Sentences with phrase «function as theologians»

Further, even if professors of theology decide to function as theologians anyway, they are socialized into understanding their professional responsibility narrowly.

The authors suggests that denominational leaders must function as theologians, and pastors must reclaim not only the title but the reality.

Denominational leaders must function as theologians.

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What the theologian thus chooses functions for him as a natural theology, but it is rarely subjected to the close scrutiny that such a theology should receive.

The fact that Hartshorne can give little meaning to the «absolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holiness of God.

But, as Ogden notes with respect to liberation theologians, they «focus on the existential meaning of God for us without dealing at all adequately with the metaphysical being of God in himself».22 To reject the conceptual task of theology reflects an inadequate understanding of how faith functions.

Lewis Ford, a contemporary process theologian, suggests the model of a perception as a way of understanding how reality functions.

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

Before I had any content for the title, I thought of myself as a practical theologian whose function it was to integrate theology and the various dimensions of ministry as they relate to church and society.

Inasmuch as the entire people of God partakes in the search for and the unfolding of the truth of God's word, all the charisms and services are involved according to their station: the theologians by means of their research activities, the faithful by means of their preserving fidelity and piety, the ecclesial ministries and especially the college of bishops with its function of making binding doctrinal decisions.

Lindbeck observed that in their emphasis upon the function of religious language as propositional information about objective realities, conservative theologians tend to confirm the approach to religion taken by most Anglo - American analytic philosophers.

But one still looks in vain among the writings of liberation theologians to find discussions of the indispensable institutions of democratic (republican) government, such as guarantees of rights of minorities against the tyranny of the majority or divisions of responsibilities and functions that avoid dangerous concentrations of power.

The missionary movement was very slow in recognizing the importance of the secular world in its thinking, but thanks to great theologians such as Bonhoffer and others it became clear that the church's nature and function needed to be rethought in relation to God's concern for the whole world.

The theologian, therefore, actually functions in two capacities: as a scholarly aid to the minister and as a ruthless seeker for truth.

If you too were unfamiliar with this repurposing of the Trinity, it goes something like this: Some pastors and theologians hailing from the more conservative side of the Reformed spectrum have argued that classifying women as subordinate to men is justified because the Trinity also operates as a hierarchy, with Christ functioning as eternally subordinate to the Father.