Sentences with phrase «between evangelical theology»

Not exact matches

While there has certainly been an increase in collaboration between evangelicals and Catholics in recent years, there has not been an attendant growth in understanding of the other tradition's actual theology.

For the evangelical theologian, this dialogue will ultimately be submitted to the final authority of Scripture, but a spirited interaction between all three of theology's sources can never be cut short.

In fact one of the most serious studies undertaken by all schools of theology in the churches whether evangelical or catholic is the relation between the one gospel and many cultures.

Ellingsen notes that numerous ecumenical breakthroughs resulted from the Second Vatican Council, but mutual respect does not always bridge the gap between the mainline churches with their primary commitment to contextual theology, and fundamentalists as well as evangelicals with their prevailing commitment to biblical authority.

They negotiate the conflict between the «truly Reformed» — those who articulate a highly cognitive and rationalistic version of Reformed theology — and the more heart - oriented evangelicals, especially the charismatics and Pentecostals.

When «The Gift of Salvation» speaks of «needlessly divisive disputes» between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals, it does not refer to the many weighty theological matters on which we still conscientiously disagree, such as sacramental theology, Marian devotion, purgatory, etc. «The Gift of Salvation» takes note of these matters, referring to them as «serious and persistent differences» which are «necessarily interrelated» with the affirmations we have made in common, and are thus future agenda items for us.

According to Alan J. Bailyes, there were five theological issues between the ecumenical and evangelical positions: Church and world, the nature of conversion, Gospel and culture, Christology, and hermeneutics.3 Bailyes explains that a sound and solid ecclesiology has long been a weak link in the evangelical chain of theology, «coming a poor second or cven third behind its soteriology with its emphasis upon the individual and his / her relationship with God.

But, the Wesleyan / Methodist tradition has also supplied occasions for discussions between evangelicals and process thinkers.5 Because Wesleyan theology is neither exclusively liberal nor evangelical, this discussion has revolved around the more specific relationship between Wesleyan theology and process theology.

The two types of dialogues point to some significant similarities between process and evangelical theology.

Reading these essays and the give - and - take that occurs in them will enrich anyone seeking to better understand both the differences between process thought and the Open expression of evangelical theology and the potential for significant development in theological responses to the contemporary religious and intellectual context.

How will evangelicals mediate between their secure North American white base, with theologies born of Western philosophy, to Asian and African matrices?

Cobb and Pinnock's Searching for An Adequate God (2000) and Stone and Oord's Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love (2001) build upon that change to further the dialogue between process thought and evangelical theology.

Wesleyan theology is neither exclusively liberal nor evangelical, thus this discussion revolved around the more specific relationship between Wesleyan theology and process theology.