Sentences with phrase «responsibility as theologian»

The Humanae vitae debate opened my eyes to my critical responsibilities as a theologian.

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Since it sees the mandate as a relationship between the bishop and the theologian rather than the university, the Bevilacqua proposal also places the responsibility for securing the mandate on the Catholic theologian, not on the university.

Yet in the late sixties and throughout the seventies, while continuing to contribute to discussions of hope and freedom, process theologians lagged far behind in the discussion of Christian responsibility for public affairs, especially as these are politically conceived.

Joy Bussert writes: «Christian theologians like Luther projected «uncontrolled sexuality» and thus responsibility for the fall, onto women, as the object of sexuality, since sexuality appears to be what they feared most in themselves.

The criticism of Scripture as norm has also come from those theologians who have been most deeply affected by Christian responsibility for the Holocaust.

In proposing this fresh presentation of classic moral truths in a delicate area of pastoral care, the Cracovian theologians drew on the pioneering work done by their archbishop, Karol Wojtyla, in Love and Responsibility — work that Wojtyla, as John Paul II, would later develop in the Theology of the Body.

And where else but in such a department can a Christian theologian have the glorious if frightening responsibility of training, e.g., future Jewish theologians, as well as those who may contribute to turning the church toward new responsibilities?

On the other hand, those theologians for whom a specifically political responsibility is the demand of faith itself so react against what they take to be misguided attempts to separate faith and justice as to give every appearance of simply identifying them.

But one still looks in vain among the writings of liberation theologians to find discussions of the indispensable institutions of democratic (republican) government, such as guarantees of rights of minorities against the tyranny of the majority or divisions of responsibilities and functions that avoid dangerous concentrations of power.

It is for this reason that I consider it the first and primal act of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian of the «phenomenon of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility of «seeing», of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts» of history and human development that are taking place within the wider spectrum of the movement of the human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level of its manifestation.

Further, even if professors of theology decide to function as theologians anyway, they are socialized into understanding their professional responsibility narrowly.

In the worship of the community, by the hospital bed, in the home of the neighbor we are confronted by our responsibility as priest - theologians.