Sentences with phrase «over the theology of»

This seems to me that Paul was adamant about dividing over the theology of the Gospel.

He wasn't talking about me, of course, but he said that the big problem in the church today is that people read the Bible, they don't like what they read, and so they reject what the Bible clearly teaches because they prefer their own theology over the theology of the Bible.

Not exact matches

You don't think there are any sincere disagreements over fundamental aspects of theology?

If you look around you, I think you'll find that the debates we're having are over fundamental aspects of theology — but people are so far from the truth that they seem like hairs to them.

from the University of Virginia and has done graduate work in theology at Tuebingen, feel such deep distress and ambivalence, even shame, over their decision to stay at home for the sake of their children.

At the end of his essay, Griffiths gives the impression that Pitstick should have limited herself to a school debate with Balthasar over the merits of his theology of Christ's descent rather than raising the formal question of orthodoxy.

John Cavadini, chairman of the theology department at Notre Dame, focused on this during the 2006 debate over the university's hosting of a performance of «The Vagina Monologues.»

East Eastern Christians see a dichotomy of God and creation Eastern theologians are largely unaffected by modernism Eastern theologians do not agonize over the existence of God Eastern theologians systematize the transcendent, the miraculous, and the mystical into their theology, without a concept of «supernatural» Eastern theologians have coherent and helpful answers for most practical spiritual problems (such as during bereavement) Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and bereavement counseling; thus they do not outsource religious problems to secular experts.

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

Enlightenment Philosophers founded empirical sciences Western theologians attempt to apply empiricism to theology Western theologians agonize over the existence of God Western theologians lose, deemphasize, neglect, marginalize, or explain away the supernatural Western theologians no longer have coherent answers for many practical religious questions Western churches outsource the treatment of religious problems to secular therapists

For the last three weeks, I've received dozens of angry tweets and YouTube comments over my article «The Theology That's Dividing Christian Hip - Hop,» ranging from calling me a bad journalist to accusations that I can't possibly be a Christian.

bleeds over into larger areas of theology â $ «is man inherently good or evil or both?

In my opinion, the bullies who use their interpretation of theology and Bible verses to bash others over their (figurative) heads are among the most difficult.

I should point out that biblical studies has a distinct advantage over theology when it comes to finding a place in the university, since it is a historical discipline which can and often does just as well locate elsewhere — for instances in a department of Near East studies.

Over the next fourteen years the Braatens and the Jensons (both men's wives participated actively in the center's work) collaborated in activities» conferences, seminars, and, most notably, production of the journal Pro Ecclesia» that expanded from a Lutheran core to give ecumenical witness to the great tradition of catholic theology.

Considering that it took the Church about 300 years, long after they had made up their minds about theology, to start picking scripture to match that doctrine, and that the oldest known copt of the bible has over 27,000 «corrections» written all over it, how can you be sure that the New Testament isn't full of false doctrine to begin with?

Over the years, I have observed the bulk of the Evangelical fleet drift — and then in desperation for some greater motivation, change fuels — from the open - arms gasoline of evangelism meetings, to the super-sparks of charismatic gifts, to the sluggish - diesel of homogenized Biblical theology, to the stuttering - and - sparkle fuel of Christian music, to the nitro - flamed - fuel of hating gays, and now to the turbo - charged hatred of illegal aliens at home and Muslims overseas.

Over the past 40 years, since the Second Vatican Council (1962 - 65), the Catholic Church in the U.S. has become increasingly divided over liturgy, theology, catechesis, ministry, sexuality and a host of other issOver the past 40 years, since the Second Vatican Council (1962 - 65), the Catholic Church in the U.S. has become increasingly divided over liturgy, theology, catechesis, ministry, sexuality and a host of other issover liturgy, theology, catechesis, ministry, sexuality and a host of other issues.

Over the course of the tumultuous 1960s, Braaten's politics moved for a time somewhere beyond liberal, and his theology developed accordingly.

The real sad thing is that over 4,000 former members and leaders of this church are now directly affected and suffering because one bully used his pulpit to twist theology to his way of thinking.

David Hayward: Master of Theology, Diploma in Ministry, over 30 years professional pastoral experience.

There has been a flood of writings in this field over the past ten years, proposing various theologies of religious pluralism and systematizing those that have been proposed.

«[In Moltmann's theology] the comprehensive work of the Spirit interacts with humanity in pervasive ways, calling each person to a renewed relationality and an emphasis of life over death in their particular contexts.

In his usual manner, Pieper pushes philosophical inquiry up to and sometimes a little over the edge of theology, but is always respectful of the indispensable part of revelation in attaining true wisdom.

The forums over at Free Grace Churches are (so far) a pretty fair and gracious place to discuss all areas of theology and church practice, and do have some fairly controversial posts.

If I can be brutally honest I didn't think this video would get much over a couple thousand views maybe, and because of that, my points / theology wasn't as air - tight as I would've liked.

We sat in two comfy armchairs in the foyer of his beautiful, brand - new church building, and for over an hour talked about Reformed theology.

Oh, and by the way, we will eventually be considering all of these items (and others) in the theology forums over at Free Grace Churches.

I'd take a deep / meaningful conversation with a human being (of any faith / non-faith) over a volume of systematic theology any day.

It has been difficult to not be bitter over a degree in theology that has done nothing for me, other than give me a great deal of debt!

Anyway, I was compelled to adopt the Christus Victor view of the atonement and it has been running roughshod over much of my theology and changing the way I read many texts of Scripture, including this one...

Pannenberg tantalized American readers in 1969 when he announced in Theology and the Kingdom of God, in the midst of the debate over the presumed death of God, that, strictly speaking, «God does not yet exist.»

I conclude, once again, that herculean efforts at reconceptualizing theology's quandary over the interrelatedness of God's power and [97] love simply have not brought sufficiently fresh insight to the task.

SBC president Bryant Wright offered a «word» for both Calvinists («A bit of humility would be most welcome») and traditional Southern Baptists («The time for judgmentalism is over») as he told attendees to focus on the Great Commission instead of the theology of salvation.

A large area of historic Christian theology would have been completely altered if ideas of atonement, especially as related to the blood of Christ, had not been carried over from primitive concepts associated with animal sacrifice.

And there is, in fact, very little evidence that champions of ecclesial pluralism have bent over backwards to insure that their opponents are given a fair hearing on occasions of public debate, nor are they conspicuously tolerant or open - minded when they happen themselves to be in positions of extra-ecclesial authority — as journal editors, perhaps, or as deans of theology faculties.

During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

Process is a theology that has grown over the last 100 years from the philosophy of Mr. Whitehead.

While theological battles were being waged in Lutheranism, the general unrest over theology was evident in the reception of the two greatest mid-nineteenth century American preachers and theologians.

In the present Discipline the church affirms its openness to divergent theological traditions and projects, declaring that the UMC's «theological spectrum... ranges over all the current mainstream options and a variety of special interest theologies as well.»

In this way Christian theology becomes both the defender of religion over against the onesidedness and superficiality of Marx's critique of religion, and at the same time the ally of this critique against the «alienation» of man.

As to the rest of your reply, well, your theology appears to be all over the shop, my friend.

Hauerwas, who teaches theology at Duke, holds these seemingly eclectic commitments together with a Reformed (via Barth) emphasis on the priority of God's Word over any human attempt to think of or live well before God, and a Wesleyan insistence on God's call to complete sanctification in this life.

I, however, having been raised Baptist for over 20 years and then deciding to convert to the Catholic faith after taking several formal classes in theology, philosophy, and history, at least have the benefit of seeing both sides of the Catholic - Protestant split.

H. Richard Niebuhr taught us in The Kingdom of God in America that the triune themes of the sovereignty of God over the whole world, the reign of Christ in the heart and the expectation of a Coming Kingdom in and beyond time were all embedded in the term «kingdom of God,» and that these themes were decisive in the way Christian theology and ethics provided — with differing accents in different periods — a spiritual and moral rudder for American civilization, from its founding through the industrial era.

He writes: «We need only survey the chronic and significant differences of opinion over the systematic grounding of natural law today, as well as the extraordinarily complicated and controversial skirmish lines over questions of moral theology, to see that this is so.»

The philosophical «God» is understood, if not independently of religious intuition, then definitely beyond its singular appearance (RM 88) 43 Over against the philosophical approach, Christianity developed the double strategy which we have analyzed as «religious intuition» contributing finally to the formation of revelational theology:» (1) Christianity proceeded not from any metaphysics, but it «has always been a religion seeking a metaphysics» (RM 50).45 Christianity strove for theological rationalization, 46 (2) Christianity, however, did not follow any certain metaphysics (PR 66 - 68), but «has been true to its genius for keeping its metaphysics subordinate to the religious fact to which it appeals» (RM 69).

Indeed, they hand over that public role of theology to the coercive tactics of a resurgent reaction announcing itself as the «Moral Majority.»

I'm weeping over this story ashamed of how my theology may have contributed to other's reacting as the father did in this story.

In perceiving theology as a science, Pannenberg suggests that if God is ultimate truth, then the God hypothesis — the claim that God is the unity of all reality — must include within itself the current debate over God's existence.