Sentences with phrase «relational modes of thinking»

To the extent that these efforts succeeded and to the extent that Wieman, Hartshorne, Loomer, Williams, and Meland came to be regarded as persuasive and major spokesmen in American theology, Chicago became a center of inquiry where process - relational modes of thinking were to the fore.

Whether these efforts provided the centripetal force for a new «school» per se is open to various modes of interpretation, but the attention to the Whiteheadian system and its many implications, to interdisciplinary routes of inquiry, to the latest insights from the emerging sciences, and to process - relational modes of thinking identified Chicago with a progressivism and excitement in theological study which many found appealing.

relational modes of thought and action.

Not exact matches

Those who conceptualize within the imagery of nonrelational or substantive modes of thought, and / or who find it difficult to transcend the traditional conception of power as unilateral, may also be uneasy with the conception of relational power.

For a believer thinking in a process - relational mode, Christ is both act of God and emergent from the evolutionary process.

At any rate, if process - relational thinkers can work through fundamental systemic problems relating to the nature of the self and the God - world relationship, perhaps we might solve as a by - product the question of a realistic envisioning of the resurrection life; if we can't, then this mode of thought has problems more foundational than those at issue in this essay.

If process thought is going to remain a viable option today, it must truly pursue a process - relational mode which enmeshes itself as deeply in life as in any rendition of a metaphysics.

In this way, conventionally religious and secular persons alike may learn to think less in terms of static states of interior, privatized subjectivity, and more in terms of processive - relational modes of doing.

Where do you think institutional critique lies in relation to the somewhat newer modes of relational aesthetics and social practice art?