Sentences with phrase «into theological language»

Not exact matches

We had to match theological concepts to Erik's signs, and our catechesis was filled with analogy, story, wild gestures, his mother's manual continuo as she translated our efforts into Erik's language.

Now, however, as the scriptures of the world have been translated into English and many other western languages, we can draw upon the insights of the scriptures of the world for our theological reflection.

Or, in more explicit theological language, the death of God is the actualization of the movement of Spirit into flesh.

Second, theologians must argue how the general «publicness» of all theological language is actualized into distinct but related theological disciplines.

Hence Mays sets for himself the task of translating Whitehead's theological terminology into a neutral, less misleading language (PW 57/54, 59/56).

Holmer writes, «Lewis moves out of the theological and out of the philosophical and into the ordinary language of everyday life.»

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

I was struck also by the fact that the humanistic gymnasia through which students prepared for entry into the university taught them Greek and Latin and even Hebrew, just those languages most needed for a classical theological education.

They learned to pray in Arabic, they translated the Scriptures into Arabic and eventually produced a whole body of historical, devotional, polemical, theological and hagiographical literature in the language of their conquerors.

The appropriateness of womanist theological language will ultimately reside in its ability to bring black women's history, culture, and religious experience into the interpretive circle of Christian theology and into the liturgical life of the church.

The more serious effort to concern itself primarily with ethical rather than theological problems, as the followers of Bonhoeffer have done, has led them outside the framework of biblical language and judgment, and has tended to dissolve their religious answers either into personal morality or social activism which, while serious in its intention, has made them weathercocks turning freely in the cultural winds.