Sentences with phrase «of theological language»

For the black church, this kind of theological language may be quite useful, since the language of the black religious experience abounds in images and metaphors.

Robert W. Jenson provides a powerful sketch of the «Trinitarian understanding of theological language» called for by editor Alvin J. Kimel in his essay.

From Barth this movement has accepted the radical separation of the divine and the secular, of God and ordinary experience, and so of theological language and philosophy; and it approves his further separation of Christianity and religion, and the consequent centering of all theological and religious concerns solely on Jesus Christ.

While Madison's use of the Christian tradition employs a restricted, even chaste use of theological language» the name Jesus Christ is never mentioned, only «divine Author of our religion»» there can be no doubt that his worldview is Christian.

Since psychological language aims at revealing the depths of human transformation, and since this is the goal of theological language as well, there is no reason the two can not walk together in the search for truth.

Second, theologians must argue how the general «publicness» of all theological language is actualized into distinct but related theological disciplines.

The constant, universal nature of God's action as Creator and Redeemer is emphasized by Ogden's view of the nature of theological language.

It would be strange if, after all the recent discussion as to how much Christianity is a «historical faith,» Christian theologians would adopt an understanding of theological language which ruled out all historical statements.

In regard to the nature of theological language, it would mean avoiding a position which limited meaningful or nonmythological theological statements to assertions about God's activity which apply universally.

Because theological truth and therefore theological language belong to the eschatological dimension, linguistic analysis as now understood and practiced which deals with empirical and historical truths can not decide on the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of theological language.

The curriculum of the seminary should be determined by and reflect the liturgical life of the church, for the most promising way to reclaim the integrity of theological language as the working language for a congregation is for seminaries to make liturgy the focus of their lives.

Not exact matches

The book moves back and forth between accounts of meetings and chronological detail to a kind of theological interpretation grounded in the Christian language of death and new life.

For all our differences, it was good to be at a gathering where not only the Bible but also history, denominational distinctives, and the Creed were valued; where the liturgy reflected the seriousness of the gospel message; where the delegates thought confessionally; and where we spoke the same theological and ecclesiastical language.

I aim to get at some of the theological underpinnings of that unease in language that may seem unfamiliar or even unwelcome, but it is language that is grounded in important Christian affirmations that seek to understand the child as our equal» one who is a gift and not a product.

He wants to argue that mercy is not just important in the Bible's story of our salvation, where God is sometimes described anthropomorphically or in poetic language, but that in precise theological terms mercy is the highest perfection of God.

Unquestionably the issues raised are of far more fundamental theological and religious importance than cleaning up sexist language and electing women bishops, important as those achievements are.

But any genuine recovery of a «particular language of faith» will entail developing and appropriating a theological tradition and embodying that tradition in faithful living — a project that necessarily requires motivations and insights deriving from a quite different kind of authority than the sociologists possess.

Such theological thinking will be grounded firmly in a Christian context and in the language of commitment particular to the Christian tradition, interpreting the dimensions of our faith for the Christian community.

Francis has famously refused to live in the sumptuous papal apartment, picked out a used Fiat to scoot around Rome and dropped the fancy papal vestments and high theological language of his predecessors.

Now, however, as the scriptures of the world have been translated into English and many other western languages, we can draw upon the insights of the scriptures of the world for our theological reflection.

Or, in more explicit theological language, the death of God is the actualization of the movement of Spirit into flesh.

The critique of religion, as we enumerated it in the preceding paragraphs, confronted Bonhoeffer immediately with a new problem: finding a non-religious language to interpret the Biblical and theological concepts.

We can be so full of our own wisdom, that we forget that sex is a profound mystery to put it in theological terms, or to put it in humanistic language, it is an intricately complex mix of physiological, psychological and relational factors.

The revelation consists first and foremost in the person of Jesus Christ himself, but this can become material for theological use only as it is given in human language.

In opposition, speaking as a student of Greek and Hebrew, a participant insisted that these languages are a foundational study for all theological education, and seminary is, for her, an opportunity to gain a solid grounding in God's Word.

And Paul is making claims about «all flesh» and «every person» and about the «power of the gospel to save» that go beyond the specific cultural conditions of Jews and gentiles in the first century — his language demands to be engaged with at the anthropological / theological level.

What I find tragic is that we do not have adequate social or theological options (visions, in my language) to provide a more viable articulation of these concerns.

Creating a climate of care includes being sensitive to how some theological language might be heard.

Point being, that she used language more open to metaphor / interpretation, and you were the one to equate it with a theological precept, that of «Divine Intervention».

Academic theologies (with their focus on such questions as method, the disciplinary status of theology in the modern university, the relationships of theology and religious studies, and the development of public criteria for theological language) are obviously related principally to the public of the academy.

Hence Mays sets for himself the task of translating Whitehead's theological terminology into a neutral, less misleading language (PW 57/54, 59/56).

The classic theological language of analogy (the language of somehow ordered relationships) remains my real theological home.

In theological language we would be speaking of the power that exists when one is under the claim of the eschaton.

The central place accorded to Muhammad and the use of theological - traditional language and structure in Sufism is hardly surprising.

In more Hartshornean language, the question is this: How does one reconcile the apparently restrictive theological assertion that God favors the struggle of the oppressed with apparently unrestrictive neoclassical assertions — for example, that God is «the subject of all change?

Ibn «Arabi's style of intermixing radical elements with traditional language, models and theological structure could perhaps be explained in this background as an echo of freethinking controlled by a rigorous interpenetration of the old and the new.

The principal advantage of accepting initially the assumptions of the historical consciousness in religious or theological discourse is that one is not committed from the outset to possibly meaningless language regarding some realm of the supernatural.

Probably the most important scholarly and theological generalization to be drawn from the hundreds of articles in the Kittel Dictionary has been that the teaching and language of the New Testament, including the teaching and language of Jesus himself, can not be understood apart from their setting in the context of Judaism.

The one thing which the New Testament language on these matters gives us no ground for is the notion that the theological task could be exercised in isolation from the bearers of other gifts or from the surveillance of the total community.

The speaker's drama in preaching is both a search for a language of lived experience and for a way of speaking sermonic texts that are «believable» at a time when coherent, theological frameworks have collapsed.

Theological language is never the «queen of the sciences» nor is it the only language useful in describing the acts of God.

What do you make of the theology of Benedict XVI and its relation to the subjects you've worked on: theological language, ecumenism, eschatology and so on?

The language of liberation, with its salvation history themes, seems hollow and hypocritical in our mouths, bespeaking a new form of American theological triumphalism.

The current language debate is just one more indicator of how much the church lost when it got caught up in the philosophical / theological Christology debates, and replaced the name of Jesus with the titles Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

To say «God is the Father of lights» is such language — religious, though not exactly theological.

Dr. Throckmorton is Hayes professor of New Testament language and literature at Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine.

The theological language of sin and grace once spoke of a decentered ego with all the force of the most radical French postmodernists.

Fourth, laymen feel that preachers assume that laymen have a greater knowledge and understanding of biblical and theological lore and language than they actually do.

The Board of Theological Education, senate of Serampore college, has undertaken the task of publishing a bibliography of original Christian writings in regional language.

Here we find the endeavor to speak of the Kingdom of God in a Christian language even while refusing the language of the Christian theological tradition, and to do so in the spirit of Blake's marriage of «Heaven» and «Hell» and under the influence of the identification of nirvana and samsara in Mahayana Buddhism.