Sentences with phrase «theological affirmation»

It tells us to be realistic and sincere in theological affirmation, it does not tell us where or how to draw the line.

Its theological affirmation of our worldly vocations these days tends to get dismissed as «old hat.»

Later we would occasionally share the platform at ecumenical conferences, but I did not get to know him well until the days in Connecticut that produced «The Hartford Appeal for Theological Affirmation» of 1975.

That basic theological affirmation does not settle many complex issues of public policy, but it does provide an essential framework for grappling with them.

One important consequence of such a theological affirmation was the growing conviction in the missionary movement that mission could not avoid the question of the unity of the church.

The «Appeal for Theological Affirmation» promulgated by the Hartford theological group also paid its respects to the subject of transcendence by affirming the loss of a sense of the transcendent, and by distinguishing false transcendence from true (Worldview, April 1975, p. 40).

Readiness for death speaks from every page of the manuscript, not as an act of personal courage but as a theological affirmation.

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

In Psalm 24:3 - 7 we have an example of such theological affirmation and negation.

third) Therefore, the most basic theological affirmation of black theology is that God desires and strives to achieve the liberation of those who are oppressed.

In Human Rights in Religious Traditions (Pilgrim Press, 1982), Rabbi Daniel Polish concludes that the idea of human rights «derives in the Jewish tradition from the basic theological affirmation of Jewish faith.»

The point of the incident is to give prominence to this theological affirmation and also to give prominence to the superiority of the people of Israel over all other peoples.

By the time the Hartford Appeal for Theological Affirmation tried to redress the balance in 1975, the damage had been done.

This was true in both public policy statements and theological affirmations.

We must subject theological affirmations to the rigor of critical inquiry into the historical reality on which they are based.

Furthermore, theological affirmations regarding the divinely appointed vocation of each individual coincide with concern for the civil and human rights of each person born into the world, no matter how conceived.

In the Germany of 1934, there was no way to make the kind of theological affirmations contained in the document without being extremely political.

And here we are concerned not only with an external system of concepts embracing the object of theological affirmations but with the thing itself, with the nature of the concept as it is appropriate to the object of faith.

Most evangelicals also share with process theologians the commitment to be realists in their theological affirmations.

[25] With these two strands intertwining in the existential experience of Ignatius, it is possible to see how the emergence of theological affirmations about Christ emerge here in a context of existential imperatives, like the reality of schism, division, and breakage of unity, as well as the approach of the gift of death.

The same sort of attitude has to be taken towards most theological affirmations.

At what point do the theological affirmations of process theology decisively differ from the common - sense beliefs of traditional Western culture and society?

«23 He would agree with the Indian thinker that «religion is a matter of personal realisation»; although Radhakrishnan seems to consider this as a typically Hindu attitude, 24 and would most certainly hold that «one's religiousness is to be measured not by one's theological affirmations but by the degree to which one brings forth the fruit of the spirit.

Pannenberg shared this understanding of the Bible, but he grounded his theological affirmations also in philosophy, historiography, and the social sciences.

As with many theological affirmations, there is no empirical way of testing the existence or reality of such conversion.

Not exact matches

I aim to get at some of the theological underpinnings of that unease in language that may seem unfamiliar or even unwelcome, but it is language that is grounded in important Christian affirmations that seek to understand the child as our equal» one who is a gift and not a product.

But the liberal spirit has continued in an affirmation of theological pluralism — an appreciation and attentive acceptance of a variety of theological programs.

In Living Opinions in Protestant Theology, I have tried to show in each case how, whether recognized or not, theological positions depend systematically on affirmations that are not private to theology.

In that role the statement is likely to be read more in terms of its main drift toward biblical theology than in terms of the slight affirmation it accords other theological programs.

They want to «explore how that affirmation in the case of both celibate and non-celibate relationships might be more fully articulated in our theological ethics and better communicated in our pastoral and missional practice...» (para 63) The Bishops note that this has implications for straight relationships too.

Thus contemporary theology is stalemated between a longstanding affirmation which does not touch the lives of many, and an appreciation of the needs and aspirations of contemporary experience which has great difficulty in being theological.

To celebrate our sexuality is to make a theological and anthropological affirmation of the pulsating dynamic of created life, the force within us that moves us beyond ourselves toward others.

Thus believing theology can begin its work by taking for granted a system of theological concepts and affirmations with a proved scientific basis.

Suffice it to say that it reached its culmination, so far as scriptural witness is concerned, in the affirmation that in Christ the Word (the self - expressive creative Activity which is divine in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that in him there is a genuine union of divine Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being»).

As the theological matrix for this affirmation of ordinary life gradually fades» as it is seen less as a Calling» the bourgeois ethic's relation to Deism emerges.

He writes, «If believable affirmation of the heart of the Gospel requires the Catholic repudiation of doctrines that Baptists think incompatible with the heart of the Gospel, there is obviously no point to further theological conversation.»

When «The Gift of Salvation» speaks of «needlessly divisive disputes» between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals, it does not refer to the many weighty theological matters on which we still conscientiously disagree, such as sacramental theology, Marian devotion, purgatory, etc. «The Gift of Salvation» takes note of these matters, referring to them as «serious and persistent differences» which are «necessarily interrelated» with the affirmations we have made in common, and are thus future agenda items for us.

The Acts account of the primitive preaching (at least as regards the lordship of Jesus) is not so much a theological interpretation of Jesus as the affirmation of what the early church had found him to be.

Referring to the Bangkok Assembly of the WCC, The International Congress in Lausanne, the Bishops» Synod in Rome on evangelism in the modern world, and the Orthodox Consultation on Confessing Christ today, Thomas said that theological convergence in these meetings is striking in three points: Firstly, in their emphasis on the whole gospel for the whole man in the whole world; secondly, in their effort to relate evangelism to the identity of the church and to its growth, renewal and unity; and thirdly, in their affirmation of the realities of the contemporary world.

Despite the American and democratic character of Protestant churches and the theological schools that serve them, an interpreter who tried to understand them primarily in this context would need to do violence to them, to twist the meaning of their affirmations of purpose and to misconstrue the character of the work that goes on in them.

God, as chief causative principle and as supreme affect, is «in this world or he is nowhere»; biblical material, and in relation to it Christian liturgical and hymnological imagery, with the theological articulation of this, intend to make affirmations which are to be found in the pictures and forms and myths — and these we must seek to make meaningful and valid for ourselves in our present existence; man is an «embodied» and a social occasion or series (or «routing») of occasions, organic to the world of nature, and can only truly live as he lives in due recognition of these facts and sees them as integral to himself.

A dipolar conception of God seems to promise a genuine theological understanding and affirmation of creativity, and even of a forward - moving creativity, but, rather, the truth would seem to be that the God of process theology forecloses even the possibility of a new humanity.

One needs to make the affirmation that it is precisely through the experience of the pressure on the hyphen that several issues and themes which, for various reasons, remained peripheral to the dominant theological discourse, have now become an indispensable element of any discourse on the situation and identity of Indian - Christians.

Variety in theological expression, as Guarino rightly notes, «must be commensurable with the fundamental creedal and dogmatic affirmations of faith» because different systems can not hold positions that are fundamentally contradictory.

Beato pointed out that the Christian affirmation of the poor as the bearers and the object of the Gospel was not simply a theological thesis, but was also the result of an objective historical and sociological reading of the roots of Christianity.

These include a Catholic mind that takes seriously Adam Smith's economic and philosophical insights; the affirmation that markets must be grounded upon particular moral, political, and legal habits and institutions; the attention to how awareness of the reality of sin should incubate us against economic utopianism; and, perhaps above all, the sustained effort to locate democratic capitalism within a vision of God and man, thereby giving it genuine theological meaning.

Now I come close to the theme of this article: one writer, and I have found no other, in the early Middle Ages attacked classical theism head - on precisely on its two most vulnerable points — its affirmation of, or failure definitely to reject, unqualified theological determinism, and its commitment to endless posthumous careers for human persons, making them in that respect rivals to God.

Thus the affirmation of a single deity containing three persons, the second of whom was the eternal person of «God the Son,» was a clear and consistent theological explanation of the divinity of Jesus in the framework of their philosophy.