Sentences with phrase «in theological analysis»

It is an indispensable element in theological analysis; but metaphysics is not the interpretation of the faith of the Christian community.

The inseparability of the two loves has been less manifest in theological analysis than in the actuality of history but theology has pointed out often enough how the thought of God is impossible without thought of the neighbor and how the meaning and value of the companion's life depends on his relation to God.

Not exact matches

Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis By L. Gregory Jones Eerdmans, 312 pages, $ 28 Jones teaches at Loyola College in Maryland, and here offers a bracing polemic against and constructive alternative to «the therapeutic society,» as Philip Rieff famously called it.

Thus, in the task of theological reflection and in that of preaching, scientific analysis and religious insight confirm each other.

Among his publications are: The Person of Christ: A Biblical and Historical Analysis of the Incarnation (Marshall Theological Library: Marshall, Morgan and Scott; Crossway, 1984); co-editor and part author with Mark Nofl, Nathan Hatch, George Marsden, and John Woodbridge, Eerdmans Handbook to Christianity in America, (Eerdmans, 1983); The Prophetic Theology of George Tyrrell (American Academy of Religion Studies in Religion, Vol.

Interesting analysis, Danica — and yep, it's another brick in a very solid wall of noted misogyny among theological circles.

The presentation supposes that it is theological views that at least trigger developments in the other areas, which is understandable in a book that proposes a theological reading, not a sociological analysis, of developments in marriage customs.

This prompts yet another line for critical reflection: Are the contrast pairs conventionally used in analysis of theological schooling really interchangeable?

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.

The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without in some fundamental sense understanding the other first.

Hartshorne's analysis in Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes is defective insofar as it recognizes only three possibilities — the two identified by classical theism and the third which is Whitehead's doctrine of the objective immortality of the past.

The point is that remarks about the potentially distorting and demonic effects of actions» locatedness do not need to be added extrinsically, as it were, to analyses of human inquiry — here theological inquiry in particular — cast in terms of «action»; such remarks are entailed in the very concept of action.

However, it is worrisome that his analysis of the activity of theological inquiry and of the activity of schooling in that inquiry devotes so little attention to the institutionalization of either.

I would just point out in passing that the analysis so far would suggest that the ordinary, garden - variety notion of a miracle does not seem to have any meaning in the context of a theological version of process thought.

Similarly, Lindsell's historical analysis has some validity for the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, which took theological shape in a confessional reaction to the 19th century emergence of the «Evangelical United Front» — a reaction grounded in Lutheran scholasticism just as the Princeton theology was grounded in Reformed scholasticism.

To elaborate a feminist theological analysis with women who brought to this discourse quite different religious experiences and institutional analyses proved crucial for articulating the theological paradigm shift in which we were engaged.

A historical and theological analysis of one or the other of these emphases shows each to be wanting as an adequate expression of the ministry.9 In the measure to which these are used to focus ministry in turn or together, the result has proved to be unresolvable conflict within a congregation or a denomination10 In the pluralistic churches of today, both emphases are always present to some extent, so that the ideal ministry attempts some balance between the twIn the measure to which these are used to focus ministry in turn or together, the result has proved to be unresolvable conflict within a congregation or a denomination10 In the pluralistic churches of today, both emphases are always present to some extent, so that the ideal ministry attempts some balance between the twin turn or together, the result has proved to be unresolvable conflict within a congregation or a denomination10 In the pluralistic churches of today, both emphases are always present to some extent, so that the ideal ministry attempts some balance between the twIn the pluralistic churches of today, both emphases are always present to some extent, so that the ideal ministry attempts some balance between the two.

I need more than the resources of Bible, theological tradition, and my own commitments if I am to understand my faith and the world in which it is set; I also need the ethical insights of my secular colleagues, the political and psychological analyses of my friends and foes, and the prophetic jab of nonchurchmen whose degree of commitment so often puts my own to shame.20

(«Unless process philosophy is informed by existential analysis, its lack of an explicit anthropology, which handicaps it for theological employment, can hardly be remedied in keeping with its own implicit principles.»

Yet Taylor's analysis has pastoral value, not as a theological pronouncement but as an ethnography of the age in which we bear witness and make disciples.

We need to know what we're up against, and in the work of social and cultural analysis, theological concepts offer particularly powerful insights.

Similar themes are developed by Joe Holland, «Linking Social Analyses and Theological Reflection: The Place of Root Metaphors in Social and Religious

In order to make a theological analysis of the text and the appropriateness of its world view to the gospel and to the situation of the congregation, it is important for the preacher to determine that world view and its social effects.

The last two chapters turn from theological analysis and biblical study to the relations of these to the individual Christian and to the message and the service of the churches in the present world.

Regardless, even organizations in a similar theological stream (Reformed) to John MacArthur, like The Gospel Coalition, are providing helpful analyses on the continualist movement.

In the examination that follows of five voices in the recent discussions of what is theological about theological education I shall use «Athens» and «Berlin» as types, as ahistorical and artificial constructs around which to organize the analysiIn the examination that follows of five voices in the recent discussions of what is theological about theological education I shall use «Athens» and «Berlin» as types, as ahistorical and artificial constructs around which to organize the analysiin the recent discussions of what is theological about theological education I shall use «Athens» and «Berlin» as types, as ahistorical and artificial constructs around which to organize the analysis.

Today, to be relevant to the theological dept. of social analysis, I am rephrasing the topic as «The Significance of Faith for Social Analysis and Responsible Action in the Indian Situationanalysis, I am rephrasing the topic as «The Significance of Faith for Social Analysis and Responsible Action in the Indian SituationAnalysis and Responsible Action in the Indian Situation».

Thanks to the leadership of the Dept. and the relevance of it in our time, the concern for social analysis has taken root as an essential aspect of the Christian theological enterprise, not only in the TTS but also in most other Indian theological schools and in the Serampore University curriculum itself.

A Paper presented at the Seminar organized in connection with the tenth Anniversary of the Dept. of Social Analysis of the Tamilnadu Theological Seminary, Arasaradi.

He wants to see them do five things: «Initiate a focused approach to the claims of Islam; make a political and cultural analysis of the unique impact of the Islamic evangelization of black males; approach Islam on theological and evangelical levels; assess the geopolitical and strategic implications of Islam in Africa and South Asia, since the fortunes of black people in the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisonin Africa and South Asia, since the fortunes of black people in the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisonin the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisonIn the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisonin prisons.

Because each type of argumentation plays a distinct and necessary role in a fully reflective or critical theological analysis of the relation of experience and value, only that «methodological alternative in process theology» which employs them for their respective purposes and to the highest degree can properly be regarded as adequate.

Recall my earlier claim that such analysis has to do with the relation between the noetic and ontic poles in theological discussion and is, therefore, constitutive of theology as such.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.

Because first - order theological argumentation does and must presuppose the second - order assertions that presuppositional analysis uncovers, such presuppositional assertions invariably shape the hermeneutical analysis employed in any first - order presentation of experiential data.

The first is that a theological interpretation of man's existence is not an alternative to its analysis in economic, political and psychological terms.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

Here, in John Paul's footsteps, we will try to pursue this analysis further, following ananthropological more than a theological line of reasoning.

Here in fact a new principle is enunciated which permits a much deeper anthropological and theological analysis of the conjugalact: the principle that its unitive significance and its procreative significance are inherent to it, in inseparable connection.

While recognising that in such an analysis, which targets both Christians and Muslims, we do not have the points for any kind of debate but rather are confronted with a diatribe, nevertheless, I believe that in such a forum as the Gurukul Summer Institute, where an honest spirit of inquiry prevails, and where there is a commitment to a rigorous process of theological exploration, we need to address some of the issues raised.

In this situation the theological analysis of Professor Paul Tillich took on special significance for the American context.

Hence we are, on the one hand, confronted with an abundance of material, rich in analysis and content from a variety of perspectives that can offer to the Indian church sensitive viewpoints and creative directions for the understanding and practice of mission in India today, and, on the other, still confronted with the reality that, in so far as the mission question is concerned, an agreed upon standpoint, either in theological or practical terms continues to be elusive.

Virginia Burrus, in her article «The Heretical Woman as Symbol in Alexander, Athanasius, Epiphanius, and Jerome,» Harvard Theological Review, 84:3 (1991) 229 - 248, points out how her analysis has indicated that the sources examined «speak loudly and clearly of the preoccupations of the men who articulated their orthodox identity through the use of woman as a symbol of the threatening forces of sexuality, social chaos, and false belief.»

Finally, there ought be noted the role of Loomer's doctoral thesis, «The Theological Significance of the Method of Empirical Analysis in the Philosophy of A. N. Whitehead» (1942), a work which attained an almost incredible influence, given the fact that it remains to this day unpublished.

To speak instead of this or that «pluralism» raising issues for theological schooling at least has the advantage of tending in current usage to keep the focus of analysis and critique on what is concretely actual.

It takes no theological analysis to discern the failure of language in these times.

appropriation of Marxism for their cultural analysis does not fit in exactly with any of the theological motifs that Niebuhr relates to his types.

Newton's theory of space and time structure is more detailed than is indicated in the preceding analysis; for instance, there is a theological dimension to Newton's theory.16 For present purposes, however, only one further notion concerning the nature of absolute space and absolute time in Newton's theory is of interest.

In reordering the theological spectrum, liberation theology thus says: (1) biblical praxis - empowerment comes first and (2) social analysis follows.

An analysis of the 1926 Religious Census figures for seventeen of the largest white Protestant denominations in the United States showed that over 40 per cent of all the ministers of these denominations were graduates neither of college nor of theological seminary, while only 33 per cent were graduates of both.

Good theological teaching will therefore engage in «objective analysis, discovery, and interpretation», but always in the context of the Christian faith, so that the students discover that their own personal commitments are bound up with what they are studying.