Sentences with phrase «theological studies before»

Tomorrow I return to Rome for my final year of theological studies before ordination.

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The speech assessment exercise became one more action in the service of «contemplation»; it pointed to an individual's need for «perfection» or «purification» by getting minimal instruction in «effectiveness» before studying the more complex, theological act of preaching.

I suspect that many of our student's piety before they come to theological studies is shaped by individualistic and other - worldly concerns.

Before getting to the serious work of teaching, Bonhoeffer came to America for a year of study at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Hauerwas» pastor understood that when there is significant dissent on a theological or moral question before the church, the church must continue to study, discuss, and pray until the whole church can affirm a decision.

And an admittedly hurried examination of several texts intended for use in courses of instruction before confirmation or in «religious studies» in schools for adolescents has made it plain that this whole set of ideas is either entirely absent or is so «muted» (to put it so) that it plays no really significant part in what children or confirmands learn as they are introduced to the Christian faith and its theological implications.

On the one hand, theological schools have done precisely what the Kelly and May - Brown studies, and Harper before them, had urged.