Sentences with phrase «particular system of theology»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Unlike philosophy of religion and theology, however, the history of religions does not «indorse» any particular system offered by the diverse religions of the world, nor does it advocate, as many ultra-liberals think it ought, any new universal synthetic religion.

System - building may also be morally misguided, for it tends «to preclude the possibility of a more sensitive encounter with realities at the edge of our being» (FFS 129f), and these are precisely the realities to which theology in particular ought to attend.