Sentences with phrase «historical relativity»

This has often taken it out of the sphere of historical relativity and open discussion.

... To speak of revelation now is not to retreat to modes of thought established in earlier generations but to endeavor to deal faithfully with the problem set for Christians in our time by the knowledge of our historical relativity.»

The concrete sacramentality and historical relativity in our speaking of God is, therefore, not a problem to be solved in spite of our Christo - centrism.

So in what sense can we continue to proclaim the special authority of Christian revelation while at the same time fully embracing the implications of our two axioms: on the one hand that our religious language, including our Christological categories, is never adequately representative of God, and on the other that it is always conditioned by historical relativity?

He had already called attention to the historical relativity — and relatedness — of Christianity; he now began to note its social and institutional relativity — and relatedness — as well.

In part this attraction was rooted in his antagonism to dogmatism and authoritarianism, and no doubt it also grew out of his awareness of historical relativity.

The infusion of historical relativity into the orders can also break their linkage to an ethical conservatism that finds it necessary to stand against every revolutionary development, thus denying the freedom of God to do any new thing in the world.

7 Kerygmatic declarations are found primarily in Paul and John where the accent is not upon a Jesus of Nazareth enmeshed in historical relativities but upon the crucified and risen Christ who now calls men out of death into life.

Not exact matches

Thus the Wesleyan tradition has an inherent affinity to historical process and movement, which puts it at odds with the more absolutistic traditions that try to deny relativity and the historical conditionedness of Christian life and thought.

For example, if one understood by the church simply the historically given communities with their multiplicity of beliefs and practices, the view of theology as the articulation of the church's faith would lead to a plurality of theologies that could hardly escape the recognition of their relativity with respect to historical factors.

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

This historical evolutionism is a distortion of reality whether it leans toward the idealist side and emphasizes the suprahistorical meaning which is revealed in history or toward the empirical side and emphasizes the never - ceasing flow and relativity of all events.

To return once more to our historical example: in the history of the theory of relativity, the Michelson - Morley experiment did not play the determinative part most textbooks assign to it.

Whatever the term «God» means, it must encompass the reality of the historical process, which means it must encompass contingency and relativity.

We begin by highlighting the most important historical developments, including the notion of mass as it appeared prior to and in Newton's work, the formal characterization of Mach, and its eventual role in relativity and quantum theory.

The difference between process historical thinkers and most other empiricists may be analogous to the difference between Neils Bohr and Albert Einstein: while both are empiricists, Bohr sees physical change as a function of unrepeatable quantum events, while Einstein sees change as a function of enduring relativity principles.

Each has its value in its season, but no particular moral principles at this level of specificity can transcend the relativity of historical circumstance.

The «Troeltschian» questions that I have raised — about historical and cultural relativity, about the relation of Christianity to other faiths, and about the relation of Christianity to the methods and findings of modern science — are not foreign to pastors and members of their congregations.

There are some striking historical similarities here... consider the attacks on Einstein by a collection of German scientists over his ideologically suspect theory of general relativity.

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