Sentences with phrase «as theologians begin»

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

Not exact matches

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.

As Simon Harcourt, Cornish's would - be biographer, says at the beginning of the novel, in words that seem very much Davies's own despite their placement in the mouth of an Anglican theologian:

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 whenever a theologian will not allow a societal definition of religion as a sometimes useful, sometimes dangerous, usually harmless «private option,» then the struggle of contemporary theology for authentic publicness begins.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

The existential theologians taught us a great lesson — that theology can begin with the human situation as the locus of God's revelation.

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.

Jenson and Gassmann skillfully reveal an ecumenical mandate in their work as Lutheran theologians, and their beginning and ending essays provide a frame for the more specific projects of the essays in between.

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...

As Reformed theologian Willie Jennings says, «Salvation begins with Mary's yes.»

This is a recovery which began with the intellectual groundwork laid by theologians such as Newman, de Lubac, and von Balthasar prior to Vatican II and was given affirmation and direction by the Council's deeply evangelising and unifying imperative.

Beginning with the church Fathers, theologians undertook to conceive the God attested by Holy Scripture as the wholly absolute Being of the philosophers.

The chapter headings give us an overview of the work: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ: the theological project of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique of criticism: beginning the search for a new theological synthesis; The hermeneutic of faith: critical and historical foundations for a biblical theology; The spiritual science of theology: its mission and method in the life of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity of revelation; The theology of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history of salvation; The embrace of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority of mystery: the beauty and necessity of the theologian's task.

As his cognitional theory is explained by Elshtain, the fifth - century theologian would be at ease with contemporary philosophers such as Bernard Lonergan, whose theory of knowing begins with self - appropriatioAs his cognitional theory is explained by Elshtain, the fifth - century theologian would be at ease with contemporary philosophers such as Bernard Lonergan, whose theory of knowing begins with self - appropriatioas Bernard Lonergan, whose theory of knowing begins with self - appropriation.

So even before he began using that term, he sent a letter to the head of the Vatican Observatory, noting that «those members of the Church who are either themselves active scientists, or in some special cases both scientists and theologians, could serve as a key resource» in bridging the chasm that too often separates modern science and biblical religion.

However and nevertheless, in the effort to describe their loyalty to the particular, empirical theologians sometimes begin, just as I have begun, preoccupied with generalities and with logics — a procedure which is ironic when it is not simply comic.

As soon as he had settled in at the Coburg he began to write a piece for the clerics and theologians assembling for the Imperial DieAs soon as he had settled in at the Coburg he began to write a piece for the clerics and theologians assembling for the Imperial Dieas he had settled in at the Coburg he began to write a piece for the clerics and theologians assembling for the Imperial Diet.

I contend, however, that each theologian's notion of God can be better understood as beginning primarily in speculation.

Among cautious systematic theologians, there began the search for a theology which was as independent as possible from exegesis.

This attitude among a great many secular theologians reveals an archaic mode of faith whose object is, as Altizer puts it, the «primordial God of the beginning.»

As the Catholic theologian Louis Bouyer explains in Women in the Church, «God is neither man nor woman, though He encompasses from the beginning all that humanity will ever bring to realization.

Giovanni de Medici, Pope Leo X, had treated the Luther affair as an administrative nuisance, something for the theologians and canon lawyers, when the first missive from the Archbishop of Mainz had arrived at the beginning of the year.

It is also worth noting that as head of the CDF in 1990 Cardinal Ratzinger saw the description of the lowest authoritative level of the magisterium found in The Ecclesid Role of the Theologian (e.g. n. 24: «It often only becomes possible with the passage of time to distinguish between what is necessary and what is contingent») as «probably» applying to «the pontificalstatements of the last century regarding freedom of religion and the anti-Modernists decisions of the beginning of this century.»

But a theological inquiry that narrows the historical community, that excludes from the conversation such men as the early Fathers of the Church, or the medieval theologians, or the Reformers, or the sectarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or the Puritans, Pietists and social gospelers, or such movements as monasticism, scholasticism, Biblicism, et cetera impoverishes itself from the beginning.

By January of 1985 it was evident that reprisals against the lay signers were beginning as well — particularly against Daniel Maguire, professor of ethics at Marquette University, the male signer generally regarded as holding something close to official status as a Catholic theologian.