Sentences with word «soteriological»

Moreover, I believe he does a very fine job of making the rather abstract soteriological positions of various process thinkers accessible to even the previously uninitiated.

But I see little basis for claiming that these two schools of thought actually have much in common on the basic soteriological issues which Wheeler raises.

At other points, though, Wheeler seems to be making a stronger claim: that the basic soteriological beliefs of process thinkers and evangelicals are more similar than it might initially appear.

Because of my own centering in soteriological questions, and my having allowed the broader theological tradition to define soteriology for me in purely anthropological terms, I had ignored aspects of what my own teachers had said.

Campbell also had serious soteriological differences with the Baptists.

Thus, the fact that those whom Wheeler considers process theists appear to differ on this question indicates to me that there does not exist one general process soteriological perspective with which the evangelical perspective can be compared.

In short, Wheeler does seem to want to convince us that the rather esoteric terminology used by both process theists and evangelicals at times masks basic soteriological agreement.

One may notice the personal soteriological orientation of both Wesley and Luther in the emphasis on the pro me significance of the work of Christ.

The many passages listed under I - 2 in the chart show that this is one of the most used soteriological symbols in the scriptures.

Thus, although some of these old soteriological symbols can seem confusing, it can be helpful to look at them once more with an eye to finding more relevant metaphors for ourselves and for communicating the Good News to others today.

Finally, it sometimes appears that Wheeler's primary goal is not to demonstrate that Whiteheadian and evangelical thought are actually similar on soteriological issues but rather to demonstrate that it is possible to produce a coherent synthesis of the two, a synthesis which incorporates what is most illuminating in each.

On this early view, Scripture is seen along with other canonized instrumentalities of God's grace and guidance as chiefly soteriological rather than epistemological.

Nonetheless, the categories of Michalson's analysis are metaphysical not soteriological, and this obscures the full nature of Kant's great appeal to modern theologians, as well as his baleful influence.

A certain soteriological orientation was maintained, but there was a basic shift away from the organizing motif of justification - at least as understood forensically - toward themes of regeneration and sanctification.

Had that already occurred by the time of Christ, there would be no reason why this could not have been revealed to the apostles by Jesus as a caution against soteriological presumption.

Granted, the functions of Amida are more purely soteriological, whereas Whitehead's God also has a creative role in the whole course of events.

He was thus unable to modify his evangelical perfectionism sufficiently to develop an adequate soteriological counterpart to his metaphysical innovations.

A different, but equally untheological, verb, «azar, to help or aid, particularly in military situations, also gets soteriological treatment: «God is my help» (54:6) becomes «God is my savior.»

By comparing the religious structure and historical evolution of Buddhist soteriological ideals with those of Christianity, we might better understand the bases of Christian beliefs about salvation.

There are at least two strands of process soteriological thought to be considered, strands of thought which are much more divergent that Wheeler acknowledges.

Midgley's prophetic message needs to be heard; while the sciences are highly valuable, they must be challenged when they offer soteriological myths.

Uppermost in this regard is my concern to advance humanism as an alternative religious perspective, as a distinct soteriological system.

In fact, understood in «open Christian» terms, the university is broadly soteriological in its definition, and is viewed as a part — though by no means the whole — of a humanly redemptive event.

«Clearly he did not intend us to understand his use of the term «worship» as implying something soteriological, that these Athenians were therefore in a saving relationship with God.»

with «Universalism and the Open Wounds of Life» «But what most people fail to understand is that my universalism, and most of the universalism I encounter within Christianity, isn't motivated by soteriological issues.

«If the question is to continue to be asked, it should be understood in the way that the Catholic / Orthodox majority of theologians have answered it: «yes, but» — meaning not in any liturgical or soteriological sense,» he wrote.

Through the Middle Ages — by application of the Anselmian rule that «one should ascribe to Mary so much purity that more than that one can not possibly imagine except for God» — Mary came more and more to assume an inflated soteriological significance.

(There, are, for example, covenantal and soteriological motifs as well.)

For we have already shown that creation itself is part of the redemptive or soteriological order.

It seems to me that similar terminology often masks the actual extent to which process thinkers (especially of the Whiteheadian variety) and evangelicals differ on soteriological issues.

The Protestant evangelical primacy of justification by faith, coupled with an overemphasis on discontinuity between the covenants, has more often than not resulted in the confusion of soteriological and ethical categories, in the end breeding among evangelicals a moral mindset devoid of both foundations and fiber.

And in the process there was an erosion of Augustinianism that emphasized the soteriological significance either of human will in a form of synergism or of human cooperation with the divine and a growing attack on such classic Protestant doctrines as limited atonement and predestination.

Yet does this soteriological difference — significant though it is — justify our general Protestant apathy to the witness and person of the mother of Christ?