Sentences with word «soteriology»

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... The de-naturing of reality, which has sadly been a concomitant of the modern «turn to the subject», has undermined the very fabric of human community as well as Christian soteriology.»

He believes there is some point to the criticisms that Bultmann dissolves Christology into soteriology, 3 for he has been unable «to express in an adequate way the «objective» reality of the revelatory event Jesus the Christ «4 even though he does «intend a divine act in the fully real and «objective» sense.

Evangelical and Reformed Christians often express discomfort with Thomas» distinction between natural and supernatural virtues, as they do with the parallel synergism of Roman soteriology which suggests that we can contribute so much to our own salvation but must then wait for God to complete it through his grace.

His study focuses on addressing modern theological issues including Soteriology, Christology, and video games in dialogue with the ancient church, especially the Greek Fathers.

Both embody the secularized soteriology of the Enlightenment, the narrative of Progress.

The LaCugna corollary to Rahner's rule reads: «Theology is inseparable from soteriology, and vice versa.»

But in the process of writing the Nicene Creed, soteriology became separated from the doctrine of God, so that theologia came to refer to the inner workings of the divine life apart from the work of salvation.

Traditionalists claim that emergers have reduced the gospel to social justice to the neglect of atonement soteriology and personal salvation, while emergers claim that traditionalists have reduced the gospel to personal fire insurance to the neglect of Jesus» teachings regarding the Kingdom of God.

Put simply, the doctrine of God is something Protestantism assumed from medieval Catholicism; the notions of authority and ecclesiology were fundamentally transformed; and soteriology exhibited both continuities (e.g., anti-Pelagian understandings of predestination) and discontinuities (e.g., faith as the instrument of justification in which Christ's righteousness was imputed, not imparted).

The story of our salvation shapes our identity in Christ: soteriology constrains theological anthropology.

The systematic question is this: Can one sustain orthodox Protestant soteriology in the long term if one abandons the classical theism and Trinitarianism which underpinned it?

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.

But if my exegesis is sound, Matthew's soteriology does not rest functionally on christology but rather on Law.

Before Thielicke's time, Søren Kierkegaard sought to draw out the potentially radical, life - affirming implications of Lutheran soteriology.

Buddhist soteriology and ethics initially were set in the very unmodern context of revolt against Hinduism.

For instance, historical inquiries have variously identified the radically uncertain Puritan soteriology, the Puritan doctrine of the elect, and the implicit Puritan humanitarianism as its key ideology.

Gaines is «a traditionalist on evangelism, the need for personal commitment to Christ in salvation, and the commonly held Baptist soteriology of the past century,» noted Eric Reed, editor of the Illinois Baptist, while Greear's leadership is more contemporary and more Reformed.

But both Arminians and Calvinists are wrong about soteriology and election.

Given these positions, critics» fears that Avodat represents a regression to a crude soteriology, in which Jews must «turn or burn,» are overblown.

We were opposites in many ways (personality, style) but when it came to theology — especially soteriology, we were on the same page.

A similar apparent lack of information and charity infects his accounts of those, such as Newman and Barth, whom he praises for trying (though failing) to correct the disorders of privileging criterion over canon, epistemology over soteriology.

Thanx anyway, Jeff P, I need recommendations specific for highly Bible read conservative Christians so as to alter their view of Biblical Literalism and exclusivist soteriology.

The Thomas version has introduced gnosticizing elements into the parable, the tilled ground representing the aspect of labouring in the gnostic soteriology, and the great branch the growth of the «heavenly man», (B. Gärtner, Theology of the Gospel According to Thomas, p. 232.)

They might not use the word «mercy» as much as he wants, but they talk extensively about divine love, grace, the sacraments, and charity, all of which pertain to God's mercy, and which they develop into soteriology, the study of the saving action of God.)

By way of contrast, much of the best work on soteriology — biblical and systematic — has remained within the bounds set by Reformation Protestantism.

Late - stage liberalism, which calls itself «progressive,» embodies a distinctive secularized soteriology and eschatology.

In other words, a shift from soteriology to eschatology.

Mormon theology, christology and soteriology are anathematic to mainline Protestantism.

The plot arc is mostly romantic - comedic, but the book's heart is in its soteriology, its study of salvation.

That is largely the result of a soteriology that begins with Original Sin rather than Original Blessing [mankind created in the image of God with the potential for aquiring «godlikeness» over time through cooperation with Grace].

On the level of soteriology, the focus may be said to be on both the personal appropriation of grace understood christologically and the theme of «justification by faith alone.»

God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: eternal life, free grace, gospel, grace, sin, soteriology, Theology of Salvation

The idolatrous «soteriology of freedom» that he identifies in the works of Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard is therefore, for Koyzis, an essential component of liberalism itself.