Sentences with phrase «theology makes sense of the world»

believe that God actively seeks to reveal the divine love fail to appreciate the way in which process theology makes sense of the world's ambiguity?

Not exact matches

During much of the twentieth century, Christians and much of Christian theologies was caught between the two sterile choices of literalism (in harder or softer forms) or reductionism — either defending the factual accuracy and uniqueness of the Bible, or reducing the Bible to what makes sense within the modern world - view.

This is a far cry from liberal theology's effort to adapt Christianity to the modern world and make sense of culture on terms relevant to a rather confident secular and scientific age.

These elements of covenant theology not only solved some of the immediate dilemmas of church polity that the clergy faced but also made sense to laypersons because of their similarity to contractarian ideas gaining prominence in the world of finance and trade.

Perhaps the greatest difficulty for the prophetic church will be the evolution of a metaphysic and a theology that «make sense» within the context of the modern world.

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.