Sentences with phrase «theological point»

There is a continuing emphasis on the integration of scientific and philosophical material with the religious and theological point of view of the student.

Perhaps the chief theological point is that nobody owns the Christian faith.

Now, though, comes the second and harder bone I have to pick with you, although it will bring us around to a similar theological point.

Paul, more than any other New Testament author, loved to make theological points through word play.

Even those defending their views from an attack get tangled up in the complexities of the interpretations, heatedly arguing theological points with theological terms, and it all gets very erudite.

Christine actually makes a good theological point.

This often shapes the conversation in a much better way, because it allows for a personal story someone can take ownership of — and that provides them with a much more genuine feeling than just arguing theological points.

The «Yes - Group» considers things, searching scripture for anything that implicitely, or explicitely prohibits / allows / requires / permits / cautions about / denies the disputed theological point to be adhered to.

I respond to His Excellency Archbishop Fernandez, because not too long ago I struggled with the precise theological point he believes allows him to sanction access to Holy Communion for those in «irregular» relationships.

If we wanted to have an accurate tweet - level, religion - based Theological point it would be something along the lines of «Jesus came into the world because religious practice is insufficient to save us».

Vivid multidimensional characters become mere prefigurations instead of figures in their own right, and complex narrative situations are reduced to a single theological point.

These reflect a distinct theological point of view, a very primitive one, and pre-Marcan; that is, they probably reflect a stage somewhere between the original Palestinian tradition and the form in which it was used by Mark.

But all too often, the emotional reaction obscures the underlying theological point Newman was trying to make.

On the crucial theological point of the deity of Jesus, there is a clear and unambiguous difference between Christian Science and traditional Christian doctrine.

Campe's theology is rooted in mainline neo-orthodoxy, but he says he avoids being a stickler on certain theological points.

Even the common theological point of view, which cut across denominational lines, was opposed by some.

The author writes of happiness from a process theological point of view emphasizing how our industrial age has led to happiness only for the one in a thousand who is in control, and that the whole commercial system, now intrinsically part of our world, has been a mistake.

He is known to have been impertinent to his elders as far back as age 12, when he argued fine theological points with them in the temple, without any consideration for the feelings of his parents.

His discussion of several theological points is more assured than nuanced, and any biographer today owes his readers some insight into claims of the late Kathryn Lindskoog that a few of Lewis's posthumously published essays and fragments are inauthentic (and, not to put too fine a point upon it, forgeries).

Although H. Richard Niebuhr claimed to present various theological points of view with no bias, his critics claim otherwise.

He found that as he wrote his commentaries, he kept having to make the same theological points over and over, and so rather than repeat himself in his commentaries, he wrote The Institutes to serve as the theological foundation for what he wrote in his commentaries.

Randomly beheading people you encounter «on the street» simply because they don't agree on numerous theological points is another.

There is no attempt to indoctrinate the student in any particular theological point of view.

Stephen Webb brings up a substantive theological point that gets us to the heart of Barth's distinctive legacy.

From a purely theological point of view, the second oracle is distinguished for its early and profound definition of the Word, the Yahweh - Word:

One great element to this commentary is that each section concludes with some helpful «Key Theological Points.»

She makes a good theological point.

While noting that God remained the dominant presence in Christian art throughout the fifth century, Malraux makes this extremely important theological point: «It seems that in art — and probably in religion too — Christ tended to become the more Jesus, the more God the Father receded into the background.

Your earlier work, Jesus Christ Superstar, and the more recent Requiem seem to exhibit very different theological points of view.

If there is scepticism about external reality, why use creation as one's theological point of departure?

From a (Catholic) theological point of view, to say that a being is a «person» is actually the same thing as saying he (or she) has a «spiritual nature,» which, for embodied beings such as ourselves, is the same as saying that he (or she) has a «spiritual soul.»

I had a fabulous dialogue with one of the evangelical ministers, who told me he couldn't change his theological point of view — and I said I could understand that.

Have you ever had someone quote a bunch of Bible verses as you in an attempt to prove their theological point?

It's actually a form of proof texting where dozens of passages are ripped out of context in order to prove a theological point.

But we can say, for example, that a religious, theological point of view can illuminate scientific research and can help to extract some coherent meaning... In the Catholic Church, we have a theology of creation whose point of view... gives to evolution an additional meaning which is not directly present in thescientific research, but that scientific research is coherent with this point of view.

Including all the implications of any theological point is impossible on a blog post.

There we can truly make sense of evolution from a theological point of view.

Other theologians, of course, have approached the study of the history of religions from a theological point of view, and their theology has been influenced by what they have learned.

Between the false alternatives of «just general truths» or «explicit claims to messianic titles» there lies in Jesus» public ministry a whole area of eschatological action accompanied by theological commentary which Diem overlooked, and wherein resides both the historical and the theological point of departure for the Church's kerygma, and thus the crucial area of research for a new quest of the historical Jesus.

It wasn't that the Gospel writers were making a theological point.

Much more to the theological point is Willis Jenkins» Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology.

It is incorrect, from a theological point of view, to say that only our body dies.

Mozart and his music can serve as a «secular example» that illustrates a theological point that von Balthasar seeks to make, «A consummate work of art, Mozart's Magic Flute... stands before us as the product of an unimaginable creative freedom.

Lesslie Newbigin, long a missionary and bishop in the Church of South India, expresses eloquently the theological point at stake: