Sentences with phrase «theological right and left»

Not exact matches

Is it simply that the radicalism is expressed in an unholy synthesis of political and theological rhetoric (a perennial temptation, incidentally, upon which both the Religious Left and the Religious Right need to reflect)?

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

Thus we have in this volume a brief but provocative dialogue between the theological left and the theological right on the topic of play.

The irony here is that one of the conscious aims of that statement had been to make welcome room for the evangelicals within the inclusive Methodist theological enterprise — even while it was also trying to wall off the extreme dogmatists from the «right» and the barn - burners from the «left.»

This line of separation has become less acute than it was fifty years ago when the famous Dayton trial over the right to teach evolution in the public schools took place, and in the same year of 1925 Harry Emerson Fosdick had to leave the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City because of his theological views.

When Christian theologians expose the full implications of theological postures recently assumed, and when they critically examine humanism without the prism of gross misinterpretations, it will be recognized that the formidable chasm is between the right (theocentric) and left (humanocentric) wings of theism, not between the latter and religious humanism.

The situation in Europe, including Britain, is more nuanced than that in North America, largely because Europe's Muslim populations have a longer and more established social and political history in nations where Muslims (of the theological left, right and center) are represented by sophisticated networks of» mosques and political NGOs that defend the rights of Muslims and shape their participation in civic life, including the introduction of Islamic law for civil cases.

1920 Rev. Curtis Lee Laws first uses term «fundamentalist» 1920 Prohibition 1920 19th Amendment gives women right to vote 1921 Latin American Mission (Harry and Susan Strachan) 1923 J. Gresham Machen publishes Christianity and Liberalism 1924 Evangelical Theological College, later called Dallas Theological Seminary 1925 Scopes «Monkey» Trial 1927 First «talking» motion picture 1928 Henrietta Mears becomes Director of Christian Education at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood 1929 Stock market crash begins Great Depression 1929 Fundamentalists leave Princeton to form Westminster Theological Seminary

The left tablet of the ten commandments presupposes the right tablet and the second commandment depends upon the first and the theological context of the New Testament witness to Christ.

Indeed, he says, «I could not see that I had any right to leave the community in which I was baptized, in which I learned to believe the catholic faith from the heart, and in which I had my theological vocation.»

This is the fallacy of contemporary left - wing politics: you kids want the «gravy» of fundamentally theological entities (right and wrong) without any of the «grief» of maintaining coherent theological narratives — you rely on little more than coercion and force, often enacted against children, in order to keep them on the «right path.»