Sentences with phrase «bearing on theology»

The objections selected here were chosen because of their bearing on theology.

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So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

No local Church today is prouder of its theological accomplishments than the German Church; indeed, one German theologian, introducing an anthology of critical commentaries on John Paul II's encyclical, Veritatis Splendor, claimed that Germany bore a special responsibility for Catholic theology.

It was recognized that the Church needed to develop a dogmatic theology of itself, a real ecclesiology, which would express all the truths about the Church in their correct proportions, apart from this or that controversy of the moment — a project that bore fruit in Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.

And secondly, with regard to what these essays say and do concerning the bearing of Scripture thus construed on doing theology, it will focus the discussion to ask two further questions: (a) How are Biblical texts brought to bear on the making of theological proposals?

This quest requires an internal renewal of theology and philosophy — not merely as academic disciplines, but as ways of life — and they need to be brought to bear on the governing assumptions, the unarticulated ontology of our culture.

It's based on the theology that we are born sinners, born bad, born broken, born atheists.

Against the sort of picture of theological education illustrated by Stackhouse's proposal, Wood rejects the view that theology bears on action as theory applied to praxis.

Contrary to the opinions of some, there are resources within liberal Christian theology that can be brought to bear on the problems facing our age.

You're confused, Demuth.The idea that «everyone is a child of God «has no Biblical basis whatsoever; who told you otherwise?Only those born again in Christ via the regenerative power of the Holy Spirit are children of God in the Bilical sense.If you are going to comment on biblical issues at least get your theology straight; otherwise you sound just as silly as the other God - haters on this blog.

My assumption is that all Christians are inevitably engaged everyday in existential responses to the world, and that theology concerns the wisdom by which one brings the resources of a religious tradition to bear on the world.

Anyone who thinks theology is boring should read your new book, «The Atonement of God,» which is without a doubt the best book I have read on the topic.

The genuinely universal dimensions of Christian theology may be said to be those elements of theology that have a bearing on all reality, or at least on the whole planet earth and all humanity of all time and space.

It should be presupposed, however, that we can not do this unless we approach the matters to be discussed from the standpoint of both a historical understanding and spiritual appropriation of the Bible, and bring our theology to bear at every point on the human situation.

While such considerations bear somewhat on the question of worth, the crucial issue is whether process theology is adequate — adequate to the requirement of logical coherence, and to the demands of modern religious perceptions, Christian and otherwise.

The exact nature of a theology of abandonment on the cross could do with clarification, in view of the extreme formulations of some contemporary theologies (which introduce distance and division into the Trinity), and bearing in mind that the cry of abandonment is a quotation from Psalm 21, a psalm of trust in God.

Attitudes toward the state, cultural assumptions, and self - designations all bear on how we do theology and should raise sensitivity in the area of preaching.

I have argued that theology and theological education must be conceived as a transformative discursive praxis that critically reflects on the concrete historical — political configurations and theological practices of Christian communities which have engendered and still engender the exclusion and dehumanization of «the others» of free born, educated and propertied men in Western society.

Nicholas Wolterstorff's recent case for same - sex marriage, delivered as a lecture at Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids in mid-October, bears many of the virtues we've come to count on from the Yale professor emeritus of philosophical theology: lucidity, an intuitive and easy - to - follow structure, a winsome recourse to down - to - earth illustrations, a light touch, and an obvious personal concern for real, suffering Christians.

the focus here is on the trinitarian thinking of the Hispanic Indian Raimon Panikkar (born 1918) and his contribution for the Church and theology worldwide36 The emphasis will be on the aspects that enlighten the polarity of contextuality and catholicity.

Proponents of religious humanism predict that its formative principle will gain increased importance in religion and theology as various forces are brought to bear on the theological enterprise.

I have left the pastorate so that I can better learn and study theology, but some days, as I spend hours on boring paperwork and mindless meetings, I think to myself, «I could be studying theology right now.»

As Yehudah Gellman, he has occasionally brought his tools to bear on Hasidic thought, the mystical theology of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and Kierkegaard.

The minister's theology in preaching must be brought to bear at every point on the human situation: on prayer; on the problem of evil; on sin and repentance; on the fact of death.

Mundanely enough, the early Church councils were in the best position to judge which biographies were reliable and they chose Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.Anthony McRoy, of Wales Evangelical School of Theology, says that the way the Church decided on the books of the New Testament bears little resemblance to the conspiracy theories of Dan Brown and Philip Pullman.

More seriously, we saw, it is open to the objection that it fails to show how theology bears on the public dimensions of human life; in this view, theology seems confined to the private realm of the interiority of consciousness.

Born the same year Paul VI became pope, and holding degrees in theology and history, Langlois is in an excellent position to asses his pontificate, since, as Father mentioned, «I grew up with Paul — he was the first pope I knew; and as a Catholic and future priest, I followed his pontificate closely, amidst all the turmoil going on.»

It is necessary in order to make credible that education in theology effectively bears on the totality of human life in the public realm as well as in the private.

The prototype of realism is Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971), whom I consider the United States» greatest native - born theologian, and whose influence not only on theology but cultural and political thought can not be minimized.

The second book of this series «Theology in Public» presents a great figure, St. John Chrysostom, and his theological teaching.One of the most significant sermons of Chrysostom is the one which bears the title «On the Devil.»