Sentences with phrase «theology uses the language»

Black theology uses the language of the masses to make plain the feelings, hopes, dreams, experiences and practices of black folk.

In Christian theology we use the language of sin to understand this — but too often sin is just a way of whining about things that make us uncomfortable instead of naming injustice and evil.

Not exact matches

It is absolutely committed to the negative doctrine that there is no divine revelation that delivers genuine knowledge of God; it is absolutely committed to a radically apophatic conception of Christian theology, so that no human language or concept, no product of reason at all, can adequately express the mystery of the divine; and it is absolutely committed to using theology to articulate Christian doctrine given the needs and idiom of the day.

As Kerry Egan said, we don't have to use the language of theology to teach and talk about God.

After all, if we do that, don't we then have to do that when the a Canaanite uses the term «god» (el), or other near eastern dialects / languages (il, ilim, elim, etc.) use their similar term for God, then we have to force their meaning and that theology onto the Israelites?

Theology, I believe, has special responsibility for the symbols, images, the language, used for expressing the relationship between God and the world in every age.

In a word, the unity of the New Testament theology is a religious unity, derived from its fundamental and original motivation, not from the language or the ideas commonly used to set forth its convictions, inferences, and beliefs.

I propose therefore to undertake at least a preliminary inspection, to offer a criticism of theology's use of the English language.

What is needed is not a revision of the language of faith or an updated «theology» but a reordering of our emotions, passions and attitudes such that we will have a use in our own life for the beliefs of Christianity and the language of Christian faith.

Because theology does not adequately feed our imagination, and because our language is inadequate for encompassing the whole of spiritual reality, it is still helpful and perhaps necessary to use imagery as well as concepts to get across our understanding of God.

If you don't use the right language or go along with the theology that's taught there, then you are considered dubious.

Rather than commit itself to any particular worldview, Christian theology should use or appropriate as many worldviews and forms of language as are necessary to explicate the truth of God's Word.

The person who uses self - involving language to speak of his faith in God, however, is led to the speculative language of theology and metaphysics in order to talk about his way of looking on God and the world.

Is it the kind of language theology professors at Catholic universities would use?

Anything positive that we may say about God is not to be understood univocally; we can use only the language of analogy, and it is within a bracket, as it were, which is governed by a negative sign that all theology is enclosed.

Recognizing that their critique has rendered images of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development of a lesbian theology is to see the basic language of theological discourse upset and transformed.

In his 1986 book A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities, though offering a more balanced use of the terms clarity and mystery, Dillenberger argues that a blatant contrast between language and painting followed the rise of Protestant orthodoxy.

In this sense, theology is not necessarily using language that we think of as religious or Christian.

«The Road Ahead in Theology» (September 19, 1962) declared that theologians ought to become more sensitive to the proper use of religious language and that there is a demand for a natural theology that will eschew dogmatic revelation claims and seek a responsible and reasonable Christian faith able to win its way in the marketplace oTheology» (September 19, 1962) declared that theologians ought to become more sensitive to the proper use of religious language and that there is a demand for a natural theology that will eschew dogmatic revelation claims and seek a responsible and reasonable Christian faith able to win its way in the marketplace otheology that will eschew dogmatic revelation claims and seek a responsible and reasonable Christian faith able to win its way in the marketplace of ideas.