Sentences with phrase «starting point of theology»

Within this framework, the starting point of theology is the study of the relationship between human beings and a superhuman reality we call God.

However, it is this very Schleiermacherian approach which tunes out commitment to God's praxis as starting point of theology.

Quite a number of white male theologians, while not buying into the more secular demands of liberation, still want to retain the liberal starting point of theology developed by Friedrich Schleiermacher as they seek to tie into the liberation process.

The great shift from «the large group of educated people» (Systematic Theology, III, p. 4) to the oppressed as the starting point of theology, though only in its very first stages, is already being strongly resisted.

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Berger believes that his «anthropological starting point» will be «intrinsically repulsive to most conservative forms of theology.»

But Berger's propensity to expound theology solely on an empirical, inductive basis — his desire, that is, to make anthropology not only the starting point but the continuing locus of his theology — actually results in a diminished play experience as well as a truncated Christianity.

One of the things we have learned from the «theologies of» is that it is better to be honest and open about this than to pretend to oneself or others that one has found a neutral starting point.

However, the relation between theology and philosophy is markedly altered once we fully recognize that the starting point of philosophy, that is, the fundamental vision with which the thinker begins, is historically conditioned and that Christian faith has played a major role in the formation of the Western vision.

This starting point will lead the philosopher to the consideration of many questions ordinarily not treated by Christian theology and to the omission of many questions usually treated by theology.

Something like this can also be done from the side of the theology of nature, and, as I have indicated, I believe this is the most promising starting point in the «theologies of» because, in principle at least, it is the most inclusive.

By contrast, revealed theology takes as its starting point the whole richness of the existing faith of the church.

We confine ourselves to the starting point for an understanding of the ecclesiality of theology such as has just been mentioned.

For Gilson there was only one authentic Thomistic metaphysics» a metaphysics of existence whose starting point, although located within the theology of St. Thomas, is sensible being.

Theology understood as a practical discipline should not» be confused with those theologies that make the question of «faith» the starting point of theological reflection.

Bruce McCormack started from the same point in his brilliant essay on the role of justification in Protestant theology, an essay which is mandatory reading for those wishing to understand what's at stake over the doctrine of justification.

The problem with Calvinism (not Calvin) is not that there is some truth in predestination (God is God after all) but that it makes predestination the starting point and framework of its theology.

The starting point of Holloway's theology is quite explicitly an unequivocal acceptance of what is revealed, as defined by the Catholic Church, and a deep respect for the accumulated tradition of Catholic thought.

Of course Christian theology takes Christ as its starting point.

Some Christians acknowledge the distinction between the Gospel stories and the history behind them and argue that the starting point for Christian theology is not the faith of the New Testament but the teaching and ministry of Jesus.

The following facts support this belief: the participation of the churches in the theological conversations of the ecumenical movement, which perforce have had to find their common starting point and common vocabulary in biblical literature and theology; the growing body of specifically biblical theology, produced by the very vitality of fragmentary and monographic studies.

It will be clear from my personal account that the interest of many of us in process thought has its starting point in theology.

And if it can be shown that God as witnessed in the Scriptures is not the liberator of the oppressed, then black theology would have either to drop the «Christian» designation or to choose another starting point.

The theology of the twenty - first century will take as its starting point the urgent issues of the day, and it will bring to bear upon them multiple traditions, but of these the great tradition of European theology will be one, and a very important one.

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George Sabra, president of the Near East School of Theology in Lebanon, recognized a common starting point.