Sentences with phrase «of radical»

A number of radical and liberal groups were surprised to find a minister among their number and in accord with their views.

Perhaps the presentation of a radical ethic of economic justice, for example, might be a catalyst for genuine Christian evangelism.

If these are treated simply as outsiders or, worse, as the enemy, no emerging consensus of radical theologians can guide the church.

In the last chapter, the connection of the radical demand for love with the primacy of grace and the sense of original sin was discussed.

There is, I am sure, no disposition in this workgroup to discourage continuing efforts to construct full - fledged theologies out of the insights of any one of the radical theologies.

The assumption was that these three groups of radical theologians had shared concerns, but there was no effort to identify these agreements in advance of the conference.

A cultural starting point might well demand a «hermeneutical suspicion» (i. e., a distrust of one's previous reading of Scripture, given the possibility that such a reading conceals some of the radical implications of the Biblical message for our day), but it may also assist in the renewed hermeneutical task, allowing the Biblical witness to be freshly experienced, freshly understood, and freshly applied.21

It holds together, sometimes uneasily, two kinds of radical reflexivity and hence inwardness,... forms of self - exploration and forms of self - control.»

Spiritual existence is explained as a structure of radical self - transcendence, and its power for both good and evil is emphasized.

This is a very important difference, and it points to an approach available to each of the radical theologies.

The primacy of this task, and the derivative nature of a rationalistic aesthetic, is best understood when Whitehead is seen in a line of radical empiricists, a position which is most evident in his Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect and Modes of Thought.

Does evolution sometimes involve origination of radical novelties?

Because of the radical views of Tatian, the church Fathers in the west portrayed him as the epitome of heretics.

According to some reports, members of the radical Islamic group...

At the conclusion of his book, he challenges his readers to a one - year experiment of radical living where they pray more, read the Bible more, give more, serve more, and attend church (or small groups) more.

To deny this is sheer foolishness), would rather kowtow to the tenets of radical Islam than support or give credence to Christianity.

It is a theology purporting to be the expression of a radical Christian tradition — a tradition unknown to the world of Christian theology, because that world is irredeemably satanic insofar as it is bound to the dead body of that God negated and left behind by the forward and apocalyptic movement of the incarnation.

Nobody really believes that the effects of radical thought on mainstream marriage or sexual life has been altogether positive, and «radical feminism» has been displaced largely (outside the academic world) with a chastened defense of women's rights (and some appreciation of the dilemma of the resulting birth dearth, lonely single moms, and all that).

They had, it seemed, promoted a posture of radical self - examination about some things — usually very personal patterns of behavior — but they refused to extend their questions to systemic and institutional matters.

Rick Santorum is a fruitcake, and he is presiding over a party of radical, pin - headed, Chicken Littles who have lost their minds!!!

Therefore I wish to raise again the question in this final section as to whether Altizer, despite his rejection of Buddhism as definitely different from and lesser than Christianity, has not in the final analysis come full circle and embraced a Buddhist type of radical immanentalism.

In The Descent into Hell (Lippincott, 1970) Altizer has attempted a systematic theological exploration of the radical and apocalyptic faith of Jesus and Paul, and has done so with the conviction that this has not yet been attempted by Christian theology and that a decisive key to this endeavor lies ready to hand in the world of Mahayana Buddhism.

Many of the Christian thinkers and theologians who have adopted the I - Thou philosophy have recast it in the form of a radical dualism between the I - Thou and the I - It relations entirely incompatible with Buber's own thought.

We can understand this failure as Percy's again having independently reached the same conclusion as MacIntyre: that the ethical can not be simply radically chosen, because the notion of the radical choice is itself only at home in the aesthetic mode.

According to disturbing reports coming out of Nigeria, at least 70 civilian villagers were killed by soldiers from Cameroon who may have mistaken them for members of the radical Islamic...

Of all radical empiricists, from La Mettrie and Hume to A. J. Ayer, who would undermine the authority of reason and its procedures, Lewis tirelessly pointed out this contradiction.

My own view right now is that we need to be engaged in an intense systemic consciousness - raising effort in the light of radical transcendence.

But after observing him for a while, I've come to the conclusion that he is actually an slick conduit of radical right public opinion.

Why don't all of the radical christians who preach fundamentalist teachings and doomsday prophecies go buy an island and live on it and leave the rest of us alone.

But there were others who tried to reconcile the insights coming out of this experience with the monotheistic affirmations of biblical faith» such as Isaac Luria, the principal theorist of the Safad school of the Kabbalah; or Bonaventure, who sought to retain the speculations of radical Franciscanism within the fold of Catholic orthodoxy; or al - Ghazzali, whose intellectual lifework was the intellectual integration of the Sufi experience with orthodox Islam.

A Whiteheadian consciousness of radical ontological relatedness evokes a more radical separatism to challenge the patriarchal worldview.

It is due also in part to the fact that religious institutions in black communities have not been sufficiently cognizant of the radical implications which the changing political, economic and social realities have for their life.

But whatever he may have intended, the cardinal can not have meant that Amoris Laetitia is a «paradigm shift» in the sense of a radical break with previous Catholic understandings.

But there is general agreement that being «honest» about one's homosexuality, which means making a public issue of it, secures one a position in solidarity with the oppressed and their agenda of radical change.

But to understand, at least in part, is to be strengthened in the knowledge of our own capacity for both good and evil» and of our radical dependence on the One who, despite His understanding all, forgives the penitent.

For example, some members of new paradigm churches will probably grow tired of the radical contemporaneity of their worship.

If you are trying to equate all Sufi's with radical Muslims (by the way there are plenty of radical Jews, Christians, Hindus etc) and then taking it a step further by equating all Muslims with radicals.

For tribals, in the face of radical change or threat of change, issues related to preservation of their identity and space on the one hand, and dealing with the new world - view on the other, were vital to their sustained and meaningful continuance.

Because Mary Daly is a wise prude who perseveres in removing androcentric, patriarchal scales from her own and other women's eyes, I want to refer to her understanding of radical feminist separatism as a gynocentric interpretation of women's separatism.

In his more recent writings, he even attempts to combine an ironic sense of the radical contingency of our language, desires, and beliefs, with a strong commitment to liberal political values, such as the need to fight against pain and suffering and the importance of achieving solidarity as members of a community.

Female - identified erotic love is one expression of radical female friendship (G / E 371 - 373).

In this brave new world of radical libertarian economics, all inheritance and gift taxes would be abolished, while income taxes would be no more than 10 percent of gross income (and then only until government was shrunk further).

Kaufman, Maynard, «Post-Christian Aspects of the Radical Theology,» Toward a New Christianity, ed.

I wonder if what is innocuous to us is a way for us to say it would be too costly to my life to actually ponder the implications or ramifications of radical discipleship.

No one can serve two masters, so the nuns can not be both servants of Christ and partisans of radical feminism.

Bergsonian intuition alone can not discern these identities as Forms as they are presented in tension, nor can intuition alone discriminate the discontinuities of radical change, since these erupt within definite boundaries....

theory and actions of Radical Feminists who choose separation from the Dissociated State of patriarchy in order to release the flow of elemental energy and Gynophilic communication; radical withdrawal of energy from warring patriarchy and transferal of this energy to women's Selves.

If you think of radical Islam not as a religion, but as a hostile ideology (e.g., communism), its nature becomes clearer.

At any rate, the outcome will provide the young evangelical «righteous remnant» (the explicit terms, incidentally, in which they see themselves) with an excellent opportunity to «go the way of the cross,» paying the cost of radical discipleship.

If we consult Amos as our classical type of radical nonconformist religion, we find that he like his contemporary Isaiah, was critical of all religion that was not creative in seeking a just social policy.