Sentences with phrase «contemporary theology»

And it is precisely on the borders that the cause of contemporary theology's paralysis lies.

It remains a classic reference point for contemporary theology.

His views have a major impact on contemporary theology.

Before contemporary theology can become itself, it must first exist in silence.

With this is mind, we may briefly consider how his legacy has survived in three prominent strands of contemporary theology.

Certainly one of the most controversial topics in contemporary theology is the relationship between faith and history.

The future, then, has become a central category for contemporary theology.

Emil Brunner is entirely right in his criticism of contemporary theologies which have tried «to deduce the order of law and the state from the historical event Christ, the cross of Christ.

Thus I allow that the full Hartshornean conception is an important alternative that must be seriously considered by contemporary theology, even though it is not my preferred alternative.

The modern situation of skepticism, however, has led to an overburdening of the notion of revelation in much contemporary theology.

Thus the idea of revelation in contemporary theology tends to converge with the biblical theme of creation.

Thus contemporary theology is stalemated between Family Doctor theology, with its concern for the eternal destiny of the individual, and Public Health theology, which challenges the institutions and systems that prevent wholeness of life in the present.

Oden followed in 1967 with Contemporary Theology and Psychotherapy.

Do you want an adequate contemporary theology?

This weekend I'll be speaking to the Arizona Foundation for Contemporary Theology about how my generation of Christians is evolving.

Moreover, its realism is grounded in an apophatic patience and capacity to wait in silence, as well as in its embodiment in concrete action, or in what contemporary theology calls praxis.

Much of Luther's criticism focused on the way in which contemporary theology naturalized grace, playing down its radically transformative and inevitably disruptive impact.

Gabriel Marcel, Men Against Humanity (London: Harvill Press, 1952), p. 1; also published as Man Against Mass Society (Chicago: Henry Tegnery, 1962), quoted in Sam Keen, Gabriel Marcel, Makers of Contemporary Theology Series, ed.

The emphasis on praxis in contemporary theology reminds us that what we do is an integral part of our faith commitment.

I have argued in a forthcoming work, The Realities of Faith and The Revolution in Cultural Forms, that the dimension of depth which has appeared in contemporary theology under the discussion of eschatology, has affinities with this new vision of science, if in fact it is not of apiece with it.

The sharpness with which Dr. Ogden has focused the alternatives in contemporary theology gives to the present theological task a vividness of purpose and direction which must immediately win our response and gratitude.

As it is, contemporary theology usually turns to the findings of depth psychology because it has no formulated doctrine of sensuality of its own.

second, and third truth about the Christian life, at least so contemporary theology agrees.27 The dam to any complete possession of Christian love reveals a superficial knowledge of how deep sin is and how frail we are.

We are confronted by the strange phenomenon of a self - styled «Christian atheism,» which maintains that the witness to God's reality has to be surrendered if there is to be anything like a tenable contemporary theology.

The second axiom contemporary theology has to accept in our religiously plural context is that religious consciousness, no less than any other aspect of human awareness, is historically conditioned.

Apart from the special issue concerning Barth's doctrine of sexuality as the key to the imago dei, there is something like a consensus in contemporary theology concerning the theme of the imago dei.

In this way contemporary theology has moved to a dynamic interpretation of the image of God, its loss and restoration.

Given her dual expertise, she is particularly sensitive to the mutual ignorance that characterises contemporary theology and science.

Should we chalk it up to the narcissism of our culture, or should we consider the possibility that something has been missing from contemporary theology, that a fundamental and legitimate need has been going unmet?

There can be no doubt that there will be more dissent and more pluralism in the church than there have been in the past, and that there will be more gray areas than ever before, especially since the methodology, as well as the subject matter, of contemporary theology points in this direction.

«Jewish Influences on Contemporary Theology,» op.

He therefore saw in the pregnant woman of the apocalypse the whole history of humanity which is oriented to Christ, just asconception is oriented to birth; a perspective which would be developed by other thinkers and enriched also by contemporary theology, which affirms that the whole history of the world and of humanity is a conception oriented to the birth of Christ.

We can sketch out these three ideas briefly, construing them as tasks for contemporary theology.

Contemporary theology tends to be either contextualist or confessionalist, focusing in either case on «our experience.»

Thus contemporary theology is stalemated between a longstanding affirmation which does not touch the lives of many, and an appreciation of the needs and aspirations of contemporary experience which has great difficulty in being theological.

Much contemporary theology has been attempting to undo the assimilation of the idea of God into that of a controlling and dictatorial power.

Their several criticisms help to locate his thought in relation to the panorama of contemporary theology as well as to highlight the critical issues involved in his distinctive views.

It thus accords well with the emphasis of process and other types of contemporary theology on what John Baillie called «the proper claims of earth.»

Revelation and Truth: Unity and Plurality in Contemporary Theology by Thomas G. Guarino University of Scranton Press, 228 pages, $ 38.50 An exceedingly thoughtful examination of the problems involved in Christian theology's engagement with postmodernism.

The high humanism of contemporary theology and preaching not only hid the class interest intrinsic to such preaching, but also reinforced the presumption that Christians could be Christians without enemies.

If the tendency of contemporary theology is to give too much to Justin and the efficacy of rational thought, the tendency of postmodern theology is to give too much to Tertullian and the irrational.

Luther would be dismayed to learn that the option that he rejects — «the potentiality by which he could do many things which he does not» — has become the most prevalent conception of divine power in contemporary theology and philosophy of religion.