Sentences with phrase «ecumenical theology»

A shrunken little man with a constant glint of humor in his eyes, Bea had for many years been a slowly rising leaven of biblical and ecumenical theology in the Roman loaf.

Therefore, say Raiser and Robra, the search is on for a new concept of ecumenical theology and ethics.

Ecumenical theology's task is to discern when the traditions are saying the same thing in different ways, when they are disagreeing on a point that need not be church - dividing, and when the disagreement truly threatens communion.

Under terms of the compromise, Küng retains the title professor of ecumenical theology and is free to give university lectures and seminars.

He goes on to say that even though obvious disagreements exist in the ecumenical family, «it is possible to work towards a comprehensive ecumenical theology.

On the Tübingen scene, no one is quite sure how many students Küng will be able to attract to his fall semester lectures on ecumenical theology, since that course will be optional.

Gregorios correctly warns against a «Committee Theology» and writes that «at the moment the ecumenical dialogue has not progressed to the point where a group of theologians can sit down and write an «ecumenical theology» that is vital and coherent.»

Küng hopes that his ecumenical theology will continue to be a viable alternative to Rome even within the Catholic tradition, thus demonstrating that the life and spirit of the church are broader than the official posture of the hierarchy.

As a result, there are now three tracks in theology at Tübingen: Protestant, Catholic and Küng's ecumenical theology.

Since the Council, the newly awakened «interest «in reception has led to a series of historical and systematic studies, in both Catholic (9) and ecumenical theology.

«56 It is the task of ecumenical theology to warn us against both these dangers, he said.

The recognizing of that implication, the affirming of that belief, is, as I have said, the first and only really essential step in the development of a truly ecumenical theology.

I have insisted, therefore, that this first step toward an ecumenical theology all Christians can take together and that there is a sense in which we do in fact take it together, whether we recognize that we do or not.

It is the first and, I would be disposed to say, the only absolutely essential step toward a truly ecumenical theology.

Finally, nuclear revisionism falters because, like ecumenical theology, it is blissfully unaware of the profoundly religious attraction the bomb has, the subterranean fascinations and psychic denials that fuel our irrational plunge toward a holocaust.

Finally, ecumenical theology displays little awareness of the ideological doubleagent within us — O'Donovan's «disproportion» or Lifton's «totalism» that bewitches our brave efforts to be responsible.

Unlike ecumenical theology, both Kaufman and McFague recognize that nuclear absolutism requires a radical response from Christian faith.

There are in my view, three options, as represented by ecumenical theology, nuclear revisionism, and a confessing church movement.

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Dulles was the preeminent Catholic theologian in North America for generations and deeply informed Catholic, evangelical and ecumenical theology, said Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School and longtime participant in Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT).

Ecumenical theology, on the other hand, dealt generally with pre-Enlightenment issues in pre-Enlightenment language, seeking a rhetoric that would heal ancient divisions.

My own indignation was especially «righteous» since I was deeply involved, with others, in a protracted, earnest crusade to recover and re-present John Wesley (not only to Methodists but to other Christians as well) as a significant theologian and as a fruitful resource for contemporary ecumenical theology.

If ours is an age of ecumenical theology, it is so above all in the Catholic - Protestant theological dialogue, a dialogue that so far has only just begun.

The signers raised concerns about the Assembly call for a coherent ecumenical theology, affirming the need for theological work but insisting that the «ecumenical movement needs a theology rooted in the Christian revelation as well as relevant to contemporary problems.»

Perhaps the «lack of a vital, coherent ecumenical theology» is indeed critical.

Many participants had hoped this Assembly would effect the unveiling of a «new, comprehensive, ecumenical theology» built upon creation consciousness and a broadly defined work of the Spirit, but the effort ran headlong into established political and theological commitments.

Not exact matches

Theology Without Boundaries: Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition by Carnegie Samuel Calian Westminster / John Knox Press, 130 pages, $ 14.99 paper Calian, President and Professor of Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (a Presbyterian school), has written a book intended to acquaint Western Christians with the ecumenical contribution of Eastern Christians.

The historian Jules Isaac... obtained an interview with Pius XII in June 1949 and felt he was heard «with good will and understanding sympathy»... During the 1950's, the signs of understanding increased in the Vatican media, particularly at Christmas or Unity Week; the philo - Semitic orientation of certain religious orders; the effort to understand Judaism in theology schools, and meetings in ecumenical settings, no longer met with distrust by Roman Congregations.

Over the next fourteen years the Braatens and the Jensons (both men's wives participated actively in the center's work) collaborated in activities» conferences, seminars, and, most notably, production of the journal Pro Ecclesia» that expanded from a Lutheran core to give ecumenical witness to the great tradition of catholic theology.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeabEcumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeabecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

Thus, the struggles against torture and terrorism require us to recover and recast a genuinely ecumenical and normative public theology, one willing to engage in the patient yet urgent task of identifying, clarifying and defending those universal principles of right and wrong inherent in the Christian understanding of life.

We reject the kind of ecumenical euphoria that assumes the way to peace in the church is to downplay doctrine and theology.

All these questions can not be treated here, and not only for reasons of time; for though they are very important for the history of theology, they lead into such a tangle of theological subtle - ties that they can not be expected greatly to advance the ecumenical cause.

He has given considerable attention to Protestant theology and to ecumenical problems, and his review of the first volume of Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology is considered one of the best written theology and to ecumenical problems, and his review of the first volume of Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology is considered one of the best written Theology is considered one of the best written to date.

Hence the ecumenical interest in mission theology.

Only journalists very badly instructed in theology could therefore suppose that Vatican II might cancel the doctrine defined by Vatican I regarding the papal primacy of jurisdiction and teaching authority, or out of ecumenical spirit and desire to please, might revoke the dogma of the Immaculate Conception or the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

«Caste», «Liberation», «Asian Theology», — articles in The Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement, WCC Publications, 1991.

We also discovered a second agreement, variously expressed: that theology in the Wesleyan spirit must be truly ecumenical, or it is not truly Wesleyan.

A theocentric Christology is far more ecumenical in the religiously plural world than is a Christocentric theology with its exclusivist absorption of all of God into the Jesus of Christianity.

There are many reasons for this, but one involves an aspect of Bonhoeffer's life that is not directly examined very often: the influence of his ecumenical contacts and worldview on his theology and praxis.

No theology will deserve to be called ecumenical in the coming days which ignores Asian structures.

He is fully acquainted with the ecumenical discussions and documents of our time, including the contemporary contributions of Orthodox theology.

At that time the yearly ecumenical effort of Notre Dame's theology department was to have a colloquium with the theology department at Valparaiso University.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

Alongside this theology that developed in university and seminary settings was another that characterized the ecumenical movement.

Published under mainly Lutheran auspices, it is ecumenical and bills itself as «a journal of catholic and evangelical theology.»

Bonhoeffer's theology made several contributions, particularly in the area of ecclesiology and the ecumenical movement, ethics and the role of the Christian in the modern world, spiritual life especially in theological education, and Christology as the center of doctrine.

Bonhoeffer's treatment of spiritual oneness anticipates a theology for the ecumenical movement.

First, churches in the ecumenical center must forego the temptation to imitate the conservative theology, and style on the assumption that this is what will succeed.

McKnight points out that evangelicals are good at: 1) being ecumenical, 2) stressing the importance of the new birth, 3) emphasizing theology, and 3) urging personal transformation.