Sentences with phrase «traditional theology»

It therefore, lacks a widespread critique of traditional theology.

In their most basic contours, the philosophy and literature of Romantic modernism derived from traditional theology.

We are not trying only to spell out what traditional theology implies about nature.

Whitehead saw in traditional theology three dominant ways of thinking about God: as imperial ruler, as moral energy, and as ultimate philosophical principle, but he did not favor any of them.

More specifically, how do we reconceptualize the three concerns of traditional theology which seemed to call for divine relativity if, in fact, the thesis that God feels the world is not acceptable?

Much traditional theology of revelation has almost completely suppressed the promissory nature of revelation and with it the value of historical existence.

I think such a vision will endure beyond the epochs of revised traditional theology through which we are now rapidly passing.

To the extent that traditional theology speaks about God in himself, he is transcendent; to the extent that it speaks about God's grace, he is immanent.

This «dialogue» has been an example of how to ensure that those who no longer subscribe to a literal, unexamined reading of the Bible and fundamentalist or traditional theology stay as far away as possible from the doctrine they left.

While traditional theology separated «human evil» from «natural evil,» I would venture to guess that for most Americans, the category of natural evil is a strange one.

If genuine freedom involves risk and loss, then traditional theology leaves us unfree.

It is not only traditional theologies that try to show the reality of God by way of his presence.

We have pointed out that much traditional theology maintains that we are not worthy of God's love, but receive it in grace (if we believe) only because of Jesus» sacrifice on our behalf.

He was more than willing to contradict traditional theology to extend love.

We must be careful to avoid caricaturing traditional theology.

Traditional theology looked backward: It postulated God as the cause of all things.

Traditional theology sometimes speaks of God as suffering, rejoicing, or interacting in other ways with his creatures.

Whereas traditional theology said: «Since contingency truly exists, God exists,» Hegel turned this into: «Since contingency does not exist, God or the absolute does.

Whitehead thus inverts the way in which traditional theology understands religion.

Traditional Theology tells us that God is separate from material existence living off in Heaven somewhere.

If part of the motivation behind traditional theology lies in the demand for a recognition of the genuine reality of possibilities and not merely the reality of here - and - now actualities, that demand could be satisfied without departing from Buchler's metaphysics of natural complexes.

The political symbols of the older traditional theology Father, King.

Vatican II theology goes beyond traditional theology also in the fact that the salvation granted both the atheist and the non-Christian devotees of religion is not a «natural» salvation but the same salvation granted Christians.4 But what is most significant of all in this new statement of Christian theology is that it is maintained that non-Christians are saved precisely as non-Christians — hence, the atheist qua atheist and the Buddhist qua Buddhist.

If its gleeful cracking apart of traditional theologies doesn't get you (there's a lot of folk Catholic imagery here, complete with an Ash Wednesday - like mud smearing on the foreheads of the faithful), its bonkers scenes of chaos probably will.

But it is different from traditional theology in that it uses the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (instead of Plato or Aristotle) to express and integrate that belief into our contemporary perception of reality — a perception which is increasingly sensitive to integration and change as the fundamental reality.

Unquestionably, it is a different description of God from that proposed by traditional theology, but it is not the same as the pantheism that Christian faith consistently has rejected.

He wishes both to make the single encounter with God in Jesus Christ all - determinative for Christian thought and to keep within that thought the full richness of traditional theology which has fed on the more extensive sources of reason and Scriptural authority.

I have offered one example of how process theology radically revises traditional theology and one example of how it radically revises contemporary science.

A South Carolina judge on Wednesday (Jan. 23) issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the national church from using the name or seal of the diocese, which espouses a more traditional theology and disapproves of the national church's acceptance of same - sex marriage and gay bishops.

In one sense, this constitutes the «forgiveness» (unmerited «grace») of the love of God in traditional theology.

It is a move toward formulating a theology informed by the theology of nature but expressing itself in central categories of traditional theology and displaying its relevance to the whole range of Christian issues.

My study reveals that the worldview of these scientists is so different from traditional theology in that no gods exist for them, there is no such thing as the incorporeal spirit or soul, there is no life after death — all of the things that are held most passionately by traditional theology, all of them have to be abandoned.

Cosmology theology is the traditional theology found within the Jewish - Muslim - Christian - Catholic religions and elaborated in a space - time context of our present universe and confined by it.

In traditional theology this delegation of power is sometimes called God's «permissive» will.

According to traditional theology, God will ultimately take full control of our bike - wills.

In addition, this deity possesses what Nelson Pike calls «over-power» — «veto» power, I call it — or the coercive power of traditional theology.

Jesus» presence in this sense, in distinction from the presence of the Risen Lord or the Eternal Son, is rarely asserted clearly in traditional theology.