Sentences with phrase «theological rationale»

In addition, almost no one found it easy to speak of a Christian republic or to offer a consistent theological rationale of constitutionalism.

Some, like the 1971 Assemblies of God and 1977 Norwegian church resolutions, fail to provide any coherent theological rationale.

Though two speak of «freedom of choice» and a few give no real theological rationale for their position, virtually all the statements of this type are concerned not with human freedom or women's rights, but with articulating solid theological and philosophical reasons for the position they take.

In the Exodus 20 recounting of the Decalogue, however, the prior theological rationale is expressed:

Edward Holloway offered a particularly compelling theological rationale for these truths.

While leading a week - long seminar on deep secularization and its effects in Europe (and on the democratic project throughout the world), I met younger Israeli scholars, deeply immersed in their Judaism and keen students of political philosophy, who were trying to articulate a Jewish theological rationale for human rights, democracy, the rule of law, and so forth.

[I should probably note that while I identify myself as egalitarian, I do not necessarily agree with every position / theological rationale of the CBE.

I would have hoped that the handbooks would have included material that would have assisted teachers in their own formation as to the philosophical and theological rationale for Church teaching on sexuality.

Then, said Murray, it might be up to Catholics to provide a moral and theological rationale for the constitutional order of a free society.

It is enough to point out that there is a theological rationale for this freedom.

I didn't agree with her theological rationale for living in this abandoned fort near Nabi - Saleh, but I had to admire her parting comment to me.

I have compared the nature of the Sabbath with that of play not to enter into a discussion of the Sabbath practice in any further detail but rather to better focus our inquiry into its theological rationale as set forth in Scripture.

The idea behind the mandates of church, family, culture and government goes back to Luther's «orders» of society, which appealed to socially conservative theologians and could even be used by Nazi sympathizers to provide a theological rationale for Hitler's program.

The problem with such a theological rationale is that it was not sufficiently mindful of the church's mandate «to serve Jesus Christ by «serving» human need.

For example, his theological rationale for why Canaanite woman and children were killed is terribly weak (p. 189).

[** Note: While I identify myself as egalitarian, I do not necessarily agree with every position / theological rationale of the folks at CBE.

Time and again liberal Protestants» commitment to serving the public as well as the church provided the theological rationale for decision - making.

I have just argued that Protestantism provided a theological rationale for ending church monopoly.

That sexual difference is a created good, a gift that serves multiple religious needs, does not necessarily mean that all same - sex relations have no theological rationale.

to poke holes in the theological rationale put forth by Dr. Clayton M. White, professor emeritus at Brigham Young University, and his nameless co-author — but can't help weighing in on their science: