Sentences with phrase «doctrinal theology»

It requires doctrinal theology for critical assessment of the ideological distortion and faithlessness of its practices insofar as they are statements of its outlook, and it calls for constructive proposals of preferable formulations of its outlook.

Converted men as a class are indistinguishable from natural men; some natural men even excel some converted men in their fruits; and no one ignorant of doctrinal theology could guess by mere every - day inspection of the «accidents» of the two groups of persons before him, that their substance differed as much as divine differs from human substance.

This is called fides historica by the Orthodox dogmaticians (cf. Schmid, Doctrinal Theology, p. 411).

That being said, the renewal of interest ought not to be overstated: much doctrinal theology in English remains preoccupied with keeping up a conversation with other fields of inquiry (often literary and cultural theory) and is so eager to do so that it often neglects the descriptive or dogmatic tasks of systematics.

««Heretical» opinions should be welcomed,» Barr explains; «they are signs of the fact that biblical theology is different from doctrinal theology.»

He clarifies his rather vague definition of the field by contrasting biblical theology with five other modes of study: doctrinal theology, nontheological biblical studies, history of religion, philosophical and natural theology, and «the interpretation of parts of the Bible as distinct from the longer complexes taken as wholes.»

Surely not on those of doctrinal theology, to whose lights true biblical theology often and appropriately represents heresy, according to Barr.

Biblical theology «seeks to state what the theology of the biblical books, or the theology implied by them, was,» whereas doctrinal theology «lays down what is to be believed.»

such a person would reply «yes» only if his special field were doctrinal theology.

Some of the essays seem designed to argue in defense of some claim such as this: Such - and - such a theological tenet is a truly Biblical tenet, that is, is part of the doctrinal theology of a Biblical writing.

For instance, you might know your scripture verses and be able to recite a creed or know the facts about doctrinal theology.

Bultmann is basically opposed to it, as are doctrinal theologies of the more open and metaphysical sort, but much traditional theology — Pauline, Augustinian, Lutheran, Calvinistic, Barthian — has significant similarities to it.

Not exact matches

Honestly, I had to drop so much doctrinal baggage to find the truth behind most of what I was taught in Conservative churches (and I am still casting off theologies that were biased).

Vitz observes that, doctrinal objections aside, it is «bizarre to the point of pathology at this time in our culture to be trying to remove God the Father from our theology.»

Perhaps a modern paraphrase for us today would be: «If I have my doctrinal statement nailed down flawlessly and am able to prove myself right by quoting verses to support my theology, but do not have love, I am dead wrong.»

He is the author of Waking From Doctrinal Amnesia: The Healing of Doctrine in the United Methodist Church (1995) and Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology from the Fathers to Feminism, just out from Clarendon / Oxford University Press.

The major themes in Niebuhr's thinking found powerful resonance in the speech, in which an American president in a new century reasserted, as the doctrinal basis of his foreign policy, the cherished political theology of America's two major parties for most of the past century....

Add to that the variety of doctrines / Theologies within orthodox Christianity... with Consensus on a very small Core of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that lacks Consensus and there are mountains of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.

Those who error in theology need gentle correcting, but if they refuse sound doctrinal correcting then they are to be marked and removed from fellowship until they repent.

Unless the vitality and creativity that has been expressed in the «theologies of» make a further breakthrough, the church will revert to the doctrinal approach to theology.

We were theologically literate — the subtle dialectics of Lutheran theology required doctrinal astuteness — and we had little use in our piety for emotionalism or enthusiasm.

Both said they prefer crossing doctrinal swords with those of robust theology on the other side, than woolly liberalism in their own denominations.

The last thing I wish to suggest is that the doctrinal and the social ought to be merged, so that ethics would absorb systematic theology.

In earlier evangelical theologies content and form were identical; the content of biblical revelation was crystallized into doctrinal form and this doctrine, it was assumed, would be self - evident to reasonable people.

For example, if a denomination declared in their doctrinal statement that the Bible teaches that all good Christians must wear pink hats and only those people who wear pink hats can indeed be true followers of Jesus, we would conclude upon reading this statement that we would never be accepted by those folks because we don't agree with this bit of ridiculous theology.

Calvinists within the SBC will gain a better hearing for Reformed theology if they can combine their zeal for doctrinal purity with a passion for evangelism and a love for the brethren, including those who may not ring all five (TULIP) bells in quite the same way they do.

In theology, doctrinal schemes provide some conceptual unity in the quest for coherence, and they serve a function not unlike that of theories.

In February the Jesuit theologian Roger Haight, former professor at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received notification that the Vatican had found «serious doctrinal errors» in his 1999 book Jesus: Symbol of God (Orbis) and that he was forbidden to teach as a Catholic theologian.

In these sections he sets out the purposes of his project, explains his strategy of translation, declares independence from a priori doctrinal and theological constraints, and provides a discussion of his more controversial renderings of key words that, somewhat paradoxically, amounts to an original theology of the New Testament in miniature.

The confidence has many roots: the steady decline of models of theology in which «critical appraisal» is the dominant task; receptiveness toward and fresh engagement with classical thinkers, patristic, medieval and Reformation; a sense that the Enlightenment is only one episode in the history of one (Western) culture and not a turning point in the history of humankind; the work of a number of gifted and independent - minded theologians now at the height of their powers who have shown the potency of constructive doctrinal work.

But anyone who knows the history of theology and of the Church's doctrinal pronouncements will be filled with amazement at the fact that it was accepted by the Council without the slightest remark.

Black's own The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith provides a systematic analysis of Willard's rather unsystematic theology, which emphasized character development over intellectual assent to a detailed vision of doctrinal perTheology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith provides a systematic analysis of Willard's rather unsystematic theology, which emphasized character development over intellectual assent to a detailed vision of doctrinal pertheology, which emphasized character development over intellectual assent to a detailed vision of doctrinal perfection.

I think what Viola is saying is that many churches seem to put their pastor up as the head, or the denomination, or the doctrinal statement, or a particular system of theology, or the Bible.

I'll preach it and live it, draw somewhat tighter circles of systematic theology and doctrinal confession around the church I pastor, and just let the Holy Spirit sort out the rest.

I spent 35 years trapped in false traditional Orthodoxy that almost led to my demise or at least insanity, until I came to this conclusion: This theology reconciles ALL doctrinal problems; and does not create them as tradition has; it gives us the true message that God wills the ultimate reconciliation of ALL that He created; and gives nothing to Satan; hence does not leave the human universe eternally split between Himself and the Infernal Liar.

To give him credit, his theology sounded fairly orthodox at this point, with no sign of the doctrinal errors on the Trinity he's been accused of (he's previously preached that there are actually nine parts to the Trinity, as each person of the Godhead is in fact a trinity itself).

It is too much to ask, even of the most enlightened readers of theology, that they become acquainted with two thousand years of terminological and doctrinal controversy as a condition for being introduced to the substance of their faith.

The Apostles knew without putting into words all the truths pertaining to theology which have subsequently been reduced to doctrinal formulae: the Holy Spirit would show them the things that were to come.

On an earlier comment, Sam talked about «insider theology» where a group has a hidden doctrinal statement that is not written on paper, and you don't know what it is until after you trespass and get burned for it.

It appears that 20th - century theology will leave the 21st century with a completed revolution, but with the doctrinal consolidation of that revolution far from complete.

In this series on doctrinal statements, I will argue that something similar happens in many other areas of theology as well.

Most conservative theologies are cognitive - propositional; they claim that doctrinal statements directly or «literally» refer to reality.

I am suggesting that for many reasons — hierar chical, educational, doctrinal — the Protestant movement has rarely democratized theology.

Its metaphysics is equally compatible and equally incompatible with the sensibilities of any number of faiths, and of any number of schools within individual faiths; but, if it has anything resembling a theology, it is of the mystical, rather than the dogmatic, kind, and so its doctrinal content is nebulous.

As for doctrinal purity, you will have to elaborate... given the fact that NT theologies appear to be under construction combined with the absence of original blueprints (manuscripts), it's more malleable than hardened cement.

In other words, this tradition of theology is best described through its conversations and the ways it has been mediated through various disciplines, not primarily through its systematic expositions, doctrinal tendencies or star figures.

It was in Rome that he first began to puzzle over how Christian unity could be achieved «without doctrinal capitulation,» as he would put it two decades later in his 1984 block - buster The Nature of Doctrine: Theology and Religion in a Postliberal Age.

The fight - back led by Blessed John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger against the doctrinal heresies and Marxist analysis underlying liberation theology had only just begun...