Sentences with phrase «secular university»

On behalf of all professors who teach in secular universities, I thank you.

Already by the end of the nineteenth century, theology was losing credibility as an academic discipline, often finding no place in the new secular universities in the twentieth century.

This absence should not be surprising, given the change of venue represented by the addition of religious studies departments to secular university curricula.

All eventually settled in secular universities to teach, and, for the past 25 years, all have continued to make significant scholarly contributions.

Tidball notes that evangelicals are in the ascendancy even in the theology departments of secular universities.

By way of examples, consider the substitution of «intercultural studies» for «mission studies»; the deference shown to doctorates from secular universities; the multiplication of courses featuring secular content in preference to theological teaching; and the accolades accorded mission strategies created out of profane proposals.

He claims that secular universities don't really understand a fully orbed method of truth seeking.

And consider (what first strikes an outsider from a really secular university) where Notre Dame commits its research and teaching efforts.

Although the university provided the setting for some of the most enduring theology of the medieval and Reformation eras, and though the philosophy of religion in the modern period emerged under similar auspices, the recent development of departments of religious studies in secular universities represents a unique phenomenon that has profound implications for theology.

In his self - effacing way he became a remarkably successful missionary to the thoroughly secular University of Michigan.

Secular universities began including the study of religion chiefly after World War II.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

Although this approach was honed in secular universities so as to fit the general ideology of the university, it now dominates much graduate education in religion, so that many of the doctoral students from whom seminaries draw their faculties are educated in this way.

Also, most of the nearly 200 psychologists / psychiatrists and therapists working for Meier New Life Clinics — all fine, loving Christians — were educated at secular universities.

Executive Secretary, Conference of African Theological Institutions (CATI.For all Theological Institutions & Departments for the Study of Religions in Secular Universities in Africa [2003 - 2010]

Heck, it's not all that different from our strategy when we complain that religious believers are discriminated against in secular universities.

There's no Christian demagogue calling for the courts to shut down the liberal church (which is to say, the secular university).

Some young (or older) theologians teaching at secular universities will also apply, I suspect, even though, since they do not teach at a Catholic institution of higher education, it will not be required of them.

Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Thinking Christians Edited by Kelly Monroe HarperCollins, 368 pages, $ 17.95 The secular university's intolerance of the life of faith is a recurring topic of public discussion.

Catholic courses are becoming more popular even at secular universities, and theologians are being hired at secular universities because they are trained in Catholic theology.

They did belong to the same Church, and all leaned into their secular university worlds with similarly unapologetic attitudes toward their faith.

As far as control goes, step into any secular university in America.

It's a little riduclous to comapre any of them with any secular university.

I have always doubted whether he was really a Christian or not, because he went to a secular university for his education, where they taught him evolution.

Because they were not well equipped to deal with the intellectual challenges posed by modernism, fundamentalists withdrew from mainstream seminaries and secular universities, frequently adopting an anti-intellectual, populist stance that, to use Carpenter's phrase, «often took the form of railing against one's enemies before an audience of one's friends.»

He then decided to pursue a theology degree within a secular university environment, something which he says «challenged and stretched» him.

However, whatever the statistics may say, there's no need to assume that studying theology is a one - way road to liberalism, even within a secular university.

Just as a college, founded by a denomination, reaches for respectability, severs its church ties and becomes a secular university, and just as a colony, settled by citizens of a motherland, rebels and becomes a nation, so a dynamic spiritual movement tends to become one more institution, one more system, one more bureaucracy.

An especially contentious point was the dropping of classroom prayer to accommodate the secular university setting.

In college I studied in the comparative religion department of a secular university and was closely involved with a parachurch ministry.

But the institutional context in which those beliefs can be energized and deepened — the secular university, which has become the secular «church» — is mechanical and lifeless.

A Christian lecturer at a secular university reveals what it's like to talk about faith at work More

As he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how Constantinian!)

It's a common opinion that going to a Christian college will cultivate a person's faith, while attending a secular university may challenge — or even erode — one's commitment to Christ.

A secular university is not a university pure and simple; it is a secular university.

Whereas teaching in theological seminaries had assumed the truth of one tradition, the growing study of religion in secular universities has been concerned about its functions in human life — without reference to the question of its truth or falsity.

At the opposite extreme, the study of religion in secular universities has in the past often been based on instrumentalist or functionalist assumptions.