Sentences with phrase «theological work»

That has remained the integrating center of my later theological work.

For example, instead of selecting research topics entirely because of the state of the discipline, a historical scholar can select a topic that the church finds important in its own theological work.

This differs in the several distinct but overlapping groups within which theological work proceeds.

But his reflection on these topics was but one aspect of his whole theological work.

We seemed to assume at the consultation, as we do in much of theological work in the church, that developing a theological identity is more or less a matter of picking a system of thought, be it feminist, neo-orthodox, process, liturgical or liberation, that fits our own concerns and agendas.

theological work does not merely begin with prayer and is not merely accompanied by it; in its totality it is peculiar and characteristic of theology that it can be performed only in the act of prayer.

His most important theological work is The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion (1936).

It is difficult now to do serious theological work without extensive reference to ancient and modern Orthodox sources.

The Methodist theologian D. Stephen Long, for instance, finds that «A Secular Age is Taylor's most explicitly theological work.»

But the upsurge of interest in his work has made it clear, on the basis of such theological works in Chinese as The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven of 1603, that Ricci was and remained an orthodox Catholic believer, whose very orthodoxy it was that impelled him to take seriously the integrity of Chinese traditions.

Bonhoeffer's theological work also bears the marks of interruption.

For example, on the one hand, when St Thomas Aquinas in his great mediaeval theological works treats theology as the «queen of the sciences», yet «the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the study of nature» (p. 81)-- it «had not resulted in a sterile fusion» (p. 84).

A beginner to G.K. Chesterton would do well to start with his book of essays called, Tremendous Trifles and eventually move on to his fiction and most popular theological work, Orthodoxy.

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.

It is simply that I have decided that the only theological work worth doing at the moment is that which contributes toward the creation of a vision and a set of values relevant to the transformation required for civilization to survive and move into the promise of the planetary society.

For this reason alone, I regard John Henry Newman's The Development of Christian Doctrine as the most important of all modern Catholic theological works, or at least, the most significant until Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man.

This means that the seminary, the place where theological work is usually done, has also become less important.

Amid ups and downs, delights and sufferings, deaths and births, burnout and rekindling, I have been carried by the past decade more fully into an appreciation of honest theological work.

Although at the time I neither could conceive of myself as a theologian nor was I aware of the intellectual history of women's emancipation, the roots of my feminist theological work nevertheless go back to the 1960s.

No one will be able to do responsible theological work during the remainder of the twentieth century without taking account of the philosophy of Charles Hartshorne; and all who study it, layman and theologian alike, will be profited, if not fully convinced, by it.

This problem comes to the front in Bultmann's theology because of his conviction, as Schubert Ogden has said, that «if theological work is properly pursued, it is neither speculative nor scientific in an «objective» sense, but rather existentiell, that is, a type of thinking inseparable from one's most immediate understanding of oneself as a person.»

The final chapters emphasize how pertinent Sayers» doctrinal explanations and theological work ethic remain for today's believers» a call to the spiritual adulthood demanded by the Letter to the Hebrews.

The dogmatic or systematic theological work of the church, of which Barth's Church Dogmatics is a distinguished crown, is indeed in need of serious correction on every page, and with the years that remain, I mean to Continue the task of trying to improve it.

And, there has been significant theological work in recent decades in response to the Shoah; a more detailed discussion of that would have been welcome.

The fortunes of the Protestant church - owned presses oscillated until the 1940s, when the work of American theologians began to command international attention and sales of theological works mushroomed, reaching a broad national and international audience.

When I first saw the title of this book I assumed it would be a pamphlet along the lines of those very useful booklets published by the Catholic Truth Society, setting out Catholic doctrine in simple terms for the interested reader without the time or inclination to read more weighty theological works.

Walter Brueggemann's brilliant new book, the culmination of a lifetime of incisive theological work, embodies the transitional moment between one interpretive age and the creative stirrings of a new one.

So likewise I should insist that for any proper theological work there must be a world - view (what I have above called a «conceptuality») which is defensible, meaningful, and acceptable in the light of our knowledge of ourselves and the world.

I did not want to do scholarly theological work, but rather something for the Kingdom of God.

In recent years it has often been the Biblical scholars rather than the systematic theologians who have done the most creative and influential theological work and who have been most effectively engaged with the question of relevance to the modern situation.

Thomas Aquinas said that his monumental theological works were nothing but straw by comparison with the Reality.

To turn attention away from these ideas because they are philosophical is to allow them a tyranny over theological work that can be dispelled only by critical and self - conscious reflection about them.

They thought of their catechisms, commentaries, and longer theological works (such as Melanchthon's Common Places and Calvin's Institutes) as but summaries of the basic Christian message found in the Bible and expressed in the rule of faith.

The Master of Theology (MTh) is a postgraduate research programme designed for those who wish to do higher theological work beyond the basic degree of BTh or MDiv.

However, if this skepticism concerning reason is really radical, then all genuine philosophical and religious thought is totally undermined, including Gilkey's own important theological work.

Church musicians are engaged in serious theological work.

Though not his latest book, How to Know God is his most explicitly theological work and serves as an exemplar of how a version of Vedanta Hinduism (introduced to the West by such exponents as Swami Vivekananda and Paramahansa Yogananda) has been made popular and accessible.