Sentences with phrase «theological understanding of»

This is of crucial importance, for when we seek to place preaching within the context of the «wider community,» meaning by that both the local community in which a congregation exists and the global community, part of what we seek is a theological understanding of that context.

The participants noted that in its theological understanding of other religions, Christian theology tends either to expand Christology (by means of the logos doctrine or «anonymous Christianity,» for instance) or to expand pneumatology (dealing with the work of the Holy Spirit in other religions) And yet a trinitarian approach would insist that the two can not be alternatives or competitors.

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

Such a theological understanding of the church will dictate in turn, as it did for Niebuhr, a theological understanding of church leadership.

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?

Many in the church curia have almost totally surrendered to such ways of death, perhaps from a sense of guilt over the past treatment of females or from a real sense of justice, but often without thought or theological understanding of the consequences.

The matter is raised here not merely for reasons of academic interest, but to underline again the more profound and theological understanding of the act of stealing.

The theological understanding of the relationship between church and mission in Madras led to the development of the concept of partnership in Whitby.

He can and should speak out honestly, in the ordinary course of his work, regarding the conclusions that he has come to in his quest for a theological understanding of the issue.

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.

To a great extent our theological understanding of faith, virtue, and happiness has lost this emphasis on the primacy of openness to the surprise of promise.

[16] This was a sincere and open attempt to set out not only the theological understanding of that which divided various traditions, one from the other, but also to suggest theological and practical guidelines toward overcoming such divisions.

But in making this surrender our critics must not be very far from exemplifying the theological understanding of faith.

Here is the theological understanding of why men turn to a deceitful self - glorification or to self - destruction.

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.

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 personal and the social are linked, not through ideological arguments, but in a theological understanding of grace.

There can be no true religious or devotional or theological understanding of the Bible which is not also historical understanding.

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.

On these matters, Scripture speaks unequivocally, and, for Lombardo, this means that any theological understanding of the cross that somehow undermines these claims must be found wanting.

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.

The theological understanding of the Church allows for a wide range of emphases.

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

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

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.

Having noted basic differences in these positions, we can then look at a number of questions which evangelicals must address if they hope to move beyond the present impasse in their theological understanding of the doctrine of inspiration.

Here the theological understanding of human being as person - in - community must help develop the incorporation into modernity of certain traditional cultural values in the pre-modern spiritual vision.

Here, then, Hartshorne's theological understanding of the supreme instance of goodness gives us the ideal towards which human ethical behavior must aspire.

4:9, the Malayalam version does not decipher the cosmological understanding of the original text.56 Thus, the theological understanding of the Indian translations differs from the original source, due to incorrect translation approaches.

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

At least three elementary consequences may follow for an theological understanding of «revelation» (which is process - theologically legitimized):

One theological understanding of the future is «the last things.»

I also suspect that only a theological understanding of the transition in religious experience from an apprehension of God the enemy to God.

In this broad definition of prophetism, then, the whole Bible is «prophetic» since it consistently reflects this passionately theological understanding of history.

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.

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

This is so because central to Keen's thought has been his belief that all theology, including a theological understanding of play, must be defined solely in terms of one's own autobiography («I may speak of grace only in the first person») 34 This solipsistic reduction of religious authority to personal experience has led Keen to characterize incorrectly both theology and the play experience itself.

I will distinguish later between materialist and theological understandings of nature and their differing implications, but most often I will use the term nature in this generally universal sense common to both materialists and theists.

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.

A close reading of «Bartleby, the Scrivener,» his most sustained study of New York, reveals in fact that Melville had a profoundly theological understandings of the nineteenth - century city.

Some theological understandings of resurrection, including Crossan's, I take it, do not presuppose an empty tomb.

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).

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

Not exact matches

Scientists, for their part, especially those in the scientific community with burdens against religion, need to understand that the nature of scientific evidence, method and hypotheses and the nature of theological evidence, method, and hypothesis have more in common than they might imagine.

Recently, I've come to understand to a greater degree how «a theology» can replace «a faith» and mask itself as the real thing.I'm not anti-theological, in fact, I'm very theological - the difference in my approach now is a realization that if one has some degree of traditional, but contemporary faith in God (as I do), then a theology is inevitable....

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

We need a functional standard of orthodoxy: one supple enough to do justice to the sorts of nuances Griffiths introduces, but one real enough to help us understand when theological speculation, novelty, and critique undermine rather than enrich the faith of the Church.

Rather, I have always taken his question to suggest that only the most rigorous theological approach will be equal to the challenge of understanding what bas undoubtedly been the most complex interreligious relationship in human history.

(In order even to begin to comprehend this story, one must understand first that Missouri Synod people care deeply about church doctrine, and second that Concordia Seminary in St. Louis — where classical theological training was offered with considerable rigor — had been revered in the affections of Missourians.

There are substantial theological disagreements between the two, but perhaps the fundamental difference could be described as one of hermeneutics: how do we understand the authority of Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions?