Sentences with phrase «theological knowledge»

I had thought that this Western way of thinking was what made theological knowledge reliable and authentic.

To this they simply need to add biblical and theological knowledge along with professional and pastoral skills.

A conversation that began discussing the lack of theological knowledge, in the United States (not American, that is a collection of continents), turned into a discusion about the lackings of your theology, or someone elses, or how superior one type of theology is over the other.

The dream is that the old divisions in ministerial studies, with their clerical emphasis and their specialized disciplines such as Christian education, will dissolve, and that a field of practical theology made up of people with broad theological knowledge and a deep, holistic understanding of each dimension — as well as a focused concern for one dimension — will emerge.

To give an example: The Church may change and adapt to modern life certain principles of her human law according to which a Catholic must marry; but only a person of little theological knowledge would draw the conclusion that the Church could ever abolish the indissolubility of the sacramental consummated marriage if only there were enough protests.

(1) In one sense, «knowledge of God» and «ordinary knowledge» (including theological knowledge — I use these clumsy concepts here mainly to distinguish them and so to argue their relatedness) are related because they set each other off; they help define one another by spelling out what each is not.

To examine Brunner s answer to this question we must consider again his central category of the encounter as the locus in which revelation occurs, faith arises, and theological knowledge becomes possible.

This is the paradox that pervades theological knowledge in general.

Hence this interpretive task requires leaders who have internalized theological knowledge in their own life style.

Second, their commitment to Luther's theological concept of the priesthood of all believers (or its equivalent) led them to view catechetical instruction as a way of equipping the laity to take up the ministries that were properly theirs, providing them with the biblical and theological knowledge necessary to this task.

Relationships are more important than deep theological knowledge.

That is, the truth of the faith seemed guaranteed by the immobility of the false theological knowledge.

We must go forward with the conviction that as our faith is steeled in the fires of doubt we shall open up a new chapter in the progress of theological knowledge.

It's your false identity, your body image, education, theological knowledge, clothes, friends, social status, job, successes and accomplishments.

Rejecting my Asian religious and cultural background as worthless, I thought that the theological knowledge discussed, formulated and presented in the West was the authentic Christian theology.

Such a priest would, of course, have to possess the necessary qualifications of a Christian way of life and theological knowledge, but he would not have to be seminary - educated.

He argues that, for Calvin, all theological knowledge has the «practical telos» of «whole human lives of genuine pietas, which is to say, whole human lives of vibrant, graceful relationship with God.»

Because love is the only thing that matters when it comes to Biblical and theological knowledge.

What really impressed me was not just the fact that he surpassed almost all of us in theological knowledge and capacity; but what passionately attracted me to Bonhoeffer was the perception that here was a man who did not only learn and gather in the verba and scripta of some master, but one who thought independently and already knew what he wanted and wanted what he knew.

Nevertheless for anyone trying to plug a hole in their theological knowledge I heartily recommend taking the trouble to find a copy and read it.

Furthermore, if Barth's God is correlated with the concrete aspects of Hartshorne's God, then it also seems that Hartshorne must agree with Barth's dictum that theological knowledge of God can gain nothing from metaphysics.

Unless explicit attention is given to the acquisition of biblical and theological knowledge, the members of the church will not be capable of using the faith to interpret their lives or their world.

After almost a century of experiential religious education, with its heavy emphasis on process over content, personal creativity over communal identity, and emergent experience over biblical - theological knowledge, it is safe to say that the members of mainline Protestant churches know less about the faith, are more tenuously committed to the church, and are less equipped to make an impact on the surrounding world than they were at the turn of the century.

Then I will truly consider as dung all my seminary education, my pastoral experience, my church life, and my theological knowledge and finally become one with them, my people.

What if we worried less about saying the right thing or trying to demonstrate our theological knowledge and just tried to simply love people — with no agenda.

Like many boomers, she kept working a 9 - to - 5 job during the day and took seminary classes at night to bolster her theological knowledge.

You've done a fine job of illustrating why most atheists have zero credibility and actually lack the theological knowledge they promote as their virtue.