Sentences with phrase «second theological understanding»

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(In order even to begin to comprehend this story, one must understand first that Missouri Synod people care deeply about church doctrine, and second that Concordia Seminary in St. Louis — where classical theological training was offered with considerable rigor — had been revered in the affections of Missourians.

The quickest and easiest way to understand the second condition is to use its theological analog, the preferential option for the poor: the more disadvantaged and marginalized people are, the greater should be the assistance and solicitude extended to them by those in a position to help.

A second set of marks of excellence in theological schooling comes into view when we turn to reflect on the concreteness of a theological school: Its concreteness consists in part in its having institutionalized practices of governance, and its schooling is excellent to the extent that its polity leaves room so that the effort to understand God can be genuine by being free to err.

Accordingly, I seized upon the Catholic theological category of analogy or analogia entis, assuming, first, that it is the primary foundation of the Catholic understanding of God, and, second, that only a radical reconception of this category can make possible a genuinely Catholic form of radical theology.

Our purpose in this chapter is twofold; first, to understand why Christianity with its positive view of the goodness of the creation has come to a crisis in its understanding of sexuality; and second, to consider a theological view of sexual existence which sees its place in life which is fulfilled by the love of God.

The second has been to give some vision, with a theological searchlight, of the context in which administration should be understood.

He takes up two themes: first, Bonhoeffer's understanding of the possible role philosophy can play in the theological enterprise (seen here in comparison to the position of Karl Barth, which is often, though reductively, thought to be a purely anti-philosophical stance); and second, the meaning of Christian community and its place in Bonhoeffer's thought.

Theological educators in this second group stress that the conventional course of theological study is inadequate to the pluralism of ways in which the Christian faith is understoodTheological educators in this second group stress that the conventional course of theological study is inadequate to the pluralism of ways in which the Christian faith is understoodtheological study is inadequate to the pluralism of ways in which the Christian faith is understood and lived.

Second, the self - understanding of theological disciplines itself has changed.

The second function of theology as the intellectual activity of the Church and so of the theological school as a center of this activity, is the service of other activities of the Church through the exercise of theoretical understanding.