Sentences with phrase «theological claims»

In order to decide, one must be familiar with a broad set of theological claims.

Early liberalism sought to construct a theology without any claims to the supernatural, the heavenly, or theological claims grounded in revelation.

In this way, when using terms like the «son of God» about Jesus, the New Testament writers were certainly making theological claims about Jesus, but more than that, were making political claims about Jesus.

On the surface it appears that a relational view is unable to affirm the three theological claims made for Jesus» death.

But while evolutionary science may not be able to indicate an unambiguous direction to life, it reveals enough of a pattern to be consistent with theological claims of an ultimate purpose or promise.

He does not shy away from theological disputes or personal shortcomings, and he rightly acknowledges that the evangelist's great skill has been «to set traditional theological claims in a setting of national and world crises.»

Easter has been known to evoke robust theological claims and rogue behavior.

Some of the available options elicit from us, if not a rationally thought - out or instinctive sense of recognition, a sense that a given theological claim about the being and doings of Jesus Christ is more or less valid than another.

But however tempting such a position might appear, however weary we are before the onslaught of irreconcilable theological claims, we ought to be cautious about answering Paul's warning against being «tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine» with a refusal to believe much of anything.

We believe theological claims, such as that Jesus is God and so is the Holy Spirit.

Given a violently divided Christendom, the only sensible solution appeared to be to excise from political life the cause of these horrors - namely, particular theological claims - and to replace them with universally acceptable principles derived from human nature and natural law.

Christianity entails the invariably political announcement that Jesus Christ, not Caesar, is Lord; to concede that political actors may legitimately ignore this highly specific theological claim is nothing less than an abandonment of the Christian position.

Whatever the case, one can not know the relative identity of one's theological claims without being familiar with the content of many theologies, so that one can locate oneself on thc theological map.

In each case, Childs's point is that in the biblical text one can see the canonical interpreters themselves reworking older material in order to make fresh, normative theological claims that move decisively beyond the locus of the early text.

While I believe in the indeterminacy of the text to some large extent, I know that finally the Bible is forceful and consistent in its main theological claim.

For Christians, this is not merely a wish rooted in an archaic cosmology but rather a fundamental theological claim.

Baum turns to examine three metaphysical theological claims that have dominated much of Germany's (and Protestantism's) larger tradition: Lutheran two kingdoms theory, Calvinist sovereignty - of - Christ theory, and modern ecumenical developments.

Christian theological claims are sometimes explicitly affirmed and a Christian audience presupposed, as in statements like: «The tabernacle of the Old Testament was a «shadow of things in heaven.»

While Barth freely makes use of Kantian epistemological concepts, he is never dependent on them for his own theological epistemology, which is rooted not in secular axioms regarding human reason but in theological claims regarding the nature of God and divine action.

Darwin's theory of evolution, he insists, radically affects theological claims.

One could scarcely imagine a more radical and subversive theological claim.

For example, Barth makes clear that the attempt to make theological claims intelligible by trying to show that science may not be able to «explain» everything through reductive schemes of causation is theologically a dead end.

All the more reason to pay attention when the Gospel and Epistles of John finally set theological claims aside and call us into this practice of economic sharing.

We believe that claiming Christ's lordship over Christian higher education is, or should be, a robust theological claim.

He accepted the historical - critical method of biblical studies, rejected some traditional theological claims on the basis of their incredibility to a critical mind, assumed a religious optimism, championed individualism, accepted evolutionary categories, emphasized ethics, stressed the humanity of Jesus, and recognized the importance of toleration.

Historicist approaches interpret discrete streams of normative tradition, while foundationalist approaches strive to ground theological claims in tradition - transcendent appeals to reason and experience.

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

This argument presents a challenge to the theological claim by both the settler movement and Christian Zionists that God gave this land to the Jews and thus the Jews have the sole right and authority to determine its status.

Even the claim that no theology is any more true than any other is a theological claim.

That is, many contemporary theologies tend to believe that we can derive the normative content of faith, truth and justice directly from the immediate contexts of our social, economic and political situations; at the same time, other contemporary theologies have abandoned even trying to argue that theological claims are in any sense normative.

We didn't think it was possible or even desirable to provide a metaphysical grounding for theological claims, so we spent our time doing method instead.

Service toward the poor becomes a means of rectifying social inequities rather than a theological claim as to how the world is ordered.

and AGAIN: that's the point where YOUR debate (the authorship of the NT) & the debate of this thread (the consistency of the theological claims of the OT & NT) take differing forks in the road.

The theological claim that only God can create human life is no less true if we learn to clone human beings than it is now.

This was defended not only by political and economic power but also by theological claims of divine election.

They both try to channel what could be a fertile hierarchy of distinct levels of explanation into a restrictive cognitive bottleneck wherein scientific accounts of adaptive complexity merge indistinguishably with metaphysical or theological claims.

It has as its subject the theological claims made in and through the text and received by the church.

With chapters on God, Jesus, apocalyptic time, and hope, Alison displays an extraordinary ability to hit just the right example to make his theological claims come alive.

Therefore any and all theological claims about relationships — about everything from sin to reconciliation and the eschatological summing - up of all things under Christ — are important to consider.

The theological term and its theological claims rest upon a broad scriptural base.