Sentences with phrase «serve as theologians»

During the academic year 1972 - 1973 I have served as theologian - in - residence at the Church of the Crossroads in Honolulu.

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Evangelical reform, as Protestant evangelical theologian Timothy George has wisely cautioned, does not come by removing» or ignoring» the landmarks that serve all Christians of all subsequent times and places.

And in a vibrant Church, the work of theologians serves as a gift and service to both the hierarchy and the faithful.

The book of Job has served as a philosophical Rorschach blot for its most outspoken interpreters, from the Talmudic rabbis and Church Fathers through their medieval philosophical successors and down to modern philosophers, theologians, and creative writers.

If sociologists have tended to center on the foregoing argument and to single out work as the basis of their assessment of our present inability to play authentically, theologians and philosophers have tended to: focus upon a second area: America's distorted value structure that has accepted as true the «mindscape» of technology 48 This is Theodore Roszak's phrase, and his discussion can perhaps serve as a helpful starting point.

The commonwealth model of marriage held wide appeal among a diverse spectrum of English theologians, and served as the starting point for the liberalizing reforms later urged by authors as different as John Milton and John Locke.

In this work we were guided by two senior theologians, Dr. J. I. Packer, an irenic champion of unitive evangelicalism, and Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., the first U.S. - born theologian to be made a Catholic cardinal without having served as a bishop.

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal «supermarkets for the sacraments,» as some liberation theologians call them.

Born in 1837, Abraham Kuyper was a major intellectual figure in the Dutch Calvinist tradition for many years before his death in 1929: a theologian, pastor, newspaper editor, and statesman who founded the Free University of Amsterdam and served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1901 - 1905.

Feminists as a whole, she says, deride all forms of service or self - sacrifice and «consider any view of marriage as sacrament or covenant a self - serving deception» that oppresses women — a gross misrepresentation of many feminist theologians who affirm both marriage and altruism.

Here the center of controversy has been another Fuller theologian, Paul K. Jewett, who also serves as dean of the Young Life Institute offering theological education to the staff of a popular evangelical youth movement.

And how can his advice serve as a helpful corrective to those theologians who embrace the «Greek» and «Protestant» models of play?

Because most theologians» own training and preoccupation has focussed on the rational discrimination of ideas, the concept of the mass media as integrated power and meaning - generating systems which are actively creating a mythological and heuristic milieu to serve particular social and economic interests is foreign to most theological educators.

So long as he operates as theologian at all, whether his work is dogmatic or eristic, it all depends upon and serves God's revelation of himself in Jesus Christ.

But Lakeland would see Morris's interpretation of Whitehead as illustrating the charge by liberation theologians that Whitehead and process thought in general are counterrevolutionary instruments serving the status quo.

Writers, even Catholic writers, need not be theologians; they certainly need not serve as advertisements for the Summa of Aquinas.

So even before he began using that term, he sent a letter to the head of the Vatican Observatory, noting that «those members of the Church who are either themselves active scientists, or in some special cases both scientists and theologians, could serve as a key resource» in bridging the chasm that too often separates modern science and biblical religion.

For nearly a half century J. I. Packer has served as perhaps the most distinguished theologian in the Reformed evangelical community.

Theologians in the «60s, discovering that the biblicism and antiscientism of their Barthian forebears would no longer serve as a defense against secular attacks, cast: about for a preserve of true religious experience that could not be explained away as just one of many parochial perspectives on the universe.

When theologians affirm that every quest for a genuine and lasting polis is identical with the development of «personhood» in community they should be aware that — at least from a Marxist or revolutionary political point of view — they are serving as ideological spokesmen for a modern Western or bourgeois conception of politics and society.

Richard John Neuhaus, conservative theologian and staunch supporter of U.S. policy, stated the U.S. obsession with Nicaragua: «Washington believes that Nicaragua must serve as a warning to the rest of Central America to never again challenge U.S. hegemony because of the enormous economic and political costs.

The experience of parenthood can serve to confirm the process theologians» concepts as to the nature of God.

These essays are written by well - known missiologists within each of these disciplines, and serve as the springboard for subsequent responses by other missiologists and theologians comprising the remainder of the book.

Not long ago, Pope Benedict XVI made a personal donation to the restoration of the Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, the site of the ancient town of Hippo Regius, where the greatest theologian of the ancient church served as bishop from 395 to 430.

Another commentary series, the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, for which R. R. Reno serves as general editor, recognizes the important task of «reading alongside» the church fathers, Scholastics, reformers, and other theologians of ages past.

Latin American theologians of liberation and their North American sympathizers attacked realism as «the ideology of the Establishment» that served to justify and legitimate oppressive policies.

Yet theologians themselves noted, long before Richard Dawkins, that the argument is hardly cogent, and probably better serves as a reflection (in a double sense) of faith by believers than as an effort to persuade unbelievers.

In his tribute to Freire following the latter's death in 1997, McLaren stated that Freire supported «a radical politics of historical struggle» and «acquired a mythic stature among progressive educators, social workers, and theologians» for «fomenting dedication to the ways that education can serve as a vehicle for... - a politics of liberation.»»