Sentences with phrase «than theology»

On the other hand, the transition will probably not be as easy as some seem to think; more than our theology of a male clergy is being challenged by this gender shift.

If you get to know people as part of developing your theology, these people will change your theology more than your theology will change people.

The choice of political theology rather than theology of hope can be explained much more briefly.

I would love to see you go get a college degree (in something other than theology) so that you can get a high (er) paying job.

Nothing is more serious or worthy of debate than theology.

Family is so much more important than theology books, isn't it?

It is worth noting that some contemporary literature has made more of this human experience than theology has.

Accordingly it might be more properly called the material for a theology of history than the theology itself.

This difference creates a dividing line which cuts deeper than theology, because of what it says about the value of individual members.

What if people were the center of the community, rather than theology, mission, or what it produces?

But on the whole good management practices are prized more than theology.

As the volume's editor, Michael Sherwin, observes, this book is «nothing less than a theology of conversion and Christian vocation expressed in a narrative that traces the effects of God's mercy upon the lives of a generation searching for meaning.»

Bill Easum, a consultant to many growing churches, goes further than most in emphasizing the relationship between growing churches and culture when he advises, «Study more sociology than theology.

Could it be that God is better than their theology?

Despite fitful interest in spiritual things, he, by his own account, was lazy, lustful, and more interested in theater than theology when he began studying for ordination at Oxford.

In his 1993 article, he says, «No issue in missiology is more important, more difficult, more controversial, or more divisive for the days ahead than the theology of religions.»

In a piece of Outreach Magazine, he explained, «The confusion related to my most recent series stems more from methodology than theology.»

Process theologians believe that this revolution in our world view must be incorporated in Christian doctrine and that it brings us closer to the biblical view of the creative and redemptive working of God than theology has been since the first century.

Luckily the only thing worse than their theology — according to Gregory — was their aim, and so he escaped relatively unscathed.

In the sense that process theology may not operate under the «necessity» of hope founded by the Christ event, it is less hopeful than the theology of hope.

A different form of faith than theology, but an «ology» just the same.

Volf defended Hawkins, saying Wheaton's suspension was based more on anti-Muslim bigotry than theology.

Science is even more changeable than theology.

Indeed, Jesus says that most of us are far better at meteorology than theology.

Hence in the Pentecostal tradition doctrine appears more readily than theology.

If he denies that science can speak on these matters, he thereby involves himself in a particular understanding of science that, in its turn, is subject to discussion in contexts other than theology.

The present book, it must be said, is much more history and sociology than theology, and it arrives at the conclusion that Andrew Greeley's model of ethnic tribes is probably the best way of thinking about Catholicism in America, past, present, and future.

Nicene Christianity, however, has insisted that realized eschatology is inevitably tempted to become, in Luther's words, a theology of glory rather than a theology of the cross.

F. Burton Nelson, Vice-President of the Bonhoeffer Society, is working on an oral history project about Bonhoeffer's acquaintances, and confirms the fact that Bonhoeffer's humanity, even more than his theology, has had the greatest lasting influence on his friends.

It is clear that philosophy, no less than theology, has always taken it for granted that man has to a greater or lesser degree erred and gone astray, or at least that he is always in danger of so doing.

Either you don't get out much or read very widely other than theology or you have a bone to pick with evangelical Christianity.

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).

Thus modern theology tends to be a prolegomena to theology, rather than theology itself — i.e., the concern with the proper ordering of the primary symbols of religious language.

«5 It may be of interest to note, incidentally, that Luther is far more concerned to describe a theologian, than a theology, of the cross.

We could on and on about various other theological and practical issues, but the end of the matter is this: If you get to know people as part of developing your theology, these people will change your theology more than your theology will change people.

The map is not the Atlantic Ocean any more than theology is God, but the map is necessary if we want to go anywhere.

My own wish is that thinkers in disciplines other than theology, who suspect that Whitehead had something to say to them too, do more to explore the use of his philosophy.