Sentences with phrase «as dogmatic theology»

Scholars in other fields, such as dogmatic theology, are starting to read Burridge and are finding his work illuminating.

Not exact matches

Those of us who continue to fight for orthodoxy, in dogmatic as well as moral theology, miss those days when there was a clear beacon shining from across the Tiber.

Dogmatic theology can not explain them — as Moloney wrongly requires — without relating (not adapting!)

Dogmatic theology is dogmatic precisely insofar as it's not dialectical, or not in response to the pressing or fashionable questions of Dogmatic theology is dogmatic precisely insofar as it's not dialectical, or not in response to the pressing or fashionable questions of dogmatic precisely insofar as it's not dialectical, or not in response to the pressing or fashionable questions of the day.

It is not a decision for everyone, but one that is perfect for her, as she prepares for her new life teaching dogmatic theology.

For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question of defined dogmas as other doctrines of the Church in dogmatic and moral theology which are taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines of faith or as irreformable dogma.

Ultimately, then, God would be conceived as Other and as Holy; perhaps as the «normative» Judeo - Christian - Islamic tradition has asserted all along in its much maligned dogmatic theology; while leaving mystical assertions of identity and oneness suspect.

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.

Third, since theology as a reflective enterprise claims to speak truth, (Dogmatics I, pp. 14, 43, 50, 60, 61, 63, 80, 84; Revelation and Reason, pp. 3, 362.)

Judgment as to whether Barth's theology adequately interprets the moral demand in the Christian life must await the completion of his Church Dogmatics.

It calls its conclusions dogmatic theology, or philosophy of the absolute, as the case may be; it does not call them science of religions.

To take an illustration which is particularly apt, as it does not involve any of the central problems of dogmatic theology, in Matt.

Theology as an isolated discipline which is structured primarily or solely in reference to biblical and traditional dogmatic themes will decline in importance.

If, as I recently argued in the Century («The Suffering God: The Rise of a New Orthodoxy,» April 16), belief in the suffering of God is the most basic revolutionary development of 20th - century theology, then Paul Tillich and others were wrong in contending that, in his movement from Romans to the Dogmatics, Barth went from a revolutionary to a conservative stance.

While insisting that he was not tempted by biblical literalism, Karl Barth began his dogmatics by describing the liberal tradition of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Adolf von Harnack as «the plain destruction of Protestant theology and the Protestant church.»

Perhaps American religion's recent conservative shift has so affected the mood of the schools that denominational seminaries must now battle just to hold on to the gains made in the 1950s and «60s (such as commitments to practical theology, to historical - critical hermeneutics and to revisioning traditional dogmatics).

Kelly's summary of the trends in the curriculum of Oberlin Seminary applies to many others as well: «The program of study was changing from the dogmatic to the practical, from the ecclesiocentric to the socio - centric... «34 More recent examinations show the continuation of these emphases in our time though they also show a revival of interest in systematic and exegetical theology and in the Biblical languages.

First of all, there is very little theology in America today: dogmatic theology has virtually disappeared, biblical scholarship is largely archeological and philological, church history barely maintains its existence as a discipline; and, in terms of German influences, Bultmann has replaced Barth as the guiding light of the younger theologians.

Most noted for his work at the intersection of theology and science, for which he was feted in 1978 with the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, and as co-editor of the English version of Karl Barth's monumental Church Dogmatics, Thomas Forsyth Torrance was the greatest British....

Or is dogmatic or scholastic theology less doubted in point of fact for claiming, as it does, to be in point of right undoubtable?

Theology is dogmatic for Barth in that it embraces the classical dogmatic definitions of the ecumenical councils, and especially Chalcedon, as to the meaning and significance of Jesus Christ: in Jesus Christ we confront both what it means to be divine and what it means to be human.

This claim may seem a strange one given Barth's relentless pursuit of theology as «dogmatics.»

Those who have known the renowned Basel professor only as the re-creator or a vast system of orthodox and dogmatic theology have no doubt been amazed at his active contribution to the bicentennial of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Though he himself is skeptical of some of these recent readings of Barth, McCormack's work clearly shows how the dialectical theology of Romans continues into the Church Dogmatics as well.

So far as any published «systematic theology» is concerned, a self - conscious effort to frame religious truth for the Pentecostal tradition within its own time and space something even remotely comparable to Donald Gelpi's work for Roman Catholic charismatics, not to mention Karl Barth's magisterial Church Dogmatics for the Reformed tradition - there simply is no such Pentecostal theology.

The theology of grace easily seems very abstract and remote, but we should remember that it used to be taught as part of fundamental moral rather than dogmatic theology, as it often still is by the Dominicans.