Sentences with phrase «own theological position»

It captures the way I feel when a church (in an effort to hold onto only «true» Christians) doubles down on their theological positions and shows others the door.

It would be wonderful indeed if the LDS Church adopted more orthodox theological positions, as the Worldwide Church of God seems to have done thirty years ago.

Scripture is not, for Wycliffe, an inert text that must be brought by interpretation into accord with theological positions.

The principal burden of Levy's book is to show that Wycliffe and Hus were entirely conventional in the ways that they argued for their theological positions.

You say, «Not if it means forsaking my theological position!»

Is this theological position meant to give you peace?

It therefore would be a mistake to understand their animosities as «secular» in the contemporary sense; instead, they took aim at Catholicism and other organized religion from their own theological position.

As David noted, we can use «orthodoxy» to support just about any theological position that suits our sectarian fancy.

Anything less will result in a theological position that is not only unsystematic, but one that is also impractical and unpastoral.

I'm suspecting that were we to delve into theological positions we would find much disagreement.

Add to that the variety of doctrines / Theologies within orthodox Christianity... with Consensus on a very small Core of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that lacks Consensus and there are mountains of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.

In failing to provide a theological position and effective pastoral care related to suicide, we have been napping too long.

Thy have found that it is possible to show compassion in recognizing the human aspect of homosexuality and to support laws against discrimination without compromising their theological position.

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

Afterward, many conservatives realized they could show compassion in recognizing the human side and could support the antidiscrimination ordinance without compromising their theological position (viz., that the Bible condemns homosexuality as sin from which persons need to be redeemed).

Both theological positions have Scripture passages which seem to poke holes in their beliefs.

In other words, the quote is being used within the context of a theological position and it means what they assert it to mean (or don't even bother to assert, but merely assume we should see) at least partially because of their presuppositions with which they come to the text.

Knapp questions whether colleges such as Wheaton present alternative theological positions.

I have even declined the opportunity to be more involved in some progressive Christian events, because labels like Emergent and Progressive do not reflect my theological positions and do not always FIT with how I see or practice faith.

Only one theological position has ever resulted in the Romans 6:1 question, and it is the position which says that eternal life is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, and that once a person has received eternal life in this way, it can never be lost.And when we realize the truth of this, it is incredibly liberating.

One could argue metaphorically for a theological position by way of being «clothed in righteousness.»

As this is a transcript of a speech he makes at churches it does not contain the references you would expect a scholar to make in a theological position pieces.

Therefore I think it wrong for her to be suspended although I respect the theological rigour by the college in coming to its decision on this and respect that there is a different theological position held by the college.

After exploring current attitudes toward and descriptions of play, we will turn to three representative theological positions in hope of clarifying our understanding of the human player.

What's wrong with the church when folks like Shane Claiborne who have reputations for loving their enemies, giving without expecting anything in return, and withholding judgment can't get speaking gigs because of their «questionable» theological positions?

The most widely accepted theological position is that of the Ash» arites.

Johnston explores current attitudes toward and descriptions of play, then looks at three representative theological positions in hope of clarifying the reader's understanding of the human player — life - style, mission and opportunity.

For this reason the lack of understanding of his constructive theological position is particularly unfortunate.

In fact, it is quite possible that the theological positions that many today hold dear serve unwittingly to foment the perspectives that allow terrorism and torture to persist and increase.

Those Christians who take the Bible literally, in a selective way, to justify their theological positions on homosexuality, abortion, Israel, Marriage, and the exclusive right to call God a «Christian».

If AA is to serve alcoholics of all and no religious backgrounds, it must avoid becoming identified with any one theological position.

Respect for truth requires that «any given theological position must strive to appropriate precisely those elements which other positions see as lacking or neglected in it».16 This seems a fine suggestion as far as it goes.

This is indeed a very correct and accurate and scrupulous theological position.

Mascall's Catholic theological position, which presupposes an understanding of the church alien to Protestantism generally, is barely sketched.

The works of Don Browning, John Cobb or Lewis Mudge are a lively introduction to contemporary psychology, social thought and philosophy, as well as an argument for their own constructive theological positions.

Daily I find myself slipping into those same old habits of judging people based on their theological positions and spending more time reading and writing about Jesus than actually building relationship with Him and loving «the least of these.»

Questions of a particular religious culture or theological position may be important to understand.

Beyond choosing a few candidates with strong institutional ties, Pope Francis has selected as cardinals mainly bishops whose primary interest is not in some theological position, but in pastoral practice.

The discussion will be somewhat more extensive than otherwise appropriate to this context because this doctrine is crucial to other theological positions as well as to that of Thomism.

This happens to me almost every time I go to Scripture looking for ammo against someone else's theological position or lifestyle choices.

In Living Opinions in Protestant Theology, I have tried to show in each case how, whether recognized or not, theological positions depend systematically on affirmations that are not private to theology.

It does not entail adopting a theological position derived from criticism of transcendental Thomism, of Barth or of Bultmann.

However, that commitment also symbolizes something normative: a commitment to value understanding God truly more highly than it values anything else, including presumably its theological tradition and its faculty members» personal theological positions.

She knows the heart of God more than anyone else I know, and so while she may not know all the logical arguments or Scripture passages for various theological views, she senses rightness and wrongness in various theological positions.

Proponents of diverse theological positions have shared the assumption that religious convictions are in some decisive manner deficient, lacking proper roots in human experience or needing new metaphysical backing.

His opponentâ $ ™ s questions were actually dogmatic proclamations of their own hardened theological positions.

If only Christian books, of which theological position?

This could be read to mean that every element in a theological position should be nothing other than an explication of ideas implicit in everyone's experience.

The Christian theologian therefore properly takes this belief as one of the «facts» to which a theological position should be adequate, even if it is not a fact in as strong a sense as hard - core commonsense ideas and very well - grounded scientific and historical ideas.

A sixth dimension, closely related to the first, third, and fourth dimensions, is grounding the theological position historically, showing the new features to be authentic developments of the Holy - Spirit - inspired trajectory of the human spirit that is recorded in the biblical tradition.