Sentences with phrase «teaching theology proper»

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It reflects the theology of those who thought of Jesus exclusively in apocalyptic terms, and were prepared not only to go through the tradition and substitute «the Son of Man» for his simple «I,» but also to insert appropriate quotations or paraphrases of their favorite apocalyptic texts in order to give his life its appropriate setting — as they assumed — and his teaching its proper interpretation.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

I think I am pretty much done with the series on Bibliology, and so rather than move right on to Theology Proper where I summarize and question what I have been taught about God (I'm actually scared to begin this), I am going to go back to my other two writing projects for a while.

Nonetheless, given the almost hysterical reaction of some theologians, particularly a fair number among the members of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), to such Vatican directives as Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990) and Ad Tuendam Fidem (1998), we can conclude that many professional theologians, and theological faculties, apparently have yet to absorb Newman's point that magisterial authority is necessary for the proper teaching and pursuit of theology.