Sentences with phrase «years of theological study»

Must all sacramentally valid marriages resemble my friends», beginning only after a few years of theological study, during a Mass set to music by Mozart?

The genuine conflict between theological paradigms operative in the debates of the Second Vatican Council during my own formative years of theological study in Rome focused the question for me initially as one within my own Roman Catholic Church community.

Tomorrow I return to Rome for my final year of theological studies before ordination.

Not exact matches

1: the study of religious faith, practice, and experience; especially: the study of God and of God's relation to the world 2 a: a theological theory or system b: a distinctive body of theological opinion 3: a usually 4 - year course of specialized religious training in a Roman Catholic major seminary»

The large number of interdenominational studies on a host of sticky theological problems have produced some agreements that would have seemed absolutely unthinkable 20 years ago.

Anyway, my take from 7 + years of some in - depth studies into dynamics of toxic systems is that malignant ministry can happen within any classic or contemporary theological paradigm, any denomination, as you've suggested.

The readers he has in mind include: perhaps a student starting her second year of study, or an academic who has just joined a theological school faculty and has never herself been previously involved in theological education, or a person newly appointed to the board of trustees of a theological school.

During the past five years, Auburn Seminary's Center for the Study of Theological Education (with support from Lilly Endowment Inc.) has been intensively examining theologicTheological Education (with support from Lilly Endowment Inc.) has been intensively examining theologicaltheological faculty.

The International Theological Commission (ITC), an advisory body to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, addressed the topic in Le Diaconat: Evolution et Perspectives, a formal study conducted over ten years, completed in 2002, and published early in 2003.

He grew up in a theological boot - camp: years of monastery training and intensive study of the Bible.

(See the excellent study by the Capuchin scholar William Henn, «The Hierarchy of Truths Twenty Years Later,» Theological Studies 48, [1987].)

Before getting to the serious work of teaching, Bonhoeffer came to America for a year of study at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Despite the offer of a place to study, there was no guarantee that she would be ordained at the culmination of the three years of theological education.

From the perspective of a decade after its publication, the Danforth study needs to be revised and updated, but the essential vision is painfully appropriate to the decade ahead, and to theological education for those years.

Almost thirty years had passed since the last major, comprehensive, and theologically self - conscious study of Protestant theological education.1 It is also remarkable, indeed unprecedented, that such a sustained debate emerged, not in response to one large study of theological education, but as a conversation among several quite different theological points of view.

Eight years of experiment and study as a professor of religion and the church at Emory University's Candler School of Theology have convinced Hopewell that «the congregation is as central to theological education as the human body is to medical education.»

John Michael Talbot, a Roman Catholic, and Michael Card, a Baptist, write soft, reflective pieces informed by years of theological and liturgical study.

A couple of years later I left work to go to theological college and study first an honours in theology and than a masters in biblical interpretation.

In making this proposal I am building on a suggestion first advanced by James F. Hopewell.Growing out of years of involvement in a group exploring different ways to study congregations [1] and his own ground - breaking Congregation: Stories and Structures, [2] Hopewell wrote an essay, «A Congregational Paradigm for Theological Education.»

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Responding to these concerns, the staff of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches has proposed that after the year 2000, the WCC and all the world communions hold their major world assemblies in the same place at the same time, doing their major theological study together but allowing time for each of the groups to have its own business meetings.

But the theological colleges for graduates aimed mainly to give a year or so of disciplined study and prayer to men who had already laid the foundation of general theological knowledge in school and university.

Tim worked for two years in Cyprus as a church organist, and studied for a certificate of higher education with the Open Theological College.

Timothy worked for two years as a church organist, and studied for a certificate of higher education with the Open Theological College.

He studied scripture at New York's Union Theological Seminary, and spent two years as a Visiting Scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he studied Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible in preparation for writing The Gifts of the Jews.

His dynamic blend of theological studies, mental health training and six years of missionary travel impact his ability to connect with a variety of clients.