Sentences with phrase «deeper than theology»

This difference creates a dividing line which cuts deeper than theology, because of what it says about the value of individual members.

Not exact matches

And yet, as Jones points out, no aspect of Christian theology has a deeper resonance with feminist analyses of oppression than the doctrine of sin.

If everything we do from the first awakening breath of our day until we close our eyes at night doesn't reek of love; if our theology, doctrine, missional statements and creeds are born out of a need to «convert» rather than a deep and innate need to love those around us (aka, our neighbors), than all we have become is an annoyance and a disgrace to the communities around us, (clanging cymbals, anyone?)

More than 1,000 people are expected to enjoy a mixture of accessible practical theology for new believers and deeper Bible study this year.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

Bousset has pointed out the gradual transformation of Judaism, during the period between the Old and New Testaments, from a national cultus to a religion of individual piety — a religion of observance rather than of theology, on the one hand, or of deep personal feeling, on the other.

Personally, I should find it more helpful to quarry into the old logos theology, and interpret it with a deeper sense of man's historicity, than to cut off the doctrine of Christ so sharply from its roots as Dr. Altizer seems to do.

It was bad enough that several of his conclusions contradicted revealed theology, but the problem went deeper than that.

I should doubt that in the field of theology any division runs deeper than that between defining God traditionally, as the omnipotent, sole cause of existence of a temporal world and defining Him as a factor in the universe.

One often gets the impression that formulating this experience as a Christian liberation theology is more for political or institutional reasons than out of any deep commitment to Christ.