Sentences with phrase «for liberal theologians»

Just another indication of your organizations bias against Christians.Unfortunately nothing new for CNN and nothing new for liberal theologians.

As if the depression had not been difficult enough for the liberal theologian to process, the ascent of both Hitler and Mussolini heralded a new totalitarianism that shattered whatever self - confidence remained.

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Schleiermacher was a liberal theologian because he thought modernity represents something fundamentally new and positive for humanity, something that stimulates Christian reform, enabling the true genius of our faith finally to achieve full expression.

Karl Barth recognized that liberal theologians provide theological justification for Kulturprotestantismus, an establishment mentality eager to adjust Christianity to suit bourgeois culture.

As a young theologian, he was horrified when in 1914 his professors, liberal Protestants to the last, signed a declaration of support for the Kaiser and the coming war.

The trick to studying well is to steer clear of liberal theologians who care little for truth, and would rather render the text in as «politically correct» a manner as possible.

I have selected evangelicals, liberals, liberationists, and process theologians for consideration.

To affirm, for example, that the essential elements of Christianity in the first century were only those items which believers of that day have in common with the «liberal» theologian of the twentieth century, is to eliminate as unessential to first - century believers their realistic eschatology, their belief in demons and angels, their vivid supernaturalism, their sacramentalism, their notion of the miraculous content of religious experience, and various other features of similar importance.

It was not without reason that 19th - century liberal theologians revolted en mass against the orthodox Anselmian doctrine of atonement that taught that the only ultimately compelling reason for Christ's coming was that he might suffer his substitutionary, sacrificial, expiating, even propitiating death.

He was the basic source for the American personalist movement founded by Borden P. Bowne; and the frequency with which he was quoted in the writings of other liberal theologians would indicate that his influence was pervasive.

For Karl Barth, Troeltsch was the last theologian of the 19th century; a man whose failure revealed the true character of liberal theology.

Tanner's brand of postliberalism places her closer to the classic liberal theologian Albrecht Ritschl than the neo-orthodox Barth on the fundamental question of the rules for making Christian claims.

It has become more and more plain that I am no fit material for a good Barthian, nor for any kind of theologian except some obstinate sort of liberal.

CNN, why do you only get the most liberal - leaning «theologians» to be interviewed for these articles?

The liberal theologian thus usually defines as religiously possible what is possible for the bourgeois human being and experience.

Believers of different stripes have variously cast him as a socialist revolutionary (Terry Eagleton), a dreadlocked Rastafarian (Robert Beckford), a pacifist (Shane Claiborne), or a Rambo - figure ready for a scrap with any liberal theologian who crosses his path (Mark Driscoll).

This attitude, which has been widespread in non-Roman and non-Orthodox theological circles, is responsible for the contemptuous dismissal of those theologians (sometimes conveniently tagged «outworn liberals» or «old - fashioned modernists») who attempted in the past or who still attempt in the present to employ in their work the insights of the process - philosophers.

As a young evangelical, I was looking for theologians who could help me break the stranglehold of liberal Protestantism and its faithless idea of religion as purely personal «sentiment.»

If such talk of truth makes my neighbor, the rabbi, uncomfortable — and I can understand how it might — I can only point out that Jesus is my sole reason for defending the rabbi against the onslaughts of either fascist politicians or liberal theologians who will not embrace him until he becomes «rational» or «enlightened» in other words, something less than Jewish.