Sentences with phrase «kinds of theology need»

Thus the two kinds of theology need each other, and we may best define their relation by adapting a famous dictum of Kant: «Without believing theology all scientific theology is empty, and without scientific theology all believing theology is blind.»

Not exact matches

But the point is that IN THAT CONTEXT Calvinist theology was a much - needed pastoral and communal approach that helped people to break from the shackles of long - established systems of spiritual abuse by offering a different story to live by and a different kind of community to live in.

Jon Sobrino has written that as long as there is suffering, poverty, exclusion and premature death on an immense scale — which is ever more the case in Latin America — there will be need for a theology (whatever its name) that poses the kinds of questions posed by liberation theology.

Whenever pluralism in theology resists the need for argument, warrants, theory, evidence, praxis, it becomes a kind of Will Rogers pluralism: one where theologians have never met a position they didn't like.

«It says that Mary doesn't need to be saved,» Evangelical friends with doctorates in theology from elite universities have told me, which is, you know, and I do hate to say this, kind of dumb.

Special revelations — the only sort recognized by this kind of theology — have always needed to be checked by some more general frame of reference: the written Scriptures coolly and historically studied, the tradition and common experience of the church, and the still more general experiences and tested beliefs of mankind.

Only a sustained collaborative effort of this sort can hope to produce the kind of public and communicative theology needed now.

I do mourn the temptation abroad to attempt ad hoc theologies when only a sustained collaborative effort can hope to produce the kind of public and communicative Christian theology needed.

This is the kind of «theology» we need today.

I hope it has served as a fruitful illustration of process theology's quest, in its encounter with the sciences, for the kinds of values and vision we need if we are to wrestle with the problems that threaten us with extinction.

But if his thought is to offer any kind of basis for liberation theology, a more flexible interpretation will be needed in which the emergence of the state will take place in each society in its own tune.

If one accepts the kind of thinking that even the practice of theology must begin at the point of meeting the needs and anxieties of man, then perhaps it could well be said that Ralph Nader could function in the context of a pastor, given that same kind of concern.

Section II summaries the Whiteheadian theology of history as an example of the kind of overview that is needed to guide practice in many areas.

In this respect, natural science needs theology to help keep it open toward the kind of free and open universe that is its proper object.