Sentences with phrase «theological justification»

John Jewel (1522 - 71) and Richard Hooker (1553 - 1600), however, provided a theological justification for the via media or middle way of the Church of England.

The question of providing spiritual fellowship to those committed to Christ in different religious communities is a peculiarly Indian ecclesiological problem which has been with us for many decades and needs to be faced squarely, for the number involved is large and the stand of many of them based on the distinction between the spiritual fellowship of faith and the Christian communality, have theological justification.

This was given theological justification through the doctrine that grace comes through the personal relationship of God and man.

Though other religions may not have developed a theological justification of caste as in traditional Hinduism, conversion to other religions has not proved as effective as was promised.

Its members had long since given up any theological justification for their views and the claims to scientific authority were already weakened by the many internal critiques of the myth of objectivity.

In spite of Rome's misgivings, American Catholics fervently supported a religio - political arrangement that had no theological justification until the Second Vatican Council.

It took forty years for one of history's most productive intellects in the most opportune moment — in, perhaps, the kairotic moment — in American intellectual history to reach, in the nick of time, a philosophical and theological justification for the unorthodox action he had taken in his twenties.

Carefully distinguishing the termination of a planned pregnancy from the abortions of «other» women, Christians are seeking theological justification for their decisions to terminate disabled fetuses.

The theological justification for infant baptism depends on the commitment of parents and members of congregations to the task of rearing the children and youth of the church «in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.»

Moreover, it certainly does create a strong theological justification for the type of coercion many process theists believe is necessary on the human level.

Its political role was unambiguous: to provide theological justification for apartheid.

A doctrine of creation that gives theological justification to human rights; the history of exodus and covenant; the ministry of Jesus Christ; the ethic of care for the stranger; and the stories of women in the Bible are all fruitful resources for liturgies of healing and for the work of securing justice.

My only contribution is to name it Christ and to offer theological justification for doing so.

The case is simple where the ideological, philosophical, or theological justification for a type of rule (e.g.) is a front behind which lust for domination and ambition for power hide.

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

So taking care winsomely to underscore one's ecumenical bona fides has practical value as well as theological justification.

Well, theology in southern Africa has had a political edge, because people have had to maintain their faith within a system of oppression which itself often had a Christian theological justification, as in South Africa.

The Virgin Mary remains the church's major theological justification for emphasizing virginity as an ideal.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

He is equating the theological justification for actions... not the actions themselves.

For pastors, this material offers substantial theological justification for the supportive, kenotic style of counseling and pastoral care, along with a belief that, without formal words of doctrine, we build health and even faith through our concern for the counselee.

Give me an activity or attitude that appeals to you and I will — after some sensitive, caring, pastoral reflection — find theological justification for it.

«Many Protestant churches have liberalized their notions of ethics, giving a theological justification to homosexuality and blessing same - sex couples,» he said.

«Speaking the truth in love», in my experience, is usually a good theological justification for verbally abusing someone.

Karl Barth recognized that liberal theologians provide theological justification for Kulturprotestantismus, an establishment mentality eager to adjust Christianity to suit bourgeois culture.

Not exact matches

Deterrence and rehabilitation indeed stand as the two central justifications for punishment — core theological tenets — in the contemporary advocacy for the liberal peace and specifically in the international courts.

My disagreements with the five points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly with their theology or understanding of Biblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etc, etc..

It's a topic that Jim Belcher recently explored in Deep Church, and it's a topic that has led to some theological hair - splitting over the past few years, as NT Wright and John Piper debate the meaning justification.

BTW, for theological jargon «justification.

Every single theological statement is only important and intelligible if it is considered within the whole complex of statements about justification.

This is done, in this remarkable human family of which we are all a part, with demonic craft by the powerful, in an absolutely dazzling array of forms (if necessity is the mother of invention, covetousness and lust are the parents of ingenuity), upon well - established but shamelessly fraudulent justification, usually in the broad sense religious and sometimes even specifically theological.

Referring to the 1999 Joint Declaration of the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation, Phillip Cary («Luther at 500,» November) optimistically notes its «theological consensus that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone need not be Church - dividing.»

Phillip Cary paraphrases point five of the preamble to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification when he states that the signatories reached a «theological consensus that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone need not be Church - divJustification when he states that the signatories reached a «theological consensus that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone need not be Church - divjustification by faith alone need not be Church - dividing.»

It was not an example of «justification by faith», theological jargon, which both Catholic and Lutheran understand differently with the former confused as sanctification.

Adamant about the centrality of justification by faith through grace, we sometimes verge on a perverse kind of theological works - righteousness.

I published an article for Chafer Theological Seminary Journal called «Are Works the Necessary Result of Justification?»

The work of Evangelicals and Catholics Together has continued unabated over the last twenty years, issuing documents pertaining to theological questions (such as the nature of justification) as well as those affecting the proper ordering of society (such as the rights of the unborn).

Secondly, we have come to significant agreement (although surely with differences remaining) on profound theological issues: on our justification by faith through grace in Jesus Christ; on the proper relationship between Scripture and tradition; on the communion of saints and the universal call to holiness; and on the role of Mary in the life of the Christian and of the church.

As several of you have pointed out, NT Wright does indeed consider his views to be in keeping with Calvin and the Reformed tradition, and his recent debates with John Piper and company over justification are something of an internal skirmish rather than a theological divide.

In «Theology and Objectivity» Ogden holds that theological language, though different from that of science, is objectifying because it is both cognitive and subject to rational assessment and justification.114 Of course, this view assumes the possibility of metaphysics, a possibility now generally denied.

Yet I wonder if Schuller's theological - psychological interpretation of success and failure does not risk a kind of «justification through works.»

Reumann outlines the historical hardening of theological categories between Lutherans and Catholics arising out of the Reformation doctrine of justification by faith, and the convergence toward a common understanding on justification and related doctrines through Lutheran - Catholic dialogues over the past thirty years.

In the early 16th century, the then Rev. Martin Luther, OESA, [2] developed the theological concept of justification sola fide.

Any positio - taking from outside could only be an expression of a theological opinion (which, yes, means an explanation of interpretation and justifications thereof of particular passages).

--- It just blows my mind that because you do something like «find a personal comfort zone and construct a theological and cultural justification around it» you pin you shortcomings on «ALL of us.»

Did Peter and Paul â $ ˜construct a theological and cultural justification for their experiences with Jesus?????»

The natural assumption would then follow that the writers of the Bible constucted a personal theological and cultural justification, based on the need for a comfort zone religion.

... do Christians simply find a personal comfort zone and construct a theological and cultural justification around it?

The justification for public - policy studies within a religious curriculum must be given in theological categories.

Its reliance on legislative and judicial procedures to decide a complex theological, moral, and ecclesial matter has only heightened even more the disagreement while minimizing the possibility of serious, sustained engagement on basic issues such as theological anthropology, justification and sanctification, the nature of sin, repentance and forgiveness, Scriptural authority, and the nature and purpose of ordained ministry.