Sentences with phrase «theological language»

We don't usually need to use formal theological language and concepts in the everyday life of the church in prayer, preaching and service.

This is a ground which is simply absent from the Western religious consciousness, or at least absent from those forms of consciousness which have been susceptible to translation into theological language.

The classic theological language of analogy (the language of somehow ordered relationships) remains my real theological home.

He gives what may appear to be revelations about the inner life of Jesus, in the words of Jesus himself, but they must often be read rather as John's interpretation, sometimes indeed expressed in theological language which would have been strange to the circles in which Jesus actually moved.

It would be strange if, after all the recent discussion as to how much Christianity is a «historical faith,» Christian theologians would adopt an understanding of theological language which ruled out all historical statements.

If ours is a world in which the Christian God is dead — and this is the real meaning of theological language which speaks of the triumph of worldliness — then it is an idle and irresponsible fantasy which would imagine that either faith or the Church can survive in their traditional forms.

This has been described, in traditional theological language, as the «bondage of the will.»

Since psychological language aims at revealing the depths of human transformation, and since this is the goal of theological language as well, there is no reason the two can not walk together in the search for truth.

Our human nature is personified, or in technical theological language «enhypostatised», in individual persons.

Rather than implying limit on divine power, this more helpful response explicates a limit on theological language — a limit excluding nonsense.

The appropriateness of womanist theological language will ultimately reside in its ability to bring black women's history, culture, and religious experience into the interpretive circle of Christian theology and into the liturgical life of the church.

Academic theologies (with their focus on such questions as method, the disciplinary status of theology in the modern university, the relationships of theology and religious studies, and the development of public criteria for theological language) are obviously related principally to the public of the academy.

Francis has famously refused to live in the sumptuous papal apartment, picked out a used Fiat to scoot around Rome and dropped the fancy papal vestments and high theological language of his predecessors.

Or, in more explicit theological language, the death of God is the actualization of the movement of Spirit into flesh.

Another is Samuel Rayan, dean and professor at the Vidyajoti Institute in Delhi, India, who stresses the need for a new theological language to give expression to the diverse experiences in the world's religions — a language that will evoke harmony in the human community.

Sometimes evangelism needs a simplicity which theological language doesn't have.

Whatever one may think of Girard (and I think highly of him), one can only be grateful for the new confidence he has given theological language to do descriptive work for shaping the Church's witness to the world.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A survey of process thought for the layperson: The author writes for those not necessarily versed in complex theological language.

United Methodists disagree about who can be a disciple because we have different understandings of sin and salvation, We must quit using vague and clichéd theological language to patch over our differences.

That our traditional liturgical and theological language needs a thorough overhaul; the reality abides, but classical modes of thought and forms of language may well have had it.

Or, to put it into more accurate theological language, I had moved from faith in my ideas about God to faith in God.

The Pope posed the question: «Does the Apostle perhaps look upon marriage exclusively from the viewpoint of a remedy for concupiscence, as used to be said in traditional theological language?

In fact, that kind of Zionist argument is not a theological one but a secular argument couched in theological language.

The curriculum of the seminary should be determined by and reflect the liturgical life of the church, for the most promising way to reclaim the integrity of theological language as the working language for a congregation is for seminaries to make liturgy the focus of their lives.

In the same essay, Davison puts forward the case for continuing to use theological language, even when it might be strange, because «it is the task of apologetics to make things clear and on other occasions it is the task of apologetics to cut through the vapid familiarity of our time and present something unfamiliar, glorious and true».

Hence, his fellow Jesuit Karl Rahner wrote to vindicate him in more formal theological language in his Theological Investigations.

Technical theological language; 2.

Among clergy, this approach has generated a reliance on psychological jargon and counseling techniques rather than on theological language, pastoral mediation and congregational care.

More to the point is Carpenter's objection to the Whiteheadian view that all human action expresses in some measure God's aim, there are difficulties here both with respect to Whitehead's own teaching and with respect to its translation into theological language.

Womanist theological language must, in this sense, he an instrument for social and theological change in church and society.

On the contrary, this theological language has sought to uncover what is universal and human.

Because theological truth and therefore theological language belong to the eschatological dimension, linguistic analysis as now understood and practiced which deals with empirical and historical truths can not decide on the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of theological language.

In regard to the nature of theological language, it would mean avoiding a position which limited meaningful or nonmythological theological statements to assertions about God's activity which apply universally.

From codependency theories couched in theological language to pleas that the church be «market - driven» (defined by one leader recently as, «focusing on what people are looking for from a ministry») to reformulations of a gospel of self - esteem.

Creating a climate of care includes being sensitive to how some theological language might be heard.

Second, theologians must argue how the general «publicness» of all theological language is actualized into distinct but related theological disciplines.

In theological language we would be speaking of the power that exists when one is under the claim of the eschaton.

Theological language is never the «queen of the sciences» nor is it the only language useful in describing the acts of God.

Theological language, as Lewis describes it, is, strictly speaking, an alteration rather like the scientific.

The theological language of sin and grace once spoke of a decentered ego with all the force of the most radical French postmodernists.

We worship God in the name of Christ, we read the same Bible, we employ much of the same music, theological language and church polity.

Children are not capable of theological reflection about the meaning of stories, because all theological language is abstract.

While Madison's use of the Christian tradition employs a restricted, even chaste use of theological language» the name Jesus Christ is never mentioned, only «divine Author of our religion»» there can be no doubt that his worldview is Christian.

In philosophical language, the problem was that of the relation between the one and the many, or the noumenon and the phenomena; in theological language it was the problem of God and the universe.