Sentences with phrase «theologians than these practical»

Much more significant for theologians than these practical difficulties, however, are issues of principle.

Not exact matches

Indeed, in a complex society where no one can grasp more than a few of the details, some of the most important practical theology will have to be done by specialists in medicine, law or business, or by theologians and ethicists whose training equips them for specialized roles in those institutions.

Practical theologians have no formula that will yield a prescription for each and every one of these situations, but they need more than a bag of tricks with which to capture the wandering attentions of the information age.

In general, I wondered about Boulton's emphasis on the «practical»: If proper theology and proper Christian formation go hand - in - hand, which «speculative» (rather than strictly «practical») theologian would disagree?