Sentences with phrase «traditions in theological schools»

This honors the tradition in theological schooling that insists that whatever else it does, a theological school should prepare «learned ministers.»

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Further, they are already aware of «disagreement about some theological matters» and the CCCU schools are committed to «certain essentials of the faith once for all delivered to the saints» simultaneously adhering to particular theological postures in one's particular school and its theological tradition.

whatever a school's commitment to a particular theological tradition may mean, therefore, insofar as it is a school, it can not entail restrictions on the freedom of teachers and learners to differ and be in error.

Christian congregation; some have seen a theological school as distinct from but interrelated with congregations in ways analogous to the relation in the Reformed tradition between the congregation and its clergy; others have seen a theological school as related, not to congregations, but to a cadre of active clergy for whom it provides «in - service» or «extension» education.

A given theological school may in fact be explicitly committed to a particular theological tradition or «position.»

Recently the faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary's school of world mission called on «Christians in all traditions to reinstate the work of Jewish evangelism in their missionary obedience.»

In turn, the confession of faith loses the suppleness of living preaching and is identified with the dogmatic assertions of a tradition and with the theological discourse of one school whose ruling categories are imposed by the magisterium.

Unlike theological schools in the United States, however, these university faculties are closely tied to the Protestant and Catholic churches: The ipso facto establishment of the two major Christian traditions via West Germany's church tax means that few people here question the close relationship of the faculties to the churches.

Moreover, in its examination of problems of government in theological schools, the study continues in the tradition of the University of Berlin by voicing a powerful protest against patterns of school governance that «seem to have little confidence in the power of God to establish the victory of truth» and an eloquent plea for the freedom of inquiry that disciplined critical inquiry requires.

It will be impossible to assess the fruitfulness of that larger proposal to a particular theological school if the understanding of «worship» and of «congregation» it takes for granted is inapplicable in a particular tradition.

In some theological schools a traditional construal is simply assumed; in others one or more traditions of construal of the Christian thing are very self - consciously celebrated («This is a school in the Reformed tradition, with the following consequences...!»In some theological schools a traditional construal is simply assumed; in others one or more traditions of construal of the Christian thing are very self - consciously celebrated («This is a school in the Reformed tradition, with the following consequences...!»in others one or more traditions of construal of the Christian thing are very self - consciously celebrated («This is a school in the Reformed tradition, with the following consequences...!»in the Reformed tradition, with the following consequences...!»).