Sentences with phrase «of doing theology»

They remind us that liberation theology has never been a new theology but rather a new way of doing theology — from the perspective of the poor and their struggle for justice and liberation.

I have attempted to illustrate and defend an evangelical and catholic method of doing theology.

Many people felt interpreted by this new manner of doing theology.

Some of our feminist writers and theologians who are committed to develop ecological theology are beginning to articulate this new vision of doing theology.

I think this is one of the best ways of doing theology, and all my favorite theology books follow this pattern.

In the question - answer session that followed the lecture, Pannenberg called on Christian theologians to follow the lead of the early church fathers and offer a more creative approach to the task of doing theology in the face of the world's injustices than that found in Marxist - oriented liberation theologies.

Wesley's mode of doing theology differed from theirs, but it was no less theological or rigorous.

In other traditions the practice of doing theology authoritatively is institutionalized in the powers of constitutionally legitimated representative denominational assemblies elected to govern the church.

It will be useful at the outset to distinguish two matters that the very title of this response tends confusingly to run together, viz., (1) «Hermeneutics,» in particular hermeneutics as shaped by commitments to the conceptuality and doctrines of process philosophy, and (2) the use of Scripture - as - interpreted in the course of doing theology.

Maybe you don't need to include the purpose of theology within the definition of theology, but it seems that by leaving the purpose out of the definitions, the process of doing theology becomes more important than actually accomplishing what theology is supposed to do.

The urgency of doing theology in the context of the cry «Who will deliver us from this body of death?»

For, in a sense, the question of the possibility of doing theology today coincides with the question of the very plausibility of revelation.

Three emergent theological movements — black theology, feminist theology, and liberation theology from the Third World — challenge traditional ways of doing theology on the grounds that Christian consciousness as it has been» given shape in the modern world is burdened with Western, liberal, male and white perceptions of reality.

To be sure, this insight has not in itself been theologically productive, but it has prevented me from taking the currently fashionable route of doing theology by baptizing the empty slogans of this or that version of Marxism with Christian terminology.

The lesson offered is for evangelical theologians and pastors to be more deeply self - critical about the frames of classic liberalism which still often direct how the task of doing theology and preaching is viewed and undertaken.

If this is true, it follows that the most conservative method of doing theology is to go back into history to a time when the tradition of faith carries the least amount of cultural baggage.

There are many ways of doing theology, and not all of them are strictly syllogistic; St. Ephrem the Syrian and St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctors of the Church, were not logicians.

Thompson contests the dominant modes of doing theology and studying Scripture with a rare generosity that transforms «the struggle» into a meditative style.

Readers inspired by the Incarnation - centred theological vision of the Faith movement will notice that this «rosary way» of doing theology means we begin ourtheological reflection with the moment of the Incarnation: the Annunciation.

By following this method, Bristow has produced a study which is both commendable in its manner of doing theology and perceptive in its evaluation of contemporary ethical stances.

Such a way of doing theology must, of course, avoid the suggestion that sacred sorrow is at the center of faith, that self - flagellation by whatever sophisticated technique is to be encouraged.

My problem with the category of «story» is that it invites uncritical acceptance from many who see it as a new way of doing theology.

We will not be silenced by the criticisms of the theological elite, for we are convinced that we have found a different and vital way of doing theology.

If our theologians failed, to see this in the past, there is all the more reason for our waking up to this reality today and for applying ourselves seriously to the «task of doing theology».16

I remember plowing through Barth's discussion of predestination in Church Dogmatics II / 2 and discovering there both a way of doing theology and an engagement with Scripture and tradition that I had not encountered before.

Although the contacts between Protestant and Roman Catholic colleagues have been generally cordial in Tübingen over the years, there nevertheless exist two totally separate faculties, two libraries, two patterns for examinations and, in the last analysis, two ways of doing theology.

If we incorporated Martin's and Malcolm's critique of race and religion into our way of thinking, it would revolutionize our way of doing theology, just as class and gender critiques have done.

Browning's second purpose is to advocate a particular way of doing theology, one positioned between historicist and foundationalist approaches (what George Lindbeck terms, respectively, «cultural - linguistic» and «apologetic» perspectives in his book The Nature of Christian Doctrine).

This may be a new way of doing theology.

Faith and Order has to face up to the fact that there are other ways of doing theology — ways quite different from our essentially European habits.

Amy has begun the task of doing theology.

This is not the proper way of doing theology.

There are many ways of doing theology, and not all of them are strictly syllogistic; But if theology decays into illogical forms of Newspeak, it is false to itself.

It arises out of my method of doing theology, which consists of the following fourfold criterion of judgment: