Sentences with phrase «theological significance»

It is, therefore, of great theological significance.

As we pointed out in Chapter 6, we can not claim great theological significance for this event, but we do claim that it occurred.

For this assertion is not one without fundamental theological significance, a mere concession to the empirical facts of material change and decay.

Most striking is the Barthian thesis, that the world of history and science, the whole world of modern culture, recognition of which forced theology into a new course, is not of positive theological significance.

That is the deeper theological significance of the Church's abandonment of temporal power.

The LCMS insists on a belief in verbal inspiration that makes the Bible incapable of error on any point and requires that it be read as expressing literal truth on all matters to which it addresses itself, whether or not those matters are of intrinsic theological significance.

It was the meaning the event had provided to have in the experience of the primitive community that largely determined the earliest theological significance of Jesus.

A group of graduate students met regularly to discuss the broader theological significance of von Rad's approach, and in 1961 they produced a small volume of essays with the provocative title Revelation as History, with Pannenberg as the editor and the author of the systematic essay that summarized their understanding.

Above all, I was familiar with the traditional Christian view that held that since Christ's coming the distinction between Jew and gentile had lost whatever theological significance it may once have had.

The primary theological significance of this holistic and integrative involvement is not just to qualify him as the Second Adam and make retribution for our fragmented relationship to God.

But this person was conceived to be the central factor in an act of God, and it is this act which has largest theological significance in the New Testament.

In fact, for the broadcasters, it would appear that such efforts as personal sacrifice, service, self - discipline, hard work, setbacks, failures, and endurance are without theological significance.

This conclusion bears great theological significance for an understanding of human nature, obedience, and faith, but Turner seems content to state that it calls into question the idea that God's will overcomes all obstacles in Genesis.

This is a fact of great theological significance, and this significance will concern us in our last chapter, but it is also the reason for our major problem in reconstructing the teaching of Jesus: we do distinguish between those two figures and when we say «the teaching of Jesus» we mean the teaching of the earthly Jesus, as the early Church did not.

Can congregations exhibit greater intentionality and focus on personal spiritual growth, and yet call and invite people into communities of memory and hope that have deep theological significance?

But this dilemma fades away once we begin to understand the cultural and theological significance in baptism.

Statistics do have theological significance.

Members of the theological ensemble who play for one another and for their patrons from the religious establishment regard as eccentric the solos of those who urge us to take with full seriousness the theological significance of the human body.

The theological significance has been drained away.

At the most recent General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, in Vancouver in 1983, the theological significance of other religious traditions still remained a controversial issue.

«If the Church does not regard Israel from a Christian point of view,» he remarked, «if it does not recognize the theological significance of this people, having a national destiny that can be cultivated only in Zion, the Church has no right to pass judgment on Israel.»

For evidence, I shall limit myself to Andr6 Malraux's Metamorphosis of the Gods, not only because Malraux can not be suspected of either a Catholic or a Protestant bias, but far rather because this is the most illuminating study that I have discovered of the theological significance of the plastic arts.

How shall study of these subject matters be so focused that it attends to them in their theological significance?

But life is often compartmentalized, and I had never reflected on the theological significance of the historical work that I pursued.

One can see, then, that the theological significance of this reorientation of evolutionary thinking could be considerable.

When I asked him about his novels and whether there was a theological significance to them, however, he immediately declined to comment and ended the call.

In fact, the whole Big Bang theory has often been taken to be of some theological significance.

It does not destroy the theological significance of spatial particularity, but situates it precisely within the context of the one God's universal dominion.

*** TRIGGER WARNING: swear words... Someone is bound to say, «But the things Jesus called the religious back then had theological significance!»

While high - toned discussions about Christianity and the Church are surely beneficial to our society, the greatest danger of this endless coverage is to elevate the role of the papacy» or, perhaps better, the personality of any individual occupant» beyond the theological significance of the office itself.

Though denying any theological significance to teleology, Darwin was far from denying the existence of telos in such beauty.

In seminary I read certain biblical stories not only for their theological significance but also for their strategic value in political action.

And I also maintain that what happened is not of any theological significance.

In accord with the tradition of emblems popular in his day, Luther assigned to each component of the image a theological significance:

We must be willing to learn what historical and literary criticism can tell us about the construction of the text and the psychology of the author, but it is Scripture itself or rather the Spirit acting within Scripture that gives us the theological significance of the text.

The renewed interest in the theological significance of the historical Jesus has coincided with some new opportunities to make progress in this field.

We will take for granted his uncanny insight into our cultural disintegration, adding that this does not exhaust his theological significance.

There is a tendency at present to disparage concern with that question and to concentrate rather on the theological significance of the miracles.

In seeking to render a concluding evaluation of Harts - home's theological significance, the most salient feature in my mind is the clear conviction that he is more dependent upon Christian revelation than he admits and that his theology could gain in needed concreteness by a still more explicit appeal to Christian revelation.