Sentences with phrase «more than your theology»

The map is not the Atlantic Ocean any more than theology is God, but the map is necessary if we want to go anywhere.

F. Burton Nelson, Vice-President of the Bonhoeffer Society, is working on an oral history project about Bonhoeffer's acquaintances, and confirms the fact that Bonhoeffer's humanity, even more than his theology, has had the greatest lasting influence on his friends.

Not exact matches

While Tarantino and Theology does not expect Tarantino to provide any substantive theological answers, some of the essays suggest that Tarantino's films can do more than hint at the truth.

But more than any other composer, Bach uses complex music to articulate theology.

Praxiology theology is nothing more than atheistic and materialistic Marxism wearing the cloak of a saint and in South America it is known as «Liberation theology» (to this day, I know of no one liberated from any sort of oppression by it).

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

In general, members of the ILC see themselves as more traditional than the LWF in their understanding of Scriptural authority and confessional Lutheran theology.

While wanting to maintain the «high theology» of his Calvinism, Mouw insists that the great need is to nurture a «theology for everyday life,» and toward that end he suggests that respectful attention be paid the religiously unsophisticated who, in fact, may be a good deal more spiritually sophisticated than their academic and clerical betters.

East Eastern theology, while holding more strictly than western theology on basic dogmas, is tolerant of differences of opinions on finer points Eastern church membership is contingent on commitment and behavior Eastern Christians have no difficulty maintaining definite beliefs while remaining tolerant.

By education, I mean one can not learn physics or engineering from a blog any more than an entire theology.

«This is more than an embarrassment,» wrote Russell D. Moore, dean of the school of theology and senior vice president for academic administration at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

This is a prime example of the spiritualization of liberal theology, where «love» is more important than Christ.

I feel like the author spends more time doing theology based upon his feelings than he does based upon the Biblical text.

Tiger has further argued — as Humanae Vitae did not explicitly, though other works of Catholic theology have — for a causal link between contraception and abortion, stating outright that «with effective contraception controlled by women, there are still more abortions than ever....

That would seem to imply that theology for a person of faith is more speculative than dogmatic, certainly not the dogmatic absolutism that closes minds and often hearts that we see in so many who profess faith.

But this was so dominated by modes of theology so foreign to the Wesleyan tradition that in little more than a decade the Wesleyan Theological Society was founded to begin to articulate its own style of theology.

More than a mere difference in theology, this disagreement has dramatic implications for pluralism.

However dubious this theory may have been, I found myself confronting the ultimate issues of the nature of the world and the nature of man in a more naked form than I was likely to face them in theology.

The examples go on and on, but the principle is the same: when we see a need that we could meet, and we refuse to meet it, even on good theological grounds, we have lost sight of the heart of God, and have made theology more important than people.

A body theology must, in short, include, in a non-masochistic way, a theology of pain and suffering, a recognition that time and the healing powers of nature are not always efficacious; indeed, that in the final analysis, they are never more than temporarily successful.

For four years, until his departure for his present eminent position at Munster, Professor Barth remained at Göttingen, and during that time he saw his theology, set forth in further books and in lectures and addresses, sweep through the universities of Germany, and today there seem to be hardly more than two classes of religious thinkers in the country, Barthians and anti-Barthians.

One suspects that the lack was more in his sometimes febrile politics than in his theology.

Therefore, I felt that my philosophy and theology should not be permitted to separate, but that within their unity it should be possible to affirm the awe - inspiring otherness of God even more uncompromisingly than Barth had done, since he returned to reasoning by analogy.

Similarly, Public Health theology takes to heart Reinhold Niebuhr's warning that it takes more than moral man to transform immoral society.

So I think your blog might qualify... though again, it is more of a blog about parenting and marriage than about Scripture and theology, and Paul's is quite a bit like Hyatt's, in that it is about leadership and influence.

Like you I find biblical literalists far more dangerous than the feel good theology of Mr. Olstein.

In other words, Griffin's argument is that process theology presents a much more plausible explanation for natural evil than can classical theism.

In reality, most of those working in healing ministry are more concerned with winning people to Christ than the finer details of theology.

And if you think that «Calvinist theology is the opposite of Catholic theology», then you are completely ignorant of the numerous Catholic theologians who also taught strict election and predestination (including St. Augustine, whom Calvin quotes more than any other theologian).

Note to anyone wishing to persuade former adherents to literal or fundamentalist theology to «return to the fold» — you'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar — and if your aim is to catch «em rather than kill «em, you might want to avoid using a flyswatter.

Similarly, a black theology of liberation or a feminist theology of liberation may, like the university theology its proponents criticize, be little more than ideological expressions of autonomous political movements that owe no fundamental allegiance to the Christian vision.

It is not as if those who specialize in Scripture are more guilty than those of us who work in theology, ethics or liturgy.

According to Theodore Walker, Black theology's central challenge to process theology is that the God of the oppressed must be embraced as more inclusive than the God of all.

At first glance it might seem appealing to argue that the mystery of God outstrips our capacity to delineate it, that every theology in its own way must fall so short of the truth that no position can, however seriously maintained, be markedly any more or less true than any other.

This, I reckon, is what the crisis is about, more than intellectual reservations about academic theology, or indeed counterproposals at the same level.

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The model of Jesus, John the Baptist, and Paul has not yet enabled even biblically serious Evangelicals to shape a theology that would affirm celibacy as anything more than a regrettable alternative to more - or-less mandatory marriage.

I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo philosophy he never really studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

Which is why atheists are often more well versed in theology than your average person..

This book has been my companion for eight years of Advent now, for some reason I find more solace in poetry during times of longing than in any well - delivered sermon or point - by - point systematic theology argument.

, demons are probably more correct in their theology than most humans.

Boldest: Jason Boyett with «Flexibility, Heretics, and Love Wins» «Right now, Christian theology is broader and more diverse than most Christians are comfortable with.

For Christians, Jesus is and always will be more than a merely historical figure, but, as Fredriksen reminds us explicitly, he is also that, and readings that isolate him from his historical context are dangerous to truth» and hence to good theology.

With what David Hayward in the more recent post calls self - loathing Reformation theology, we really don't see ourselves better than anyone else.

My disagreements with the five points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly with their theology or understanding of Biblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etc, etc..

As such our theologies do little more than itemize our various ignorances and self - interests before the mystery of the universe.

Keep talking about how real love requires freedom while extending kindness and grace to those with whom we disagree... because living your theology is more important than arguing it.

But I spent more time teaching philosophy and humanities in the university than historical theology in the School of Ttheology in the School of TheologyTheology.

Richard L. Rubenstein has had a greater and more immediate impact upon the world of Christian theology than has been effected by any recent radical Christian theologian, and doubtless this is true because, in the words of Langdon Gilkey, he presents the sharpest and most devastating challenge to the traditional or Biblical conception of God.