Sentences with phrase «professional theologians»

Likewise, he finds the machinations of professional theologians about the Christian Trinity (God, Son, Holy Spirit), and the historical Christian controversies over the heresies of Arianism, Adoptionism, Marcionism, and Marianism to be a dull and unimportant.

But for modern man, the scientific world is presented by professional theologians as theologically neutral; it is a natural order.

But I believe that the goal of relevance is not going to be achieved as long as professional theologians (both transcendentalists and immanentists) do not adopt the processive outlook and pattern of thinking.

This book is not intended for professional theologians, and should any such chance upon it, I must beg their indulgence for the many generalizations into which I have been forced in the interests of simplicity.

Therefore, it is hardly surprising that his writings have found scant interest among professional theologians and philosophers, for one can easily arrive at the conclusion that, despite all the fanfare, Schweitzer's mind was shallow.

By questioning the theology produced by professional theologians Berger realizes that theological bureaucrats will hold any activity of «free enterprise,» such as his book, with suspicion.

Or as Berger aptly puts it, theology should not be left to professional theologians alone.

And it is clear that in recent years professional theologians (mostly professors) have become far more of a guild than ever before.

Few professional theologians have waded through the whole work.

A bit campy, perhaps a touch heretical, but on the whole a refreshing and creative response to a phenomenon clearly understood by the masses yet considered by professional theologians too mundane to touch.

Nonetheless, given the almost hysterical reaction of some theologians, particularly a fair number among the members of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), to such Vatican directives as Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990) and Ad Tuendam Fidem (1998), we can conclude that many professional theologians, and theological faculties, apparently have yet to absorb Newman's point that magisterial authority is necessary for the proper teaching and pursuit of theology.

Enable to impress newer views on papal declarations, the theological society (the major organization of Catholic professional theologians) has opted for an independent magisterial statement issued on its own authority which will allow Catholics, both lay and pastoral, fuller options for choice between traditional and more recent thinking.

At one point Professional Theologians discussed such things at length.

The book itself (published in London by the SCM Press and scheduled for publication in the U.S. in September by Westminster Press) consists of ten essays by a group of professional theologians.

The idea of a God who always seeks compensation, a God who always wants a pound of flesh, is not simply a tactical problem in a chess game among professional theologians; it provokes a crisis of trust among the ordinary faithful too.

Although I believe that it is the grafting of the work of American theologians on the history of German, or Central European, theology that has most clearly defined the meaning of theology, and its irrelevance to the average American Christian, this is not the only role played by professional theologians.

(BTW I am a professional theologian.)

The professional theologian is tired of being challenged by the unprofessional.

Although marked out as an exceptional student by his professors at the Gregorian University, he was denied the opportunity to pursue further studies, so he does not write in the academic style and precise terminology of the professional theologian.

I used to be a professional theologian - pastor.

While it has only been quite recently that the professional theologian has been willing to acknowledge that the Christian God is dead, the disappearance of the historical Jesus from New Testament research clearly testifies to the collapse of the traditional form of faith.

In the first place, it refers to the fact that, unlike the majority of professional theologians, both in his day and in ours, Barth did not possess an earned doctorate.

In short, intentional Christian thinking among all Christians can build bridges to professional theologians.

But the blame falls equally on those of us who are professional theologians.

... And certainly many of my friends who are professional theologians, they're not apocalyptic.

The Christians who can best do this are not ministers and professional theologians.

He disavows being a professional theologian and intends the book for similarly «unaccredited» people.

Recognizing the need for liberation from inward and outward sources of oppression, it also proposes a liberating vision free from the suffocating constraints of the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist view of reality, it is all the more remarkable in having been written by two professional theologians, although one of them, to be sure, is a professional biologist.

Because there are few disciplinary rewards for mastering the range of art history, as opposed to mastering a narrow specialization, as a professional theologian Gorringe may be more widely read in art history than many other art historians» certainly not in depth, but possibly in surface area covered.

Now if you're a professional theologian, I bet that there are a lot of things you could be doing to make more money than pastoring a small Vineyard congregation in Ontario.

And it certainly is too important to be left to the professional theologians!

The only difference between him and the professional theologian is that the latter is pursuing the problem at that greater depth which the tools of an academic discipline make possible.

Professional theologian or historian I am not, but only a reasonably informed Christian who looks at the wound of the Schism and wonders why churchmen routinely expect it to take more than a thousand years to heal.

The professional theologians have a subordinate role in so far as they help to formulate and articulate what emerges from peoples» encounter with the realities of their context.

Even to be able to do this service, the professional theologian has to immerse herself into the experiences and life - realities of the people.

Although scholars and professional theologians might be condescending toward it, and look to Germany for intellectual guidance, for the American Christian community as a whole, the «theology» imported by scholars was of little more than academic interest.

As a professional theologian who lived through the late sixties and early seventies, I can assure you that understanding and assimilating what was being said was not easy.