If you don't use the right language or go
along with the theology that's taught there, then you are considered dubious.
When a publisher finally accepted my first book proposal, I had spent countless hours working
with theology professors, pastors, small groups, and trusted friends.
In carrying out this enterprise all the passages I mentioned above in
connection with a theology of nature are relevant, but they do not stand out for me as the most important ones.
It takes a certain kind of courage to let people watch you change, to see you progress, and even to observe you publicly
struggle with your theology.
What it does represent is what one would expect: the spiritual concerns of the 17th century, when spirituality made its ultimate
break with theology and science.
The
trouble with Theology Proper, is that it is, in its very nature, an attempt to understand and explain an infinite and transcendent being.
Just how the restoration process itself is understood depends to a large extent on the theory of personality and psychotherapy being
integrated with a theology of ministry.
Those inside it have been more often concerned to connect his
views with theology than with the philosophy of science.
Love and forgiveness have nothing to
do with theology, but theology has much to do with them... there is a difference.
As church leaders I think that it is very important for us to be prepared to be transparent and to let people understand that we
struggle with our theology.
The Bible is filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit of God; the books of it and the words of it and the very letters of it [A History of the Warfare of
Science with Theology in Christendom, by Andrew D. White, Vol.
«Our differences with John Cobb can be simply stated, and though they are directly
connected with theology they have consequences for economics.
Bach & God by michael marissen oxford, 288 pages, $ 35Michael Marissen, emeritus professor of music at Swarthmore, argues that Johann Sebastian Bach's music embodies the theology of its text, and an
acquaintance with that theology helps listeners understand and appreciate Bach's music more....
The long struggle was described in all its gory detail by Andrew Dickson White in A History of the Warfare of Science
with Theology in Christendom, published in 1896.
The latter seems to be the case
with theologies which insist that God would not have sent His Son had there not been sin.
Michael Marissen, emeritus professor of music at Swarthmore, argues that Johann Sebastian Bach's music embodies the theology of its text, and an acquaintance
with that theology helps listeners understand and appreciate Bach's music more deeply.
Since the vast majority of women choose some form of anesthesia, and most churches support them in this, hypnotic anesthesia is no more in
conflict with our theology than an epidural.
He is a rare soul who had many interests, a rare being who came to
grips with theology, and the kind of person who would die for his convictions in an often used word of this generation we could say that Bonhoeffer had charisma.
But there has not yet been anything like a satisfactory attempt to relate this newly discovered eschatology in a systematic
way with a theology of the Eucharist.