Sentences with phrase «if theological work»

This problem comes to the front in Bultmann's theology because of his conviction, as Schubert Ogden has said, that «if theological work is properly pursued, it is neither speculative nor scientific in an «objective» sense, but rather existentiell, that is, a type of thinking inseparable from one's most immediate understanding of oneself as a person.»

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In the past, these groups have perceived conservatives to be suspect on racism, while on the other hand they worked with liberals in the fight for civil rights, and several of their theological heroes are crucial forerunners if not advocates of radicalism.

[99][100] E. P. Sanders concludes that the Gospel of John contains an «advanced theological development, in which meditations on the person and work of Christ are presented in the first person, as if Jesus said them.»

If writing a technical philosophical or theological essay, I should wish here to urge how much work needs to be done by way of analysis on the notion of dependence.

Similarly, if we go to the Bible looking for a historic or scientific explanation of how things work, or even a theological treatise on what to believe and how to behave, I think we will be either be severely disappointed, or will come away with some very wrong ideas about what to believe and how to behave.

But this Spirit, together with Scripture, can become an active opposing partner of one's own theological opinion only if he works in the institutional community which we call Church.

No one will be able to do responsible theological work during the remainder of the twentieth century without taking account of the philosophy of Charles Hartshorne; and all who study it, layman and theologian alike, will be profited, if not fully convinced, by it.

Work is not theological if it is not intentionally and explicitly rooted in a tradition.

If there is a theory of natural law that will actually help us do theological work, then it must meet two main criteria: It should be strongly teleological, affirming that the human good includes our being ordered to God and neighbor.

Yet I wonder if Schuller's theological - psychological interpretation of success and failure does not risk a kind of «justification through works.»

Critical scholarship — not only historical critical scholarship, but also newer approaches to the Bible using critical theory — has pressed our understanding of the texts and traditions of ancient Christianity to the point where organized Christianity, if it were to be guided by such work, would have to begin to rethink some of its basic theological commitments.

However, if this skepticism concerning reason is really radical, then all genuine philosophical and religious thought is totally undermined, including Gilkey's own important theological work.

«We don't want to robotise our church work, but see if we can bring a theological perspective to a machine.»

The first part of our work, if we are to be realistic, should be in the «religious studies» as well as the theological mode.

If we put in parentheses the properly theological work of synthesis and systematization that presupposes the neutralization of the primitive forms of discourse and the transference of every religious content onto the plane of the assertion or proposition, we then arrive at a polysemic and polyphonic concept of revelation.

If he had died just a little while sooner or later, or if he had been visiting a lady of the sixteenth arrondissement under the pretext of works of charity, instead of bringing the revenue of his theological writings to a poor and needy woman, there would have been no scandaIf he had died just a little while sooner or later, or if he had been visiting a lady of the sixteenth arrondissement under the pretext of works of charity, instead of bringing the revenue of his theological writings to a poor and needy woman, there would have been no scandaif he had been visiting a lady of the sixteenth arrondissement under the pretext of works of charity, instead of bringing the revenue of his theological writings to a poor and needy woman, there would have been no scandal.

Let me continue this deliberation on the theological import of mission and liturgy in the service of working toward a pluralistic nationhood by indulging in more imaginative theological play.61 What if we consider pluralistic living among various religious communities in terms of a large, traditional, rural Indian house?

If there is going to be deep cooperation and communion, there has to be greater theological consensus, and to reach a consensus, the churches and their leaders must be committed to the hard work of common prayer, worship, service, and study.

If pressed to their logical results, these two core theological convictions actually work together to reveal something beautiful and loving about God.

If this is the case, however, then Niebuhr's restriction of theological schooling to theoretical work seems artificial and inappropriately abstract.

However, this third step will improve black institutions of theological education only if the love of learning (the condition for theology) prevails there and in the family and the community, where the discipline of learning to love (the work of theology) is regarded as the ultimate joy.

In an excited letter to Spalatin (on this occasion he was considered highly suitable for a discussion of the text), dated 14 December 1516, Luther wrote: «If reading a pure and solid theology, which is available in German and is of a quality closest to that of the Fathers, might please you, then get yourself the sermons of Johann Tauler, the Dominican... I have seen no theological work in Latin or German that is more sound and more in harmony with the gospel than this... Taste it and see how sweet the Lord is, [a quotation from the Psalms] after you have first tried and realised how bitter is whatever we are».

The present revisions of our «winnowed wisdom,» tempered by the cautions proposed for cultural, psychological and theological reasons, will work only if we reaffirm the ancient impetus to care for the dying with pastoral tenderness.

Similarly in the confessional approach, only if the man who speaks of what has taken place and now takes place in the community does so as a believing participant, is his work theological.