Sentences with phrase «own theological work»

The signers raised concerns about the Assembly call for a coherent ecumenical theology, affirming the need for theological work but insisting that the «ecumenical movement needs a theology rooted in the Christian revelation as well as relevant to contemporary problems.»

The Methodist theologian D. Stephen Long, for instance, finds that «A Secular Age is Taylor's most explicitly theological work.»

The young Luther did almost certainly suffer from a «troubled conscience» in some form, but it evidently did not cause his theological work to be dominated by the question, «How can I get a gracious God?»

In all of this he was doing creative theological work and articulating a significant theological vision but not primarily in the mode of speculative theology.

Bonhoeffer's theological work also bears the marks of interruption.

«We need to move toward a dialogical theology in which the praxis of dialogue together with that of human liberation will constitute a true locus theologicus, i.e., both a source and basis for theological work.»

This has made possible a continuing development of the theological work that led the bishops to this redirection of the church.

It is simply that I have decided that the only theological work worth doing at the moment is that which contributes toward the creation of a vision and a set of values relevant to the transformation required for civilization to survive and move into the promise of the planetary society.

For this reason alone, I regard John Henry Newman's The Development of Christian Doctrine as the most important of all modern Catholic theological works, or at least, the most significant until Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man.

In this sense, it is fortunate that Bonhoeffer never completed his theological work in any systematic way.

It is notorious that the ineradicable ideas left in Descartes's mind after he had doubted everything were products of the philosophical and theological work, or more broadly of the cultural matrix, that had formed his mind.

He must either become more and more unreasonably dogmatic, affirming that on all these questions he has answers given him by his tradition that are not subject to further adjudication, or else he must finally acknowledge that his theological work does rest upon presuppositions that are subject to evaluation in the context of general reflection.

Drawing on the theological work of Henri du Lubac, Hans Boersma, and Rowan Williams, among others, Klassen explains how the fact of this pattern is grounded in the Trinity, in which all material reality participates.

This means that the seminary, the place where theological work is usually done, has also become less important.

I am learning the critical necessity of approaching our theological work the same way we do any authentic spirituality: through the particularities of our lives - in - relation.

For example, on the one hand, when St Thomas Aquinas in his great mediaeval theological works treats theology as the «queen of the sciences», yet «the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the study of nature» (p. 81)-- it «had not resulted in a sterile fusion» (p. 84).

Some theologians have idealized a purity of theological work that would make it unaffected by this general human reflection on the human situation.

Amid ups and downs, delights and sufferings, deaths and births, burnout and rekindling, I have been carried by the past decade more fully into an appreciation of honest theological work.

This differs in the several distinct but overlapping groups within which theological work proceeds.

It is quite obvious to me that unless conservative theologians pay more attention to explaining their methodological choice they will not be successful in gaining leadership in the higher levels of theological work whether their group is numerous or not.

For that matter, it can scarcely be considered a theological work — that is, a critical, systematic study of the deity and of the relationship between the divine sphere and all other spheres of existence.

That such ecclesiological themes have deeply affected my own thinking and theological work should be self - evident.

But the upsurge of interest in his work has made it clear, on the basis of such theological works in Chinese as The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven of 1603, that Ricci was and remained an orthodox Catholic believer, whose very orthodoxy it was that impelled him to take seriously the integrity of Chinese traditions.

Pannenberg is now well into his eighties and we can expect that his theological work is complete.

Under his doctoral adviser at Heidelberg, Edmund Schlink, who had been a Protestant observer at Vatican II, he imbibed an orientation to ecumenism that was to characterize his theological work.

Adamant about the centrality of justification by faith through grace, we sometimes verge on a perverse kind of theological works - righteousness.

The essays in this volume present fine examples of the theological work that results when the Reformation's catholicity and commitment to the unity of the Church are properly valued and when the need for genuine renewal and reform is posited by Protestants for Protestantism.

While some regret the «ideological deviation» tarnishing my scholarly reputation, many take pride in and draw courage from my theological work.

There is a massive amount of biblical and theological work to be done simultaneously with our practical response to such pressing issues as global hunger.

This is because the starting point for women's theological work, in all regions of the world, is their day to day, existential experience of life.

He has from the earliest stages of his theological work emphasized the need and responsibility of Christians to get immersed into social action and movements as a theological imperative for our times.

No one will be able to do responsible theological work during the remainder of the twentieth century without taking account of the philosophy of Charles Hartshorne; and all who study it, layman and theologian alike, will be profited, if not fully convinced, by it.

theological work does not merely begin with prayer and is not merely accompanied by it; in its totality it is peculiar and characteristic of theology that it can be performed only in the act of prayer.

His most important theological work is The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion (1936).

Systematically, the whole of Brunner's theological work rests upon his answer to questions of this sort.

But the question remains whether all theology is or should be political theology, whether the political is the sole horizon for theological work.

This problem comes to the front in Bultmann's theology because of his conviction, as Schubert Ogden has said, that «if theological work is properly pursued, it is neither speculative nor scientific in an «objective» sense, but rather existentiell, that is, a type of thinking inseparable from one's most immediate understanding of oneself as a person.»

If there is a theory of natural law that will actually help us do theological work, then it must meet two main criteria: It should be strongly teleological, affirming that the human good includes our being ordered to God and neighbor.

His theological works remain a source of inspiration not only for his vivid exposition of profound issues, but also for the well - turned phrases such as «cheap grace» or «world come of age.»

One of the most widely read theological works giving a rather large amount of attention to Whitehead was Nature, Man and God by William Temple.8 Throughout the book, Temple quotes Whitehead extensively in support of a process or organismic conception of the universe.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

David, Yes, it is not found in all theological works.

The final chapters emphasize how pertinent Sayers» doctrinal explanations and theological work ethic remain for today's believers» a call to the spiritual adulthood demanded by the Letter to the Hebrews.

The theological work which will be most useful in the years ahead will be that which works out its motifs in correlation with the whole range of the biological, behavioral, and social sciences, and does so in language which has the widest possible touch with ordinary modes of speech common to all educated persons.

At any rate, among such people as David Burrell, Stephen Crites, Samuel McClendon, Donald and Walter Capps, James Wiggins, John Dunne and, in a different way, Richard R. Niebuhr and William Lynch, it is a concern with concrete, ordinary experience that for some has meant a renewed interest in religious autobiography — Paul's letters, Augustine's Confessions, John Woolman's Journal, Kierkegaard's writings, the theological work of Teilhard de Chardin, Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers, Dorothy Day's autobiography and so on.

This quiet theological work is more effective politically because less entangled with partisan biases and immediate interests.

However, if this skepticism concerning reason is really radical, then all genuine philosophical and religious thought is totally undermined, including Gilkey's own important theological work.

It ought not be necessary to say that the process I am about to describe does not commonly take place in the absence of fundamental disciplines in theological work.

The latter is to be noted in the quadrilateral definition in the Disciplinary statement that insists on scripture, tradition, reason, and experience as elements of our theological work.

But since the beginning of the last century the fundamental theme of theological works is the question: Is there a God?