Sentences with phrase «leading academic theologians»

Braaten spent several years in the 1970s engaged in ecumenical discussions, sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School, that brought together leading academic theologians from across the spectrum of mainline Protestantism.

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Friedrich Delitzsch, the German Assyriologist gave an interesting series of lectures on the subject as far back as 1902 in front of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a select audience of German theologians and leading academics that caused a scandal at the time.

But advanced academic work does have a point to it; there are great riches in the Christian tradition, and it's often only the trained theologian who will see the dangers to which an argument might lead or remember the beautiful passage from one of Augustine's sermons that best illumines a point.

That obeisance to magisterial authority means that the theologian can not, to quote another academic cliché, claim a freedom «to follow conclusions wherever they lead.»