Sentences with phrase «historical consciousness»

That does not mean to say that they have no history or that they contribute to the loss of historical consciousness.

I would simply like to enter a plea for greater historical consciousness.

Historical consciousness opens the door to contrasting what is with what has been and, indirectly, with what might be.

Which is to say that they have yet to allow the gains of historical consciousness to govern what they do.

That is, «effective historical consciousness» makes the reader aware of the finitude of her or his horizon with its inherent limitations of vision and simultaneously therefore also of an alienating distance from the text.

As he writes, «It was in Germany that an alternative to the medieval Roman Catholic view of revelation was born, in Germany that modern historical consciousness arose, and in Germany that the contemporary understanding of the self finds its roots.»

This new historical consciousness, with its emphasis on Christ's saving actions over against his nature and person, as well as the related «myths» of abstract dogma, was kept alive in the twentieth century by Rudolf Bultmann (1884 - 1976).

The battle for historical consciousness in theology has been waged for over 150 years.

Drifting from historical consciousness into historical relativism, some of this generation questioned the current validity of the accepted creeds and dogmas of the Church.

Haight's goal is an ecumenical inculturation of Christian faith in a postmodern world saturated with historical consciousness and aware of cultural and religious pluralism.

Ratzinger comments that the great synthesis found in the traditional Christian interpretation, «would become problematic when historical consciousness developed rules of interpretation that made Patristic exegesis appear non-historical and so objectively indefensible».

Behind such figures, Obrist was at pains to emphasize, lay other, equally important innovators, whose contributions are in danger of slipping from historical consciousness altogether.

The particular resources of contemporary liberal theology that have especial relevance for a Christian approach to our culture's current difficulties are these: (1) the contemporary historical consciousness, (2) the conclusions of biblical scholars regarding Jesus and the Kingdom of God, and (3) the current «process» understanding of God, Which allows a positive relation (but not a surrender!)

Both of the above two paradigms of evangelicalism have faded into the background, especially in the American experience, because of another major controversy in the church - the fundamentalist / modernist controversy that may perhaps best be viewed as a fight over the extent to which the Enlightenment, the rise of the scientific world - view, and the emergence of a heightened historical consciousness require a theological reformulation of classical Protestantism.

Can it be applied to Buddhism, a religion which is extremely diverse culturally, has no central authority and possesses a weaker historical consciousness than Christianity does?

They do not express a refined historical consciousness.

Added to that in my own life is a strong historical consciousness, the dominant role of biblical theology, the catholic character of a liturgically nurtured piety always providing promptings that are secret because they are of the church's wholeness.

They combine the study of the perennial philosophy with a deep historical consciousness and an interest in exegesis and patristics.

Hence, everything new, regardless of its provisional nature or its shallowness over the long run, was set in concrete too quickly, thus frustrating, especially at the popular level, the real essence of the reforms, which was to introduce an authentic historical consciousness into the Catholic tradition.

A reclusive and visionary artist who participated in major international exhibitions of his time, Oelze is now lost to the broader art historical consciousness.

Very little, if any, «effective historical consciousness» is required for the actualization of understanding.

Even so, the fight for historical consciousness in mainline theologies seems basically secure.

The full - fledged arrival of historical consciousness in theology, best viewed in the often tortured, always honest, reflections of both Troeltsch and Lonergan, only heightened the need for new reflection in hermeneutics.

While the West has struggled to come to terms with the relationship between modern forms of inquiry and ancient church dogma, the Orthodox seem to march on, untroubled by modern historical consciousness.

For Gilkey, the «neo» of his orthodoxy is precisely where he remained most liberal» not just his penchant for talking about biblical symbols and myths but also his conviction that the problem of historical consciousness is the context for all modern theology.

This event, which plays an important role in Poland's historical consciousness, took place in August 1944.

Over his long and prolific career, the idiosyncratic scholar has wrestled with such weighty themes as the rise of historical consciousness, the legacy of....

To put this in less directly theological terms, the historical consciousness can include the ontological consciousness in a way that the ontological consciousness can not include the historical consciousness.

We can then highlight that element in every human instance of dependent origination that introduces freedom and moral responsibility and the temporal asymmetry so important to the historical consciousness.