Sentences with phrase «on theological language»

Rather than implying limit on divine power, this more helpful response explicates a limit on theological language — a limit excluding nonsense.

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On the contrary, this theological language has sought to uncover what is universal and human.

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.

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.

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.

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?

It was done, she says, without theological grounding and solely on the basis of «rights» language:» «I can be a CEO, and you can't stop me from being a priest,» they said.

In the same essay, Davison puts forward the case for continuing to use theological language, even when it might be strange, because «it is the task of apologetics to make things clear and on other occasions it is the task of apologetics to cut through the vapid familiarity of our time and present something unfamiliar, glorious and true».

Our focus is not on teaching theological positions — but on exploring language, attitudes, relational postures, fostering hospitality in the midst of diversity etc..

I have to reckon with the degree to which my theological thought may be vitiated by a readiness to conceive or to represent the work of atonement in ways that depreciate the extent to which it necessarily includes within it personal response on the part of those who are (to use traditional language) recipients of its benefits.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

The least that can be said from a reading of this passage is that John Paul II, while not explicitly rejecting the concept of remedium concupiscentiae, suggests that «traditional theological language» on the matter has remained one - sided precisely because of a failure to weigh the sacramental implications of marriage.

Theological schooling will need to focus on those tensions and conflicts and the various strategies congregations employ in negotiating them when they use the host culture's languages to practice their own discipleship.

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.

On women's issues, it would be difficult to deny that there has been significant engagement in some parts of the church with questions of women's ordination, inclusive language, leadership patterns, theological imagery and reproductive self - control.

This identification occurred not only on the intellectual theological level, but on all levels of the liturgy, the cult, the religious symbolic language, and the mythology.

By liberal Braaten means the theological liberalism that Karl Barth spoke of as a «heresy» — the view that Christian language for God represents universal human feeling writ large on the cosmos rather than God's address to humanity in a Word that disrupts preexisting categories.