Sentences with phrase «theological understanding»

How would a relational approach view our social responsibility and what sort of theological understanding of the future does it provide?

Advance in theological understanding demands, in a measure, a combination of both manners of reflection!

The primary focus of education should he on theological understanding.

This is very compatible with the second theological understanding of the future described above.

The study of world religions is a great resource for a more meaningful theological understanding.

But by allowing for an extended hierarchy of explanations, they can accept Darwinian accounts as appropriate at one level, while still leaving ample room for theological understanding at a deeper one.

This is a matter on which there is most urgent need of co-operation between those whose studies are, in the first instance, historical, and those whose concern lies on the frontiers between systematic theological understanding and the clamant need to relate the supposed Christian verity to our growing and changing perceptions of our human situation.

And this it seems to me is a moral and theological understanding which can be expressed in ways which are accessible not only to those with Christian commitment but to all those who think seriously about our human nature and our contacts with one another.

The whole Bible is «prophetic» since it consistently reflects the prophetic and passionately theological understanding of history.

For the right to critique Christian theological understandings of Judaism there is not a reciprocal obligation for Jews to give Christians an «equal opportunity.»

Despite attempts of harmonizers and oratorio librettists to concoct something called the Seven Last Words, Jesus» words from the cross in each Gospel provide a perspective on each evangelist's particular theological understanding of the crucifixion.

But it is nevertheless a working Yes and one that demands theological understanding.

Because our basic theological understandings of grace include assent to the claim that the most beautiful and precious things in and about our lives are unearned and undeserved, themes of gift and gratitude sometimes seem overworked.

There is no possibility of understanding history as the image of God unless we reach a new theological understanding of both imagery and the imagination.

Moreover, it is conceivable that this mode of metaphysical or theological understanding represents and embodies a synthesis or coming together of eschatology and christology.

No doubt my way of seeking it is very different from process thought, such as that expressed in the writings of John B. Cobb, Jr., but this does not preclude the possibility that Cobb's di - polar theological understanding can not only challenge but also enrich a quest for total dialectical understanding and vision.

But without theological understanding none of the skills is that useful

Therefore I see pastoral skills themselves as embodying theological understanding.

This question might seem especially arcane to the non-theologian, but this disagreement on animal futures impacts our very theological understanding of creation, as Hart demonstrated with his discussion of the necessity of creation for humans to be able to «see» God.

The Orthodox church (I have only attended a couple of services, so I only have impressions, not full theological understanding) seems to have an emphasis on things being beautiful - what with all the icons and the atmosphere created in the service.

However in the concluding chapter there seems to be a lack of appreciation of the Catholic theological understanding of how the Church arrives at infallible statements.

No doubt there still remain much research and reflection to be done in order to work out a consistent theological understanding of the issues entailed here.

But it also involves squaring the authority of ancient texts with modern theological understanding and developments in biology.

Alpha supporter Don Wink agrees that «the course shouldn't be offered if a church is compromising its best theological understandings or changing the content of the course.»

For a discussion of four theological - ethical positions that represent a continuum in current theological understandings of homosexuality, see James F. Childress, The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986).

At Nairobi the WCC not only included this matter on the agenda again, but in putting emphasis on «ministry to and with» fostered a far more accurate theological understanding of that ministry and placed it squarely at the heart of the gospel.

The workshop employs a dynamic presentation of the texts of the ritual books themselves as the basis for a rich theological understanding of the way in which the Word becomes flesh in and through thecelebration of the Sacred Liturgy.

In his efforts to provide an acceptable theological understanding for the revised Latin formula, Ratzinger chooses to emphasise the possessive adjectives: our sins and your Church.

At no point is the later Bonhoeffer of greater importance to the death of God theology than in helping us work out a truly theological understanding of the problem of religionlessness.

There have been historical overviews proposed (as by some of the Radical Orthodoxy group) at a level of generalization that draws the rejection of most historians, but theological understanding immersed in the particularities of a context, period, person or tradition has been rare.

As an expression of human revulsion at the Holocaust this denial of corporate responsibility is comprehensible, but will it suffice for a Jewish theological understanding of man?

Indeed, «the primary theological understanding of human institutions is that they are among the crowning creative redemptive achievements of God» (50).

And after the Protestant scholastics got finished refining it, it spoke even less to my own theological understanding and spiritual experience.

Principles of Christian Theology therefore identifies culture as one of the formative factors in theological understanding, along with experience, revelation, scripture, tradition, and reason.

Quite the opposite: a systematic theological understanding — and a consistent articulation thereof — is a pastoral virtue, if not a necessity.

XXII, No. 2 [April, 1954]-RRB- he was still aiming to contribute to a better and more positive interpretation of religions on the basis of a new conception of «general revelation,» and to press toward a profoundly theological understanding of the inner structure of the history of religions.

A second theological understanding of the future tries to be more integrally social.

This thesis is the basis for the Christian theological understanding of the other religions.

Jesus» departure from the zealot programme showed his more theological understanding of power, not his disinterest in it.

austin929 A theological understanding of the Angle of the Lord will not bring you into a full experience in Christ.