Sentences with phrase «as a church theologian»

Partly because of the consistency of Altizer's challenge, I decided long ago to identify myself as a church theologian, even if I could not mean by that what I described above.

I can only stand by and watch as a church theologian intensely interested in the implications the quest has for faith.

Not exact matches

I doubt that in a local church in your area this Sunday you'll hear a pastor or a theologian share on the beauty of dancing as a spiritual offering of love to God.

To me, the conversation revealed metropolitan John as a man of the Church, who made a sincere effort to listen and to attend to the concerns shared by theologians.

As many in the Catholic world had been expecting the Church to permit contraception under certain circumstances thanks to many perhaps well - meaning but shortsighted clergy and theologians, the encyclical met with hostility and has been widely ignored and explicitly rejected.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

This really matters because, as the theologian George Eldon Ladd said, the Church is the primary agency of the kingdom of God.

As the American theologian Stanley Hauerwas says, «The most interesting, creative and political solution we Christians have to offer our troubled society... is the church.

Just as the people at Broadway learned that they must share their separate stories through their participation in the Eucharist, so those of us charged to be theologians must continue that task among the many churches.

And in a vibrant Church, the work of theologians serves as a gift and service to both the hierarchy and the faithful.

Why I Am a Catholic presents the encyclical as the «great break» between most Catholics and the Vatican, for it opened the way for «qualified and loyal theologians» to dissent from church teaching and emboldened the laity to follow their consciences.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

Cobb does acknowledge that «our task is to become aware of how we, as citizens, as theologians and as churches, share in sustaining and strengthening the structures of oppression and destruction which govern our world.»

For centuries, the Church's credibility as an institution that seeks truth has been called into question due to the error of theologians who mistook phenomenological language in Scripture for ontological language.

The liberation theologian does not first work out questions of the nature of God and Christ and the church in one context, such as that of the academic community, and then apply these answers to the social situation.

On the contrary, the theologian thinks about God, Christ, and the church as these topics arise in the analysis of the social situation and in action aimed at justice.

The book of Job has served as a philosophical Rorschach blot for its most outspoken interpreters, from the Talmudic rabbis and Church Fathers through their medieval philosophical successors and down to modern philosophers, theologians, and creative writers.

Third, many women theologians are using insights and practices from feminist theology in order to address broader social and ethical questions confronting the church, such as globalization, care of the earth, and the shifting patterns of work and family.

Or will those churches now complete their sectarian withdrawal from the arena of public debate as their theologians and activists go on speaking to themselves as though they were living 350 years ago and economics were just a branch of biblical ethics?

The German political theologians see their task as calling the church to repentance for the way in which it supports the oppressors so that the church may speak effectively against injustice in every society.

While we may believe in the Holy Spirit as a manifestation of God's presence in the world, we sometimes wonder if the church's early theologians invented this connection as an explanation of the continuity between Jesus and themselves, and if this invention didn't in turn and inadvertently lead to orthodox formulations about the Trinity that belied the Spirit's reality, much as the Kinsey Report misleads readers about the real joy and meaning of sex.

(Because of the nature of this magazine and my own role as a Christian theologian, I will speak only of the church in what follows.)

We've got a variety of well - known theologians, biblical scholars, musicians and church leaders scheduled, as well as interesting people eager to share about their faith, lifestyle, interests, stories, and areas of expertise.

I am a theologian who recognizes the influence of Wesley in my own work and who sees the potential of Wesley to help the United Methodist Church and perhaps other Wesleyan denominations as well.

I have written this book in the conviction that neither seminaries nor churches, neither theologians nor believers generally, can go on with business as usual — that I can not go on with business as usual.

Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.

Once the theologian could speak of the church as a truly human communal and social body, and perhaps the Catholic theologian can still do so, but I see no way by which the Protestant theologian at this time can speak both honestly and positively about the church.

To cite a present - day example: Many people were not at all surprised at the report (in January, 1968; whether the report was correct I do not know) that so noted a theologian as Helmut Thielicke had called on a number of officer - candidates to prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrations.

He finds fault with «religious interpretation» in that it establishes priests and theologians as the guardians and rulers of the people of the church, and thus creates in thema state of dependence.

The psychic energy of contemporary pastors, theologians and church leaders has more often centered on the kerygmatic Word as it encounters «the problem of history,» on struggles against the idolatries of fascism and Stalinism abroad and racism, classism and sexism at home, or on the development of the professional skills of ministry.

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For one, our most notable theologian was Reinhold Niebuhr, whom you have rightly honored over the years and who is still celebrated as such in the church's fiftieth - anniversary literature.

Alyssa Lyra Pitstick Hans Urs von Balthasar once keenly observed what makes someone an ecclesial theologian: «It is quite clear that anyone who practices theology as a member of the Church must profess the Church's Creed (and the theology implicit in it), both formally and materially.

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.

How can Thomas F. Torrance, a Scottish Presbyterian Reformed theologian, win the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion because of his contributions to the relationship between science and theology, as well as for assisting the Eastern Orthodox Church in its articulation of Trinitarian theology?

Leaving aside this quite possible case, we may say that the dialogue between a theologian and the magisterium is an intra-ecclesial one, and the doctrine of this theologian an ecclesial doctrine only if he respects and accepts as binding that teaching which the Church considers inseparable from her faith and proclaims with absolute engagement.

For otherwise the Church would have acted against its duty and capacity in a way and to an extent which the theologian can not ascribe to a Church which as a whole is indefectible in the love of God and not only in its truth.

As has been said before, one necessary form of this change is precisely the dialogue between the Church and the theologian as the representative of new questions and horizons in which the permanent dogma of the Church must appeaAs has been said before, one necessary form of this change is precisely the dialogue between the Church and the theologian as the representative of new questions and horizons in which the permanent dogma of the Church must appeaas the representative of new questions and horizons in which the permanent dogma of the Church must appear.

But a theologian may not accept this presupposition from the beginning, or he may try to eliminate it implicitly or explicitly by demand - ing that the Church should revise her faith or her idea of herself according to his theological opinion or that she should accept the latter as of equal right.

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.

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal «supermarkets for the sacraments,» as some liberation theologians call them.

A midwest book salesman, who probably reads as many religious books as most theologians, makes a comment on evangelical churches that applies to many evangelical best sellers: «They show a steady growth, but I fear it is immature.

For me as an American Catholic theologian, that terminus a quo was the immigrant Catholic Church, the kind of church nostalgically memorialized in some of Andrew Greeley's nChurch, the kind of church nostalgically memorialized in some of Andrew Greeley's nchurch nostalgically memorialized in some of Andrew Greeley's novels.

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.

And, writing for theologians, Karl Barth said in his Church Dogmatics (T & T Clark International) that we must not become too engrossed in the demonic as there is the imminent danger that we might become a little demonic!

I felt what I had to do as a trained professional moral theologian was to play the role of a critical lover and loving critic and try to help the church realize a viable ethic concerning homosexuality.

The nemesis of American Protestantism is not the churches per se nor theology as such; it is the theologian.

As a result, he argues, theologians feel themselves free to use the Bible for whatever purpose they wish, from the liberation of women to the church - growth movement, without regard for its supposedly irrecoverable original intent.

Both Kavanagh and Jesuit theologian John Baldovin have shown how early Christian worship was a highly civic affair, just as the Church itself was from the beginning a public, urban institution.

Academic theologians should not place the black church on the same level as prominent secular institutions.