Sentences with phrase «liberal theology»

The biggest problem I see with liberal theology in general is determining where to stop.

We leave to one side, for this review, extended reflections on the relationship of apocalyptic thinking to modern liberal theology generally, but it is an issue worthy of some attention.

On the other hand, it has been shown that clergy of more liberal theology are apt to have exceedingly high rates of referral of all types of problems.

The emphasis on experience has been a characteristic of much liberal theology to this day.

This shift derives in part from a recovery of 19th - century liberal theology's emphasis on experience as important theological data — an emphasis now embraced by various forms of liberation theology.

Liberal theology made its contribution to theology through its affirmation of process as the most fundamental category of being.

And then later the impact liberal theology had on his father's life and this has deeply impacted his desire to fight for the faith once delivered for tomorrow's generation.

That it arises for us is often taken as a reason for rejecting liberal theology.

Though liberal theology and the social gospel contained many valuable elements necessary for their age, they also played into the hands of the age by their emphasis.

Our Father in heaven was pronounced dead by Time Magazine in 1966, in what we may be tempted to dismiss as an odd (and very Sixties) episode in liberal theology.

But as they emerge as leaders of our society, they can find in the now somewhat despised and ignored liberal theology important resources for relating the legitimate concerns of Christian faith to the pressing problems of our time.

Nor will the older liberal theology help us.

US mega-church pastor Rick Warren took to Twitter in early 2013 to launch an outspoken attack on liberal theology.

As evangelical Christians emerge as leaders of our society, they can find in the despised and ignored liberal theology important resources for relating the legitimate concerns of Christian faith to the pressing problems of our time.

CHALLENGING EVANGELICALS If Gerald McDermott is right, Martin Luther is the person ultimately responsible for liberal theology («Evangelicals Divided,» April).

If this kind of hope can be construed as both appropriate to the Christian tradition (especially the biblical traditions about Jesus) and relevant to our cultural situation, then it would seem that the resources of contemporary liberal theology should command more attention than they are presently accorded.

Dr John Hayward, a mathematics lecturer at the University of Glamorgan who researches church growth trends, agrees with Warren's point that, in general, liberal theology tends not to produce church growth.

It is a clarion call to reassert the claims of liberal theology within the range of insights now available to us, and in response to new demands and responsibilities which now make their claim upon us.

They believed that social and political activities were typical for a church dominated by liberal theology, so they thought purifying the gospel meant to stay away from public life.

But there has been a Catholic liberal theology as well, which came to be called «modernism.»

This presumption of harmony between Christianity and modernity defines liberal theology.

To be a liberal in politics means participating in the spiritual dynamic that characterizes liberal theology.

Thus liberal theology in Germany played a role in opening the door of the church to Nazi ideology.

No doubt some Christians will wonder if Tony's more liberal theology played a role in his child's loss of faith — but given that many more conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists have children who don't believe, I'm not sure this is fair or helpful.

«As a colleague noted, «When you are dealing with persecution and martyrdom, liberal theology simply doesn't find its place at this table.

Much of liberal theology through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries appealed to some such common element in all the religions as a basis for mutual understanding among them as well as for norms to determine which is the best.

Just as many liberal theologies don't care to offend us or others by their choices.

His point was that academia tends to be the place where liberal theology reigns.

To her, the boundaries of Lindbeck's theory of religion provide no protection from the issues liberal theology has engaged.

Classical liberal theology believed it spoke the truth and that all enlightened Christians should eventually speak the gospel in the same language, the sooner the better.

This particular solution has profoundly affected the course of liberal theology right down to our own times, though there has been a great deal of change and a weakening of its influence.

When the Church quite praying, at the time that it was infiltrated at the highest levels by Luciferians, when liberal theology and moral relativism kicked in, God was separated from government.

Does God's Kingdom really grow in depth and fulfillment through the long sweep of the ages, or is that merely an outworn liberal notion which has brought liberal theology to its present extremity?

On the issue of church growth, I quite agree that numbers are not the ultimate measure of a church's success; however, insofar as liberal theology often sells its vision as a necessary means to keeping churches relevant and vibrant, demographic decline does tend to undercut a certain kind of liberal claim.

By the way, I have a B.A. in Philosophy / Theology from Point Loma Nazarene University (a school known for having some very liberal theology professors (not a fundamentalist Christian school).

Pretty liberal theology, eh?

Liberal theology gave an account of Christianity as one phenomenon alongside others, explaining its particular value and importance.

Modern liberal theology foundered on this question.

George Rupp, Culture Protestantisin: German Liberal Theology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press, 1977), 30.