Sentences with phrase «different theological traditions»

An analysis of current religious programming on American television reveals the influence of this shaping effect on religious programming also: particular religious traditions are presented to the exclusion of others; there are apparent similarities between the content of many religious programs and general television programming; and there are similarities in religious program formats and content even in programs from a range of different theological traditions and experience.

Bringing as they did, quite different theological traditions and resources, were there some things they could affirm together?

It represented the union of Churches out of a different theological tradition as well as a different tradition of polity.

Not exact matches

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

But any genuine recovery of a «particular language of faith» will entail developing and appropriating a theological tradition and embodying that tradition in faithful living — a project that necessarily requires motivations and insights deriving from a quite different kind of authority than the sociologists possess.

The ecumenical and neo-orthodox movements, as well as joint participation in graduate theological education, have not brought the different traditions together.

But in the case of the fourth gospel we are dealing with a single entity exhibiting a marked degree of unity in theological emphasis such that no attempt to divide the gospel into different sources and to begin to write a history of the Johannine tradition has commanded anything like a common consent among scholars.

The choice of terms is Whitehead's and it may be somewhat confusing for the novice theologian, for we are dealing with a different kind of distinction from what is found in our theological traditions.

There is a long tradition based on various kinds of idealism that affected theological thinking in previous years and found its modern exponents in such men as William Temple and Paul Tillich, although these two men emphasized different aspects of this tradition.

Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

The evangelical movement's strength has always been its centripetal force — the power of its central theological and missional premises to unite those from drastically different Christian traditions.

When theological schemes are interpreted against the background of this wider reality, we can come to see that the concerns which have shaped specific theological positions are ones that other traditions often share, even if with a different emphasis and linked with other concerns.

Later, the group also considered more fundamental theological matters, such as the doctrine of salvation and the ecclesiological questions implied in different understandings of the relation between Scripture and Tradition and of «the communion of saints.»

To the extent that Whitehead did develop a notion of God, it was a God different in important respects from the deity of the Western theological tradition.

A theological tradition which «believes in Jesus» encourages the believer to construct the faith - image of this Jesus, an image made up as a result of many different influences: the preaching and teaching of the Church, the reading of the gospels and of devotional literature, the lives and ideals of influential individuals, and so on.