Sentences with phrase «own theological understanding»

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

I will distinguish later between materialist and theological understandings of nature and their differing implications, but most often I will use the term nature in this generally universal sense common to both materialists and theists.

My involvement in this project transformed my theological understanding and shaped my ministry from that time to this day.»

This is not to say that difficulties are ignored, far from it, but they are viewed more as opportunities to deepen and explore our theological understanding than as problems to be solved.

Quite the opposite: a systematic theological understanding — and a consistent articulation thereof — is a pastoral virtue, if not a necessity.

This is so because central to Keen's thought has been his belief that all theology, including a theological understanding of play, must be defined solely in terms of one's own autobiography («I may speak of grace only in the first person») 34 This solipsistic reduction of religious authority to personal experience has led Keen to characterize incorrectly both theology and the play experience itself.

The whole Bible is «prophetic» since it consistently reflects the prophetic and passionately theological understanding of history.

Because our basic theological understandings of grace include assent to the claim that the most beautiful and precious things in and about our lives are unearned and undeserved, themes of gift and gratitude sometimes seem overworked.

There is no possibility of understanding history as the image of God unless we reach a new theological understanding of both imagery and the imagination.

Creative, practical skills and theological understanding must be linked to a knowledge of social context.

In this broad definition of prophetism, then, the whole Bible is «prophetic» since it consistently reflects this passionately theological understanding of history.

A close reading of «Bartleby, the Scrivener,» his most sustained study of New York, reveals in fact that Melville had a profoundly theological understandings of the nineteenth - century city.

Moreover, it is conceivable that this mode of metaphysical or theological understanding represents and embodies a synthesis or coming together of eschatology and christology.

Rather it derives its theological understanding from the character and processes of reality in all its aspects and taken as an inter-locking whole throughout which God is creatively active even thought [sic!]

I also suspect that only a theological understanding of the transition in religious experience from an apprehension of God the enemy to God.

Rather it derives its theological understanding from the character and processes of reality in all its aspects.3

One theological understanding of the future is «the last things.»

No way would we have them back, at least, not until they deepen their theological understanding.

At least three elementary consequences may follow for an theological understanding of «revelation» (which is process - theologically legitimized):

How would a relational approach view our social responsibility and what sort of theological understanding of the future does it provide?

This incident marked a major turning point in Buber's theological understanding, a turning away from otherworldly ecstasy and a turning toward the concrete other whom God has sent.

No doubt my way of seeking it is very different from process thought, such as that expressed in the writings of John B. Cobb, Jr., but this does not preclude the possibility that Cobb's di - polar theological understanding can not only challenge but also enrich a quest for total dialectical understanding and vision.

4:9, the Malayalam version does not decipher the cosmological understanding of the original text.56 Thus, the theological understanding of the Indian translations differs from the original source, due to incorrect translation approaches.

The study of world religions is a great resource for a more meaningful theological understanding.

The gospel is far bigger than psa and saving faith far deeper than theological understanding.

Here, then, Hartshorne's theological understanding of the supreme instance of goodness gives us the ideal towards which human ethical behavior must aspire.

On one substantive issue, however, I do think that I have experienced something like a sea - change in both sensibility and theological understanding.

This isolates theological wisdom into «academic disciplines» which then seem irrelevant, and it empties practice (what ministers do as ministers) of theological understanding.

The primary focus of education should he on theological understanding.

So I'm back to my original point: theological understanding is what unites the various enterprises of seminary education.

But without theological understanding none of the skills is that useful

That's a creative act and an interpretive act, an act of theological understanding.

Therefore I see pastoral skills themselves as embodying theological understanding.

It views the minister as a person who has various skills — such as in counseling, proclamation and organization — but not a whole lot of content or theological understanding.

Here the theological understanding of human being as person - in - community must help develop the incorporation into modernity of certain traditional cultural values in the pre-modern spiritual vision.

Having noted basic differences in these positions, we can then look at a number of questions which evangelicals must address if they hope to move beyond the present impasse in their theological understanding of the doctrine of inspiration.

This question might seem especially arcane to the non-theologian, but this disagreement on animal futures impacts our very theological understanding of creation, as Hart demonstrated with his discussion of the necessity of creation for humans to be able to «see» God.

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

Jesus» departure from the zealot programme showed his more theological understanding of power, not his disinterest in it.

By means of his theological understanding he is able to reject doctrines of the Eucharist which are guilty of «psychologizing» it as merely a memory of a past event on the one hand, and «magical tendencies of some traditional doctrines» on the other (PPE 229).

The theological understanding of the Church allows for a wide range of emphases.

No doubt there still remain much research and reflection to be done in order to work out a consistent theological understanding of the issues entailed here.

On these matters, Scripture speaks unequivocally, and, for Lombardo, this means that any theological understanding of the cross that somehow undermines these claims must be found wanting.

Some theological understandings of resurrection, including Crossan's, I take it, do not presuppose an empty tomb.

Despite attempts of harmonizers and oratorio librettists to concoct something called the Seven Last Words, Jesus» words from the cross in each Gospel provide a perspective on each evangelist's particular theological understanding of the crucifixion.

I think that the religious are so enamored with their version of truth that introduces them as the mediator between God and man so that no one is save except they come through my theological understanding and all others are damned.

Nor do Bible knowledge or theological understanding.

Impulses for developing a theological understanding that is liberating for victims of a variety of types of oppression burst on the scene almost simultaneously.

For a discussion of four theological - ethical positions that represent a continuum in current theological understandings of homosexuality, see James F. Childress, The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986).

There can be no true religious or devotional or theological understanding of the Bible which is not also historical understanding.