Sentences with phrase «orthodox theology»
Orthodox theology refers to the traditional beliefs and teachings upheld by a particular religious group. It represents the accepted and mainstream understanding of a faith's principles, doctrines, and practices. Full definition
All such men expressed dissatisfaction also with the current orthodox theology which tended to talk only about conversion and the life to come while the great social evils of the present were ignored.
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If a theology relevant to the new World appears, and immediately is labeled «new theology», how is one to judge whether it is the genuine successor to the more orthodox theology of the past?
This, of course, he considered could be linked up with the most orthodox theology of the holy Eucharist.»
If God distributes power as we distribute electricity, then we can see how he could delegate power without losing any of it, and still maintain the control that orthodox theology demands.
I accept all the comments above and then consider in traditional orthodox theology isn't the work of redemption one of God taking upon himself all of our shit?
In spite of the theological permissiveness of AA (which is real and important) there is, implied in the literature, a rather orthodox theology — viz., a personal God, with whom one can communicate, who is interested in individuals and will help those who are obedient to his will.
Implicit is that Bell has deviated and gone Hollywood, is no longer a pastor, doesn't even attend a church, questions orthodox theology, and doesn't believe in hell.
A concrete «act» of God in history can be discerned only by faith — and faith, as even the most orthodox theology maintains, is the gift of the Holy Spirit; the physical, objective «miracle» or act of God is only an outward indication.
ORTHODOX THEOLOGY Dear Father Editor I am a seminarian in Australia and find your magazine very informative, especially regarding sacramental theology.
The interview doesn't offer any real orthodox theology, but it managed to serve as one of the most interesting exchanges between the Phelps family and a media personality who was more interested in hearing what made them tick than just fighting with them.
To be sure, no one expects the New Testament writers to use the terminology of later orthodox theology.
Such devout souls live out their Christianity in ways that transcend the limits of their piety, even as many of us academics must be saved in spite of our better taste and more orthodox theology.
There's an argument to be made that the opposite of liberal (or modernist) theology is orthodox theology, not conservative.
Bischoff claims a contradiction between the Word outside experience and the indwelling Christ, but this pairing of doctrines is a staple of all orthodox theologies.
I was to read only the bible and orthodox theology and nothing else.
«But in the past several years, a new current has arisen in conservative evangelical thought: A small but significant number of theologians, psychologists, and other conservative Christians are beginning to develop moral arguments that it's possible to affirm same - sex relationships not in spite of orthodox theology, but within it.
Fuller theologian Jack Rogers, for example, reports in Confessions of a Conservative Evangelical (Westminster, 1974) the shattering of his inherited view that his «orthodox theology» stood in «unbroken continuity with the theology of Warfield, the Westminster Confession, Calvin, Augustine, and Paul.»
The problem, of course, was that orthodox theology was no longer tenable in an age dominated by speculative rationality and progressive humanism.
The understandable polemic within Judaism of a persecuted Christian minority has become the orthodox theology against Judaism of a persecuting Christian majority.
Or, expressed in another way, to be Christian conversations on the meaning of «mission» must give attention to historic and orthodox theology, and to the established creeds and doctrines of the church.
In Hesselgrave's Second Thoughts comments he stated that,»... to be Christian conversations on the meaning of «mission» must give attention to historic and orthodox theology, and to the established creeds and doctrines of the church.
Applied to the task of defining «mission» this can be translated: «To be Christian a definition of mission must conform to orthodox theology and doctrine.»
They have to be thought certainly not in terms of any orthodox theology any longer.