Sentences with phrase «of as theologians»

Those who do think of themselves as theologians, on the other hand, do not concern themselves primarily with discussing religion.

He's usually a lot more nuanced about things... so please don't interpret this as a critique of him as a theologian or pastor, just a discussion around this particular idea that doubt is the result of a guilty conscience.

This sort of comment reflects a tendency to revise the understanding of praxis: one's expectations of oneself as a theologian and of the actual possibilities of a transformative praxis as a whole are perhaps more humble and limited than they would have been 30 years ago.

The psychologist who studies religious experience, perhaps quite unsympathetically, does not think of himself as a theologian.

Not exact matches

I doubt that in a local church in your area this Sunday you'll hear a pastor or a theologian share on the beauty of dancing as a spiritual offering of love to God.

And some of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea of equality were enough to settle every question concerning the long - term destiny of mankind and as though the writings of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans of Stonewall.

Karl Barth was a creative, innovative theologian, so much so that Calvinists of strict observance question his orthodoxy, and a Thomist - inspired Matthew Rose reads Barth as beholden to modern assumptions («Karl Barth's Failure,» June 2014).

In these pages, papal biographer and theologian George Weigel rejects the notion that any thinking about just war ought to begin with a «presumption against the use of force,» as it seems Pope Francis has done.

«I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.»

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.

To me, the conversation revealed metropolitan John as a man of the Church, who made a sincere effort to listen and to attend to the concerns shared by theologians.

Ross offers a defense of evangelical liturgical practices (perhaps better described as «norms,» actually) by putting Catholic scholar Aidan Kavanagh into conversation with Anglican theologian John Webster.

Of course the theologian knows he was a Jew but do you really think with all that is going on in this world Jesus gives a hoot what Chritiains eat as long as we find a way to feed each other.

As one participant put the matter: «The theologians want the Council more than most of the bishops.»

As i lay dying i will certainly want someone like you to listen to me instead of most of the theologians i have known, especially a professor the likes of which you described.

After all, as Matthew Schmitz of First Things asked, «Can only theologians get married?»

Some scholars believe that Luther found his distinctive answer to this question very early and that his development as a theologian was mostly a matter of bringing his discovery to dear enough expression that it finally provoked its inevitable conflict.

Early this month, an American theologian resigned under pressure from his post as theological advisor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Nonetheless, the categories of Michalson's analysis are metaphysical not soteriological, and this obscures the full nature of Kant's great appeal to modern theologians, as well as his baleful influence.

East Eastern Christians see a dichotomy of God and creation Eastern theologians are largely unaffected by modernism Eastern theologians do not agonize over the existence of God Eastern theologians systematize the transcendent, the miraculous, and the mystical into their theology, without a concept of «supernatural» Eastern theologians have coherent and helpful answers for most practical spiritual problems (such as during bereavement) Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and bereavement counseling; thus they do not outsource religious problems to secular experts.

As the great theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper once observed, «In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, «That is mine!»»

In this light it can be seen that the formulaic «testimonies» of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity, while they may appear to some communally minded theologians as a manifestation of individualism, are in fact almost the only remaining cultural form of the kind of storytelling Benjamin praises.

The theological obtuseness of the Roman court theologians (Cajetan partly excepted), the inability or unwillingness of the Roman authorities to appropriate their own best ecclesiological traditions, and the unlovely influence of financial politics on the handling of the doctrinal issues all played a considerable role, as did Luther's impatience and anger, his inability to take stupid and inappropriate papal teaching at all calmly (perhaps because his own early view of the papal office was unrealistically high), as well as his tendency to dramatize his own situation in apocalyptic terms.

As a student of the Christian realist theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Obama is a far more pragmatic politician than his predecessor.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

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.

McBrien and others whom he recognizes as belonging to the sacred college of academic theologians.

To me, a theologian, what is interesting is that, though people think of the more anarchical forms of Protestantism as being founded on experience, here at the heart of Catholicism, impelling people to believe that their faith is anchored in Truth, is an experience — the experience of active and personal grace.

I love how some take the words of one supposed «theologian» to another and then tells everyone not to listen to their pastor who has probably had as much experience (if not more) with biblical interpretation than this author.

As theologian and bioethicist William F. May has often noted, we are preoccupied with death and the destructive powers of our world.

Analytic Thomism will need to grapple with Trapani's representation of Maritain, as will admirers of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the theologian who, rebelling against one kind of Thomism, developed an aesthetics that rivals Maritain's in scope and importance.

German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer acknowledged this reality in Life Together: Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.

Evangelical reform, as Protestant evangelical theologian Timothy George has wisely cautioned, does not come by removing» or ignoring» the landmarks that serve all Christians of all subsequent times and places.

This really matters because, as the theologian George Eldon Ladd said, the Church is the primary agency of the kingdom of God.

To this depiction of the connection between sexual differentiation and child - bearing as normative, it is, as Anglican theologian Oliver O'Donovan has argued, possible to respond in different ways.

The Jewish theologian Michael Wyschogrod has observed that, uniquely among the peoples of the world, the Jews are the People of God as a nationality, whereas Christians must be dual citizens of the People of God and their nationality of birth.

In Tax for the Common Good, theologians and other authors look at what lessons the Bible may hold about matters such as the purpose of tax, how governments should apply it, how companies and individuals should pay it and what they should expect of governments in return.

The importance of Hamann's thought, as David Bentley Hart has noted, «would be difficult to exaggerate not only [because of] the immensity of his influence upon all the great European intellectual and cultural movements of his age, but [also for] his continued significance for philosophers and theologians.»

It includes non-Catholic Christians as well, such as Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project; Prof. Owen Gingerich of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; and the Rev. John Polkinghorne, formerly a professor of particle physics at Cambridge University, and now an Anglican theologian.

Gadamer was telling us about the ever - present communication of Being» and he was doing it as a philosopher, for he was neither a theologian nor even a Christian.

However, as I also said in the review, His Eminence states that he was provoked into writing the book because theologians who talked about divine attributes tended to treat mercy as a marginal attribute of God, because traditionally it was thought that mercy did not pertain to God's essence.

Alison Milbank's Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real is a remarkable accomplishment, chiefly because it forestalls any easy dismissal of Chesterton and Tolkien as troglodytes.

Amy Mandelker has drawn attention to the term «reverse perspective» as used by Russian Orthodox theologians to describe the unusual dimensions of icon paintings, with the gaze of the viewer drawn to the level of earthly events and yet given a peculiar perspective, as from a heavenly seat, so that people and objects do not have their expected everyday appearance.

Hermeneutics is, as theologian Fred Lawrence has put it, «a being - present - to - the - world constituted by meaning»» provided one stresses that Gadamer considered this to be «more than a mere manifestation of meaning.»

As a theologian, I would say that the morality of enjoying horror should be considered in the context of the morality of enjoying anything.

If a person thinks that nature is wholly corrupt, that there is no natural morality knowable by human reason, that grace completely supplants nature, that the basis of morality is the divine command and not the essences of things as created by God — and some Protestant theologians can plausibly be read as having said such things — then all bets are off.

As such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppresseAs such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppresseas fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppressed.

It does this by defining the mandate as a relationship between the local bishop and the individual Catholic theologian; it addresses the Catholic theology at the heart of the Catholic university without setting up a formal relationship with the university itself.

He does not discuss a single major Protestant or Catholic theologian who has systematically discussed this issue of faith and history — not Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Hans Conzelmann, Gerhard Ebeling, Hans Frei, Friedrich Gogarten, Hans Küng, Schubert Ogden, Karl Rahner, James M. Robinson or Paul Tillich (who, incidentally, is dismissed in a footnote as «too mystical for most Christians, including most Christian intellectuals»).