Sentences with phrase «apologetic tradition»

110.1 (Mark 14.62 a and Acts 7.56); and a passion apologetic tradition using Zech.

To identify the work of the social gospel leaders as «theology» is hardly justified if we take the German apologetic tradition as defining what «theology» is.

Despite its brilliance, the apologetic tradition began to run dry early in the twentieth century.

Unlike the others, Tillich continued the apologetic tradition, drawing on Heidegger as a way of circumventing the limits of the earlier tradition.

They could not compete with the German apologetic tradition in depth of thought or rigor of historical scholarship.

This Protestant Kantian apologetic tradition failed to respond to the increasing fragmentation of the academic disciplines.

Not exact matches

Professor Wilken has answered another, lesser question of the role of reason (and of tradition) in apologetics, ethics, and polity.

The death of God tradition is beginning to see the work laid out before it: historical, exegetical, apologetic, ethical.

Not only were theologians and preachers often apologetic about their tradition's peculiarities, but larger cultural forces were making it difficult for those traditions to sustain themselves.

First, it is plain that the empty tomb was not the originating factor since careful critical study of the material found at the end of all four Gospels makes it clear that the stories about the empty tomb are more in the category of Christian apologetic — however honestly believed and taught at the time when the Gospels were compiled from earlier oral tradition — than in that of historical reporting.

On balance, Berger's theoretical perspective has provided a modern apologetic for the value of religion, arguing not from theological tradition but from the secular premises of social science that humans can not live by the bread of everyday reality alone.

More specifically, his goal is «to examine — with a frank apologetic agenda near at hand — the possibilities for envisioning the transformation of humanity through relationship with Christ, as per Biblical tradition and Christian experience, in a process - relational mode»

C. F. Evans sums up by saying, «It is plain that Matthew's final chapter furnishes neither reliable historical information nor early Christian tradition about the resurrection, but only an example of later christological belief as it had developed in one area of the church, and of the apologetic which had been conducted in that area in the face of Jewish attacks.

But this tradition, found no earlier than Matthew's Gospel, more than fifty years after the event, almost certainly stems from much later apologetic, suggesting, as it does, that the Jews, unlike the disciples, were ready for the Resurrection even before it happened.

Behind this tradition lies an apologetic motive.

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.

At such times a relaxation of the apologetic approach and a new openness to the foreignness of alternative ways of looking at mystery become essential simply for the sake of the vitality and survival of the tradition's revelatory capacity.

Such a dialogue requires Christian theologians to advance an apologetic which will argue for the truth and goodness of their traditions in language that is intelligible within a broader culture.

The apologetic is robust, drawing from the witness of the Scriptures, the Tradition of the early Church and non Christian sources.

The postmodern claim that all truth is relative to a context or tradition has created a new situation for apologetics.

The regular apocalyptic type expectation of Mark 13 and its parallels is from early Christian apocalyptic; the expectation of the «parousia» is a Matthaean development from the apocalyptic Son of man tradition; and the apocalyptic Son of man tradition has itself developed from an early Christian interpretation of the resurrection and early Christian passion apologetic.

(365 - 6) Loss of Coherent Apologetics There has been a long tradition within Catholic catechesis of making a rational case for the immortal nature of man.