Sentences with phrase «theological absurdity»

So I REALLY, REALLY do not buy this idea of «diversity = theological absurdity».

The assumption that she would be lost forever simply because she heard one garbled sermon makes the doctrine of hell as often defended a moral and theological absurdity.

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That sense of marvelous absurdity and incredulous, wide - eyed wonder that attaches itself to great surprises, sudden amazements and comic twists, seems to get lost in the prosaic thickness of theological pedantry.

If this were a scientific - theological statement it would be an absurdity, just as if Christ's «Lazarus our friend is sleeping» were a scientific — medical statement it would be a falsehood.

Then the early Christians, seeking to make theological sense of a human absurdity, foraged the Old Testament to find texts that might give purpose to what appeared purposeless.