Sentences with phrase «see both creation theology»

Moltmann wants to see both creation theology and play itself through a single lens — his eschatological hope.

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However, I've also seen far too many people attempt to ground their identity in doubt - free theology making it all too easy for comedians such as Bill Maher, George Carlin or Ricky Gervais to come along and thoroughly dismantle flimsy beliefs about the creation narrative, the historical Jesus or how seemingly misogynistic and oppressive the Bible sounds.

East Eastern Christians see a dichotomy of God and creation Eastern theologians are largely unaffected by modernism Eastern theologians do not agonize over the existence of God Eastern theologians systematize the transcendent, the miraculous, and the mystical into their theology, without a concept of «supernatural» Eastern theologians have coherent and helpful answers for most practical spiritual problems (such as during bereavement) Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and bereavement counseling; thus they do not outsource religious problems to secular experts.

Sigurd Daecke finds anthropocentrism to be deeply embedded in Protestant theologies of creation reaching back to Luther («I believe that God has created me») and Calvin (nature is the stage for salvation history) and finding a twentieth - century home in the humanistic individualism of Bultmann as well as the Christocentrism of Barth («the reality of creation is known in Jesus Christ»)(see Daecke).

He was active early in the second century CE and is well known for having posited not one but two Gods, one represented in the Old Testament and seen as responsible for the world's creation, the other encountered only in the New Testament in the teaching of Jesus and specifically in the theology of Paul.

Theology, my opinion is that it is the same as science, merely an observation of creation, worded into a way that fits in to the confines of our minds, Our minds work on logic via calculation and when God works outside of that it is seen as a miracle.

1For an excellent survey of the ambiguous record of Christian thinking vis - a-vis the need for creation consciousness, see Paul Santmire, The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).

This fits with Keel's and JW's theology of salvation: «What if instead of seeing salvation's story as one of creation - fall - redemption, we saw it as creation - incarnation - re-creation?»

It is necessary that we think of the Bible as a record of the mighty acts of God, and it may well be understood as a drama, the five acts being Creation, Covenant, Christ, Church, Consummation (See my Biblical theology and Christian Education [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956]-RRB-.

Most obviously, such inadequate approaches include those whereby creation is seen as in a dialectical tension with the Creator, such as forms of Process Theology and Panentheism.

If I had any influence on seminary education, I would like to see a course where students read some first - rate theology of creation» along with Attenborough and Eisner and Nasrecki, and maybe E.O. Wilson on ants thrown in for good measure.

If we see the Incarnation as the predestined final crowning of all creation in Christ, Son of God and of Man, whose kingly destiny is changed, by the divine mercy, into a painful Redemption of his fallen inheritance, then we have a much more majestic vision of Christ, one much more in conformity with the vision of John and Paul, and one much more capable of development in the theology of gender.

It is entranced by the image of homo faber to such an extent that it makes theology into nothing other than our own human creation, and one gets the impression at times that Kaufman sees religion also as nothing but a human construct.

It is difficult (at least as Arminius saw it) to square these key tenets of his thought — that providence is subordinate to creation and that God creates to spread and share his goodness — with traditional Reformed theology and the notions of election and predestination affirmed by the Reformed.

We are professing a theology of creation opposed to the testimony that «God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.»

Then during the last six weeks of class, they finish both Seeing Systems and Resisting Structural Evil, write a research paper and put forth their own theology of creation care.