Sentences with phrase «number of theologians»

For today's empirical theologian the relevant debate might seem to be with the growing majority of current philosophers and the rising number of theologians who have lost foundations.

A growing number of theologians and pastors are indifferent to any such arguments and reject all belief in life beyond the grave.

And in many other ways the theological tradition has kept its distance from the idea of a kenotic God, even though to an increasing number of theologians today it has always been essential to Christian revelation.

«But in the past several years, a new current has arisen in conservative evangelical thought: A small but significant number of theologians, psychologists, and other conservative Christians are beginning to develop moral arguments that it's possible to affirm same - sex relationships not in spite of orthodox theology, but within it.

However, as an increasing number of theologians sympathetic to this perspective are now insisting, a socio - economic concern can not plausibly be separated from a cosmic concern.

Consequently, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith took up this concern of the pope and set a good number of its theologians and other collaborators to work on the problem of the relation between explicit and implicit faith.

If a significant number of theologians, bishops, and priests operate with a concept of conscience (and perhaps seemingly with the Pope's blessing) that reduces objective absolute moral norms to optional guidelines, that concept will free Catholics individually to determine what is right and wrong not just about divorce and remarriage, but about many other issues.

Growing numbers of theologians are consciously adopting the thesis of radical human creativity to the extent that the difference between religious humanism and such theists as Tillich, Bonhoeffer, Novak and Duméry is not as great as we may think.

Focusing on language and discourse, while not providing an escape from the hermeneutic circle or a pathway back to positivism, has at least paid high dividends in fields such as linguistics and artificial intelligence, and this focus seems to be capturing the interest of an increasing number of theologians and sociologists of religion as well.

The Cardinal has never argued against the indissolubility of a valid, sacramental marriage or doubted it, but a number of theologians believe that his proposal would ultimately lead to floating ideas such as Frenzel's.

Seeing the sacred as right here, as well as more than right here, a movement from supernatural theism to what a number of theologians, including myself in my book on God, call panentheism.

«A large number of the theologians, and some very influential European prelates did know that the old mould would not do, but they had no alternative mould to offer, except what is technically called «Modernism» or rationalism in theology.

This process is being attempted today by a number of theologians, but more promise may be found in a re-examination of the New Testament pneumatology.

Although the Pope may have abandoned his criticism of Balthasar, a number of theologians remain opposed.

Finally, while I have refrained from discussing the Orthodox contribution to all of this, it has become clear to me that the theologically robust understanding of the Spirit's presence in the Divine Liturgy has been a constant stream that a number of theologians from Pentecostal, Anglican, and other traditions have drawn from in order to engage in a theological analysis of worship.

In the 1960s a number of theologians proclaimed that God is dead.

A number of theologians of late, myself included, have been arguing that Barth inaugurates a theological movement that has some affinities with the intellectual currents running through postmodernity.

To absolutize reality in these terms is, as a number of theologians have suggested, the heresy of modern times.

Such women, a number of them theologians, are struggling to reinterpret the Christian faith and construct a new theology which will express and affirm the experience of both women and men.