Sentences with phrase «call ourselves process theologians»

From the time they began calling themselves process theologians and process philosophers, process thinkers have accepted history.

Perhaps this last critical point, i.e.» that Muray overstates the substantialism in Hauerwas, allows us to end on a somewhat hopeful note about the future of dialogue between those of us who are strongly influenced by and continue to work in the light of the writings of Stanley Hauerwas and those who call themselves process theologians.

Not exact matches

Whatever is said in justification of the practice of process theologians in the past, however, it must also be recognized that in the encounter with liberation theologians we are called to repent.

The process thinkers of our time who have turned their attention to the religious question — the process theologians, as they are usually called — are sure, however, that there is another and sounder conception of God, one which makes love the clue to the divine nature and manner of working in the world and one which is also in accordance with what we know to be going on in that world.

We, who love them and are forgotten, may have by analogy some deeper apprehension of the life of the loving but unremembered God who, if religious thinkers such as Abraham Heschel or the «process» theologians are correct, calls out to each one of us, «Forget me not.»

While both Meland and Hartshorne can readily be called Whiteheadian process theologians, the thrust of both approach and concern is quite different.

Probably Professor Ward would not call himself a Process philosopher or theologian, yet clearly his argument here is in close agreement with the Process understanding I am urging upon the reader.

This process of thinking about the future with a divinely inspired imagination and then working with God to bring our imagination into reality is called The Prophetic Imagination by theologian and Bible scholar Walter Brueggemann.

Other scientist - theologians propose comparable hypotheses of how God's action in the world can be conceptualized at the level of quantum indeterminacy or in the processes of so - called «top - down» causality.

Neo-orthodox theologians exclude science as a methodology for theology because of their claim that theology gets information in quite a different way, namely by a process called revelation.

Process theology, or what Charles Hartshorne prefers to call neo-classical theology, has links with the theology of the early church fathers who were influenced by Greek thought, Socinus in the sixteenth century and the philosopher A. N. Whitehead of this century, who took science more seriously than his contemporary philosophers and theologians.

What process theologians call «the divine memory» receives the good that is achieved in the creation; it counts not only for God but in God.

Those whom we are calling «speculative» process theologians do not deny the depth dimension of experience emphasized so effectively by their empirical colleagues.

If this first step in human knowledge is fundamentally called into question then the scientist undermines the process of scientific enquiry and the theologian empties the significance of the Incarnation and the objectivity of all other concrete acts of God in history.

For example, some process theologians think of the Jesus - event and its continual reappropriation as providing the common element of form that is the defining characteristic of the society called the church.