Sentences with phrase «systematic theological understanding»

Quite the opposite: a systematic theological understanding — and a consistent articulation thereof — is a pastoral virtue, if not a necessity.

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The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without in some fundamental sense understanding the other first.

Systematic Theology can be read as a much fuller account of the vision first put forward in Revelation as History twenty - five years before: Eschatology remains the key theological locus; Jesus continues to be understood as the anticipatory realization of the final reign of God over all things; Christianity is rational, though this claim is somewhat chastened.