Sentences with phrase «as a theologian»

But then he should also be willing to learn that most of the men who have been thought of as theologians have not done the kind of work implied in his definition.

I write as the president of a Catholic university, not as a theologian at a Catholic university.

This source of the questions does not lessen the value of their work as philosophy, but it does mean that their philosophical work was a part of their work as theologians.

As a theologian trained in ethics, I suppose I should be happy about....

Further, even if professors of theology decide to function as theologians anyway, they are socialized into understanding their professional responsibility narrowly.

As some theologians say, it lives within the now and the not yet.

It is my belief that we already have more freedom as theologians to do this kind of work, and to encourage it in our students, that we utilize.

Yet he is still best categorized as a theologian, and both his activity and thought give the «academic» theologians something to write about.

I, on; the other hand, as a theologian agree that it is a proper, and now even necessary, activity for theologians.

As a theologian trained in ethics, I suppose I should be happy about this development.

Graham was no social activist and never joined marches, which led prominent Christians such as theologian Reinhold Niebuhr to publicly condemn Graham as too moderate.

Many Priests are scientists as well as theologians and understand how ridiculous creationism is.

Some scholars believe that Luther found his distinctive answer to this question very early and that his development as a theologian was mostly a matter of bringing his discovery to dear enough expression that it finally provoked its inevitable conflict.

Just as these theologians demanded a fundamental reappraisal of Christianity's evaluation of Judaism, Greenberg, while affirming their program, makes a similar demand on the Jewish side: Jews must rise above their historic fear and dismissal of Christianity and affirm the full spiritual dignity of the Church.

Do you think Tillich's reputation as theologian has been permanently damaged in the past six months?

Yet, if I have to speak as a theologian rather than as a philologian, there are many things in Erasmus which seem to me to be completely incongruous with a knowledge of Christ.»

Insofar as the theologian appeals for the justification of his statements to the general experience of mankind, he is engaged in Christian natural theology.

And Liberty U is full of disingenuous academics who have to lie for a living because its almost impossible to get a job as a theologian if you advertize any critical academic reason towards your specialize field.

2 untruths spoken by you in one sentence:: You are not dialogging with anyone but Luke because Societyvs has revealed your inadequacies as a theologian.

Bible is more than just compartmentalized reading and if you took those classes at a fundamentalist venue then you didn't learn as a theologian learns.

So long as he operates as theologian at all, whether his work is dogmatic or eristic, it all depends upon and serves God's revelation of himself in Jesus Christ.

In the end, Calvin is best understood as a theologian who adopted the humanist cry, «To the sources!

But for present purposes, we can see how such images as the hired man, the functional servant, the unadventurous bookman, or the pretentious highbrow have been involved in the rejection of responsibility as theologian.

Instead, an epistemology of the cross seeks «to be with the victims.4 where it becomes possible to come to know, as theologian William Rankin wryly observes] that it is not the poor who are a problem to the rich but the rich who are a problem to the poor.

However, as theologians begin to outgrow the pastors, the denomination (primarily run by pastors) puts pressure on them to conform.

I could, of course, simply as a theologian write against legalism in our churches.

Because Holy Orders remain connected to a sacramental framework within the Catholic Church, there is a clear distinction between teaching and ordination that provides theological space for women to serve as theologians and Biblical scholars.

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.

But I speak as a theologian.

Insofar as the theologian appeals to the general evidence available to those both within and without the community for the vindication of such affirmations, he is involved in Christian natural theology.

Rather, he works as a theologian in subordination to a church pledged to witness to the nonviolent politics of the gospel.

A native of Italy of whose parents and ancestry little is known, Bonaventura was a distinguished head of the Order of Brothers Minor but is best remembered as a theologian.

Medical ethicists who started as theologians seem especially attached to this precept.

Where Abstract shines most, however, is in its ability to pose deeper questions about the metaphysical functions of design, art and beauty — which, as theologian John de Gruchy writes in Christianity, Art and Transformation, «characterizes the form of ultimate reality... the essence of God's glory.»

They are becoming as bad as the the theologians they despise.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Having interviewed Andrew a number of times in his capacity as a theologian, it was a revealing portrait of the complexity of the real - life family circumstances...

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

Hermeneutics is, as theologian Fred Lawrence has put it, «a being - present - to - the - world constituted by meaning»» provided one stresses that Gadamer considered this to be «more than a mere manifestation of meaning.»

Alison Milbank's Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real is a remarkable accomplishment, chiefly because it forestalls any easy dismissal of Chesterton and Tolkien as troglodytes.

Although Calvin is remembered primarily as a theologian and biblical commentator, his experience of the realities of public life in the cosmopolitan imperial city of Strasbourg had given him a new confidence to address the issue of Christianity in the public arena.

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?