Sentences with phrase «basic theological understandings»

Because our basic theological understandings of grace include assent to the claim that the most beautiful and precious things in and about our lives are unearned and undeserved, themes of gift and gratitude sometimes seem overworked.

Not exact matches

My disagreements with the five points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly with their theology or understanding of Biblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etc, etc..

In theological correlation, Christianity's truth claims and specifity were undercut to the extent that works of art provided the basic model on which those claims were to be understood.

If we are to raise really basic questions about Brunner's position, we must direct our attention to his understanding of revelation in encounter as the basis for all theological reflection.

Having noted basic differences in these positions, we can then look at a number of questions which evangelicals must address if they hope to move beyond the present impasse in their theological understanding of the doctrine of inspiration.

Critical scholarship — not only historical critical scholarship, but also newer approaches to the Bible using critical theory — has pressed our understanding of the texts and traditions of ancient Christianity to the point where organized Christianity, if it were to be guided by such work, would have to begin to rethink some of its basic theological commitments.

Thus Cyril C. Richardson has criticized the classical formulations of the Trinity as imposing an arbitrary «threeness» upon our theological thinking, and proposes instead a basic twofold distinction between God as Absolute and God as Related.1 This is for Richardson a basic paradox, an apparent self - contradiction, for if we try to bring these aspects into relationship, we compromise God's absoluteness.2 Charles Hartshorne accepts this same twofold distinction, but he removes the contradictory element by understanding it in terms of the abstract and concrete dimensions of God's nature and experience.3

Resolution of the basic issues turns on just how the end of theological education is understood.

What are the basic biblical and theological issues involved in a contemporary understanding of marriage?

Process thought, as he has helped me to understand it, is centered in the effort to think through all the basic metaphysical, moral, epistemological, and theological issues from the standpoint of evolutionary developmentalism.

Schleiermacher has always been a theological model not so much in the content of his thought as in his basic approach to faith, which is a very rational, historically oriented approach within a tradition, with the understanding that one can not simply swallow the tradition but has to enter into a reasonable dialogue with it.