Sentences with phrase «simply as a theologian»

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And so let me simply tell you that I have done the homework here, as have countless other pastors and theologians, and we all agree.

Most of us are not so impressionable as to simply believe whatever one or two popular theologians tell us, but to do the research and reflection necessary to make up our own minds.

If these are treated simply as outsiders or, worse, as the enemy, no emerging consensus of radical theologians can guide the church.

This does not mean that the theologian simply reflects upon God's revelation as he has personally experienced it and ignores the testimony of others.

Heller notes, it is also risky for theologians simply to ignore scientific developments, as many do, for they may then unwittingly retain in their thinking elements of older, scientifically obsolete World Pictures.

A white male process theologian, for example, working (as most do) within the institutional structure of a North American college or university, simply can not become a feminist theologian or do black theology.

«3 Consequently, the theologian's only real option is simply to abandon any claim for God's reality and give himself to interpreting the Gospel in completely secular — or, as I should insist, secularistic — terms.

Utilizing various theologians, as well as other traditions, Trotter presents a strong case for hope as a critical aspect of Christian faith which has too often been relegated to obscurity or simply neglected.

Further, Pentecostals who read Acts theologically and even doctrinally are simply joining scholars across the theological academy who have emerged in the last generation to defend the author of Luke - Acts as a theologian in his own right.

Broadcast by tweets from influential theologians / pastors such as John Piper bidding «Farewell, Rob Bell,» the article's writer is convinced that Bell can no longer claim the title of «Christian» because he suspects Bell of universalism (this decision being made, it seems, simply by viewing the video above and reading the publisher's summary rather than, you know, reading the book first).

However and nevertheless, in the effort to describe their loyalty to the particular, empirical theologians sometimes begin, just as I have begun, preoccupied with generalities and with logics — a procedure which is ironic when it is not simply comic.

It has been said that whenever some older theologians got to a hard place they simply quoted a few lines of Wordsworth or Tennyson, thinking that ended the matter; or they made a few biblical citations as if that were the complete answer; or (at worst), when the attack was most fierce, they used the word «mystery» as a kind of «escape - hatch».

For example, in the Old Testament the Yahwistic theologians do not simply conform to the new social reality, but make a strong case that in the new situation Israel must understand itself as the bearer of a blessing.

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.

It is you who have been commissioned, you, just as you are, not as minister, as pastor or theologian, not under any concealment or cover, but you yourself have simply to discharge this commission.

And still in our world, when the «academic study of religion» often nudges theological reflection to curricular margins, it remains possible to think of oneself not simply as a scholar of religion but also as a theologian.

Just as liberation theologians have shown that human liberation can not be considered simply as an additional topic tacked on to an otherwise unchanged theology, so also changing the way human beings relate to the natural world can not be simply an additional item on the already overcrowded agenda of the churches.

I think it's partly because Reformed Christians and theologians pride themselves as keepers of the Word, and when that's defied in the name of Christ then they simply flip out.

However, that's not necessarily a job for the scientists — or at least, it's a not that a scientist could necessarily do as simply a scientist — whoever does it may have to put on his philosopher (of politics / ethics and morality / economics) / theologian / historian's cap.