Sentences with phrase «theological formulation»

Nevertheless, the first step in any theological formulation of the meaning of the classic sources for us is that of critically clarifying the questions that arise Out of our own situation.

But matters of interpretation and theological formulation are necessarily at the heart of any statements about this experience of Jesus Christ.

Problems in theological formulation will prove ongoing, but the interpretive project «will have a much better chance of success in the clear air of fellowship than in an atmosphere fouled by competition «4

17 Niebuhr's own self - interpretative clue, then, is that he moved from practice to ethics to theological formulation.

For those oriented in the black experience, there is a complementary task; namely, understanding that an indigenous theological formulation of faith — black theology — is available to aid in the task.

But the Wesleyan vision includes a high respect for the tradition of the church as a source for theological formulation and a willingness to be judged by it, though flexibly, with Scripture as the final judge of the value of tradition.

And, finally, Wesley not only wished to find true religion expressed experientially, but he also had a more positive role for experience in judging and correcting his theological formulations.

Most theological formulations take as their starting point statements that have been sanctioned by the community in which the theologian's perspective has been nurtured, statements such as creeds, confessions, scriptures, or the fully articulated systems of past theologians.

What we do not accept are the post «New Testament theological formulations.

This failure can be illustrated with the same example, for although Marxists on the whole have been less sexist in their attitudes than have psychoanalysts, they appear only a little less deficient when viewed in the light of contemporary feminist consciousness.37 Or, again, use of Marxist sociology by Latin American theologians of liberation has done little to free them from implicit anti-Judaism in their theological formulations.

It may be that what is normatively Christian includes or implies criteria beyond the criteria of faithful «Christianness» by which the truth of Christian theological formulations may be assessed.

It has been raised again more recently in the face of the cultural challenges to dominant western theological formulations by liberation, feminist and Asian theologians.

The writings of Harold Lindsell, Francis Schaefer, Bernard Ramm, Carl Henry, Clark Pinnock, Dick France, James Packer and others present a range of contradictory theological formulations on such issues as the nature of Biblical inspiration, the place of women in the church and family, the church's role in social ethics, and the Christian's response to homosexuality.

That evangelicals, all claiming a common Biblical norm, are reaching contradictory theological formulations on many of the major issues they are addressing suggests the problematic nature of their present understanding of theological interpretation.

Although the subject matter of inspiration has been judged as of crucial importance, creative theological formulations have been made difficult within American evangelicalism for at least two reasons.

Evangelicals, all claiming a common Biblical norm, are reaching contradictory theological formulations on many of the major issues they address — the nature of Biblical inspiration, the place of women in the church and family, the church's role in social ethics, and most recently the Christian's response to homosexuality.

Evangelicals must take with increased seriousness the variety of traditions from which they spring, for here is one major source of conflict in their present theological formulations.

Furthermore, some of our inherited theological formulations do not measure up to and may on occasion seem to contradict the account which I have just given.

Invariably the principles of the canonical law in all of these ecclesiastical bodies are derived from basic theological formulations of religious insights, and invariably there is a considerable margin for the interpretation of these principles.

The most significant recent theological formulations have been to some extent structured on existentialism which insists that the only path from thought to reality is through existence, my existence, with all the variables of my experiences coloring the picture.

This is especially true of the intellectuals for whom many traditional theological formulations of revelation have been deeply unsatisfying.

I think Cobb would agree that the only alternative to this position leads to a lack of self - consciousness about one's philosophical assumptions and thus induces a false security as to the adequacy of one's theological formulations.

Just as Augustine's theological formulations were essential to medieval Christian theology, so Gregory's pastoral formulations were essential to the formation of medieval pastoral life.

If we are not content with such uncertainty and try to take control of Christ by our historical - critical method or our theological formulations, he eludes our grasp.

It correlates so poorly with their inherited theological formulations.

Instead, they try to ensure its purity by their precise theological formulations, but these forms of thought may not be appropriate for their people — with the result that the Word is not able to inform the decisions and actions of the laity.

A variety of answers are given concerning the contribution of the theologian's context in his or her theological formulations.

The «pure» images conjured up by many traditional theological formulations, on the other hand, situate Cod outside of the physical cosmos.

He preferred that theological formulations should remain exploratory and tentative, functioning to heighten awareness and make it more appreciative.

The influence of Wieman shaped Williams's most basic commitments, but his theological formulations were far more sensitive to the issues as they had been discussed in the historic heritage of the church.

The feminist critique unveils the implicit masculinity that has threaded its way throughout theological formulations, showing that theology, too, is bound by relativity of perspective.

Not exact matches

To be a theological liberal means to insist upon a significant degree of freedom from strict dogmatic formulations and church discipline.

The theological enterprise of criticizing scientific formulations would have little prospect for success if it were not that scientists themselves have come to recognize the limits of the concepts they have employed during the past three centuries.

Because of its permissive attitude toward theological ideas, it accepts the alcoholic at the point he has reached in his religious life and allows his religious formulations to grow as his experiences change.

The effort of these programs is to present theological terminology and formulations that will have «cash value» in terms of contemporary culture.

The formulation of the question already had theological assumptions built into it.

Yet what an alteration this enduring dogma has undergone in regard to its more precise formulation, its more exact theological interpretation, its perspectives, the consequences that are to be drawn from it, the weight it has in religious life.

Again, theologians who are persuaded of their usefulness in conveying theological meaning to the contemporary mind may have gone so far as to claim emergent evolution to be a theological symbol by which biblical events of history as well as subsequent doctrinal formulations may be explicated.

Because both systematic and moral theology are defined by interests in the integral unity of the «Christian thing» and the unity of theological inquiry, neither of them should be thought of as the «middle discipline» (cf. 50 - 51) between historical theology's formulations of what is normatively or faithfully «Christian» and practical theology's application of those formulations to practice.

In its original context the second important root of the presumption against war was a formulation of this concept of just war set out in the Jesuit journal Theological Studies in 1978 by James F. Childress, an American academic ethicist of Quaker background.

The value of this formulation is that it makes room for the two major foci for ministry within Protestantism: evangelism and social action or to use the language of the recent report of the Association of Theological Schools, «spiritual emphasis» and «social action emphasis.

Largely in opposition to their conscious desire, evangelicals have let other standards besides Scripture function authoritatively in their theological and ethical social formulations.

The issue of theological priority is illumined by a consideration of traditional formulations such as those of Warfield The question of historical accommodation is addressed by an exegetical appeal to the tenth chapter of Mark.

Having listened to these positions and ob - served the importance which theological traditions play in their formulations, I will then look for direction as to how a renewed investigation of the Biblical data might proceed.

She writes: «The theological program that must be undertaken is called «political theology» — specifically one that understands itself not as a mere component but as the essential formulation of the theological problem for our time.

6A recent formulation of the historical problem of the loss of this notion is Edward Farley's Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education (Philadelphia: Fortress.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

Muslims can also hear to this day the echoes of earlier theological battles between the literalists and the rationalists, whose formulations often stand in sharp contrast to those of the great theosophical Sufis like Rumi or Ibn «Arabi.

But behind all these tendencies towards theological confusion there remains the fact that Christians continue to want to affirm what it was that the sometimes arid and abstract formulations were basically trying to say.

Thus Cyril C. Richardson has criticized the classical formulations of the Trinity as imposing an arbitrary «threeness» upon our theological thinking, and proposes instead a basic twofold distinction between God as Absolute and God as Related.1 This is for Richardson a basic paradox, an apparent self - contradiction, for if we try to bring these aspects into relationship, we compromise God's absoluteness.2 Charles Hartshorne accepts this same twofold distinction, but he removes the contradictory element by understanding it in terms of the abstract and concrete dimensions of God's nature and experience.3