Sentences with phrase «theological framework»

It is just not possible for the church to engage in adequate pastoral care without a solid theological framework.

He provides a thoughtful and insightful theological framework that not only finds room for evolution, but also sees it as integral to a fuller understanding of divine purpose.

Certainly, some black churches were actively preparing young people to engage in the civil rights movement by providing theological frameworks for their work, but other churches were adamantly opposed to it.

Jeremy I really appreciate the way that you don't want to just settle for pre-fabricated theological frameworks in which to study the Bible.

It is vital that people reject or accept Christianity because of this central message and challenge, and not because of a secondary and unnecessary theological framework which many of us find outdated and incomprehensible.

What is more precisely Lutheran is the setting of that doctrine in a dialectical theological framework.

When we by contrast present Scripture in the first instance in terms of some particular theological framework or in the light of specialized or critical issues, we not only fail to address the questions that trouble us, but we may also place a barrier between the reader and the text of Scripture.

There is a way of reading Barth that leads to a radical separation of faith from the world, so that the world, in all of its secularity, can be affirmed just as it is, without trying to impose a thick theological framework on it.

The Faith movement has this principle at the heart of its approach to the formation of young Catholics, seeking to foster an inquisitive approach to the faith, just as in the natural sciences, and to develop such intellectual curiosity within a theological framework that is faithful to Christ's Magisterium and to our understanding of the created universe.

Based on these question, I built a theological framework.

The Reformed tradition provides a theological framework for caring for ground we walk upon!

Sacramental Worldview / Creation Care: Look, it's the Reformed tradition where I was first introduced to a theological framework of creation care.

The speaker's drama in preaching is both a search for a language of lived experience and for a way of speaking sermonic texts that are «believable» at a time when coherent, theological frameworks have collapsed.

None of these questions can be answered outside of a theological framework of Christian belief in a personal God who has made us for fellowship with himself and for obedience to his will, who cares for us as individuals, and within the channels of his orderly world gives heed to our petitions.

This approach puts the issue in a theological framework.

Both share the theological framework called the creeds.

One may suggest that the power of events always dominates and cracks the theological frameworks that seek to «explain» or to «capture» events.

His thesis about the social construction of homosexuality can be placed within a variety of ethical and theological frameworks.

The drafters of the policy statement have considered the theological framework for their approach to energy issues with unusual seriousness.

Porter is unpersuasive in her repeated claims that the figures under study tended to use the theological framework provided by Scripture, nature, and reason merely to legitimate the prevailing but often unquestioned views of their culture.

Even in circles which are open to the new evangelical thrust for social action, there has been no critical look at this theological framework.

So, you have to put yourself into the theological framework of Catholicism to understand it properly, just as Catholics can understand (most) Protestant churches» open communion by stepping into the Protestant framework.

We feel that this theological framework is West - centered and can not properly treat the fundamental problem of Western cultural domination.

The theological framework of the Book of Judges would have us believe that prophetic opposition to such infidelity arose contemporaneously — and the claim is plausible — but the earliest actual incident on which we can depend is the conduct of Elijah through the drought and the culminating contest on Mount Carmel (I Kings 17 — 18).

Fortunately we have Judge Thomas Berger's amazing \ Long Dark Shadow \ which describes the philosophical / theological framework that enabled colonizers to justify their evils and also Hugh Brody's NFB film, \ Time Immemorial \ which goes a long way toward exposing both colonial thinking and the once secret historical interplay between Indian Agents and missionaries....