Sentences with phrase «confessional approach»

YA / Mature Readers: Rose's clear and captivating reports from post-Katrina New Orleans convey a wealth of information and feeling, and his adeptly anecdotal and confessional approach makes his essays fresh and involving.

Nevertheless, the role of Scripture and its interpretation is quite different in this confessional approach to theology from that discussed above.

Similarly in the confessional approach, only if the man who speaks of what has taken place and now takes place in the community does so as a believing participant, is his work theological.

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But there are two fundamentally different ways of approaching such an explication, and they are correlative with the two primary ways of understanding the language in which the confessional statement is made: the univocal, which takes the language as rigidly discursive, and the imagistic, which sees it as highly analogical or symbolic.

Küng explained his approach to the theme as follows: Often he speaks with a coreligionist who is identified with the same confessional and ecclesiastical heritage as Küng's; yet they seem to approach matters in radically different ways.

The feminist theologian approaching this question faces an additional dilemma insofar as the religious narrative of the Western introspective confessional tradition grounds identity in culturally «feminine» terms.

This approach, which is associated with Karl Barth, Jacques Ellul, and Wilhelm Vischer, among others, and which also has certain affinities with the confessional stances of Gerhard van Rad and Brevard Childs, seeks to supplement the historical - critical method by theological exegesis in which the innermost intentions of the author are related to the center and culmination of sacred history mirrored in the Bible, namely, the advent of Jesus Christ.

Similarly, the capacity of the Nanjing Seminary faculty to take simultaneously a confessional and a critical approach to its educational task may explain the fact that this same group of professors doubles as the department of religion at Nanjing University.

A telling instance of Safranski's rather uncritical approach involves Schleiermacher's 1799 lectures On Religion, a work that epitomizes the period's attempt to supplant theological tenets, liturgical practices, and normative commitments of confessional religion with emotional intensity and conjectural meanings of the individual subject.

This paradoxical approach — at once audacious and confessional, narcissistic and self - deprecatory — earned Emin a nomination for the Turner Prize in 1999.