Sentences with phrase «by systems of theology»

It has been imprisoned in the cells of alien dogma; it has been bound hand and foot in the grave clothes of human tradition; it has been entombed as a sepulcher by systems of theology, and the stone of human power has been rolled up to close its door.»

You can write volumes on supposed contradictions in the bible, but you won't write a single word that has not been addressed by some system of theology that removes the contradiction (wether right or wrong).

Not exact matches

According to Noddings, history (including philosophy, theology, politics, societal structures) up to this point has obscured the nature of the problem of evil because all systems for dealing with it have been created, elaborated, and promoted by and for males.

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.

But the point is that IN THAT CONTEXT Calvinist theology was a much - needed pastoral and communal approach that helped people to break from the shackles of long - established systems of spiritual abuse by offering a different story to live by and a different kind of community to live in.

In an essay on «The Theology of Religion» (I.T.C. Journal, I / 1, 1974), I have argued that a theologian can have his life and thought enriched by this experience precisely because he views the faith of other persons from within his own system of belief and thought.

The study of theology in the West is planned, in many places, according to the system introduced in his time by F. D. E. Schleiermacher.

It would exercise some of the same freedom which Paul's and the other NT letters do when they refrain from any nostalgic attempts to play Galilee into their theology by transforming the teaching of Jesus» earthly ministry into a system of theology and ethics [Krister Stendahl: «Biblical Theology, Contemporary,» Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962), theology by transforming the teaching of Jesus» earthly ministry into a system of theology and ethics [Krister Stendahl: «Biblical Theology, Contemporary,» Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962), theology and ethics [Krister Stendahl: «Biblical Theology, Contemporary,» Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962), Theology, Contemporary,» Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962), I, 428].

This is a travesty of Christian theology, which is not simply an answer system but is, instead, a way of connecting real life questions with fundamental and ultimate answers — which are by no means achieved or given overnight.

By analyzing the Marxist system, he offered the philosophical basis for his cautionary stance toward liberation theology - a position prefigured in his discussion of alienation in Anthropology in 7heological Perspective (Westminster, 1985).

Thus believing theology can begin its work by taking for granted a system of theological concepts and affirmations with a proved scientific basis.

If liberation theology arose out of a consciousness of the oppression of the people by the capitalist system, then there is surely greater need of a theology of liberation in this age of globalization.

In fact, the task of the philosopher appears to me here to be distinguished from that of the theologian, in the following manner: biblical theology has the function of developing the kerygma according to its own conceptual system; it has the duty of criticizing preaching, both by confronting it with its origin and by reorganizing it in a meaningful framework, in a discourse of its own kind, corresponding to the internal coherence of the kerygma itself.

The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level.

By the first century, it is clear, Judaism was a fully - developed system of piety, that is, of pious observance — not a system of theology, nor a code of law, merely, but a system of piety.

What I mean by Theology, continues Newman, is none of these things: «I simply mean the Science of God, or the truths we know about God, put into a system, just as we have a science of the stars and call it astronomy, or of the crust of the earth and call it geology.»

Saint Teresa might have had the nervous system of the placidest cow, and it would not now save her theology, if the trial of the theology by these other tests should show it to be contemptible.

Albert Winn's concluding remarks in his review of The Theology of Emil Brunner almost 25 years ago are still apropos: «Though Brunner's system may never become regnant, the great truths for which he has fought throughout a long lifetime will live on to challenge his successors and to be used by them in the theological constructions of the future.»

... the alternative fear... [is] that the growing interest in what some have labelled ethno - theology or «contextual theology» (as opposed to systematic theology) may be done without sufficient attention to a biblically critical analysis of the systems of anthropology and sociology and appropriated by the evangelical..

Metz is convinced that faith can not accept this relativization, and accordingly it is an essential task of fundamental theology... to defend, justify or give an account of the authenticity of religion, in opposition to those systems that claim to be meta - theories of theology».6 It can not do this by developing a still more comprehensive overview.

Setting forth the Reformed system of theology and church government, they were widely adopted by Presbyterian churches in Great Britain and America and into the twentieth century continued to be standard in these bodies.

That breadth and openness is one of his system's most characteristic features, and I would not like to see that admirable breadth and openness obscured by Ryder's emphasis on the conflicts between Christian theology and Buchler's system of categories.

Whether formulated by Durkheim (a system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things), by Weber (that which finally makes events meaningful), or by Tillich (whatever is of ultimate concern) religion in its «classical» sense refers not so much to labels on a church building as to the imagery (myth, theology, and so forth) by which people make sense of their lives — their «moral architecture,» if you will.6 That human beings differ in their sensitivity to and success in this matter of «establishing meaning» there can be no doubt.

Unlike philosophy of religion and theology, however, the history of religions does not «indorse» any particular system offered by the diverse religions of the world, nor does it advocate, as many ultra-liberals think it ought, any new universal synthetic religion.

Hence, part of the task of white process theologians is to complement the work of Black (and other liberation) theologies by engaging in theory - critique and proposing alternative directions for global economic systems.

As for # 2, the system or school of opinions, that I can give up, since I don't know if my opinions are correct, only God knows for sure... Is that what you mean by trashing theology?