Sentences with phrase «theological language needs»

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.

Not exact matches

For that we need language that is religious but not, in this sense, theological — language more like the poetic.

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

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

Hauerwas agrees with Linbeck that what needs to be emphasized in a postliberal, postmodern theology and theological ethics is the distinctiveness, the particularity, of Christian convictions, its «language games» and «rules,» not for their own sake, but because they are true (AN 5).

I was struck also by the fact that the humanistic gymnasia through which students prepared for entry into the university taught them Greek and Latin and even Hebrew, just those languages most needed for a classical theological education.

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.

Theological schooling will need to focus on those tensions and conflicts and the various strategies congregations employ in negotiating them when they use the host culture's languages to practice their own discipleship.

Christian womanist theological methodology needs to be informed by at least four elements: (1) a multidialogical intent, (2) a liturgical intent, (3) a didactic intent, and (4) a commitment both to reason and to the validity of female imagery and metaphorical language in the construction of theological statements.