Sentences with word «christology»

Biblical Christology has been misunderstood by Christologies of the powerful, for Christ has been often called as the King and the Lord which say, «Jesus is the powerful over the people.»

A Jew may have an interest in christology from a number of standpoints» sociological, historical, anthropological, or prudential» but not theological.

However, I did single out one of the points of christology as the theme of this book, and here I fear Ogden misunderstood me.

For the moment, though, it seems as though Hays's main concern is to convince readers (and fellow scholars) that the authors of the Gospels had high Christologies and, therefore, that belief in Jesus's divinity is authentic to the first century.

We have turned aside from Christologies that were suitable to different ages and different questions.

White contends that many modern Christologies, by scanting ontological reflection, lack sufficient resources to undergird the New Testament confession of Christ's uniqueness and its elaboration in the Church's creedal and conciliar Tradition.

Hans Conzelmann has united these various lines of development into a unified view of Jesus» eschatology and his person, in which christology replaces chronology as the basic meaning of Jesus» message: the kingdom which Jesus proclaims is future, but the «interim» is of no positive significance to him.

We can not ignore these Western Christologies completely; but we must also recognize their severe limits.

What is at issue in White's reflections is whether many modern and contemporary Christologies (a number of which he engages) can support the Tradition's claim regarding the unique Incarnation of God in Jesus Christ, or whether they fail to rise above a view of Jesus as inspired prophet — a Spirit Christology that begins and remains «below.»

Thus even if Funk goes on to criticize Ogden's metaphysical bent on the basis of a Heideggerian understanding of language, he has nevertheless linked his critique to a rather traditional understanding of the sense of New Testament christology.

Introduction: In Search of a Context «Christologies based on a Europe - centered history, a too narrow or deductive Christ - centered theology, and a church - centered mission tied to classical dogmas about the person of Christ and theories of the atonement, which respond to Western needs, are not only irrelevant to the life of the people but often...

The numerical schemes and their incipient eschatologies are united with two different christologies and held in tension throughout the gospel.

Again, the recognition that our inherited christologies have shared responsibility for the holocaust gives an urgency to overcoming our anti-Judaism that is not yet widely felt by Latin Americans.

Yet, again not unrelated to bad Christologies.

For my own part, I can not imagine how di - polar theology could be genuinely Christian so long as it places christology and eschatology at the periphery of faith and understanding, nor can I see how it could ever gain real relevance or power so long as it continues to be unable either to address us or to speak in terms of the imagination.

Many of those who have treated the topic have felt no need to develop affirmative Christologies of their own.

And traditional Catholic - Protestant distinctions and distinctions among Protestant traditions are still visible among Christologies.

Defenders of philosophical theology and of humanistic Christologies had been put on the defensive by the new currents from the European continent.

Is it inevitable that di - polar theology must subordinate christology to other doctrines?

My own inclination is to emphasize the transcendence of the man Jesus and to resolve the Chalcedonian question in the manner of P. Schoonenberg.8 This paper, I believe, fits Schoonenberg's christology quite well.

I am maybe not comfortable with «ecclesiology = christology» either.

(4) But now the final assault is being attempted even upon john's Gospel by J. A. T. Robinson who claims to be able to show that John's s christology too goes no further than a revelational one.

it is a serious impediment to theological experimentation and by itself practically rules out most of the precious convictions liberals hold fast to: i.e., the validity of other religions, a purely functional christology, situational ethics, and the like.

Since Schleiermacher's day there has been a strong tendency to revise christology in the direction of a dynamic, functional model.

But the problematic nature of his exegetical claims may be illustrated by reference to the discussion between Herbert Braun and Ernst Käsemann concerning christology and anthropology in the New Testament.

Matthew's anthropological undercurrent, in other words, presents on its own — in abstraction from the christological context in which it is set — precisely that vision of human existence that is generally associated with christology.

Even in the New Testament, the many Christologies articulating the character and effectiveness of the one Savior are already evidence of the mingling of traditional constraints with the novelty required by ever changing circumstances.

The most radical Christologies dispense altogether with the question of God.

The autor disproved the suggestion that process principles seem to suggest no evidence of real christology.

Influential theologians constructed Christologies «from below», with all claims to Divinity «demythologised».

The ecclesiastical promulgation of transcendent Christologies, informed by ancient creeds torn out of their historical contexts, is another kind of Babylonian captivity that restrains Christians from entering into a horizontal relationship with the risen Lord and enjoying the ecstatic sense of self - worth that he wills to share by drawing them into his I AM.

Thus christology means that the deepest and truest nature of man is at root continuous with God's nature (FET 161f).

By definition, a process christology involves the compatible co-presence or even the inseparability of God and man in a decisive manner revelatory of both God and man.

This does not mean that such a quest should presuppose a given christology, or that it should be oblivious of the peril of modernizing Jesus, this time perhaps in terms of existentialism.

One then proceeded to implement this alternative between orthodox christology and the Jesus of the enlightenment by appeal to the current alternatives in method.

He suggests that christology properly begins with the experience of the believer, not with dogmatic formulae.

The history of the church abounds in demand - and - supply Christologies, which make the long - suffering Christ the sponsor of whatever program or platform is currently in fashion.

It is in the chiliastic Christologies of empire and domination...

Ogden sees the decisive flaw in most Protestant christologies in their failure to grasp the thoroughgoing consequences of the principles sola gratia — sola fide.

A review of a book by Roger Haight that surveys Christologies from Biblical times to the present.

In spite of his admirable rejection of an exclusivistic christology, it was the «older Israel» into which Jesus was born and of which he was a part, and it is the «Church of the new dispensation» which is brought into being by faith in him (CR 95).