogmatic method in theology is very useful in proclaiming the faith to those who already (or almost) believe it; but in a global society, we shall have to take up the apologetic method again.

For Catholic theology, the ecumenical movement and the Second Vatican Council have signaled the end of the old «apologetic» approach to revelation.

When the apologetic emphasis is dominant, however, it becomes difficult to develop a very substantive theology of revelation.

Hans Waldenfels observes that in the standard modern manuals of theology, apologetics does not treat the topic of revelation in so far as it is known through faith, but only in so far as it can be grasped in a purely «natural» way.

To an extent this apologetic tone still persists in many theologies of revelation, and even in this book we can not ignore those questions raised by the critical spirit of academic modernity.

The encounter of the gospel with the world, whether in evangelism, religious education, apologetics, or theology, requires a deep appreciation of, and initiation into, the varied symbolic expressions of culture.

While the topic of revelation appears abundantly in apologetic treatises and manuals after Trent, it is impossible to find a fully developed revelation theology in Catholic circles until the present century.

Thus, information theory helps us understand the apologetic tone of so much religion and theology.

I, for one, take such intimations seriously as evidence of profound moral or religious sensibilities and wonder whether the church's traditional language of theology and religious symbols thwarts not just apologetics but also the moral, spiritual and intellectual nourishment of those uncomfortable with religious institutions.

Much Christian theology still has overtones of this apologetic approach, but it is being challenged by a more ecumenically minded sensitivity to the revelatory possibilities in all the religions.

Reviving the vision of the Greek Fathers it saw Jesus Christ as the recapitulation of the whole of history, but it did not offer much specific development of philosophy or theology to underpin a new apologetic able to inform a fruitful dialogue with modernity and a new call to faith.

In the meantime, hosting the weekly programme has provided me with a ten - year course in theology and apologetics.

What we have in these chapters, in turn, is an almost gentle presentation of natural theology, a Christian theological proposal that is argued vigorously against alternative views, and a straightforward apologetic for a certain physics - based conception of God's action in the world.

Browning's second purpose is to advocate a particular way of doing theology, one positioned between historicist and foundationalist approaches (what George Lindbeck terms, respectively, «cultural - linguistic» and «apologetic» perspectives in his book The Nature of Christian Doctrine).

Brunner's theological contributions extend also to the fields of epistemology, anthropology, Christology, personal and social ethics, eschatology and eristics (Brunner's preferred approach to apologetics), as well as helpful treatments of the standard topics in theology.

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.

William Hamilton says: «Bonhoeffer is forcing us to shift our center of attention from theology to apologetics, criticism of culture, the problem of communication, and even from hermeneutics to shape and qualify our lives.»

Religion is to be defined as the assumption in theology, preaching, apologetics, evangelism, counseling, that man needs God, and that there are certain things that God alone can do for him.

He is forcing us to shift our center of attention from theology, apologetics, criticism of culture, the problem of communication, and even from hermeneutics, to the shape and quality of our lives.

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.