Sentences with phrase «then teaching theology»

If theology is a way of life and a lens through which life is perceived and not simply a set of propositional statements, then teaching theology in the church should involve reflection on the life of the church — on worship and sacraments, ministry (ordained and lay) and mission.

Not exact matches

If you teach that Joseph Smith is equal to Jesus Christ as Mormon theology specifically teaches then you are worshipping multiple Gods.

considering the teaching of Christ has inspired more wars then any other theology in the history of the world, and the reverence of the god of death destruction and lies i would say their more then justified in any and all war.

And if you think that «Calvinist theology is the opposite of Catholic theology», then you are completely ignorant of the numerous Catholic theologians who also taught strict election and predestination (including St. Augustine, whom Calvin quotes more than any other theologian).

My favorite professor at Wheaton (my theology prof) got in huge trouble for two things: (1) a divorce, (2) switching / converting from Baptist to Episcopal — and then teaching students the complexity.

Most of the theology and dogma that developed around him since then resulted, as I see it, from misunderstanding or avoiding his central teaching, which had nothing whatsoever to do with sun worship.

Born in Japan, service in the army, then University of Chicago and Chicago Divinity School; local United Methodist pastor, five years teaching at Emory and finally thirty - two years at Claremont School of Theology.

Albert Schweitzer identified Paul as the creator of Christian theology, but as A. von Harnack teaches, Paul's theology was not understood by Christendom until the Reformation if even then.

Rather then trying to combine faith / works / and obedience together, as is commonly taught in reformed theology.

Then they would go on to teach some sort of dangerous idea about how a favorite «prophecy» doesn't actually point to Jesus, or how a favorite text doesn't mean what most Christians think, or how the misuse and misunderstanding of a particular point of theology could lead to sin.

I began by questioning the foundations of theology, and then I wrote about 50 posts questioning what I have been taught about the Bible.

It is only then that he will be able satisfactorily to pursue his fourth aim, that of understanding the growth of Christian theology and teaching in New Testament times.

Mormon theology teaches that God is only one of countless gods, that he used to be a man on another planet, that he became a god by following the laws and ordinances of that god on that world, and that he brought one of his wives to this world with whom he produces spirit children who then inhabit human bodies at birth.

If you don't use the right language or go along with the theology that's taught there, then you are considered dubious.

His view is that Paul basically gave himself free reign here at the start of his teachings to the gentiles (see also 1:1 a: «Paulos, apostolos ouk ap anthroopoon, oude di anthroopon, alla dia Iesou Christou, kia Theou patros...») and then started preaching his own theology heavily influenced by his own biases and preferences — not that any of the writers were ever completely exempt from it of course, but still the writer felt Paul was quite fundamentalistic at times about certain things he had some clear opinions about, e.g. about relationships and women's position in the church etc, which he then propagated as part of the gospel.

which then reminded me of the project I started several years ago where I set out to summarize all the theology I had been taught in Bible College and Seminary, and then ask the question that I never had time (or courage) to ask... But after a couple dozen posts, I got sidetracked again....

Then all practical theology courses would be team - taught and would aim at integration.

Then, in the cultural and intellectual revolution of the post-conciliar years, he was seen as a conservative because he criticised the liberal theology and catechetics that now became dominant, and he warned that influential voices in the Church were failing to teach the full, orthodox doctrine and morality of Catholicism.

As we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.

I just feel that there are lots of Christians going about teaching sloppy ideas and careless theology, which then gets us in trouble when thinking people of other religions challenge us on our beliefs.

To this I can only reply that this is what I myself was taught, first, as part of instruction given in my parish as a child and later, with many refinements and qualifications, in lectures in theology as an ordinand — although I should add that my teacher was himself, quite obviously, very ill at ease about the scheme, left it to the very end of his course, and even then touched upon it gingerly.

This is no different than some young people going to college and leaving their brains at the door and swallowing evolutionary theory and purposely rejecting the obvious of what creation clearly shows except this is leaving your brain at the door of theology school and accepting man's opinion over what is clearly stated in the holy scriptures, and then teaching others false doctrine.

If the first century notions of a maternal spirit and an androgynous Jesus were indeed early teachings that the developing church subsequently rejected (for whatever reasons), then a «balanced out» theology of the Christian godhead, informed by psychological insights, has both «modern» relevance and «ancient» precedent.

If the discovery of that theology is the goal, then attention to the communicative strategies of the texts ought to be able to help us to teach and preach with greater competence, sensitivity and power.

If this is in fact the context, then pre «evangelization by teaching «natural theology» first makes a lot of sense» and the proposition needs, at least, to be publicized and debated.

As Robert Lee puts it, after doxology (the initial religious experience) comes theology (systematic teachings about the experience) and then sociology (the attempt to preserve the experience through organization).

He was President of Meadville Theological School in Chicago, then taught at Claremont School of Theology, the University of Iowa, and a number of other schools of tTheology, the University of Iowa, and a number of other schools of theologytheology.

However, Professor Brian Benestad, who teaches theology at the University of Scranton, argues «If the Catholic schools are required to recognize the union, then you're going to have government... intervening in the school, making decisions about whether the bishops» invocation of doctrine is really genuine.»

Loesch taught theology for nine years in Fort Wayne, and then served as principal of Marian High School.

Since then he has studied Journalism and Creative Writing, worked in a radio news room, gained a Theology degree, taught and lectured at a variety of seminaries, and worked as a church pastor both in Perth and in the UK.