Sentences with phrase «many liberal theologians»

Schleiermacher was a liberal theologian because he thought modernity represents something fundamentally new and positive for humanity, something that stimulates Christian reform, enabling the true genius of our faith finally to achieve full expression.

Karl Barth recognized that liberal theologians provide theological justification for Kulturprotestantismus, an establishment mentality eager to adjust Christianity to suit bourgeois culture.

But nobody imagines him a liberal theologian.

Just another indication of your organizations bias against Christians.Unfortunately nothing new for CNN and nothing new for liberal theologians.

---------------- Once again, only by some liberal theologians.

[«While these claims have been made repeatedly over the last century, the truth of the matter is that skeptics and liberal theologians are unable to cite a single piece of solid archaeological evidence in support of their claims.

a million pastors say its wrong but leave CNN to find some liberal theologian, to line up the left behind their failing Messiah...

The Church of England should kick out all those liberal theologians.

The problem with many liberal theologians is that they are determined to worship man rather than God.

The trick to studying well is to steer clear of liberal theologians who care little for truth, and would rather render the text in as «politically correct» a manner as possible.

His is the story and angle typical of most liberal theologians over the past 150 years.

Two of the studies mentioned above are by David Gushee, a conservative moral theologian who teaches at the Baptist Mercer University; another is by Wendy Farley, a liberal theologian at Emory.

If the nineteenth century liberal theologians concentrated on immanence, the neo-orthodox theologians of twentieth century so stressed God's sovereign transcendence that any sense of His presence in the world was almost lost.

The Liberal theologian of England and America is described with commendation by Dean Inge in the closing chapter of his Types of Christian Saintliness: «His «authority» is the best available judgment of civilized humanity which is the Liberal's Great Church.

It was not without reason that 19th - century liberal theologians revolted en mass against the orthodox Anselmian doctrine of atonement that taught that the only ultimately compelling reason for Christ's coming was that he might suffer his substitutionary, sacrificial, expiating, even propitiating death.

Robert Baden - Powell, who was the son of the liberal theologian Baden Powell, explicitly developed Scouting to teach boys brotherhood under God.

in other words, CCNL's typical copy and paste from liberal theologians.

The condescending liberal theologian with whom I conversed in the early 1980s shared Harold Lindsell's empirical hypothesis.

Contemporary theology is indebted to this Christocentric emphasis as it has developed in the century and a half since Schleiermacher, Ritschl and other liberal theologians pressed further the position that the Christian knowledge of God is based upon the history of Jesus.

He was the basic source for the American personalist movement founded by Borden P. Bowne; and the frequency with which he was quoted in the writings of other liberal theologians would indicate that his influence was pervasive.

Neoevangelicals, though still avowedly fundamentalist in doctrine, wanted to remain in mainline denominations, and they wanted to pursue dialogue with neo-orthodox and liberal theologians on an academic level.

The dangers of conservative religious thought have frequently been noted by liberal theologians to include a kind of individualistic withdrawal from the social realities of the world.

As if the depression had not been difficult enough for the liberal theologian to process, the ascent of both Hitler and Mussolini heralded a new totalitarianism that shattered whatever self - confidence remained.

Here Third World women must package their stories in English, and in terms white liberal theologians will want to read.

In other words, do liberal theologians come to the table completely objectively?

Tanner's brand of postliberalism places her closer to the classic liberal theologian Albrecht Ritschl than the neo-orthodox Barth on the fundamental question of the rules for making Christian claims.

In his years of declining health, younger liberal theologians had grown up who were infected with a revolutionary, third - world «romanticism.»

If Bonhoeffer were merely formulating this concept of faith on the basis of premises derived from cultural - historical analysis, he would be indistinguishable from many liberal theologians.

Even liberal theologians are in the thrall of outdated thinking and just can't give up their illusions.

The Promise of Christian Humanism: Thomas Aquinas on Hope by Dominic F. Doyle Crossroad, 248 pages, $ 34.95 Dominic F. Doyle offers a creative defense of the Christian humanism of Gaudium et Spes, which seeks to blend two ideas that critics such as the liberal theologian Gordon Kaufman have not....

He is an extremely liberal theologian that does not even know what the Bible says.

It was characteristic of the older liberal theologians that they regarded mythology as relative and temporary.

Faith in the nurturing power of the Christian home was shared by both liberal theologians like Horace Bushnell and conservative evangelists like Dwight L. Moody.

Liberal theologians, evangelical revivalists, and Princeton conservatives were all fundamentally dualistic in their thinking about human nature.

Among Catholic politicians, Cuomo is the most prominent proponent of the position described as «Personally opposed, but...» With the help of liberal theologian Richard McBrien of Notre Dame, he attempted a definitive articulation of that argument in 1984.

So in a sense I wasn't trying to irritate nice, decent, liberal theologians like Chris and Josh.»

Prominent liberal theologians rejected the possibility of miracles, denied the virgin birth, and even challenged the deity and bodily resurrection of Jesus.

I don't know why you say «only if you are a liberal theologian» Theo.

On the other end, liberal theologians and some science writers advocate a separate - worlds model.

Go figure... ------------------ Only if you're a liberal theologian.

Recently conflicts have arisen as some liberal theologians have sought to abort the liberation theology effort (cf. «Protestant Liberalism Reaffirmed,» by Deane William Ferm, The Christian Century, April 28, 1976, p. 411).

The liberal theologian thus usually defines as religiously possible what is possible for the bourgeois human being and experience.

You make it sound like these liberal theologians do this intentionally.

Believers of different stripes have variously cast him as a socialist revolutionary (Terry Eagleton), a dreadlocked Rastafarian (Robert Beckford), a pacifist (Shane Claiborne), or a Rambo - figure ready for a scrap with any liberal theologian who crosses his path (Mark Driscoll).

Great liberal theologians just create lots and lots of words to hide that simplicity and then sneak in their own favorite morality.

What is not being reported is how Schonborn's real point was that a lot of the abuse problems stem from the late 60's when liberal theologians were suggesting all types of immoral behavior were acceptable.

If such talk of truth makes my neighbor, the rabbi, uncomfortable — and I can understand how it might — I can only point out that Jesus is my sole reason for defending the rabbi against the onslaughts of either fascist politicians or liberal theologians who will not embrace him until he becomes «rational» or «enlightened» in other words, something less than Jewish.

Not exact matches

As a young theologian, he was horrified when in 1914 his professors, liberal Protestants to the last, signed a declaration of support for the Kaiser and the coming war.

I do find it puzzling, however, to watch theologians, both conservative and liberal, come to the defense of the human, the rational, objectivity, the «text,» «moral values,» science, and all the other conceits the modern university cherishes in the name of «humanism.»

Liberal and old school Theologians as well as non believers find their way based upon the light they are given even though they may be miles apart on understanding what is the meaning of the Angel of Lord.