Sentences with phrase «as theologian john»

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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.

Ross offers a defense of evangelical liturgical practices (perhaps better described as «norms,» actually) by putting Catholic scholar Aidan Kavanagh into conversation with Anglican theologian John Webster.

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»:

It includes non-Catholic Christians as well, such as Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project; Prof. Owen Gingerich of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; and the Rev. John Polkinghorne, formerly a professor of particle physics at Cambridge University, and now an Anglican theologian.

The commonwealth model of marriage held wide appeal among a diverse spectrum of English theologians, and served as the starting point for the liberalizing reforms later urged by authors as different as John Milton and John Locke.

Schubert Ogden and John Cobb, Jr., as well as the present writer, have committed their theological attention to the interpretation of the new metaphysic for Christian faith.45 For these theologians, no philosophy is sufficient for Christian faith.

Lucretius thought that the soul nestled in the human breast; Descartes located it in the pineal gland; and process theologian John Cobb, following Alfred North Whitehead, hopes to find mind wandering as a thread through the «interstices of the brain,» But if we are truly dealing with metaphysics, then the mind and the soul, like the risen Christ, will not be anywhere, but holistically related to the body.

My own indignation was especially «righteous» since I was deeply involved, with others, in a protracted, earnest crusade to recover and re-present John Wesley (not only to Methodists but to other Christians as well) as a significant theologian and as a fruitful resource for contemporary ecumenical theology.

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

The Common Creation Story offered by the sciences is an object of intense scrutiny by theologians as diverse as Gordon Kaufman, Sallie McFague, Wolfhart Pannenherg, Langdon Gilkey, Ian Barbour, Arthur Peacocke, Nancey Murphy, Robert John Russell and John Polkinghorne, to mention only the most prominent names.

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.

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.

Any person who is referred to by such sobriquets as «the Catholic Barth,» «the most cultured man in Europe,» «a modern church father» and «Pope John Paul II's favorite theologian» is certainly someone to be reckoned with on many theological fronts.

Just a century prior, the Council of Constance (1414 — 1418) had condemned two theologians as heretics: Jan Hus and John Wycliffe.

Anglican and Nonconformist theologians, philosophers, and writers (Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Frederic Dennis Maurice, Charles Kingsley), especially the Christian Socialists, were interested in the normative aspect of the problems of religion and society.15 In the younger generation several of these trends are blended: William Temple, John MacMurray, Maurice B. Rickett, Vigo A. Demant.16 Max Weber's influence in England never reached as deep as in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economics.

In an interview with La Croix, Müller observed that, whereas Benedict XVI was a theologian by training, other popes, such as St. John XXIII and Francis, have not been.

I have a deep appreciation for Reformed Theology, a theological movement that began with Martin Luther and John Calvin, was further developed by such theologians as Barth and Brunner, and was followed by such theologians today as Torrance and Pannenburg.

I have a deep appreciation for Reformed Theology, a theological movement that began with Martin Luther and John Calvin, was further developed by such theologians as Barth and Brunner, and was followed by such...

«The theologian's task,» as John Calvin recognized «is not to divert the ears with chatter, but to strengthen consciences by teaching things true, sure, and profitable.

Moreover, two of Hartshorne's former students, Schubert Ogden and John B. Cobb, Jr., are now leading American theologians who are in the vanguard of the most recent developments of that creative movement known as «process theology.»

It is one of theologian John Cobb's important contributions that he points so clearly to this kind of causation, which we know so well, as providing a much better way of conceiving of God's causality in the world than the concept of a God who intervenes through external causation.

However, such noteworthy process theologians as John B. Cobb, Jr., Schubert Ogden, W. Norman Pittenger, and Daniel Day Williams all acknowledge a profound debt to Hartshorne for assistance in carrying forward the theological task in a manner essentially dependent upon process philosophy.

I recall sitting in a classroom in a huge Southern Baptist seminary a quarter of a century ago, hearing my own favorite Professor John Doe explain all Mullinsism as being not only Southern Baptist but also «conservative [Wilhelm] Hermannian» (after a German theologian we had been taught to call an «I - theologian» more than a «God - theologian»).

As it happened, the week of the book expo was also the death of John Macquarrie, a Scottish theologian of the Anglican persuasion.

Process theologians such as John Cobb see this creative transformation as the very work of Christ.

This has even been held by some great theologians, of whom John Calvin is the most noted exponent, as the doctrine of «irresistible grace.»

This idea is defended in our volume by A.C. Ewing, by Keith Ward (writing as Oxford's Regius Professor of Divinity), and by the physicist - turned - theologian John Polkinghorne.

His John Templeton Foundation (est. 1987) supports scientific research at top universities in such fields as theoretical physics, cosmology and evolutionary biology, and also supports informed dialogue between scientists and theologians.

In proposing this fresh presentation of classic moral truths in a delicate area of pastoral care, the Cracovian theologians drew on the pioneering work done by their archbishop, Karol Wojtyla, in Love and Responsibility — work that Wojtyla, as John Paul II, would later develop in the Theology of the Body.

Bishop Vaughan was supported in principle by John Cardinal O'Connor, who praised Vaughan as a theologian and noted that he had a right and perhaps an obligation to say what he said.

Broadcast by tweets from influential theologians / pastors such as John Piper bidding «Farewell, Rob Bell,» the article's writer is convinced that Bell can no longer claim the title of «Christian» because he suspects Bell of universalism (this decision being made, it seems, simply by viewing the video above and reading the publisher's summary rather than, you know, reading the book first).

And as I knelt in the chapel under the statue of Our Lady, I thought about a recent controversy in which a popular Protestant pastor, theologian, and writer named John Piper claimed that Christianity has «a masculine feel.»

To encourage Elector John and his theologians Luther sent encouraging letters to Augsburg, including one strongly supportive to the Elector, assuring him that time was not heavy on his hands as the Elector had feared it might be (what might not happen if Luther were bored?)

In the early 1920s, leaders in the Church of England asked one of their own, John Kenneth Mozley, to prepare a report on how theologians were dealing with the doctrine, particularly as the British were coming to grips with the implications of massive human waste in the World War just concluded.

This Dutch theologian and Christian statesperson did as much as anyone on the yon side of Pope John XXIII to form the modern ecumenical reality.

The Dominican theologian John Capreolus (d. 1445) portrayed Aquinas as a thoroughly Augustinian theologian.

Notable exceptions have been process theologians and philosophers such as John Cobb, Charles Hartshorne, David Griffin, and Jay McDaniel.

Although they cite the Baptist theologian Timothy George in a way that shows his awareness of the ground - breaking work of the World Conference on Faith and Order at Montreal in 1963 on «Scripture, Tradition, and traditions,» Noll and Nystrom make no systematic use of his insights; they also neglect to note the phraseology of Pope John Paul II when he called for further study on «the relationship between Sacred Scripture as the highest authority in matters of faith and Sacred Tradition as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God» (Ut Unum Sint, 79)» a formulation that I think may hold the best promise of resolving the question since the sixteenth century.

He cites John Mbiti as an African theologian who is adamant in insisting that Third World theologians have a challenge and contribution to make within the universal theological enterprise.

Richard John Neuhaus, conservative theologian and staunch supporter of U.S. policy, stated the U.S. obsession with Nicaragua: «Washington believes that Nicaragua must serve as a warning to the rest of Central America to never again challenge U.S. hegemony because of the enormous economic and political costs.

Hartshorne has applied a complex logic to thought about God and has influenced such theologians as Schubert Ogden, John Cobb, Kenneth Cauthen, Peter Hamilton, Norman Pittenger, and John A. T. Robinson.

Charles Colson was a political strategist, to be sure, but one transformed by prison ministry and in constant constructive dialogue with such pastors and theologians as Carl F. H. Henry, J. I. Packer, and John Stott.

Process theologians generally prefer the tradition of John Duns Scotus, which holds that God predestined the person of Jesus as the crowning of creation and as the total manifestation of his love, regardless of whether man sinned.

Nevertheless, some themes emerge which form part of the overall thrust of the study and its suggested responses to modernity with which Faith Magazine would not only wish to take issue but would also criticise as harmful to the project of the new evangelisation called for by Pope John Paul and addressed by Cardinal Ratzinger as a theologian and Pope Benedict XVI as the supreme Pastor.

Among contemporary theologians, John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor Emeritus at the School of Theology at Claremont and the founding director of the Center for Process Studies, has contemplated the place of nature in theology as much as any other major thinker.

As much as I disagree with John Piper's theology, I was sad to see the popular Reformed theologian and pastor join the ranks of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson by claiming that a natural disaster was the result of God's wrath regarding homosexualitAs much as I disagree with John Piper's theology, I was sad to see the popular Reformed theologian and pastor join the ranks of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson by claiming that a natural disaster was the result of God's wrath regarding homosexualitas I disagree with John Piper's theology, I was sad to see the popular Reformed theologian and pastor join the ranks of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson by claiming that a natural disaster was the result of God's wrath regarding homosexuality.

Ellis Sandoz observes that John of Damascus, the eighth - century Greek theologian, linked this definition of sin to the larger claim that barbarism is the primal heresy: «Every man as independent and a law unto himself after the dictates of his own will.»

A practicing Benedictine priest and noted theologian, Houédard, also known by his initials «dsh» or «the Dom,» wrote extensively on new approaches to art, spirituality and philosophy, and collaborated with artists such as Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and John Cage.