Sentences with phrase «fields of theological study»

The methods of pastoral theology demonstrate the value of a «thick description» as a fundamental beginning point for all the fields of theological study.

The schools urge to competence in the various fields of theological study.

As an inter-disciplinary field of study with an important complementary role to play to all existing fields of theological study, part of the task of missiology involves the drawing out of missiological themes and issues from those fields of study.

Although missiology must be concerned with «God's glory» — taking an example from Scherer's list — there is nothing distinctively missiological about «God's glory» as all fields of theological study must also be concerned with it.

I join a number of mission thinkers in insisting that missiology is a complementary discipline and could not exist independently from other fields of theological study.

Not exact matches

1 Samuel: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by Francesca Aran Murphy Brazos, 336 pages, $ 34.99 He has never seen another field of study quite like it, says a political philosopher who follows biblical scholarship.

Differences in the understanding of mission and the contrariety between the different renditions of the field of study have placed missiology in a state of confusion, thereby preventing it from occupying its proper place in theological academia.

But the worry that the pool of future faculty will be dominated by graduates of religious studies programs whose whole training is outside the fields and institutions of theological study and who would not want to be associated with such schools is misplaced.

Administrators worry that doctoral students increasingly will be trained in the history of religion or comparative religions rather than in Bible, theology, ethics, church history and practical studies — the traditional fields of theological education.

An even larger number are studying in one of the traditional theological fields.

Thus, as an interdisciplinary field of study, it has a crucial complementary role to play in the entire arena of theological study.

More significantly, these studies tended to focus on «how - to» concerns, or the application of what was taught in the «theoretical» fields of biblical, historical and theological - ethical studies (each also separate from the others and supported by its own professional associations, journals, degree programs and faculties).

The technical emphasis in recent theological education has given us better pedagogies, opened up the larger society as a field for ministry, redistributed authority and power in the schools, and added new and important areas of study.

Faculty in those fields who are members of departments of religious studies receive their doctoral education in the same graduate schools as do faculty in theological schools, and faculty move back and forth between the two contexts.

On the other hand, «emphasis on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned».

It was recognised that in the fields of Biblical and theological studies, there had been new insights and developments that needed to be taken seriously by the missionary movement.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

For example, the historical and theological areas may be combined into an area described as «Interpretation of Christianity» while the older «practical» field is divided into two, one dealing with «Church and Culture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibilities.