Sentences with phrase «theological work does»

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.

He must either become more and more unreasonably dogmatic, affirming that on all these questions he has answers given him by his tradition that are not subject to further adjudication, or else he must finally acknowledge that his theological work does rest upon presuppositions that are subject to evaluation in the context of general reflection.

Not exact matches

The young Luther did almost certainly suffer from a «troubled conscience» in some form, but it evidently did not cause his theological work to be dominated by the question, «How can I get a gracious God?»

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.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

The translator's introduction points out that Fount of Knowledge is one of the most «important single works produced in the Greek patristic period,... offering as it does an extensive and lucid synthesis of the Greek theological science of the whole period.

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.

Daniel Day Williams (1910 — 73) joined Hartshorne on the faculty at Chicago Theological Seminary in 1939 but he was no stranger to that milieu, having done pre-doctoral work there in the early thirties.

Drawing on the theological work of Henri du Lubac, Hans Boersma, and Rowan Williams, among others, Klassen explains how the fact of this pattern is grounded in the Trinity, in which all material reality participates.

If writing a technical philosophical or theological essay, I should wish here to urge how much work needs to be done by way of analysis on the notion of dependence.

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

I am learning the critical necessity of approaching our theological work the same way we do any authentic spirituality: through the particularities of our lives - in - relation.

Nevertheless, in order to understand the genuine sources from which theology legitimizes its irreplaceable intuition, and in order to preserve the revelation - theological relevance of process - theological theory, we may contrast the main position of process theology by identifying the counter question: Can there be found any genuine place for a revealed theology within Whitehead's work so that theology does not have to be subordinated to general metaphysics but, rather, finds its connection to metaphysics in mutual influence?

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).

Much more work needs to be done to establish practical theology as procedure and as method before it can become more central to theological education.

Farley's work points in the right direction, but more work needs to be done to establish practical theology as procedure and as method before it can become the center of theological education.

Above all, churches should ask for justice from religious institutions that continue to ignore Hispanics» existence: monocultural denominational and ecumenical agencies; theological institutions that refuse to hire Hispanic professors (and even discourage Spanish - speaking students from working toward doctorates); religious journals and magazines that fail to publish materials dealing with the life and faith of Hispanic churches; and mainline churches that do not make an all - out commitment to ministry among Hispanics.

Mainstream theologians have failed to take Latin American theologies seriously because the new work does not fit standard criteria of theological inquiry.

He has done graduate work at Yale Divinity School,, Union Theological Seminary, and McCormick School of Theology in Chicago.

Scholars like P. D. Devanandan and Raimon Panikkar had done pioneering theological reflections on the pluralism of religions in the early 1960s, [58] and the impact of Stanley Samartha's work in the World Council of Churches has been felt throughout the world.

What do you make of the theology of Benedict XVI and its relation to the subjects you've worked on: theological language, ecumenism, eschatology and so on?

There is a massive amount of biblical and theological work to be done simultaneously with our practical response to such pressing issues as global hunger.

The courageous work that women in theology do in all parts of the world, to deconstruct basic theological and reconstruct more inclusive and life affirming principles, is an example of this.

The Israelite who did not joyfully rest from his work on that day was one who put his hope in his own work rather than in God's election.22 According to de Quervain,»... when our minds are illumined by faith, we see the Sabbath in Israel as grounded not in a sociological event, but in a theological one, the deliverance of God's people from bondage into the rest which he gave them as a token of the final rest.

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.

The church never did the theological and biblical work that needs doing.»

Whatever one may think of Girard (and I think highly of him), one can only be grateful for the new confidence he has given theological language to do descriptive work for shaping the Church's witness to the world.

Her earliest work on the relationship between ritual purity and holiness, and her later work on the true literary and theological meaning of the Book of Leviticus do much to counter the neo - Freudian view that Judeo - Christianity is based on a primitive, superstitious, patriarchal, taboo ridden ideology.

If there is a theory of natural law that will actually help us do theological work, then it must meet two main criteria: It should be strongly teleological, affirming that the human good includes our being ordered to God and neighbor.

Yet I wonder if Schuller's theological - psychological interpretation of success and failure does not risk a kind of «justification through works.»

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.

Thus did Vatican II vindicate Newman's great work on the development of doctrine, which grew from a theological method that brought history, and indeed life itself, back into play as sources of reflection and growth in our understanding of God's revelation.

How does one understand a vocation to theological scholarship in the midst of competing loyalties to family and children, to church and other communities, to the institution where one teaches, to the guild, and to one's own internal rhythms of work, rest, and playfulness?

I am afraid that I have not thought everything through well enough, or that I have misunderstood some central truth in Scripture, or that I did not grasp the right theological proposition in the right way, or that I am wrong about how faith works, or that I am wrong about the consequences of results of faith, or... or... or... or...

The theological work which will be most useful in the years ahead will be that which works out its motifs in correlation with the whole range of the biological, behavioral, and social sciences, and does so in language which has the widest possible touch with ordinary modes of speech common to all educated persons.

There is an ancient Christian theological document miscalled «the Athanasian Creed» (it had nothing to do with Athanasius himself but was evidently the work of Hilary of Poitier and should be given its proper name of Quicumque Vult) that can help us here.

The people of God do not work for peace on behalf of their denomination or theological perspectives.

The effect of all this is to throw into relief the results, and especially the theological results, of the work done on the basis of a given hypothesis of gospel interrelationships as the only effective test of the validity of that hypothesis.

It ought not be necessary to say that the process I am about to describe does not commonly take place in the absence of fundamental disciplines in theological work.

The only man whose work we can trace in the synoptic tradition who ever concerns himself to remain reasonably true, in our sense of that word, to his sources is Luke, and even he does not hesitate to make very considerable changes indeed when he has theological reasons for doing so.

Despite the American and democratic character of Protestant churches and the theological schools that serve them, an interpreter who tried to understand them primarily in this context would need to do violence to them, to twist the meaning of their affirmations of purpose and to misconstrue the character of the work that goes on in them.

those examples you gave do not work anyways since they are not theological in nature..

«We don't want to robotise our church work, but see if we can bring a theological perspective to a machine.»

We must do this theological work with all the philosophical rigor we can bring to bear on it.

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

Although he does not share the theological freedom so radiantly on display in Balthasar's work, and indeed is rather phobic toward Christianity, Harold Bloom echoes Balthasar's insistence on the primacy of the aesthetic and even comes close to seeing how resentment against aesthetic primacy is rooted in, and arises from, an ideologization of culture that will fear all true singularities, relative or otherwise.

To make the theological translation, the work of actualizing the state is genuinely «doing God's work in the world.»

The Christian theological tradition calls this singularity the scandal of particularity, a mode of generosity that works very differently than does our usual approach.

The professors enjoy the status of civil servants and in that sense are one step removed from direct ecclesiastical control; but their primary responsibilities are clear, and all theological work is done in a distinct confessional mold.

I do not intend to deny the specificity of the work of formulating dogma, whether at the ecclesial level or the level of theological investigation.