Sentences with phrase «by leading theologians»

Hence, too, the attention paid by leading theologians to particular ethical issues — economic, sexual, medical and biomedical, nuclear — as well as the higher visibility of theologically informed ethicists.

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After all, nineteenth - century Lutheran theologians like Ritschl and Harnack were leading lights of what Troeltsch later called «Neo-Protestantism»; they were followed in the twentieth century by the likes of Bultmann, Ebeling, and lesser imitators fighting at all costs to save Lutheranism against Karl Barth's new orthodoxy or Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call to discipleship.

German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer acknowledged this reality in Life Together: Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.

Braaten spent several years in the 1970s engaged in ecumenical discussions, sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School, that brought together leading academic theologians from across the spectrum of mainline Protestantism.

After the Vancouver General Assembly in 1983, the dialogue program of the WCC, led by the Sri Lankan Methodist theologian S. Wesley Ariarajah, began to address head - on some of these difficult questions.

Others, led by theologian Thomas Oden, call for a return to «classical» theology, the great systems in which the thinkers of the early church took all of reality, including their own salvation, into a comprehensive understanding of God's activity.

If anything, attention to those standards may lead the theologian to limit the truth of the gospel to what already seems to be true to those who have not yet been grasped by it.

What is new is that women in the diaconate will be the explicit focus of a commission set up by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that half of the theologians named by the Pope to serve on it are women, and that a leading advocate for women's admission to the diaconate, Professor Phyllis Zagano of Hofstra University, is one of the members.

It could be they were seduced by the schmoozing charm of America's leading theologian.

Paul's teaching has stirred many reforms and renewals led by great theologians such as Augustine, Luther, Pascal, Wesley, and Barth; but Paul has also been derided and denounced.

While it may come as a surprise to many, this difference in emphasis actually has the effect of leading our economists and businessmen to preach a message for the world's poor that is charged with greater hope than what is typically taught by many of our leading theologians and preachers.

For example, when Berger points out that the puzzles of historical scholarship often lead Biblical theologians to crises of faith he expresses it this way: «I have sometimes asked myself how a gynecologist could manage to have sexual intercourse; by the same token, one could ask how a New Testament scholar could be a Christian.»

We need not recall here the history of what led up to the declaration of Humani Generis (which is doctrinal in character, even if it does not constitute a dogmatic definition), starting with the pronouncement of the local synod at Cologne in 1860 rejecting evolution in any form, the censure passed on the works of theologians favourable to evolution, such as M. D. Leroy (1895) and P. Zahm (1899), the decree of the Biblical Commission in 1909, the tacit toleration of works favourable to evolution by theologians such as Ruschkamp (1935), Messenger (1931), Perier (1938), down to Pius XII's Allocution to the Papal Academy of Sciences in 1941.

H. Berkof points out that German theologians had played a leading part in the concentration of forces of evangelicalism by a combination of confessional Lutheranism and pietism.

Some theologians put it more strongly than this and say that we are born with a human nature such that, without the action of God's grace, we are bound to be dominated by the motivations that lead to sinning.

Although it did not pretend to give an answer to that question, it did shed much light on a discussion that was being carried on by some of America's leading theologians.

Although latecomers to the civil rights movement, a few white theologians in the North supported it and participated in marches led by Martin Luther King, Jr..

The term «Christ,» on the other hand, makes it clear that the problem that he is dealing with is the teachings of Christianity, especially with respect to what various groups have meant by «following Christ,» For the same reason, I think, he deals primarily with leading Christian theologians, rather than with denominations or historical movements.

The term ressourcement is often associated with a Catholic renewal movement led by theologians such as Henri de Lubac and Yves Congar, who sought to return «to the sources» of the Christian tradition.

This is chiefly because in the latter part of the twentieth century, and led by liberation theologians, we have come to view science sociologically.

The collection of essays which follows, written by leading evangelical theologians, demonstrates convincingly the breadth of evangelicalism's umbrella.

Their leading theologian was Jacob Arminius, a former student of Beza who had become convinced that predestination as taught by Calvin was untenable.

One, written jointly by six process theologians, led by David Lull and William Beardslee, is entitled Biblical Preaching on the Death of Jesus (1989).

In 1994 five evangelical scholars, led by Canadian Baptist theologian Clark....