Sentences with phrase «as a theologian in»

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

Whether we find ourselves as theologians in the camp of the oppressor or the oppressed, what we have to interpret is a gospel of liberation.

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

Further, Pentecostals who read Acts theologically and even doctrinally are simply joining scholars across the theological academy who have emerged in the last generation to defend the author of Luke - Acts as a theologian in his own right.

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.

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In these pages, papal biographer and theologian George Weigel rejects the notion that any thinking about just war ought to begin with a «presumption against the use of force,» as it seems Pope Francis has done.

In a bold move over the weekend, theologian and writer Rob Bell marries cartoonist David Hayward, also known as the nakedpastor.

As a young theologian, he was horrified when in 1914 his professors, liberal Protestants to the last, signed a declaration of support for the Kaiser and the coming war.

Of course the theologian knows he was a Jew but do you really think with all that is going on in this world Jesus gives a hoot what Chritiains eat as long as we find a way to feed each other.

In his recent book God and the New Atheism, the Georgetown theologian John Haught has usefully captured this quasi-religious absolutism among the New Atheists by summarizing their position as a seven - point «creed»:

I won't unfriend you because you believe differently than I do, I just don't need more theologians as my friends on Facebook who speak with such confidence when it comes to someone's place in eternity.

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.

As the great theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper once observed, «In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, «That is mine!»»

In this light it can be seen that the formulaic «testimonies» of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity, while they may appear to some communally minded theologians as a manifestation of individualism, are in fact almost the only remaining cultural form of the kind of storytelling Benjamin praiseIn this light it can be seen that the formulaic «testimonies» of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity, while they may appear to some communally minded theologians as a manifestation of individualism, are in fact almost the only remaining cultural form of the kind of storytelling Benjamin praisein fact almost the only remaining cultural form of the kind of storytelling Benjamin praises.

In St. Louis I was introduced as a distinguished theologian, social critic --» and a noted journalist.»

The theological obtuseness of the Roman court theologians (Cajetan partly excepted), the inability or unwillingness of the Roman authorities to appropriate their own best ecclesiological traditions, and the unlovely influence of financial politics on the handling of the doctrinal issues all played a considerable role, as did Luther's impatience and anger, his inability to take stupid and inappropriate papal teaching at all calmly (perhaps because his own early view of the papal office was unrealistically high), as well as his tendency to dramatize his own situation in apocalyptic terms.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

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.

To me, a theologian, what is interesting is that, though people think of the more anarchical forms of Protestantism as being founded on experience, here at the heart of Catholicism, impelling people to believe that their faith is anchored in Truth, is an experience — the experience of active and personal grace.

Analytic Thomism will need to grapple with Trapani's representation of Maritain, as will admirers of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the theologian who, rebelling against one kind of Thomism, developed an aesthetics that rivals Maritain's in scope and importance.

German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer acknowledged this reality in Life Together: Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.

To this depiction of the connection between sexual differentiation and child - bearing as normative, it is, as Anglican theologian Oliver O'Donovan has argued, possible to respond in different ways.

In Tax for the Common Good, theologians and other authors look at what lessons the Bible may hold about matters such as the purpose of tax, how governments should apply it, how companies and individuals should pay it and what they should expect of governments in returIn Tax for the Common Good, theologians and other authors look at what lessons the Bible may hold about matters such as the purpose of tax, how governments should apply it, how companies and individuals should pay it and what they should expect of governments in returin return.

In the end, as theologians like to say, Jesus is not so much a problem to be solved as a mystery to be pondered.

However, as I also said in the review, His Eminence states that he was provoked into writing the book because theologians who talked about divine attributes tended to treat mercy as a marginal attribute of God, because traditionally it was thought that mercy did not pertain to God's essence.

In fact Paul, our greatest theologian, was single and encouraged others to remain as he was, if possible.

As a theologian, I would say that the morality of enjoying horror should be considered in the context of the morality of enjoying anything.

As such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppresseAs such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppresseas fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppressed.

He does not discuss a single major Protestant or Catholic theologian who has systematically discussed this issue of faith and history — not Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Hans Conzelmann, Gerhard Ebeling, Hans Frei, Friedrich Gogarten, Hans Küng, Schubert Ogden, Karl Rahner, James M. Robinson or Paul Tillich (who, incidentally, is dismissed in a footnote as «too mystical for most Christians, including most Christian intellectuals»).

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.

As for the world of thought, the very furor the young theologian has aroused in academic Protestant circles proclaims him a portent of the first magnitude.

Sherburne's non-theistic stance is in keeping with the heart of Jones» own position as a humanist theologian and his ongoing campaign «to justify humanism as an authentic expression of black religion» (CBH 217/8).

Because of the close identification of Mary Daly and other theologians with feminism, their new religion appeals to many of the women students in the seminary, as well as to some of the men.

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.

At the Convocation, Pierre asserted that «the pastoral plan of the Holy Father in Evangelii gaudium is what God expects, and as one theologian recently said, «If you don't think Francis is the cure, you don't grasp the disease.

As neo-orthodox theologians, in the era of Reinhold Niebuhr have reminded us, technological advances can not vanquish original sin.

On the other hand, political theologians are sometimes prone to the opposite danger, so historicizing their conceptualization of reality that nature comes to be treated, as it generally was in 19th century continental Protestant thought and on into the 20th century, as a mere stage for history.

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

Professionally Bonhoeffer was forced by the government ban to sacrifice his public vocation as a preacher and theologian, and he had to become extremely cautious in contacting his former students.

More than ever, evangelical scholars should not abandon the identity as hopelessly marred by Trumpism, but, in the words of an evangelical theologian who did this well, revision evangelicalism and renew the center.

In all this, university theologians are of course addressing their own personal need — namely, that of maintaining their existence as Christian theologians in a world that can not understand what they are about or whIn all this, university theologians are of course addressing their own personal need — namely, that of maintaining their existence as Christian theologians in a world that can not understand what they are about or whin a world that can not understand what they are about or why.

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.»

The trick to studying well is to steer clear of liberal theologians who care little for truth, and would rather render the text in as «politically correct» a manner as possible.

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.

But while it is hard to imagine theologians writing scientific papers that use the Bible's cosmology or creation account in a literal way, as though Copernicus or Darwin never lived, theologians and clergy abound who accept the Bible's communitarian social framework as normative for political - economic analysis today.

This does not mean that when we follow liberation theologians in the turn to praxis, our method will be exactly the same as theirs.

First, feminist theologians are drawing on women's everyday lives and especially the dynamics of God's grace working in and through them as sources for theological reflection.

But unlike earlier waves of feminist theology, in which appeals to women's experience were a wakeup call about women's marginalization, today feminist theologians turn to women's narratives as a source of embodied knowledge.

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.