Sentences with phrase «of differences in theology»

I think we are not agreed on the subject of justice and rights among men because we have a significant shading of difference in our theology concerning man.6666

Not exact matches

They are mainly based on what I read in Christopher C. Roberts» excellent Creation & Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage.

Recently, I've come to understand to a greater degree how «a theology» can replace «a faith» and mask itself as the real thing.I'm not anti-theological, in fact, I'm very theological - the difference in my approach now is a realization that if one has some degree of traditional, but contemporary faith in God (as I do), then a theology is inevitable....

This difference of focus is part of the reason that justice has played a much smaller role in process theology.

When proper principles of interpretation are applied, and differences in theology exist, at least any differences can be talked about.

There are many differences between the various Christian bodies which emerged from the Reformation in the sixteenth century — differences in theology and differences in order — but the importance of the preaching office is one point in which they agree.

Despite their profound differences, Keen and Moltmann have one thing in common: their functionally oriented theologies ultimately turn play into a form of work.

He himself has been a sympathetic commentator on Milbank, but his early response to Theology and Social Theory in the June 1992 issue of New Blackfriars also gently but firmly indicated serious differences, largely in interrogative form.

For one of the most frequent emphases in contemporary theology, and consequently in a good deal of contemporary preaching, is that there is (what is styled) an absolute «difference in kind» between the sell - expression of God in and through any and every man, and that which was accomplished in Jesus Christ our Lord.

While the relation of God to the world is similar in both Thomistic theology and process theology in that it is a real relation in both, there is a fundamental difference between the two theologies in explaining the relation of the world to God.

As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.

A good example wd be to consider the differences and obvious growth of Christological understanding in the four gospels.Also, the difficulty is in trying to seperate the kerygma (the message) from the meaning (theology)... they're two sides of the same coin

Perhaps the greatest difference in this form of evangelical theology and that of Wesley is a matter of emphasis.

Wendy is the author of Practical Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Difference in Our Daily Lives, and she spent four years teaching theology to women at Mars Hill Church in Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Difference in Our Daily Lives, and she spent four years teaching theology to women at Mars Hill Church in theology to women at Mars Hill Church in Seattle.

In the first part I will lay out briefly the Trinitarian theology of Moltmann, Mühlen and Jüngel and then indicate my differences with them as to the strict consistency of their process understanding of the Trinity.

Yet differences there were, and these differences make the nature of the Kingdom the most disputed element in Christian theology.

Craig both seventh day and anglican are believers they are saved by faith in the death of Jesus Christ and they believe in the forgiveness of sins sactification and the resurection at Christs return.This is what i meant regarding theology one has to be careful otherwise you exclude groups of christians because some of there other theology may not be the same as ours.They still hold to the central truths of the bible but have differences ie like sabbaths or baptism but that does not mean they arent saved or are christians.What church denomination do you belong to if you mentioned jehovah witness or mormons that is a different story as they do nt believe that Jesus Christ is central to there faith they have relegated him to nothing more than a prophet so there is no salvation in those religions.brentnz

My own view is that it makes a great deal of difference which religious tradition a biblical theologian belongs to, so much so that I have argued in print that a common Jewish and Christian Old Testament theology is impossible.

Sociological theology has focused on questions of justice, but as it has recognized that the effects of human beings on their environment are having seriously deleterious consequences for humanity, it has extended its concern to questions of the sustainability of human society.23 Yet in practice the difference of the amount of attention given to these two issues of justice and sustainability still leads to opposing judgements on important issues.

I've listened as a whole group of twenty - somethings exchanged stories of awkward interventions and emotional meltdowns and dramatic lines - in - the - sand, all over differences of opinion regarding theology or politics or ecclesiology.

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

Liberal theology has always tended to obscure the nature of sin while Neo-orthodoxy has not made clear how redemption actually makes any difference in this life in this world.

Let's leave aside the differences in theology (that God was once a man, just like you and me; that there are millions of gods with their own planets throughout the universe; that faithful Mormons become gods with their own planets and multiple goddess wives procreating together to populate their planet with worshippers, etc.) Let's leave aside Mormons» myriad and obvious non-Christian beliefs.

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It's hard to maintain unity when differences in theology are met with accusations of heresy, and challenges to certain interpretations of the Bible are dismissed as challenges to its authority.

When «The Gift of Salvation» speaks of «needlessly divisive disputes» between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals, it does not refer to the many weighty theological matters on which we still conscientiously disagree, such as sacramental theology, Marian devotion, purgatory, etc. «The Gift of Salvation» takes note of these matters, referring to them as «serious and persistent differences» which are «necessarily interrelated» with the affirmations we have made in common, and are thus future agenda items for us.

In the study of theology proper the whole - church orientation of the schools may be less evident, yet differences are less of a denominational or national than of a party character.

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This much, however, should be noted: in spite of important technical differences, two common conceptualities are foundational in Kukai's world view and Whiteheadian process theology.

If this view is correct, then it seems that the only real difference between the various theologies is in the source of the ocean of good works.

One locates sex difference in the body and not the soul, giving rise to a dualist ascetical theology; the other locates sex difference in the soul - body composite precisely because of the deep, natural unity of body and soul.

Walter Kasper writes in The God of Jesus Christ that Karl Barth «turned the question of natural theology into a new, hitherto unrecognized subject of controversy par excellence» Barth did not differentiate between the Thomistic natural law theology and the modern theology of the enlightenment, and their difference is still not being fathomed by otherwise very respectable theologians.

Each of us, despite our differences in theology or morality, are not the enemy.

Viladesau does not shirk the important differences between various schools of Christian theology in understanding of the place and function of art and beauty in relation to God.

The patristic and medieval «metaphysics of participation» (in which God is seen as the Being whose essence is to exist, rather than as one being among others) undergirds a theology and politics of communion that, George argues, late - medieval theology abandoned the overall argument in The Difference God Makes is a strong one.

[9] When this is so, then, it is in search, not so much of answers, but rather of a better understanding and appreciation of «the truth that scientific study of the ancient tradition of the Church is indispensable to success in comprehending the roots of differences and in discerning the centre of Christian theology,» [10] that we ought to approach the texts produced by the early church.

However, this should not dissuade readers of other Christian traditions because the differences are, for the most part, negligible for the beginner in process theology.

In the face of threats to assimilate Christians, Dalits, and Adivasis into a homogeneous Hindu identity, as well as the violent attacks against these minorities, how can Christian theology tap into the energy that fuels the obstinate expression of their religious and ethnocultural difference?

His naive use of class differences to identify excellence («Ministers of the better class are not satisfied to accept the rural churches») and his explicit call for theological schools to train persons to minister specifically to the rich suggest that this interest in theology, which is otherwise so thoroughly underemployed in Harper's proposed reform of theological schooling, is vulnerable to ideological misuse as a «cover» that at once obscures and legitimates an underlying concern to secure the churches» social status.

I not only seek to answer the question and provide a definition of theology that makes sense, but also to show how theology matters and how it makes a difference in your life today.

Whether such instances are more or less frequent at any particular place or time makes no difference to the fact, which is taken so much as a matter of course, that traditional moral theology is scarcely really aware of the problem of principle which is in fact raised by it.

Because of the marked differences between them, and because what has come to be known as process theology is largely the result of their work, they are treated separately in the two following sections.

Philosophy and theology might make an important contribution to this fundamentally epistemological question by, for example, helping the empirical sciences to recognize a difference between... evolution as the origin of a succession in space and time, and creation as the ultimate origin of participated being in essential Being.»

Reading these essays and the give - and - take that occurs in them will enrich anyone seeking to better understand both the differences between process thought and the Open expression of evangelical theology and the potential for significant development in theological responses to the contemporary religious and intellectual context.

The awareness of differences results in concerns about process theology that are similar to some of the concerns expressed by evangelicals in Searching / or an Adequate God.

That quibble aside, however, there are no significant problems in Hasker's account of the basic differences between the two positions.6 But there are problems in his argument that the apparent advantage possessed by process theology is «largely an illusion.»

The identification of differences even in similarities that results from the dialogues in Searching for an Adequate God clarifies the foundational difference between process theology and Open theists.

Basically the same view underlies the ethos of many Episcopal theological schools, although with a good bit of ambiguity generated, perhaps, by the way differences in church polity and theology of ordination alter the clarity of the idea of being «in orders.»

The purpose of this conference is to test this apparent difference over method in process theology.

Just as we had not attended to the importance of the difference between the experience of oppressed and oppressor races; so we had not thought of the difference between male and female experience in relation to philosophy or theology.