Sentences with phrase «primarily as a theologian»

Although Calvin is remembered primarily as a theologian and biblical commentator, his experience of the realities of public life in the cosmopolitan imperial city of Strasbourg had given him a new confidence to address the issue of Christianity in the public arena.

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The first is that Thomas should be read primarily as a biblical theologian, made ever more biblical precisely by his study of Aristotle.

However, as theologians begin to outgrow the pastors, the denomination (primarily run by pastors) puts pressure on them to conform.

I contend, however, that each theologian's notion of God can be better understood as beginning primarily in speculation.

First, Hauerwas learned his emphasis on narrative primarily from Christian theologians such as H. R. Niebuhr and Hans Frei, and only secondarily from (secular) literary criticism.

Those who do think of themselves as theologians, on the other hand, do not concern themselves primarily with discussing religion.