Sentences with phrase «modern theology»

This subject has been the occasion for fierce dispute in modern theology.

The hopes of modernity, including modern theology, are noble ones.

I often think that much of own modern theology is often developed as a result of our cultural context as well.

This approach is attractive because it expresses a theological ambition that is often sadly lacking in modern theology.

The bewildering proliferation of theologies in the last quarter of the 20th century contrasts sharply with the blends of liberal, existential and neo-orthodox theologies outlined by H. R. Mackintosh in his Types of Modern Theology in the second quarter of this century.

The «confessionalist» bias of much modern theology ill equips us for this ecumenically open, apologetic task.

Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week addresses various issues significant for modern theology and the world today.

Our theological perspective stands in a close relation to the movement of modern theology which was initiated by Karl Barth and Emil Brunner, and which has had a broad influence upon all contemporary theological thought.

The question around which the crisis in most modern theology revolves can be summed up as that of immanence and transcendence, the historical and the timeless, the relative and the absolute.

Thus modern theology tends to be a prolegomena to theology, rather than theology itself — i.e., the concern with the proper ordering of the primary symbols of religious language.

He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in an historical garb.6

Other forms will prove more clearly postmodern, such as Gustavo Guttierez's powerful reflections on contemporary theology's need to face the reality of the «nonperson» of the oppressed in the massive global suffering surrounding us, as distinct from modern theology's more typical concern with the «nonbeliever»; and the many alternative forms of postmodern theologies in feminist, womanist, African - American and global liberationist struggles and theologies.

The book indicates how Rahner makes a significant and helpful contribution to modern theology concerning the relationship between the sacramental and eschatological dimensions of the Church.

Kant's distinction between practical and pure reason and the priority he ascribed to the former has deeply influenced modern theology.

Nor can the wish to replace orthodoxy with a more modern theology be a compelling motivation, simply because the hold of orthodoxy upon Western civilization has been so clearly broken that only a Don Quixote would choose to tilt in such a tournament.

If Kierkegaard founded modern theology, one is also tempted to say that Kierkegaard is the only truly modern theologian.

Yet it is precisely because Tillich's method is not fully dialectical that it reaches neither eschatological faith nor contemporary Existenz, despite the fact that this is the apparent goal of Tillich's method, and surely the real goal of all genuinely modern theology

Much academic work in modern theology seems less the study of God or of the Christian message about God, and more the study of the creativity of great theologians.

Recently Western modern theologies heavily dependent upon modern philosophical (epistemological or other) concepts for theological interpretations; and this trend, too, neglected the religio - cultural and intellectual life of Asian peoples for theology, while claiming universality of Western theologies.

There is a dearth of orthodox modern theology that contains a similar metaphysical principle of evolution.

We can also understand modern political conservatism as having arisen to assault and reverse the apocalypticism ushered in by the French and Russian revolutions, and if modern theology in virtually all of its expressions is deeply anti-apocalyptic, this, too, could be understood as a uniquely modern conservatism.

Despite much good modern theology, I fear these doctrines are not getting across as they should - neither to the secular world, nor to other Monotheists.

Modern theology sees the Holy Trinity as Archetype not only for the individual, but for the Church, the Family, the Religious Community.

His book The Word as Truth Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology is to be published this year (1997) by Westminster John Knox.

This highly critical modern theology is apparently reactionary.

In obedience to this principle, derived from historical investigation, modern theology set itself the task of reinterpreting the Christian faith in the light of modern knowledge.

To confess our sin, after all, is a theological and moral accomplishment., Perhaps nowhere is the contrast between the account of the Christian life I am trying to develop and most modern theology clearer than on this issue.

Torrance believed that modern theology remained trapped within dualist habits of thought that have plagued the mind of the Church since ancient times, damaging and disrupting its apprehension of the reality of our union with Christ.

The old pietism and the social - ethical Jesus of modern theology folded together.

While there I studied modern theology at the Universite de Strasbourg, for the Diplome III.

For nearly as long as modern theology has existed, efforts have been made to locate a third way between conservatism and liberalism.

I have three questions concerning this work by Schubert Ogden; they relate both to Ogden's interpretation and defense of Bultmann's method as an alternative for modern theology, and to Ogden's own constructive effort.

Unlike much modern theology neither offers a theodicy — a justification for how a good God can allow evil.

Thus modern theology has devoted a major part of its work to the proof of the thesis that in Christianity mankind is given the best guarantee of the highest and purest life.

In sum, there is a dark underside to modern thought, including modern theology.

That is, she rejects the picture of human affection that Marian Evans believed typical of the evangelicalism she had embraced as an adolescent and from which she felt she had been rescued by modern theology and philosophy, especially the work of David Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach (both of whom she had translated into English).

The history of modern theology that they taught was basically the history of German nineteenth - and twentieth - century theology.

As a matter of fact, Barth and Brunner likewise have come closer to each other, as David Cairns points out in The Image of God in Modern Theology.

As John Milbank observes, «the pathos of modern theology is its false humility.»

For Gilkey, the «neo» of his orthodoxy is precisely where he remained most liberal» not just his penchant for talking about biblical symbols and myths but also his conviction that the problem of historical consciousness is the context for all modern theology.

Our tendency in modern theology to subsume all the new questions of theology under a framework that may be described as «Christocentric Universalism» is perhaps not the most helpful paradigm.

Furthermore, Taubes believes that all modern theologies which mediate between faith and Existenz involve»... the divine in the human dialectic to the point that the divine pole of the correlation loses all supernatural point of reference.»

Modern theology, as we shall understand it, was founded by Sören Kierkegaard; and founded not simply in response to the collapse of Christendom, but more deeply in response to the advent of a reality that was wholly divorced from the world of faith, or, as Kierkegaard saw, a reality that was created by the negation of faith.

For more recent theological debate, H. R. Mackintosh's Types of Modern Theology (Nisbet, 1937), and J. M. Creed, The Divinity of Jesus Christ (Cambridge University Press, 1938), both reprinted by Collins / Fontana, are useful, and also John Macquarrie's Twentieth Century Religious Thought (SCM Press, 1963).

Much that modern theology has hawked as «new» and «renewing» has led to....