Sentences with phrase «own system of theology»

«The entire conceptual systems of theology and ethics, developed under the conditions of patriarchy, have been the products of males and tend to serve the interests of sexist society.»

When properly understood in it's historical, cultural, grammatical, and contextual contexts, Ephesians 2 is a chapter which does not defend the Calvinistic system of theology, but disproves it at every turn.

Brad is exactly right to point out the potential weaknesses for abuse in any system of theology (in any human system at all, really).

If you have ever tried to discuss theology with someone who holds strongly to a particular system of theology, you know that this is how many of these discussions go.

So, FWIW, I'm wondering if really this is a triangulation of three items instead of a duel between two: position / role of authority, system of theology, and personal pathology.

And none of these systems of theology would ever have Romans 6:1 leveled against them.

There are systems of theology like that — probably every theology developed as a system is like that — but the New Testament theology is not one of them.

A critical dimension of this expression is the imaginative picture, the metaphors and models, that underlie the conceptual systems of theology.

No person (or system of theology) is 100 % correct in their thinking about God or in their grasp of all the Bible teaches about God.

The entire record of Abraham's life in Genesis disproves the Calvinistic system of theology in many ways.

It would exercise some of the same freedom which Paul's and the other NT letters do when they refrain from any nostalgic attempts to play Galilee into their theology by transforming the teaching of Jesus» earthly ministry into a system of theology and ethics [Krister Stendahl: «Biblical Theology, Contemporary,» Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962), I, 428].

There is very little hope in some systems of theology.

Just before Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther in early 1521, the provincial theologian had elaborated his Ninety - Five Theses into a new system of theology.

Furthermore, all the various systems of theology seem to have their own rules for how to understand Scripture, which is not only confusing, but seems to suggest that theologians develop their rules of Bible study based on what they want the Bible to say rather than on some external, literary standard.

In my experience, such passengers can never fully «return'to the Old World and re-prosper in its caste system of theology.

Perfect theology is not a system of theology; perfect theology is a person.

Often, when people reject «the Bible» they are not really rejecting Scripture, but a system of theology that has been built up around Scripture and which blocks the beauty of Scripture.

Yet no matter which view a Calvinist takes, this passage creates problems for their system of theology.

Nevertheless, I believe it is inaccurate for Calvinists to attempt to appropriate the words «grace» and «reformed» for their own system of theology, especially when, in my opinion, many Calvinists know less of grace than their opponents, and numerous others have stopped seeking further theological reformation.

Perhaps Roman Catholics might be expected to understand this more readily than Protestants, since Catholicism is likewise a system of piety; but at the same time Roman Catholicism has also a rigid system of theology and a rigid canon law, while Judaism was almost totally lacking in theology, at least beyond the main and fundamental tenets of monotheism, revelation, the spirituality and the sovereignty of God, and the divine election of Israel.

I think what Viola is saying is that many churches seem to put their pastor up as the head, or the denomination, or the doctrinal statement, or a particular system of theology, or the Bible.

By the first century, it is clear, Judaism was a fully - developed system of piety, that is, of pious observance — not a system of theology, nor a code of law, merely, but a system of piety.

Let us remember how ludicrous our carefully packaged systems of theology really are.

Better far to set aside the systems of theology and schools of divinity and come like a little child to the eternal fountain of Holy Scripture, and there drink in the living teachings of God's Spirit.»

This view assumes that the will is harnessed to reason and that a closely honed system of theology is capable of engendering a redemptive life - style.

Each continues, of course, to console himself with the delusion that his special system of theology or his particular interpretation of the meaning of the Word of God constitutes a universal frame of reference within which the other person is or ought to be included and that consequently communication between them ought to be possible.

The Bible is clear that unity is found «in the Spirit,» not in a system of theology, a race of people or anything like that.

I am not surprised that neither Arminians nor Calvinists are happy with my exegesis, because it does not support either system of theology.

I used to be a Calvinist and through study, research, and prayer, came to move away from that system of theology.

But the real reason we can say that John Calvin was truly not a Calvinist is because he himself did not develop the system of theology which bears his name.

You can write volumes on supposed contradictions in the bible, but you won't write a single word that has not been addressed by some system of theology that removes the contradiction (wether right or wrong).

Setting forth the Reformed system of theology and church government, they were widely adopted by Presbyterian churches in Great Britain and America and into the twentieth century continued to be standard in these bodies.

But to equate Calvinism with the entirety of gospel is to replace the infinite glory of Jesus Christ with a small, manmade system of theology.

It's not just systems of theology you «care not a whit about» but difficult scriptures and even the old testament God.

It has been imprisoned in the cells of alien dogma; it has been bound hand and foot in the grave clothes of human tradition; it has been entombed as a sepulcher by systems of theology, and the stone of human power has been rolled up to close its door.»

Not exact matches

org), Lizzie's church leaders made a brave and courageous statement: «In the light of this tragedy it is now incumbent upon the PCC and the wider Church to prayerfully reflect on, and examine, our theology, systems and our culture so that we can do all we can to prevent a tragedy like this from ever reoccurring.»

What is required, according to Public health theology, is not the individual cure of conversion, but structural change in the political, economic and social systems that provide breeding grounds for the dehumanizing viruses.

You may start out with well reasoned and good - intentioned theology, but once in a position of power, the system goes to closure and the creative power goes to inertia, which brings corruption and corrosion to the system.

Should we identify here a contradiction that vitiates the Whiteheadian system as a whole, or is it the case that a more careful reading of Whitehead's theology is called for?

Edward Thornton reacted more vigorously yet, calling Thurneysen a frightened man «seeking to build a closed system,» one who «sees the minister as a water pipe conveying the Word of God to the people» (Theology and Pastoral Counseling (Fortress, 1964], p. 50).

Since the God who appears here is patently a reincarnation of Kant's «master of the exclusive disjunction,» it follows that any attempt to interpret the system of Process and Reality as representing a nascent chaosmology will have to demonstrate that the theology developed in the later work positively supersedes and excludes, rather than, as Christian claims, «elaborates and defends,» the theology of the earlier.

Heuristic theology is distinct from theology as hermeneutics or as construction but has similarities with both.8 The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines heuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselves.»

But modern ideas of justice to the individual were not in the background of the Old Testament's thought, and nowhere in the Bible does «atonement» mean what modern theologies, presupposing modern legal systems, have made it mean.

Might it not still be the case that, given his theology, his universe remains «semi-open and partially predictable» — as George Kampis has suggested, in explicit contrast to the closed, predictable Leibnizian system on the one hand, and to the open, unpredictable, unfinished - in - every - dimension system of Bergson on the other?

According to Noddings, history (including philosophy, theology, politics, societal structures) up to this point has obscured the nature of the problem of evil because all systems for dealing with it have been created, elaborated, and promoted by and for males.

Others, led by theologian Thomas Oden, call for a return to «classical» theology, the great systems in which the thinkers of the early church took all of reality, including their own salvation, into a comprehensive understanding of God's activity.

As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.

The decision on the part of the Christian theologian as to where he should turn for his natural theology should involve the judgment as to whether the vision of reality underlying the philosophical system is compatible with that essentially involved in the Christian faith...

The link made in Edward Holloway's synthesis of science and theology, involving the co-relativity of all material being in a metaphysical system that is faithful both to modern scientific thought and to orthodox Christian theology, gives a more solid basis on which to develop a dialogue with science.

The past half century or more has been a period of both confusion and daring innovation in the world of academic theology, with various great thinkers trying to work out new theological systems.