Sentences with phrase «theological point of departure»

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

Not exact matches

Scripture is the primary source and guideline «as the constitutive witness to biblical wellsprings of our faith,» but tradition, experience and reason also function as sources and guidelines, and in practice «theological reflection may find its point of departure» in any of them.

Meanwhile, in 1981, in an innovative paper presented at United Theological College, Bangalore, Arvind P. Nirmal found a point of irreversible departure «Towards a Sudra Theology» which had eventually led him to be the father of dalit theology.3 Nirmal himself used to recall the lores and stories from the Marathi dalit oral tradition and admitted that he has been greatly influenced by them in his understanding of God.

To transcend one's «own ideological points of departure» means, in a theological context, to be carried artistically beyond one's own take on the ethical and the theological — a transcendence authorized by the text but much resisted by the church.

Instead they focused upon the subjective perceptions and internal anxieties of the human person as their point of departure, which for Jaki was all very well as a second step in theological dialogue but not the first.