Sentences with phrase «theological language does»

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

Not exact matches

What I find tragic is that we do not have adequate social or theological options (visions, in my language) to provide a more viable articulation of these concerns.

In more Hartshornean language, the question is this: How does one reconcile the apparently restrictive theological assertion that God favors the struggle of the oppressed with apparently unrestrictive neoclassical assertions — for example, that God is «the subject of all change?

What do you make of the theology of Benedict XVI and its relation to the subjects you've worked on: theological language, ecumenism, eschatology and so on?

Fourth, laymen feel that preachers assume that laymen have a greater knowledge and understanding of biblical and theological lore and language than they actually do.

Here we find the endeavor to speak of the Kingdom of God in a Christian language even while refusing the language of the Christian theological tradition, and to do so in the spirit of Blake's marriage of «Heaven» and «Hell» and under the influence of the identification of nirvana and samsara in Mahayana Buddhism.

It was done, she says, without theological grounding and solely on the basis of «rights» language:» «I can be a CEO, and you can't stop me from being a priest,» they said.

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.

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

The theological work which will be most useful in the years ahead will be that which works out its motifs in correlation with the whole range of the biological, behavioral, and social sciences, and does so in language which has the widest possible touch with ordinary modes of speech common to all educated persons.

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?

Though he does frequently refer to Hebrew words, his language is not academic or full of theological jargon.

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.