Sentences with phrase «system of theology»

If you have ever tried to discuss theology with someone who holds strongly to a particular system of theology, you know that this is how many of these discussions go.

Let us remember how ludicrous our carefully packaged systems of theology really are.

The entire record of Abraham's life in Genesis disproves the Calvinistic system of theology in many ways.

to equate Calvinism with the entirety of [the] gospel is to replace the infinite glory of Jesus Christ with a small, manmade system of theology.»

«The entire conceptual systems of theology and ethics, developed under the conditions of patriarchy, have been the products of males and tend to serve the interests of sexist society.»

It has been imprisoned in the cells of alien dogma; it has been bound hand and foot in the grave clothes of human tradition; it has been entombed as a sepulcher by systems of theology, and the stone of human power has been rolled up to close its door.»

Providence Baptist's online Bible study course teaches «Some build a whole system of theology on this verse, believing that they can win men to Christ by their own powers of persuasion.

Just before Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther in early 1521, the provincial theologian had elaborated his Ninety - Five Theses into a new system of theology.

Furthermore, all the various systems of theology seem to have their own rules for how to understand Scripture, which is not only confusing, but seems to suggest that theologians develop their rules of Bible study based on what they want the Bible to say rather than on some external, literary standard.

In my experience, such passengers can never fully «return'to the Old World and re-prosper in its caste system of theology.

Nevertheless, I believe it is inaccurate for Calvinists to attempt to appropriate the words «grace» and «reformed» for their own system of theology, especially when, in my opinion, many Calvinists know less of grace than their opponents, and numerous others have stopped seeking further theological reformation.

Perhaps Roman Catholics might be expected to understand this more readily than Protestants, since Catholicism is likewise a system of piety; but at the same time Roman Catholicism has also a rigid system of theology and a rigid canon law, while Judaism was almost totally lacking in theology, at least beyond the main and fundamental tenets of monotheism, revelation, the spirituality and the sovereignty of God, and the divine election of Israel.

This view assumes that the will is harnessed to reason and that a closely honed system of theology is capable of engendering a redemptive life - style.

Each continues, of course, to console himself with the delusion that his special system of theology or his particular interpretation of the meaning of the Word of God constitutes a universal frame of reference within which the other person is or ought to be included and that consequently communication between them ought to be possible.

Then we employ systems of theology, grammatical, syntactical, lexical, and historical data to arrive at an interpretation.

It's not just systems of theology you «care not a whit about» but difficult scriptures and even the old testament God.

But to equate Calvinism with the entirety of gospel is to replace the infinite glory of Jesus Christ with a small, manmade system of theology.

When properly understood in it's historical, cultural, grammatical, and contextual contexts, Ephesians 2 is a chapter which does not defend the Calvinistic system of theology, but disproves it at every turn.

Yes, we often worship a system rather than the Savior, whether it is a system of theology or a system of religion.

And none of these systems of theology would ever have Romans 6:1 leveled against them.

No person (or system of theology) is 100 % correct in their thinking about God or in their grasp of all the Bible teaches about God.

It would exercise some of the same freedom which Paul's and the other NT letters do when they refrain from any nostalgic attempts to play Galilee into their theology by transforming the teaching of Jesus» earthly ministry into a system of theology and ethics [Krister Stendahl: «Biblical Theology, Contemporary,» Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962), I, 428].

There is very little hope in some systems of theology.

Perfect theology is not a system of theology; perfect theology is a person.

What about the systems of theology which speak of God's positive attributes and find all his ways just?

Better far to set aside the systems of theology and schools of divinity and come like a little child to the eternal fountain of Holy Scripture, and there drink in the living teachings of God's Spirit.»

The Bible is clear that unity is found «in the Spirit,» not in a system of theology, a race of people or anything like that.

It's wonderful to allow the Scripture to speak for itself rather foisting a system of theology like Calvinism, etc., on it.

I am not surprised that neither Arminians nor Calvinists are happy with my exegesis, because it does not support either system of theology.

I used to be a Calvinist and through study, research, and prayer, came to move away from that system of theology.

If someone has faith in Jesus, but they do not have the good works that some people think are necessary, then according to some systems of theology, those people will not enter into glorification.

But the real reason we can say that John Calvin was truly not a Calvinist is because he himself did not develop the system of theology which bears his name.

You can write volumes on supposed contradictions in the bible, but you won't write a single word that has not been addressed by some system of theology that removes the contradiction (wether right or wrong).