Sentences with phrase «differing theological traditions»

It also depends on the willingness of those within the evangelical church to reassess and reinterpret their cherished ethical positions in dialogue with fellow evangelicals whose differing theological traditions push them in new directions.

In fact, it can be argued (and I will, in what follows below) that the present divergences in social thought throughout contemporary evangelicalism stem largely from this source from differing theological traditions that provide conflicting models for social ethics today.

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whatever a school's commitment to a particular theological tradition may mean, therefore, insofar as it is a school, it can not entail restrictions on the freedom of teachers and learners to differ and be in error.

But there are also altruistic reasons (which some people from differing theological and secular traditions share) for promoting concern for the common good and focusing on the welfare of the most vulnerable.