Sentences with phrase «by christian theology»

The first quest of the historical Jesus foundered, however, when it became apparent that the synoptic Gospels and their sources were so thoroughly permeated by Christian theology that an uninterpreted Jesus could be glimpsed only here and there.

In the history of metaphysics it has been common — it has been the norm even — to have metaphysical principles violated by Christian theology.

What I find surprising is that Ryder should consider it remarkable that the metaphysical principles of Buchler, or those of any other philosopher, are violated by Christian theology.

Their proposal is in accordance with all other representatives of process thought when employed by Christian theology.

In The Descent into Hell (Lippincott, 1970) Altizer has attempted a systematic theological exploration of the radical and apocalyptic faith of Jesus and Paul, and has done so with the conviction that this has not yet been attempted by Christian theology and that a decisive key to this endeavor lies ready to hand in the world of Mahayana Buddhism.

Anders never did this in the name of God or Jesus or wasn't influenced by Christian Theology or Church for him to carry out these actions.

Eschatological faith is the expression of an immediate participation in the «Kingdom of God» — an apocalyptic symbol that was never assimilated by Christian theology.

This starting point will lead the philosopher to the consideration of many questions ordinarily not treated by Christian theology and to the omission of many questions usually treated by theology.

What Meacham observes instead is dwindling fervor for the notion that the U.S. should be governed by certain interpretations of the Bible or by Christian theology, an approach common among evangelicals.

Not exact matches

A recent collection of essays, Tarantino and Theology, edited by Jonathan Walls and Jerry Walls, successfully highlights many of these intersections, demonstrating «how various corners of Christian theology appear when viewed through the lens of Tarantino's cameraTheology, edited by Jonathan Walls and Jerry Walls, successfully highlights many of these intersections, demonstrating «how various corners of Christian theology appear when viewed through the lens of Tarantino's cameratheology appear when viewed through the lens of Tarantino's camera.»

Doctrine for the pluralists is the expression of Christian teaching as worked out by some appropriate theology and expressed in terms adequate to the culture of the day.

Basic Christian theology --(i) good things we don't quite understand were caused by God; (ii) bad things we don't understand were caused by man.

The only t i t l e I go by as a believer is «Christian» That being said, my theology is reformed and is founded upon the doctrine of the sovereignty of God.

Pelagianism Augustine accused Pelagius of teaching salvation by works Western Christians are obsessed with not being saved by works Western Christians deemphasize ascetic disciplines and exercises Spirituality becomes a set of mental acts Salvation is rescue from hell, rather than transformation into glory Determinism enters some parts of western theology from Manichaeism through Augustine

Pius XII became known as «Hitler's Pope» Christian theology — both Catholic and Protestant — was used by the Nazis to legitimize their atrocities.

East Eastern Christians see a dichotomy of God and creation Eastern theologians are largely unaffected by modernism Eastern theologians do not agonize over the existence of God Eastern theologians systematize the transcendent, the miraculous, and the mystical into their theology, without a concept of «supernatural» Eastern theologians have coherent and helpful answers for most practical spiritual problems (such as during bereavement) Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and bereavement counseling; thus they do not outsource religious problems to secular experts.

Cosmology theology is the traditional theology found within the Jewish - Muslim - Christian - Catholic religions and elaborated in a space - time context of our present universe and confined by it.

Revelation and Truth: Unity and Plurality in Contemporary Theology by Thomas G. Guarino University of Scranton Press, 228 pages, $ 38.50 An exceedingly thoughtful examination of the problems involved in Christian theology's engagement with postmoTheology by Thomas G. Guarino University of Scranton Press, 228 pages, $ 38.50 An exceedingly thoughtful examination of the problems involved in Christian theology's engagement with postmotheology's engagement with postmodernism.

Theology Without Boundaries: Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition by Carnegie Samuel Calian Westminster / John Knox Press, 130 pages, $ 14.99 paper Calian, President and Professor of Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (a Presbyterian school), has written a book intended to acquaint Western Christians with the ecumenical contribution of Eastern Christians.

West Western Christians are obsessed with not being saved by works Western Christians deemphasize ascetic disciplines and exercises Spirituality becomes a set of mental acts Salvation is rescue from hell The emphasis is on the cross Determinism enters some parts of western Christian theology

The recent and dramatic rise of modern Gnosticism, implemented in part, by the capture of the vocabulary of reality, is merely the continuation of the effort, identified by Eric Voegelin, to form a Western civil theology by immanentizing the Christian eschaton.

By the time Matthew and Luke are penned (about 15 years later than Mark) we start to see the first hints that he is being elevated to be a god and by John (or at least, soon after the original John was written, when the forged first 8 chapters were likely added) Jesus has been elevated in Judeo - Christian theology to be a part of GoBy the time Matthew and Luke are penned (about 15 years later than Mark) we start to see the first hints that he is being elevated to be a god and by John (or at least, soon after the original John was written, when the forged first 8 chapters were likely added) Jesus has been elevated in Judeo - Christian theology to be a part of Goby John (or at least, soon after the original John was written, when the forged first 8 chapters were likely added) Jesus has been elevated in Judeo - Christian theology to be a part of God.

@ Ray - There's not one relevant, main stream Christian theology in existence that portrays God as a «Giant Guy in the Sky» who controls every move on Earth by humans like so many chess pieces.

No, according to Christian theology God determines and acts by the counsel of his own will, independent of human thought or input, and for the sole reason of accomplishing His divine purpose.

Their bizarre theology rejects the most basic beliefs accepted by the majority of Christians.

Last week a controversial book of theology was condemned by well - established critics who cautioned the public that the book did not present Christian doctrine in an accurate, biblical, or traditional way.

I've never heard Christian theology describe it as guilt by association in regards to any sin.

Negatively, it will have to address itself to the ideological appropriation of Christian faith, which is inevitably the case where theology is claimed by a particular human community alleging privileged access.

The Christian Zionist distortions of historic evangelical and orthodox theology must be debated and confronted primarily by evangelicals but also by mainline Protestants, whose churches sometimes absorb these doctrines.

The topics of repentance and the remission of sins are huge issues within Christian theology, but just as with baptism, these topics are severely misunderstood by Christians when we divorce them from their historical and cultural roots within Judaism.

Since I had not enjoyed the privilege of being raised in a Christian family, commitment to the study of Christian theology could not come about by a smooth and imperceptible process.

Augustine of Hippo, arguably the most influential theologian to ever live and the theologian that a majority of modern Christian theology has been influenced by, did not hold to literal six - day creationism.

It is much less clear to me that this needs to be done by means of a sharp critique of the Platonically informed theologies of much of the Christian tradition.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

Expecting an enthusiastic affirmation of the new turn in Christian theology, we were surprised by the words of our guest.

He was well acquainted with Christian theology, having been particularly influenced as a young man by the thought of Reinhold Niebuhr.

The rudiments of the consequent Christian philosophy, theology, and art were already in place by the late third century: Christians could boast of Origen, for instance, a powerful intellect by any standard.

Along the way, Mattes argues strenuously against all easy reductions of the doctrine: It is, he insists, the critical feature of Christian theology, and so it must not be compromised by programs of ecumenism or ethics.

Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs HarperOne, 304 pages, $ 24.95 Chesterton said of original sin that it «is the only part of Christian theology that can really be proved»» by which he meant empirically demonstrated in every era, in every culture, and in every human....

In some of the more asinine Amazon reviews, you will see that people have complained that the book, published by Thomas Nelson, employs «too many big words» and that «literary fluff» clouds any clear, straightforward presentation of Christian theology.

In addition, one finds that this vision has been arrived at, not by personal whim, but by an approach to Christian theology in the context of the history of religions, an approach that is widely approved but rarely attempted.

But I must mention especially a work by the late Daniel Day Williams called The Spirit and the Forms of Love (Nisbet, 1968); this is a full - length presentation of a process - theology systematic, soundly argued, eminently readable, and deeply Christian in tone.

And Christian theology has always seen this terrible, degrading death as a victory, indeed the victory by which God vanquished the power of evil once and for all.

Richard L. Rubenstein has had a greater and more immediate impact upon the world of Christian theology than has been effected by any recent radical Christian theologian, and doubtless this is true because, in the words of Langdon Gilkey, he presents the sharpest and most devastating challenge to the traditional or Biblical conception of God.

Theologically, the twentieth century was inaugurated by theology's reaction against the new estrangement which our time has brought the Christian faith.

The necessity of dealing with international institutions, with lawmakers who defend total national sovereignty, with an American public that is often fixated on its own context, and with churches preoccupied by their own confessions demands new steps toward a Christian public theology.

As in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the inttheology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the intTheology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integrator.

Being grafted into the Trinity may be stated christologically without denying the trinitarian implication spelled out in later Christian theology: I am defined by the wisdom and power of God revealed in the death of Christ.

Berger wishes to speak of «a God who is not made by man, who is outside and not within ourselves,» but he limits his act of faith in such a God to projections outward from common human experience, i.e., to signals of transcendence70 The result is that Berger is left finally with his own experience alone, a consequence that weakens his understanding not only of Christian theology but ultimately of play as well.

Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the observation that one must «spare the Christian doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God, by virtue of which each threatens to make the other impossible,» and went on to state that «in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden in the history of Christian thought.»