Sentences with phrase «theological anthropology»

Certain Corinthians, it appears, sought to bring to social visibility a theological anthropology which anticipated the eschatological elimination of sexual difference.

Professor Celia Deane - Drummond's book, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human person.

Appointed to the faculty of Colgate Rochester Divinity School where he would soon assume the school's chair of historical theology, Hamilton established himself by frequently contributing to theological journals and writing Reader's Guides to the Gospels and short books on theological anthropology, including the well - received New Essence of Christianity.

Its reliance on legislative and judicial procedures to decide a complex theological, moral, and ecclesial matter has only heightened even more the disagreement while minimizing the possibility of serious, sustained engagement on basic issues such as theological anthropology, justification and sanctification, the nature of sin, repentance and forgiveness, Scriptural authority, and the nature and purpose of ordained ministry.

William Ernest Hocking stated this truth in his Human Nature and Its Remaking.26 It is the decisive point in a theological anthropology.

We must do good theological anthropology, speaking meaningfully of complementarity in defense of the good of heterosexual marriage.

This theological anthropology flourished in the nineteenth century partially because of the need to distinguish human beings from animals, a need created by evolutionary theories.

Theological anthropology would agree with this but would add that it is too superficial to interpret the self - centredness in human beings as a mechanical disorder or as an organic maladjustment easily corrected by the mechanical or organic processes to come; and that the condition of rational objectivity also requires overcoming of the spiritual alienation of the self from God which is behind all psychic and social alienations.

A number of features of Whitehead's doctrine of man that have bearing upon theological anthropology — the nature of humankind.

Science is still quite relevant to theological anthropology.

What Ratzinger in 1969 called a «daring new theological anthropology» now lies at the core of the curricula of the world - wide network of John Paul II Institutes for Marriage and Family.

In an essay published in 1969 Professor Joseph Ratzinger, as he was, described Gaudium et Spes as offering a «daring new theological anthropology» which he applauded, although he thought it had not been well expressed in the document, which is renowned for its theological imprecision.

His disenchantment with the Social Gospel finally began to emerge as a recovery of the doctrine of original sin, and his thought began to move in the direction of theological anthropology.

The theological anthropology inherent here is relevant, not only for the tribals but for all peoples.

[Their] teaching and practice... were rooted in a theological anthropology permeated by a dismal view of nature and of «natural man.»»

He is currently researching resources in process philosophy for theological anthropology.

From a reformulation of God's eternity as Fullness of Time rather than as the absence of time results in a new understanding of theological anthropology.

The story of our salvation shapes our identity in Christ: soteriology constrains theological anthropology.

What Keen offers is a new theological anthropology, a new therapeutics.

Keen's therapeutic psychology, his theological anthropology, is thus committed to helping an individual shed his limited identity as a «dis - eased» person in order that he might know his full and balanced humanity.

'» [2] Reading the first few pages of scripture gave this philosopher - pope a theological anthropology unmatched in the history of Christian thought.

At one level this is an abstruse argument about the finer points of theological anthropology.

It would be natural, then, to make Orthodox theological anthropology the overarching theme of the Council and to address all other questions — such as jurisdictional disputes, ecumenical dialogue, and human rights — as embraced in the common Orthodox vision for the renewal of humanity.

The modern notion of the self, like the modern notion of rationality, also needs radical rethinking — especially in new theological anthropologies.

Not exact matches

(«Unless process philosophy is informed by existential analysis, its lack of an explicit anthropology, which handicaps it for theological employment, can hardly be remedied in keeping with its own implicit principles.»

Eberstadt writes: «But the majority of people, to continue this complementary religious anthropology, do not re-invent the theological wheel this way.

Brunner's theological contributions extend also to the fields of epistemology, anthropology, Christology, personal and social ethics, eschatology and eristics (Brunner's preferred approach to apologetics), as well as helpful treatments of the standard topics in theology.

But today in our Third World contexts, for obvious reasons, theological enterprise needs to be nurtured by other disciplines such as social sciences, cultural anthropology, study of religions, political sciences, economy, etc..

It aimed to follow an itinerary which began with the evidence for evolution in the biological world, and moved gradually towards its relevance and interpretation in the theological sphere, via the intermediary disciplines of anthropology and philosophy.