Sentences with phrase «capacity as a theologian»

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For otherwise the Church would have acted against its duty and capacity in a way and to an extent which the theologian can not ascribe to a Church which as a whole is indefectible in the love of God and not only in its truth.

Some theologians, notably Reinhold Niebuhr, interpret the image of God in man as man's capacity for creative self - transcendence.

The theologian, therefore, actually functions in two capacities: as a scholarly aid to the minister and as a ruthless seeker for truth.

This need not compromise the theologian in his capacity as pure scholar.