Sentences with phrase «radical biblical word»

It is precisely Miranda's kind of one - sided, reductionist approach that offers comfortable North Americans a plausible excuse for ignoring the radical biblical Word that seeking justice for the poor is inseparable from — even though it is not identical with — knowing Jahweh.

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Richard L. Rubenstein has had a greater and more immediate impact upon the world of Christian theology than has been effected by any recent radical Christian theologian, and doubtless this is true because, in the words of Langdon Gilkey, he presents the sharpest and most devastating challenge to the traditional or Biblical conception of God.

Only if the Christian Movement is able to demonstrate, concretely in deed and word, how Jesus Christ reveals the radical world - commitment of a God who is (as Paul reputedly said on Mars Hill) «not far from every one of us,» will it manifest biblical faithfulness in the multi-religious and multi-threatened world that is and is coming to be.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

Now the interpretation of the perfecting of the human / word process, leading to a threshold of radical change, is both in keeping with the pattern of evolutionary change evidenced in the natural world, and the biblical concept of the eschaton as the threshold of the new aeon, and the total transformation of humanity and cosmos.

From another, we might rather say that dialectical theology refuses to be truly dialectical, it refuses both radical transcendence (biblical or eschatological faith) and radical immanence (contemporary Existenz), and thus is forced to reach a non-dialectical synthesis between a partial transcendence (Tillich's Unconditioned and Bultmann's Word of faith) and a partial immanence (an Existenz whose Angst can only be answered by «faith»).