Sentences with phrase «particular theological tradition»

The way a pastor leads a congregation reflects the beliefs and values associated with a particular theological tradition.

A given theological school may in fact be explicitly committed to a particular theological tradition or «position.»

A school's commitment to a particular theological tradition, sometimes symbolized by required subscription to a confessional statement, might be taken to mean a commitment to specifiable boundaries to what questions may be explored and what range of answers to those questions may be critically examined.

whatever a school's commitment to a particular theological tradition may mean, therefore, insofar as it is a school, it can not entail restrictions on the freedom of teachers and learners to differ and be in error.

Not exact matches

Further, they are already aware of «disagreement about some theological matters» and the CCCU schools are committed to «certain essentials of the faith once for all delivered to the saints» simultaneously adhering to particular theological postures in one's particular school and its theological tradition.

But any genuine recovery of a «particular language of faith» will entail developing and appropriating a theological tradition and embodying that tradition in faithful living — a project that necessarily requires motivations and insights deriving from a quite different kind of authority than the sociologists possess.

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.

Such theological thinking will be grounded firmly in a Christian context and in the language of commitment particular to the Christian tradition, interpreting the dimensions of our faith for the Christian community.

It has become something of a sport for folks in the evangelical, neo-Reformed tradition to take to the internet to draw out the «boundaries of evangelicalism,» boundaries which inevitably fall around their own particular theological distinctions and which seem to grow narrower and narrower with every blog post on the topic.

Furthermore, Ogden recognizes that there is a definite historical connection between the Christian tradition on the one hand, and existentialism and process philosophy on the other.57 Would one not have to say that both of these forms of philosophy became possibilities in fact only as a result of the emergence of Christian faith in history, and of the particular direction the theological tradition developed?

The «orthodox» theologian, for example, is content to find sufficient warrants and backings for his or her theological statements in the «beliefs» of a particular church tradition.

Finally, the Madisonian devotion to pluralism won out over attempts to legislate metaphysical or theological solutions or to privilege particular traditions.

Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

Certainly the principle «treat every human humanely», which is really the Golden Rule, can be found in most faith traditions, although the scriptural or theological support for this statement will be particular to each faith.

Lutheran congregations provide a good Petri dish for studying the megachurch impact, because Lutherans have a distinct theological tradition which they express in a particular liturgical style of worship.

It will be impossible to assess the fruitfulness of that larger proposal to a particular theological school if the understanding of «worship» and of «congregation» it takes for granted is inapplicable in a particular tradition.

An analysis of current religious programming on American television reveals the influence of this shaping effect on religious programming also: particular religious traditions are presented to the exclusion of others; there are apparent similarities between the content of many religious programs and general television programming; and there are similarities in religious program formats and content even in programs from a range of different theological traditions and experience.

The details within these elements will no doubt be elaborated according to the particular theological and practical emphases of each denomination or tradition, though firm consideration of each element is considered necessary if religious television is to take seriously the realities of television communication and the lessons of the past.

(Acts 10:37) That is to say, the original circulation, transmission, and consequent preservation of the evangelic tradition, by separate items, were not controlled or determined by any one particular theological idea, let alone created by it; but it was nevertheless believed to have a significance which can be stated only theologically, though the controlling theological ideas no doubt varied from person to person, and from group to group (See my article «The Christ of the Gospels,» Religion in Life, 10: 430 - 41.)

In order to answer these questions I will formulate and answer three questions in particular: (i) How can I call myself an evangelical when tradition plays an important part in my theological method?

Moreover, because religions are distinctive historical developments, a central task for theology within each particular tradition is the assessment of how well any theological claim coheres with the normative witness to faith of that unique tradition.

While Ogden insists that theological assertions must be judged according to their cohesion with their particular tradition's normative witness, he insists with equal vigor that each theology must also be assessed according to broader norms of truth not tied to particular religious traditions.