Sentences with phrase «not dogmatic theology»

Not another dogmatic theology?!

Of course, we are both engaging in speculative interpretation / theology, not dogmatic theology; so neither of our opinions should pose a challenge to anyone's faith.

Not exact matches

That is why contemplative theology is transformative and dogmatic theology is not.

Dogmatic theology can not explain them — as Moloney wrongly requires — without relating (not adapting!)

In my review, I argued that the needs of apologetics ought not drive the development of dogmatic theology.

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.

In fact, dogmatic theology can make us more resistent to Grace, «knowledge, when it is not transformed by love, «puffs up», feeds instead of challenging the narcissistic ego.

Hmmm, I believe the Catholic Church may not be the only Christian tradition where there is confusion between dogmatic theology, moral theology and pastoral theology.

Dogmatic theology is dogmatic precisely insofar as it's not dialectical, or not in response to the pressing or fashionable questions of Dogmatic theology is dogmatic precisely insofar as it's not dialectical, or not in response to the pressing or fashionable questions of dogmatic precisely insofar as it's not dialectical, or not in response to the pressing or fashionable questions of the day.

It is not a decision for everyone, but one that is perfect for her, as she prepares for her new life teaching dogmatic theology.

The document is not a dissertation in dogmatic or moral theology on marriage and the family, although it reflects the thought of the Church on the subject.

For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question of defined dogmas as other doctrines of the Church in dogmatic and moral theology which are taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines of faith or as irreformable dogma.

Of course, there are new questions in dogmatic and moral theology, which have been discussed more openly at and after the Council and which have not yet been solved, among them questions of great importance also for the practical life.

He published the original version of The Identity of Jesus Christ: The Hermeneutical Bases of Dogmatic Theology in a Presbyterian adult education magazine called Crossroads in 1967, but it did not appear in book form until 1975 (Fortress), the year after he published The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth - and Nineteenth - Century Hermeneutics (Yale University Press, 1974).

Mozart's music does not merely inform Barth's theology; Mozart, says von Balthasar, shapes the style of the Church Dogmatics overall.

Thus, for example, the quasi-homiletical rhetoric of Barth's Church Dogmatics is not «mere style» but a sign of the inseparability of theology from witness and proclamation.

Dogmatics are for the sake of Scripture study, not vice versa, and so with all technical branches of theology.

I suppose I should admit what I haven't read: Calvin's Institutes, Barth's Dogmatics, Tillich's Systematic Theology.

That being said, the renewal of interest ought not to be overstated: much doctrinal theology in English remains preoccupied with keeping up a conversation with other fields of inquiry (often literary and cultural theory) and is so eager to do so that it often neglects the descriptive or dogmatic tasks of systematics.

It calls its conclusions dogmatic theology, or philosophy of the absolute, as the case may be; it does not call them science of religions.

To take an illustration which is particularly apt, as it does not involve any of the central problems of dogmatic theology, in Matt.

• Reviewing a batch of evangelical books on dogmatic theology (May), Carl Braaten, a Lutheran, didn't like at all Wayne Grudem's Systematic Ttheology (May), Carl Braaten, a Lutheran, didn't like at all Wayne Grudem's Systematic TheologyTheology.

Theology / dogmatic belief is faith seeking understanding, it is not faith.

While insisting that he was not tempted by biblical literalism, Karl Barth began his dogmatics by describing the liberal tradition of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Adolf von Harnack as «the plain destruction of Protestant theology and the Protestant church.»

It maintains that New Testament exegesis is important for dogmatic theology, and does not shirk from the tensions created by such exegesis for the proclaimed faith of the church.

Third, Brueggemann rejects a systematic (or dogmatic) approach to Old Testament theology, not only because of the obvious pluralism of the texts within the canon and the cultures that interpret the Bible, but also because this approach tends to fall in line with the church's views of scripture.

So far as any published «systematic theology» is concerned, a self - conscious effort to frame religious truth for the Pentecostal tradition within its own time and space something even remotely comparable to Donald Gelpi's work for Roman Catholic charismatics, not to mention Karl Barth's magisterial Church Dogmatics for the Reformed tradition - there simply is no such Pentecostal theology.

We should beware that our interpretation of either the universe (science) or the Bible (theology) doesn't become so inflexibly dogmatic that it flies in the face of truth.

To Steve and Brigitte and anyone else interested in the truly brilliant insights of Luther's pastoral (not dogmatic) theology, I also recommend this excellent article: