Sentences with phrase «theological language as»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

I aim to get at some of the theological underpinnings of that unease in language that may seem unfamiliar or even unwelcome, but it is language that is grounded in important Christian affirmations that seek to understand the child as our equal» one who is a gift and not a product.

Unquestionably the issues raised are of far more fundamental theological and religious importance than cleaning up sexist language and electing women bishops, important as those achievements are.

We had to match theological concepts to Erik's signs, and our catechesis was filled with analogy, story, wild gestures, his mother's manual continuo as she translated our efforts into Erik's language.

Now, however, as the scriptures of the world have been translated into English and many other western languages, we can draw upon the insights of the scriptures of the world for our theological reflection.

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.

The critique of religion, as we enumerated it in the preceding paragraphs, confronted Bonhoeffer immediately with a new problem: finding a non-religious language to interpret the Biblical and theological concepts.

The revelation consists first and foremost in the person of Jesus Christ himself, but this can become material for theological use only as it is given in human language.

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.

In opposition, speaking as a student of Greek and Hebrew, a participant insisted that these languages are a foundational study for all theological education, and seminary is, for her, an opportunity to gain a solid grounding in God's Word.

The constant, universal nature of God's action as Creator and Redeemer is emphasized by Ogden's view of the nature of theological language.

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.

Ibn «Arabi's style of intermixing radical elements with traditional language, models and theological structure could perhaps be explained in this background as an echo of freethinking controlled by a rigorous interpenetration of the old and the new.

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

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

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

A party, which is ahead of its time and espouses the truth, including philosophical truths, in theological language, as Marx would have said, can only end up by suffocating democracy.

Male students feel the burden as they learn firsthand how women students are revising the theological language, ministerial practice, and self - understanding associated with a profession too long captive to the interests of men.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

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?

Recognizing that their critique has rendered images of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development of a lesbian theology is to see the basic language of theological discourse upset and transformed.

In theological terms, God's choice of language as the basis of his contact with humanity signifies that we are free to respond — or to ignore him if we choose.

From Bultmann categories in theology, which polemic needed only to be enlarged to include biblical - kerygmatic as well as objective - interventionist theological language about God to become very radical indeed.

Likewise, an apocalyptic language that presents every presidential election as Armageddon is another kind of theological liberalism.

Like other Protestants, Reformed teachers urged the use of the various vernacular languages in worship and theological writing so as to enable the common people's participation.

This is an attempt to provide a brief account of the theory and practice of indulgences in relation to Luther's criticism, in language as far as possible nontechnical without losing any theological nuance.

These intents, informing theological method, can yield a theological language whose foundation depends as much upon its imagistic content as upon reason.

The more serious effort to concern itself primarily with ethical rather than theological problems, as the followers of Bonhoeffer have done, has led them outside the framework of biblical language and judgment, and has tended to dissolve their religious answers either into personal morality or social activism which, while serious in its intention, has made them weathercocks turning freely in the cultural winds.

By liberal Braaten means the theological liberalism that Karl Barth spoke of as a «heresy» — the view that Christian language for God represents universal human feeling writ large on the cosmos rather than God's address to humanity in a Word that disrupts preexisting categories.

In other words the language of the culture shows the same theological bankruptcy as the language of the poets.

In another place he casually remarks that of course all theological language is analogical, as a recently published book has shown.