Sentences with phrase «study philosophy and theology»

They study philosophy and theology for years, and provide their services to the public.

Suleyman is also bright, having gained a place to study philosophy and theology at the University of Oxford.

She studied philosophy and theology at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and has a doctorate in classics from Columbia... (more)

Not exact matches

I have studied many religions and history of theology and philosophy, and my conclusion is the same today, forty years later:

After I transferred to Heidelberg to complete my studies, my inclination to combine philosophy and theology was greatly encouraged by closer acquaintance with patristic thought.

Although the university provided the setting for some of the most enduring theology of the medieval and Reformation eras, and though the philosophy of religion in the modern period emerged under similar auspices, the recent development of departments of religious studies in secular universities represents a unique phenomenon that has profound implications for theology.

For a defense of Aquinas holding DP2 see W. Norris Clarke, «Charles Hartshorne's Philosophy of God: A Thomistic Critique» (HCG 106 - 8); and also Matthew Lamb, «Liberation Theology and Social Justice,» Process Studies 14 (Summer, 1985), Pp. 122 - 3, fn 25.

After studying theology and philosophy, I realized the Bible was not the word of God.

The Galileo affair is well worth studying as it raises many problems concerning the relations between theology and science, and the philosophy of scientific discovery [3].

M.L.King Jr. further continued to develop his perspective by putting all his interest in the study of philosophy and theology.

The next stage of his intellectual pilgrimage to non-violence came during his doctoral studies in philosophy, and theology at Boston University under Bigar S.Brightman and L.Harold Dewolf, «both men greatly stimulated my thinking».

Timeless affirmations of Barthian theology and transcendental questions of modern philosophy dominated theology and ethics, while pastoral studies fostered the professional competences of the counselor.

Having grown up in the UK, Helen - Ann Hartley then studied theology and is a Doctor of Philosophy.

4In addition to his article in the present volume, see e.g., «A Whiteheadian Basis for Pannenberg's Theology,» Encounter 38 (1977): 307 - 17; «A Dialogue About Process Philosophy» (with Wolfhart Pannenberg), Encounter 38 (1977): 318 - 24; «God as the Subjectivity of the Future,» Encounter 41 (1980): 287 - 92; «The Divine Activity of the Future,» Process Studies 11/3 (Fall 1981): 169 - 79; and «Creativity in a Future Key,» in New Essays in Metaphysics, ed.

4Ford locates these debates in Process Studies, 1: 95 - 98; John B. Cobb, Jr., A Christian Natural Theology (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1965), pp. 89f; and D. Brown, R. F. James, Jr., and G. Reeves, eds., Process Philosophy and Christian Thought (Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill, 1971), pp. 314 - 19.

These include history and geography, schools of thought, mysticism, religious belief, religious practice, Islamic law, theology, philosophy and ideology, politics (dynastic states, political and religious roles, political concepts and terms), economics, culture and society (personal life, community life, arts and literature, science and medicine, communications, popular religion), Islamic studies, institutions, organizations, movements, biographies.

Smith, John E., «Religion and Theology in Peirce,» Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, ed.

Its undergraduate degree in biblical studies and theology will instead be administered by the department of philosophy.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

For a person who toots his own horn about how smart he is, you certainly seem to need a lot more study on ancient history, science, and general philosophy coupled with theology.

Rather than leaving this as an uninvestigated discovery, as scientific reductionism and materialism would have us leave it, the Holy Father invites us to remit the question to those areas of study which have the appropriate competence, which comprise human subjectivity and creativity within their appropriate object: namely philosophy and theology.

Journal of Religion 64:2 (April 1984): 188204; Process Philosophy and Trinitarian Theology,» Process Studies 8:4 (winter 1978): 217 - 230; and Process Philosophy and Trinitarian Theology — II,» Process Studies 11:2 (Summer 1981): 83 - 96.

He graduated with a liberal studies degree and down the road plans to pursue graduate studies in philosophy and theology with the intent of being a professor.]

Although this is properly an essay in Christian theology, my professional background lies in philosophy and, to a lesser extent, in biblical studies.

For excellent discussions of the need to recover the empirical side of the process tradition, see Lee, Bernard J., SM., «Two Process Theologies,» Theological Studies 45 (1984), pp. 307 - 319; Axel, Larry E., and Peden, W. Creighton, eds., Dean, William, Special Guest Coeditor The Size of God: The Theology of Bernard Loomer in Context (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987), also published simultaneously as the special January and May, 1987 issue of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Vol.

In these primary considerations, he will find many resources, for the study of the meaning of words is a central issue in contemporary philosophy, theology, and Biblical interpretation.

Any adequate discussion of the theme of love of God and neighbor and of its relevance to Church and school requires all the resources of the theological curriculum from study of the Scriptures through systematic theology, the philosophy, psychology and history of religion, Christian and social ethics to pastoral theology, Christian education and homiletics.

Panikkar's theology is highly marked by his biography which laid the encounter of different religions and contexts in his cradle, as it were.40 He has faced this challenge and engaged in an intense study of languages, philosophies, theologies and sacred scriptures as well as living everyday life in many contexts.

A first chapter considers how the medieval quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music became separated from the study of philosophy and theology, as if the quadrivium was an end in itself rather than the way in which a person was made ready for the study of philosophy and theology.

David Griffin teaches philosophy of religion at the School of Theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School and is Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies.

Opportunities for graduate study and research in the religions of Asia have expanded rapidly in the United States and Europe since the war, using the techniques of linguistics, history, literary criticism, sociology, anthropology, psychology, the arts, theology, and philosophy.

Oh, and I have and continually do study - World Religions (besides study in Christian theology), Philosophies, Psychology, Sociology, etc.... Would my / and the rest of the gang's opinions still not count...?

One method used that he considered very effective was the study of the religious response to a good not our own in previous ages, not only through the study of philosophy and theology, but art, literature, hymnody.

While Chicago no longer exists as a center of process thought and is to a lesser extent than before identified with philosophy - theology dialogue and interaction, it leaves a legacy worthy of study by anyone interested in the history of these modes of inquiry in American religious thought.

That it is such a responsible and illuminating study is due largely to Morrissey's solid understanding that it is Voegelin's theory of consciousness, presented and assessed here in detail in its development and refinement, that provides the key to appreciating the theological dimension of Voegelin's philosophy and the basis for working out what Morrissey calls «the principles of a Voegelinian theology.»

The second approach to comparative religion at Chicago was advocated by George Burman Foster (d. 1918), who accepted a widely held three - layered scheme: (1) a narrow history of religions — conceived to be the simple historical study of «raw» religious data, often colored by an evolutionary ideology — toward (2) «comparative religion,» which aims to classify religious data and culminates in (3) a philosophy of religion (or a theology) that provides a meaning for the comparative religion enterprise as a whole.

From the beginning, it was crystal - clear to Wach that he wanted to teach the history of religions (Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft), which is an autonomous discipline situated between normative studies, such as philosophy of religion and theology, and descriptive studies, such as sociology, anthropology, and psychology.

Norbert to discuss theology during high school, and he was now in his first year of studies in philosophy at the University of Tulsa.

David Ray Griffin teaches Philosophy of religion at the School of theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School and is Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies.

The tendency of philosophy to migrate from the philosophy faculties into social science, cultural studies, gender studies and elsewhere has also been evident in Britain, and in several universities narrowly focused philosophy departments are supplemented by a more diverse philosophical diet in theology and religious studies.

Hebrew language and literature, Jewish history, modern Jewish theology and philosophy, even undue absorption in the study of the biblical text — all are proscribed as evidence of defection from Torah - true Judaism.

As the years passed he studied Whitehead's philosophy with greater care, and his later theology expresses a full - orbed appropriation of Whiteheadian conceptuality.28

Normative studies, such as theology and philosophy, and descriptive disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology, and others, are concerned with various aspects of religions and religious phenomena.

And then, because (as he later wrote) he realized «that Catholicism was the largest force in my life, yet I knew so little about it,» he went on to study theology, philosophy, and canon law at the Catholic University of America, earning a PhD in 19And then, because (as he later wrote) he realized «that Catholicism was the largest force in my life, yet I knew so little about it,» he went on to study theology, philosophy, and canon law at the Catholic University of America, earning a PhD in 19and canon law at the Catholic University of America, earning a PhD in 1951.

Johann Lang, in a letter to Spalatin in March 1516 (shortly before he was appointed to Erfurt) referring to the large numbers of students who were dropping out of the courses on scholastic philosophy and theology, and explaining the rebirth of biblical studies (he used the Renaissance type word reviviscere) and the new Strong interest in antiquae scriptores, identified the phenomenon by pointing to the international influence of Reuchlin and Erasmus, «men of great erudition and integrity».

She is finishing her M.A. in Media Literacy Education, has a B.A. in theology and philosophy from St. John's University, NYC, studied screenwriting at UCLA and Act One, Hollywood, and holds a Certificate in Pastoral Youth Ministry.

The Dutch theologian Hans Reinders, one of the most interesting thinkers working at the intersections of theology, philosophy, and disability studies, discusses in this well - written and engaging book the theology of providence in relation to the experience of disability.

Mathematics, theology, philosophy and law are examples of fields that revolve within a stand - alone world in which new findings are derived by means of logical operations consisting of axioms, postulates or articles of faith (theology) that need not be proven true or accurate through empirical studies or analyses.

Collier holds degrees from Loyola University Chicago (B.A. History with an emphasis in Women's studies, Philosophy, and Theology), Colorado State University (M.A. History with an emphasis in literature of the American West and Environmental History), and Arizona State University (Ph.D. with an emphasis in American Indian History, the American West, Gender History, and Education).

In 2011, Preston moved to Nashville to pursue an undergraduate degree in religious studies from Trevecca Nazarene University, focusing in philosophy, theology, and history.