Sentences with phrase «makes evangelical theology»

Having opined in public previously on the question of what makes evangelical theology evangelical, he reports a recent breakthrough in his own thinking: It's not so much a set of....

Not exact matches

Lindbeck's «experiential - expressivist» model does a reasonably good job of accounting for the romantic and mystical streams of liberal theology, but it does not account for variants of liberal theology that make gospel - centered claims (such as the tradition of evangelical» liberalism), that base their affirmations on metaphysical arguments (such as the Whiteheadian process school) or that appeal to gospel norms and metaphysical arguments (such as the Boston personalist school).

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

The problem, as in the previous chapters, is the lack of an adequate interpretive procedure for making the Bible truly authoritative within contemporary evangelical theology.

In the process, cultural insight is short - shrifted and evangelical theology consequently impoverished.19 But Calvin was correct, at least, in recognizing the need to make use of non-Christian sources.

This makes the proclamation of the gospel all the more necessary and urgent,» Francis said to evangelical leaders gathered at the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology (known as FATEB evangelical leaders gathered at the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology (known as FATEB Evangelical School of Theology (known as FATEB in French).

When «The Gift of Salvation» speaks of «needlessly divisive disputes» between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals, it does not refer to the many weighty theological matters on which we still conscientiously disagree, such as sacramental theology, Marian devotion, purgatory, etc. «The Gift of Salvation» takes note of these matters, referring to them as «serious and persistent differences» which are «necessarily interrelated» with the affirmations we have made in common, and are thus future agenda items for us.

Prayer can work miracles because God makes «himself dependent on the requests of his children» (Essentials of Evangelical Theology [Harper & Row, 1978, vol.

While my point of reference historically and theologically is the early church, most evangelicals make their historical and theological criterion in a much later time, say with the Reformation, with seventeenth - century orthodoxy, with Wesley, or with nineteenth - century Princetonian theology.

No evangelical theologian, however, has made his or her way among the titans — though, titans in theology have been hard to come by in any tradition recently.

It's one thing to discuss evangelical — Catholic relations on the level of theology; it's another to make it work in practice.