Sentences with phrase «theological work ethic»

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.

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Noddings» answers to these questions have won her praise in feminist and leftwing circles; her book is hailed by Rosemary Ruether and Daniel Maguire as an «important contribution to philosophical ethics» and a work that should be «significant» in theological seminaries.

Much of my work in Character and the Christian Life (Trinity University Press, 1975) is an attempt to articulate a philosophical psychology (the self as agent) sufficient to support these claims for the importance of character in theological ethics.

Political ethics as a central theological discipline now has a new intellectual identity and dignity, and many of today's young «political theologians» owe their ancestry to his creative work.

The civic vitues of the Protestant work ethic; not the theological virtues of faith, hope and love have become the basis for moral guidance in the American Church (es).

Nevertheless, Bonhoeffer's theological writing came to an unplanned and untimely end, and the book on ethics that he expected to be his most important work was left in fragments — 13 manuscripts and 115 handwritten notes.

A doctrine of creation that gives theological justification to human rights; the history of exodus and covenant; the ministry of Jesus Christ; the ethic of care for the stranger; and the stories of women in the Bible are all fruitful resources for liturgies of healing and for the work of securing justice.

We shall then be ready to consider the positive implications of this theological perspective in which the creative and the redemptive work of God are affirmed together, for Christian ethics, for Christian politics, and for the life of the spirit when the Christian commitment becomes a way of meeting both life and death.

While much of the work in process thought has been carried on by theologians and the field of the author of the book is theological ethics, the sometimes lengthy discussions of a theological nature serve to illustrate the comprehensiveness of the process - relational vision.

The Holy Trinity is God, Church and Country; not Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the civic virtues of the Protestant work ethic have replaced the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Love.

Konrad Raiser, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, uses it to describe, a change in theological perspective which affects the whole range of ecumenical work.1 His colleague and former student Martin Robra applies it specifically to a change in perspective on social ethics in World Council work.2 K.C. Abraham describes it as a change in theological and ethical perspective brought about by the participation of the Third World in the ecumenical movement.3 They all make important points.

But any theological rehabilitation of the work ethic must acknowledge the new global context of paid employment.

But, for the moment, let us presume that it is, say, 6o percent correct — too high in my judgment, but not a bad percentage for a theological ethic trying to work with vast themes and complex data and adequate to our thought experiment.

Julia Ahlers is working on a master's degree in land ethics at United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota, and is a writer and editor for St. Mary's Press in Winona.

The historical, etiological and theological meaning of the covenant in relation to the patriarchs (Genesis 12 - 50), the Sinai decalogue (Exodus 19 - 20), the Covenant Code (Exodus 2:1 - 24), the work and person of Moses (Exodus 32 - 34), the priestly cultus and ethic (Leviticus 16, 19, 23 - 26), the narratives of wilderness and occupation (Numbers 5 - 6, 11 - 17, 20 - 24; Joshua 1 - 12, 23 - 24).