Sentences with phrase «who teaches theology»

However, Professor Brian Benestad, who teaches theology at the University of Scranton, argues «If the Catholic schools are required to recognize the union, then you're going to have government... intervening in the school, making decisions about whether the bishops» invocation of doctrine is really genuine.»

David, who teaches theology at Notre Dame, here collects fifty - six of his columns from Gilbert Magazine.

I am not a politician, but a minister who teaches theology.

Charles Hefling, an Episcopal priest who teaches theology at Boston College and who in the mid-1970s sang with Coakley in the Harvard choir, identifies a common thread running through all of Coakley's interests, from Troeltsch to Gregory to the practice of the priesthood: «Sarah, like Troeltsch, is interested in religion, in its practices and how they shape both thought and feeling.

Coakley's approach has the advantage of locating feminist interpretation within a specific religious tradition, observes Amy Plantinga Pauw, who teaches theology at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.

Daniel Maguire, a former priest who teaches theology at Marquette University, contends that discussions of sexuality («pelvic theology,» as he calls it) would not be necessary in a «healthy» church.

Hauerwas, who teaches theology at Duke, holds these seemingly eclectic commitments together with a Reformed (via Barth) emphasis on the priority of God's Word over any human attempt to think of or live well before God, and a Wesleyan insistence on God's call to complete sanctification in this life.

Consider, for example, these posts by Tom Beaudoin, who teaches theology at Fordham University (home to some of the Jesuit mentors of my youth).

Of the 1990 apostolic constitution, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Curran writes: «The document theoretically limits academic freedom by truth and the common good, sees local bishops not as external to the college or university but as participants in the institution, and includes canonical provisions for those who teach theology in Catholic higher education.»

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UK About Blog This blog is designed to encourage good theological education by posting quick to read, pithy articles which are fun to read but which also contain important issues for those who teach theology.

UK About Blog This blog is designed to encourage good theological education by posting quick to read, pithy articles which are fun to read but which also contain important issues for those who teach theology.

UK About Blog This blog is designed to encourage good theological education by posting quick to read, pithy articles which are fun to read but which also contain important issues for those who teach theology.

Not exact matches

There are many respectable authors, renowned for their prestige in theology and canon law, who at present warn about the danger of simplifying or even adulterating these teachings.

Other Facts: Is a conservative, considered the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on issues such as women's ordination, according to CNN's John Allen in «Who is Pope Benedict XVI.»

I just want to testify, for those who are questioning or unsure about Calvinism, that it asserts a false and unlivable theology, teaching that God loves only some, and cruelly punishes the rest, whom he rendered unable to do good for — yep — not doing what he made them incapable of doing.

And if you think that «Calvinist theology is the opposite of Catholic theology», then you are completely ignorant of the numerous Catholic theologians who also taught strict election and predestination (including St. Augustine, whom Calvin quotes more than any other theologian).

that is so basic that I wonder who teaches them Xtian theology.

Bondi, who teaches at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, recently wrote Memories of God (Abingdon) and is now working on a book about prayer titled In Ordinary Time.

Yes, I was one of the freaks of Christianity who got his kicks studying, debating, and teaching the finer points of theology that few people even knew existed, and fewer cared about.

The dudebro elders at MH who issued their letter calling for Driscoll's resignation, and who are now being so widely hailed for their courage and integrity as a result, were perfectly happy teaching his preferred form of misogynistic theology until it began to threaten their jobs.

I'm looking to eventually teach theology, but in between my personal studies, an obsessive reading habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward as an outlet for some of my random thoughts and a way to interact with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical studies, and social justice.

It is popular among the elite Bible scholars and academy - trained theologians to sneer at the uneducated lay person who seeks to teach Scripture and theology to others as being «untrained» and therefore, unable to accurately teach others what God is like, what He says in Scripture, and how to live life in light of what we learn.

It reflects the theology of those who thought of Jesus exclusively in apocalyptic terms, and were prepared not only to go through the tradition and substitute «the Son of Man» for his simple «I,» but also to insert appropriate quotations or paraphrases of their favorite apocalyptic texts in order to give his life its appropriate setting — as they assumed — and his teaching its proper interpretation.

It serves, moreover, to correct the impression sometimes gained by readers of certain of his other works — that the author is one of those who emphasize Pauline and Johannine theology at the expense of the teaching of the Jesus of the Synoptics.

This is at odds with the teaching of liberation theology, where you had black theologians like Dr. James Cone who wrote that the gospel is essentially for the oppressed and not the oppressor.

He's a theologian who has taught on cinema and theology.

«Many people will go to this film and enjoy it,» expressed Dr. Johnson, who holds a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and has taught a Cinematic Theology course at the undergraduate level in college, as well as a course on the Theology of Movies and Visual Media at the graduate level in seminary.

His encyclical Veritatis Splendor revitalised the teaching of moral theology even while it brought him condemnation from those who considered its message too challenging.

Scotus» teachings in turn helpedinspire the Franciscans who outlined a theology of papal infallibility in the decades that followed.

Bible scholars and academy - trained theologians often sneer at the uneducated lay person who seeks to teach Scripture and theology.

Cavanaugh, who teaches at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, has also written Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism (T & T Clark) and coedited The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (Blackwell).

For example, if a denomination declared in their doctrinal statement that the Bible teaches that all good Christians must wear pink hats and only those people who wear pink hats can indeed be true followers of Jesus, we would conclude upon reading this statement that we would never be accepted by those folks because we don't agree with this bit of ridiculous theology.

Few ministers and laypeople laboring in the trenches are aware of black theology, and those who are remain somewhat indifferent to its teachings.

I imagine that most people who teach or write about Scripture and theology have been condemned as a heretic at least once or twice.

Dykstra, who teaches pastoral theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, approaches preaching from an unusual angle.

In his book Third - Eye Theology (Orbis, 1979) he focuses on the image of the third eye in the teaching of the Japanese Zen master Daisetz Suzuki, who suggests that the aim of Zen Buddhism is to open up a vision of life that is usually clouded by our ignorance, a vision that will enable us to see ourselves as we truly are.

The fine hand of Karl Barth, the Swiss theologian who was still teaching in Bonn at the time, is evident throughout, and the document is a good case study of Barth's contention that theology and politics go hand in hand.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

Instead he is an ersatz theologian, a self - taught theologian, one who employs the history of religions only as a route into a non theological theology.

An ordained minister with four early Georgia pastorates behind him, Outler is a duly educated (Yale, Ph.D., 1938) professor of theology who taught at Duke and Yale before leaving his stamp and seal on Southern Methodist University.

He basically said that how he understood the Bible was what the Bible clearly teaches because he lets the Bible and the Bible alone inform his theology, and anybody who disagreed with him was just following their own human understanding of the text imposing their own theology on the text of the Bible.

Tom Rausch, T. Marie Chilton Professor of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount; and Fred Sanders, a self - described «low - church Evangelical» who teaches at Biola.

Kwok Pui - lan, who teaches at Episcopal Divinity School and is the author of Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology, says Rieger's book reveals «how theological depictions of Christ have been laden with colonial biases.»

One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Gerald R. McDermott Pennsylvania State University Press, 203 pages, $ 29.95 Gerald McDermott, who teaches religion at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, has written a persuasive revisionist account of Jonathan Edwards....

A large swath of Christian theology teaches that God sent Jesus to die on the cross, that it was God Himself who wanted an innocent victim to die for the sins of the whole world.

Mormon theology teaches that God is only one of countless gods, that he used to be a man on another planet, that he became a god by following the laws and ordinances of that god on that world, and that he brought one of his wives to this world with whom he produces spirit children who then inhabit human bodies at birth.

So too for a hundred or so pastors who responded to a parallel inquiry I made on the state of theology to check how those on the front line of teaching felt about the same issues.

«It's not so coincidental that the movement arose in the «60s and «70s,» said Frank D. Macchia, who teaches systematic theology at Vanguard University of Southern California in Costa Mesa.

In my view there is at least today a distinct experience and teaching in Catholic theology according to which God must be understood as the all - efficient Giver who gives himself both the potency of freedom and its good act according to his grace that is neither derived nor compelled, and which nothing in man precedes.