Sentences with phrase «out of theological study»

Not exact matches

As an inter-disciplinary field of study with an important complementary role to play to all existing fields of theological study, part of the task of missiology involves the drawing out of missiological themes and issues from those fields of study.

It's pretty bad when, despite all our Bible study, prayer, and theological reading and writing, we have to learn about grace from those who don't believe in God, who have been kicked out of our churches, and who feel only judgment and condemnation from us.

In its original context the second important root of the presumption against war was a formulation of this concept of just war set out in the Jesuit journal Theological Studies in 1978 by James F. Childress, an American academic ethicist of Quaker background.

But that such a «right dividing of the word of truth» is precisely what we have aim for is borne out by recent sociological studies as well as theological - ecclesiastical investigations like Fackre's.

Practical theology — theology that is addressed to the lives of communities and grows out of the lives of communities, theology that is done for the sake of a way of life — is a growing, exciting dimension of theological studies.

I am approaching my Bible study with more diligence now, clearly separating out whether my thoughts on a particular scripture are totally based on the words, grammar and context of the scripture, or actually from a man made theological construct which may or may not be true.

That it is such a responsible and illuminating study is due largely to Morrissey's solid understanding that it is Voegelin's theory of consciousness, presented and assessed here in detail in its development and refinement, that provides the key to appreciating the theological dimension of Voegelin's philosophy and the basis for working out what Morrissey calls «the principles of a Voegelinian theology.»

In making this proposal I am building on a suggestion first advanced by James F. Hopewell.Growing out of years of involvement in a group exploring different ways to study congregations [1] and his own ground - breaking Congregation: Stories and Structures, [2] Hopewell wrote an essay, «A Congregational Paradigm for Theological Education.»

The Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary calculates that Christians sent out approximately 400,000 international missionaries in 2010.

By way of examples, consider the substitution of «intercultural studies» for «mission studies»; the deference shown to doctorates from secular universities; the multiplication of courses featuring secular content in preference to theological teaching; and the accolades accorded mission strategies created out of profane proposals.

In his conclusion of Sociology of Religion he states: «The fact that this study is limited to a descriptive sociological examination of religious groups need not be interpreted as an implicit admission that the theological, philosophical, and metaphysical problems and questions growing out of such a study of society have to remain unanswerable.

Harnack set out to show from his penetrating studies of early Christianity that the relevance of Christianity to the modern world lay not in theological dogmatism but in the understanding of Christianity as an historical, changing, evolving process.