Sentences with phrase «particular theological point»

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In particular, I pointed out, worship requires a congregation to engage in constructive and critical theological practices.

The point is that remarks about the potentially distorting and demonic effects of actions» locatedness do not need to be added extrinsically, as it were, to analyses of human inquiry — here theological inquiry in particular — cast in terms of «action»; such remarks are entailed in the very concept of action.

However, is there a theological point being made in all this or is this merely a matter of stringing proof - texts together to make a particular point?

I find it regrettable, uncharitable, and frankly disrespectful that Mr. Neuhaus should accuse me of «a serious disservice to the truth» because as a Jew I do not share a particular point of Catholic theological doctrine; worse still that he should imply that I was being deliberately «obtuse» in responding to Mr. Fisher» a scholar whom I respect» or in any way denigratory about Catholic beliefs.

It dramatically portrays as never before that churches around the world have reached a critical point in the movement from being more or less homogenous in faith, worship and life to a situation of theological and liturgical heterogeneity, rooted in a profound commitment to express Christian faith and witness in terms of particular local cultural idioms.

N.F. 26, 1951] when he contends that it is wrong to raise the question of hermeneutics at this point, and in particular I think he is evading the issue when he says that the controversy as to whether there is a special theological hermeneutics as well as hermeneutics in general is not very fruitful.

Consequently, far more to the point would be the deliberate development and institutionalization of practices within and among theological schools that would make prominent the theological school's own particular agenda of interests in congregations, encourage inquiry governed by that agenda, and reward such inquiry in its processes of promotion and assigning of scholarly status and esteem.