Sentences with phrase «important theological work»

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.

His most important theological work is The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion (1936).

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I totally identify with something that T.F. Torrance wrote in his important work, Theological Science:

The translator's introduction points out that Fount of Knowledge is one of the most «important single works produced in the Greek patristic period,... offering as it does an extensive and lucid synthesis of the Greek theological science of the whole period.

Noddings» answers to these questions have won her praise in feminist and leftwing circles; her book is hailed by Rosemary Ruether and Daniel Maguire as an «important contribution to philosophical ethics» and a work that should be «significant» in theological seminaries.

For this reason alone, I regard John Henry Newman's The Development of Christian Doctrine as the most important of all modern Catholic theological works, or at least, the most significant until Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man.

This means that the seminary, the place where theological work is usually done, has also become less important.

«The Oxford Conference absorbed some of the most important theological changes since the 1925 conference of Life and Work in Stockholm,» Bennett said.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

What has been offered above in terms of dominant themes in modern educational theory is not intended to be comprehensive and complete, but to point to some very important work that is evidenced in the educational, philosophical and theological literature.

Even throughout his period of theological and philosophical formation, when he produced important translations and studies of works by Origen, Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor, among others, he also wrote about drama and dramatists.

[7] Many theological students, especially women, African Americans, and Hispanics, regularly and vigorously object that their «theological education» is in important respects inappropriate to the faith communities to which they belong and to the social and cultural worlds in which they expect to live and work in the future.

Nevertheless, Bonhoeffer's theological writing came to an unplanned and untimely end, and the book on ethics that he expected to be his most important work was left in fragments — 13 manuscripts and 115 handwritten notes.

This points to probably the most important work going on in the training of the theological student in mental health.

It is evident that in dealing with this confusion we are attending to a subject that is important not only to theological education but to all the work of the churches.

When important parts of life are not subject to theological reflection, people are not able to believe that God's grace really is at work there.

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

For example, instead of selecting research topics entirely because of the state of the discipline, a historical scholar can select a topic that the church finds important in its own theological work.

Scripture has been very important in your theological work, but your approach is different from those who treat the Bible as a rule book or a guidepost.

Konrad Raiser, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, uses it to describe, a change in theological perspective which affects the whole range of ecumenical work.1 His colleague and former student Martin Robra applies it specifically to a change in perspective on social ethics in World Council work.2 K.C. Abraham describes it as a change in theological and ethical perspective brought about by the participation of the Third World in the ecumenical movement.3 They all make important points.

It is my conviction that his latest work, The Descent Into Hell, is one of the most important and exciting theological statements since the work of Paul Tillich.

It is important that their studies be set in the context of the Church's work not simply because theology is thereby enriched, but also because it is not a way of life and because a person is not definable in terms of his vocation even though it be the vocation of theological student.

In a bold and important study, Recovering Theological Hermeneutics, Jens Zimmermann has argued that the postmodern critique of the Enlightenment was anticipated by major themes in the biblical and theological work of theTheological Hermeneutics, Jens Zimmermann has argued that the postmodern critique of the Enlightenment was anticipated by major themes in the biblical and theological work of thetheological work of the reformers.