Sentences with phrase «theological vision»

It would be appropriate I thought that in a volume meant to honor him, I should take up for reflection some line of thought that is closer to his own theological vision.

Though the conventional tendency to read Barth as the dogmatician of an outdated «neo-orthodox positivism» is often armed with considerable evidence of his intellectual narrowness, it misses the deeper significance of Barth's theological vision for our time.

However, this superficial characterisation fails to realise just how developed and stable the medieval West was, precisely because of a coherent, comprehensive theological vision in which humans had their true dignity under God's providence.

By an otherwise simple grammatical change of a possessive adjective's number from the singular to the plural - peccata mea to peccata nostra - this liturgical voice has been muted and consequently it seems a profound theological vision so necessary for today has been obscured.

In CST, too, we find an inspiring theological vision that precipitates or necessitates certain economic elements.

But it also plays a special place in the end times theological visions of American fundamentalists.

Nelson - Pallmeyer's Saving Christianity from Empire and Stephen Webb's American Providence present diametrically opposite theological visions of American empire.

In all of this he was doing creative theological work and articulating a significant theological vision but not primarily in the mode of speculative theology.

Greenberg's bold Jewish theological vision grew out of two encounters: with the Holocaust and with radical Christian theologians whose own framework was shattered by the Holocaust.

Only with a renewed theological vision can the church in the U.S. become a moral force in the resetting of national priorities.

But the picture is so utterly lacking in any serious theological vision that all the audience hears is a mishmash of words gleaned from popular culture's assumptions about the man called Jesus — references to love, kingdom, power, sin, guilt, anger, forgiveness, not to mention that constant, most oppressive of all forces, the one who makes ultimate demands, God himself.

Readers inspired by the Incarnation - centred theological vision of the Faith movement will notice that this «rosary way» of doing theology means we begin ourtheological reflection with the moment of the Incarnation: the Annunciation.

Pentecostals emphasize the charismatic and missiological components of Luke's theological vision particularly as found in the book of Acts.

He projected an understanding of the priesthood linked to a remarkable theological vision of Christ as Lord of Creation and he maintained that the priest was clearly called to celibacy and chastity precisely so that he could love God and people more fully.

This position has fueled a fragmented theological vision.

Given the situation I have just described, it is not surprising that Polkinghorne assumes a variety of genres in his writing: one moment appealing to natural knowledge of God, in another vigorously defending his personal theological vision, and in still another arguing about the possibilities for interpreting theories of chaos and information as openings for God's action in the world.

What was needed in the debates over music during the 1950s and 1960s was a broader theological vision that could help the Cooke's and Lewis's of the world understand the continuity between the sacred and the profane in terms of the shaping and orientation of human desire.

Like Johnson's dandelion chain, womanist theological vision will grow as black women come together and connect piece with piece.

Some of the elements in Altizer's theological vision seemed very strange, but I was convinced that they were a healthy corrective to a shared understanding of the religious situation, which had outlived its usefulness.

In the reciprocity between the two, theological vision not only reflects a societal perspective, but also reinforces and shapes it.

In 2001 she published Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity, which was systematic in laying out a comprehensive theological vision but so brief that it called out for greater elaboration.

Waldstein's theological vision of the good of government, I can only respond as Burke responded to the Reason advocated by the French Revolutionaries.

In late antiquity, despite all the political shenanigans and personality clashes, the church leaders succeeded in maintaining a razor - sharp focus on the central theological issues and resisted a reduction of their theological vision to politics.

When Luther became convinced that the papacy was Antichrist, all the energy of his theological vision was harnessed to the forces already working to dissolve the Church's unity; this more than anything else made schism inevitable.

This theological vision is now so pervasive that judges barely recognize the Blaine Amendments as having established a distinctive religious point of view.

These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.

Inspired by a theological vision, Faith is at heart a pastoral and evangelical movement, organising catechetical events, formative groups and retreats, and producing theological, pastoral and spiritual publications and resources.

He then gives expression to a theological vision centering around freedom.

However, we must recognise that this project of elaborating a theological vision, if it is to be truly Catholic, must be nurtured and discerned in prayer.

The key idea of this theological vision is that the whole of God's plan for creation and salvation is expressed by a single wisdom or «law», governing and directing all things — matter and spirit — to their fulfilment.

This book is the most comprehensive statement of his ideas and the theological vision that inspired Faith movement, although his thinking was also elaborated, sometimes more accessibly, in his editorials for Faith.

This theological vision might be developed as follows.

But if, in changing (as we must to stay well), we do not hold stubbornly to the roots of this idealism, we will be sucked into a funnel through which our theological vision will narrow and, in time, become rigid and false.

This was the theological vision behind Bonhoeffer's activism, and it separated him from many within his own church.

In turn, such congregations appreciate, support and emphasize the importance of pastoral leaders, for they understand the crucial importance of articulating this theological vision and nourishing it through worship, education and ministries.

All three modes of theological discernment are necessary as a corrective to theological vision's tendency to distort ideologically, to ascribe universal validity to the limited and particular, and to gloss over ambiguity and tragedy in experience.

Yet effective congregations have much in common: They are able to articulate a theological vision that links people to God and God's presence in and for the world.

Though these services carry no explicit religious content, a theological vision does undergird such outreach.

We can not begin to discuss such matters without first recognizing the fact that numerous modern scientific thinkers adopt a tragic interpretation of the universe which they take to be much more realistic than any theological vision.

This passage is not primarily a matter of ethical teaching but rather a profound statement of part of Paul's theological vision.

Recognising that the pastoral and spiritual life of the Church has always been rooted in her theological vision they realised from the beginning that the pastoral difficulties experienced by the Church were explicable only as the symptom of a deeper theological crisis.

«The theological vision that underlies them [the texts] and is explained in them is rooted in the Mystery.

Returning yet again to the image of the ladder of love, participants will consider more deeply the inner unity of the forms of love — particularly eros and agape — within an integrated human life informed by a theological vision.