Sentences with phrase «for theology students»

Not exact matches

it is so easy for even a first year theology students to show all the errors of reasoning and the straw men in most of the author's statements.

Pinning down Hauerwas» theology is a challenge for students studying his work, primarily because his thoughts cover a swathe of theological issues — from pacifism to abortion, politics to disability.

I think there's a pretty nice cycle for seminary students: year 1: totally enthusiastic, young idealistic faith year 2: fairly smug, enthralled with knowing and using hip theology terms year 3: tired, disillusioned, a little bitter, anti-something or other year 4: just starting to get over one's self, wanting to «get out there»

My favorite professor at Wheaton (my theology prof) got in huge trouble for two things: (1) a divorce, (2) switching / converting from Baptist to Episcopal — and then teaching students the complexity.

She was a theology student in a nearby seminary and worked in this parish for her field placement.

Members of this group write study books for the student movement and speak about secular, worldly and non-religious theology.

Nancy Howell was dean of St. Paul's Theological Seminary for a while, and it happens that Susan Nelson, the current dean of the Claremont School of Theology, was also my student.

In my own teaching of theology I find it best to use, rather than a single textbook with a single point of view, a reader which presents several angles of interpretation on specifics and on the whole because it forces students confronting a plurality of systems to decide for themselves what the Scriptures say.

These have generated within me kindred feelings towards Eliade and hence the question I would like to ask is, «Is Eliade showing the way for an Indian student who is engaged in the study NT history and Theology?»

For myself, certain early formative influences in the early «60s (biblical criticism, Bernard Lonergan's reflections on method and historical consciousness, and the splendid ambience of student days in Rome during the Second Vatican Council) solidified my own sharing in the common conviction that there can be no return to a pre-ecumenical, prepluralistic, ahistorical theology.

Caris Dellar, a theology student at Moorlands College, recently returned from working in a refugee camp for Êzidî people on the Turkish, Syrian and Iraqi border.

A further exploration into how theology of religions integrates various aspects of mission is a task set ahead for students of missiology.

Thank you for sharing your view on «predestination» — I googled this due to my troubled spirit resulting from having a precious sister in Christ — extremely brilliant student of Biblical theology, etc. — verbally wipe me out with shaking finger in face, followed by multiple disturbing emails just short of accusing me of apostacy due to my view on this doctrine — my view is the same as yours.

Niebuhr didn't mean to be funny when he said that Lutheranism evinces a «mystical fear of action,» but for a Lutheran student of theology that's gut «wrenching humor» which, upon further thought, is kind of sad.

I formulate my experience of reading Eliade as a student engaged in the study of Christian theology particularly that of New Testament with a purpose of making use of his insights in the search for developing new perspectives and paradigms to do theology.

In other words, theological education still has not found a new paradigm for the nature of theology, reasons for the way it organizes its course of study, and a coherent version of the routes students take through their studies.

Whatever the type of institution, the effect of studying theology can be a testing one for a student's faith.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

For the next three years van Gogh singlemindedly pursued his calling to the ministry, first as a student of theology and then as a missionary to the coal miners in the...

But in fact they allowed theology to become one academic discipline among others, with theologians writing more for one another and for seminary students than for the church or the larger society.

The Church opens the Year of Faith [1] with a Synod on the New Evangelisation at a time when, in England, there are a number of issues about the adequacy of theology programmes in preparing their students for the task of evangelising.

[4] In particular, if students for religious life or priesthood are expected to follow programmes in institutions offering «theology», what ensures that they receive the strength of Catholic theology that equips them for the practicalities of ministry?

While the character of certain movements and groups is to a large extent defined by sociological criteria, such as the earlier so - called Frontier religion or now the Buchmean (Oxford group) Movement, which Allan Eister has recently analyzed in his book Drawing Room Conversion, we find that the more definitely a religious group is a religious group — as distinct from an economic, political, or cultural association — the more important, both for members of the group and students of it, will become its worship and its theology.

In light of this, can it be agreed that a study of theology that takes place, as at Steubenville, alongside a firm spiritual practice (Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, traditional Marian and other devotions) and a clear moral stance (students living celibate lives supported by households and communities) is a necessary part of a strategy for Catholic theology?

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

At the same time they are carefully enough designed to give assurance to a Ph.D. student in theology preparing for his preliminary exams.

For several years I have asked students in introductory theology classes to make a list of the half dozen most important and foundational things they believe about them - selves, the universe and their place in it — convictions that clearly affect the choices they make and the ways they choose to live.

My hope is that the students will come away from the talk with an appreciation for how their worldview class is preparing them to think critically about their faith and become familiar with Christian theology and practice, but also how their worldview is bound to change over the next few years — and how that's okay.

After the post-Vatican II upheavals simmered down, not only was the Catechism of the Catholic Church produced, but useful manuals for incipient theology students have been published.

Many of my students have told me that it was not until we studied Byzantine or medieval art that they were able to develop a genuine feel for the theology of these periods.

The largely implicit rules that normatively govern specifically «Christian» practice, and in particular ministerial practice, can be identified, tested for their conformity with the essence of Christianity (which philosophical theology discovers in the Wissenschaft pole), and communicated to students, all quite directly.

In the same vein a thirty - year - old student of theology is quoted as saying, very perceptively: «If the stance of the Society is widely perceived as anti-institutional hierarchy, anti-Vatican, anti-pope, and if political and politically correct norms are used to select candidates for the Society, most of those who wish to serve Christ's Church will go elsewhere.»

From that shocking conviction of faith, Luther was able to go forth teaching, preaching, raising a family, running from authorities, sulking in protective custody in two castles, translating the Bible, writing hymns, eating and drinking with students and colleagues, maladministering the new congregations of evangelicals, struggling for freedom, devising pragmatic polities for the churches, becoming a public and political figure, defying pope and emperor and developing a Christ - centered theology.

If I had any influence on seminary education, I would like to see a course where students read some first - rate theology of creation» along with Attenborough and Eisner and Nasrecki, and maybe E.O. Wilson on ants thrown in for good measure.

I would dedicate this small book to my research - students and others in this University, whose interest in «process - theology» has been for me both a joy and an inspiration.

Indeed, it now seems that all the worship we ever did together, and all the theology we ever taught to our students and to each other, were only practice for this last leg of the wilderness journey

Küng will no longer teach any of the required courses in theology for Catholic students.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

Although Catholic students can attend his lectures and seminars, they will not be examined on Küng's materials, and his lectures will not count for credit in theology for them.

However, even after the market for Brunner's books in the English - speaking world wanes and his students have passed off the scene, and even when his name is forgotten, Brunner's impact on American theology is likely to continue for a long time.

For example, although Creighton touted its Catholic mission, my pious students could not trust their theology professors» many thought attacking «Catholic fundamentalism» their calling.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

THE NEED FOR «A NEW HUMANISITIC SYNTHESIS» Cf. Caritas in Veritate n. 21 10th October to African students, concerning: the urgent need to shape a new humanistic vision that will renew the links between anthropology and theology

Numerous opportunities to relate pastoral care to theology are available to students — and in the last analysis it is the students who bear the chief responsibility for the integration of the two.

For the next seven days, Luther went into the pulpit and spoke to those who could find the time from their daily work together with a fair number of students, university men, priests, as well as many women, and, crucially, his colleagues in the Faculty of Theology.

For in theology the student must be more than a master of method or someone who articulates or speculates on new theories.

The conference was the third in a series of conferences that have been held under the auspices of the Pontifical Council's «STOQ» project - the «Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest» interdisciplinary study programme that has been running now in the Roman Pontifical universities for some five years, and which allows students and scholars to investigate the links and mutual enrichment of the physical and the metaphysical sciences.

The Community of the Resurrection sends its students through a university course at Leeds before bringing them for theology to the College attached to the mother house at Mirfield; while the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham, which in fact developed out of the educational work of its founder, Fr.

Sebastian Milbank is the Blue Labour coordinator for Cambridge and a graduate student studying political theology

Kingdom University ™, as a nonprofit Christian College among other Bible Colleges, provides low affordable Tuitions for students that have interest in attaining various Bible Degrees such as a Doctor of Theology Degree or a Doctor of Biblical Studies Degree.