Sentences with phrase «common theological point»

Even the common theological point of view, which cut across denominational lines, was opposed by some.

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Theological liberalism has split one church after another — to the point that the theologically liberal in different churches often have more in common with each other than with the more orthodox in their own churches.

The fact that the practices comprising a theological school and Christian congregations intersect in their common interest to understand God brings out a further point about the relation between the two.

A way to make this point is to exploit two metaphors: We could think of questions about the communal identities and common life of diverse Christian congregations as the lens through which inquiry about all the various subject matters studied in a theological school could be focused and unified.

We would simply want to point to him as a long accepted literary witness to the common theological outlook of the patristic period on this and other vital points.

This diversity is different from other epochs - for example, the time when a Princeton scholasticism dominated the 19th - century Protestant landscape, or even the recent period when neo-orthodoxy was at the least the common reference point for theological debate.

The following facts support this belief: the participation of the churches in the theological conversations of the ecumenical movement, which perforce have had to find their common starting point and common vocabulary in biblical literature and theology; the growing body of specifically biblical theology, produced by the very vitality of fragmentary and monographic studies.

At what point do the theological affirmations of process theology decisively differ from the common - sense beliefs of traditional Western culture and society?

A survey, necessarily brief, of the major codes of law in the Old Testament, their superficial characteristics, the general qualities which they hold in common particularly as against other extrabiblical codes, points of difference among the three major earlier codes, the ethical qualities and content of these three, and finally the central theological motivation of all Old Testament law.

To this end we must first survey, necessarily briefly, the major codes of law in the Old Testament, their superficial characteristics, the general qualities which they hold in common particularly as against other extrabiblical codes, points of difference among the three major earlier codes, the ethical qualities and content of these three, and finally the central theological motivation of all Old Testament law.

The point to be insisted on here is that the theological community is constituted not by teachers and learners but by these and the subjects of their common inquiry.