Sentences with phrase «leading theologians»
The phrase "leading theologians" refers to highly respected and influential scholars who specialize in the study of religion, God, and spirituality. These individuals are considered experts in their field and are often regarded as authorities on religious beliefs and practices. Full definition
I shall now endeavor to defend this understanding of revelation by showing that it is implicit in the teaching of three leading theologians of our time, even when it is not acknowledged by them.
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Blacks in the United States have joined leading theologians in Latin America to bring this basic point vividly to the consciousness of the global church.
Far more leading theologians have allied themselves with analytic, postliberal, and deconstructive movements in contemporary thought than with process philosophy.
From that unassailable platform, in the name of steering the Church to a place where its teaching would be «relevant,» Curran was able to lead theologians across the United States in their definitive Statement of Dissent from Paul Vl's encyclical Humanae Vitae in the following summer of 1968.
In my Hack the Theologian series, I ask leading theologians about themselves, their books, and their ideas.
But it was in Alexandria that, according to Alfred North Whitehead, the struggle with the central Christian mysteries of Trinity and incarnation led the theologians to the one great metaphysical advance since Plato — the doctrine of the immanence of one entity in another.
One last thing: Isn't it funny that leading theologians rush to affirm the proposition that Muslims and Christians worship the same God, even though Islam constitutes the most strenuous attempt imaginable to subvert the divinity of Jesus, while many theologians refuse to admit that Mormons and Christians worship the same Christ?
In 1966 the Roman Catholic publisher, Herder & Herder, Inc., brought out two books as its contribution to the Marxist - Christian dialogue.10 During their publication a dialogue took place at the Harvard Divinity School in which the two authors and several leading theologians and philosophers from the United States participated.
Hence, too, the attention paid by leading theologians to particular ethical issues — economic, sexual, medical and biomedical, nuclear — as well as the higher visibility of theologically informed ethicists.
Vice President, Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT), Comprising leading theologians from Africa, Asia, Latin America and among Minorities in the USA.
Many of Christianity's leading theologians in America have wrestled silently and come to no confident conclusion, or have been forced in honesty, not to deny life after death, but to admit frankly that they can not be convinced of it.
One of the leading theologians of the last half century helps us understand his roots and influences.
One of the Messianic movement's leading theologians, he has just completed a manuscript titled Foundations of Messianic Judaism: A Biblical Survey.
I am convinced that one reason Greg Boyd is a leading theologian is that his view of Scripture forces him to wrestle night and day with the troublesome texts.
Some years ago I heard the lead theologian of a denomination describe doctrinal statements as those statements which define the «doctrinal distinctiveness» of the particular denomination.
And America's leading theologian, Marc Guerra, will be speaking at Berry College on Thursday at 5 in Evans Auditorium.
It could be they were seduced by the schmoozing charm of America's leading theologian.
Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew by Eugene Borowitz Jewish Publication Society, 319 pages, $ 24.95 Eugene Borowitz, the leading theologian associated with the Reform movement of American Judaism, has written an important and ambitious book.
While it may come as a surprise to many, this difference in emphasis actually has the effect of leading our economists and businessmen to preach a message for the world's poor that is charged with greater hope than what is typically taught by many of our leading theologians and preachers.
In those days the leading theologians were saying that the next Pope after Paul VI would change everything.
It was precisely in service to this notion of legitimate pluralism that led some theologians to champion the axiom diversi sed non adversi (different but not opposed), a maxim indicating that there can be diverse approaches to theological issues without thereby sanctioning adversarial paths.
Here we have the irreconcilable conflicts between the leading theologians of our time.
Marc Guerra, America's leading theologian, reminds me that I haven't posted on the wonderful conference (the first in our University of Chicago Science of Virtues / Stuck with Virtue....
And of course you can meet Ralph Hancock, America's leading theologian,....
So Marc Guerra (America's leading theologian) and I are finalists for a big SCIENCE OF VIRTUE grant at the University of Chicago.
A leading theologian told me that this book was one of the most influential books they had read about how to understand the Old Testament.
The leading theologians of the baroque period follow suit.
Although it did not pretend to give an answer to that question, it did shed much light on a discussion that was being carried on by some of America's leading theologians.
A sign of this grace for me is the fact that a leading theologian like Avery Dulles began saying several decades ago that «the Church is communication.»
What are these ideas that lead some theologians to question the very possibility of revelation?
It has led some theologians to put forward the position that Jesus, as Son incarnate, is somehow subordinate to his Father in heaven.
I hesitate to disagree with one of the world's leading theologians, but I just can not make sense of such a solution (even though my wife agrees with him!).
The complete absence of method, combined with the new chic of spontaneity and reverie, has led the theologian to secede from all forms of common life, including, ironically, the vanguard of illuminati whom he claims to represent.
Kelsey, himself a liberal in theological orientation, chronicles how seven leading theologians have used the Bible in their theology.
I believe Van Engen is the leading theologian of mission in the world today (though he mocked me for saying that... I still believe it).
Comedian turned Hollywood actor Russell Brand has gone head to head with leading theologian and Oxford University professor Alister McGrath.