Sentences with phrase «theological difference of opinion»

Just like someone who is a gossip is sinning — and trying to say it is a theological difference of opinion.

It is not one of simple preference or theological difference of opinion.

Not exact matches

I know I have a gift for leadership of some sort — my personal opinion is this will never be realized again in the church environment — because of theological differences alone.

The theological views of Philo, Plotinus, Augustine, St. Thomas, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Schleiermacher, Royce, the Hindu Sankara, present differences that are striking enough, but all of them agree, or fail clearly to deny, that God is a being «absolutely infinite» (Spinoza's phrase) or every way complete and perfect, and there seems little rational place for significant variations of opinion in a doctrine so completely determined as the doctrine of complete perfection.

Nor can I report the differences of the theological opinions which have since emerged on this subject in the various Churches.

Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..

Again, the important task of adjudicating differences of opinion on other theological issues within the evangelical community is being largely preempted (recent meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society, for example, have often become one - topic contheological issues within the evangelical community is being largely preempted (recent meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society, for example, have often become one - topic conTheological Society, for example, have often become one - topic convocations).

The linchpin of Professor Rawls» criticism of the «rationalist believers» was his claim that they deny what he called «the fact of reasonable pluralism,» namely, in circumstances of political and religious freedom it is to be expected that there will emerge serious differences of opinion among reasonable people on important moral and theological questions.

Mainliners may be predisposed to this opinion because of theological and political differences between the two groups.

At a deeper theological level, it is worth noting that 11 of the 12 members of the Catholic faculty are priests, and there is a fundamental difference of opinion at the bottom of this dispute over what is called Kirchlichkeit — perhaps best rendered «churchliness.»

But it should now be clear to white and black churchmen alike that the theological differences between them are very real, and that they form barriers which, in my opinion at least, are insurmountable for the present generation unless, of course, white churches are ready to make a radical commitment to the fight for justice on behalf of the oppressed.