Sentences with phrase «theological argument of»

These are not perfect examples of the conflicting sides of the theological argument of predestination, but they prove that examples can be found for trying to weigh the religious lessons of the plays in favor of Catholicism or Protestantism.

Certainly, there are many things I appreciate about John Calvin, Jacobus Arminius, Martin Luther, and the other Reformers, but I have too many differences with the main theological arguments of each man to be comfortable identifying myself with the theological systems that bear their names.

Jason Byassee analyses the theological arguments of a number of well known scholars who have converted to Roman Catholicism.

Not exact matches

Some of their policy arguments may have merit, but their theological claims and priorities are more dubious.

It is an anthropological and theological argument about the «creative subjectivity» of workers and of society, and about the freedom that is necessary for such creative subjectivity to flourish.

On the reading I propose, the Reformation schism was brought about instead by contingent human choices in a confused historical context defined less by clear and principled theological argument (though that of course was present) than by a peculiar and distinctively sixteenth - century combination of overheated and ever - escalating polemics, cold - blooded Realpolitik, and fervid apocalyptic dreaming.

That is an argument we are accustomed to hearing from ultra - traditionalists and some thinkers associated with the English edition of the conservative theological journal Communio.

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

The Catholic Church, to take one prominent institution devoted to the defense of human life from conception until natural death, makes no «theological» argument about the nature of the life in the womb.

Add to that the variety of doctrines / Theologies within orthodox Christianity... with Consensus on a very small Core of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that lacks Consensus and there are mountains of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.

The theological side of the ledger was embodied by Harvey Cox's 1965 bestseller, The Secular City, with its argument for a radically secularized Christianity in which the world sets the agenda for the Church.

They have also been influenced by the much - contested argument of Lynn White, Jr., and others that the classical Western theological tradition has proved ecologically problematic.

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

I myself am a catholic, but if anyone were to have a theological argument, they have to have a deeper understanding of all sides.

If you make good points, I may even comment, or notify my blog readers that I am changing my views because of your compelling Scriptural and theological arguments.

His belief that all theological argument is (quite literally) «away with the fairies», and his optimism about a harmonious world where religion has withered away, are the doctrines of new atheism.

His argument in past articles that it is a good thing that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ordains women flies in the face of church unity, orthodoxy, and good theological thinking.

It argued that celibacy was outdated and unsuitable for contemporary Germany using a variety of theological and social arguments that were poorly conceived and constructed.

suffering, true sociality, as qualities of the divine, along with radical differences (as we shall see) in the meanings ascribed to creation, the universe, human freedom, and in the arguments for the existence of God, those inclined to think that any view that is intimately connected with theological traditions must have been disposed of by this time should also beware lest they commit a non sequitur.

Having being on the receiving end of the «man - hater» comment more times than I can count, seeing it listed as number one — in the form of «I like white males so much I married one» — rubbed me the wrong way.Being called a man - hater is often unfairly used as a way to silence women and dismiss their arguments outright, which is troubling, especially when it happens in the midst of a theological discussion.

The implications of his argument, however, also apply to Roman Catholic theological education.

There is no principled legal or theological argument that looks only to the good of Christians over the interests of others.

By contrast the second kind of argument mounted under the banner of process hermeneutics supports a claim that such - and - such a tenet of process theology is «Biblical theology» in the sense of being compatible with what some Biblical texts say on a theological topic.

The works of Don Browning, John Cobb or Lewis Mudge are a lively introduction to contemporary psychology, social thought and philosophy, as well as an argument for their own constructive theological positions.

Employing biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments, John Paul described the Christian conception of man, and spoke about the inviolability of human life, from conception to death.

and received quite an overwhelming response that varied between total agreement to theological argument... one of which this cartoon attempts to portray.

But it is a comment on the impoverished state of theology today that her arguments should be received with theological seriousness.

She knows the heart of God more than anyone else I know, and so while she may not know all the logical arguments or Scripture passages for various theological views, she senses rightness and wrongness in various theological positions.

The deficiency in Jewett's commentary is connected mainly, however, to his enthusiastic embrace of another stream of scholarship, one that derives not from an interest in Paul's theological argument as such but from a confidence in the ability of historical - criticism to explain every aspect of the letter in such fashion that it not only is intelligible within its first context (something everyone acknowledges is important), but is restricted in its significance only to that first context.

It was also a period of disagreement and theological argument.

As a seminary professor and author of careful, nuanced theological arguments (such as the classic Knowing God), he lacked the tract - writing flair of his peer Stott.

To the neo-conservatives of the moment, no such theological strategy for embracing pluralism without forfeiting mind, negativity, argument, rootedness, tradition, particularity can ever succeed.

If it is not our collective business to settle theological arguments, why are we creating statutes and committing state resources in support of a practice that rests on the opposite assumption — the assumption that there is no God, or at all events no God who would object to suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia?

Furnish, Allan Verhey, Robin Scroggs, Thomas Ogletree, Bruce Birch, Larry Rasmussen and others have pursued one or another of these enterprises, but not within a comprehensive theological argument.

Leaving God unnamed does not make their argument any less theological, especially when they claim that the elements of complex design they have observed in nature are present because of the activity of their unnamed intelligent designer.

These statements employ a wide variety of theological arguments.

It seems to me that a lot of theological and philosophical arguments come from people trying to say the same thing in different words.

Sermons, Bible studies, perhaps even a theological argument may have been a part of the process.

I thus conclude, within the oversimplification which is excusable for this kind of capsule argument, that apologetics or evangelism should not be thought of as constituting a distinctive mode of theological discourse for which we would need a specific definition of the place of the Bible.

And that is the point of my argument; the standard theological version of process philosophy — Whitehead with God — leads me to ask such questions, leads me to wonder why such senseless, absurd disasters have plagued us at every step of our history, and this counts strongly against the centered version of process metaphysics.

All this brings us back to some of the earlier posts on this thread: Instead of memorizing biblical verses and studying theological arguments, shut off the noise in your mind, and just listen.

For the British, it was the actual experience of slavery in some of its most brutal forms in the West Indies that precipitated thinking hard about slavery, which then precipitated biblical and theological arguments against it, which then led to political action.»

This is the argument that is offered as a theological justification for the minister in the dominant roles of enabler and conflict manager.

Badly written, pretentious and irresponsible in its claims and arguments, wholly lacking in historical sophistication and mastery of its sources, it nevertheless remains our only theological correlation of the original religious ground of Christianity with the higher religious expressions of Oriental mysticism.

They embed the evolutionary data, often unconsciously, in a purely physicalist worldview, taking Darwinian science to be the ultimate explanation of life's complexity They have no room for any theological «argument to design» since to them it is clearly blind physical processes alone, and not God, that account for what seems to us humans to be so design - like in finches» beaks and dinosaurs» plates.

The usually gentle Gustafson accused churches of failure to recognize the complexities of social issues, neglect of «sound theological and ethical arguments» and dogmatic refusal to recognize «the...

The orthodox manualists of either Roman Catholic or Protestant Scholasticism were nothing if not clear about their mostly deductive methods for theological argument.

I continue to be troubled by the structure of David Jones» argument regarding the ethics of cremation.Let's review his conclusion: After reviewing some of the key historical, biblical, and theological considerations that have been a part of the moral discussion of cremation within the....

«8 «There are flat contradictions between some of his theological arguments and his own doctrines and behavior,» she says.9

It turns out, however, that the managerial visions of mutuality are presumed in this argument before the theological mystery of the Trinity is explored.