Sentences with phrase «young theologian»

While Paul Tillich was engaged in the task of constructing a new systematic theology for the modern situation, a group of younger theologians arose in the mid-1960's to proclaim that for many modern men and for the modern human spirit itself the possibility of God is gone forever.
A similar perspective is presented in Helmut Thielicke, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, trans.
I'm sure I was not a terribly convincing young theologian at that point, but I'm also sure dad could see what it meant to me, so he agreed with me and the issue was never raised again.
And it is the brilliant young theologian, author of a world - famous book on the historical Jesus, who can not find a way to make his patiently listening native parishioners understand that «Lord Jesus» was an actual person who lived long ago — or even what the category «history» means in the first place.
His spirited polemics are still worthy targets against which young theologians should test their skills.
The programme on Theology and Culture in Asia encourages young theologians and historians to study Asian Christianity and to write theology using Asian resources.
Many younger theologians have allied themselves with one side or the other, but Placher recognizes the concerns and insights of both sides and seeks a via media between the two.
With the 1966 publication of Radical Theology and the Death of God, a book he wrote with Thomas Altizer, Hamilton joined several other young theologians in shaking the foundations of the American theological establishment.
As a young theologian, he was horrified when in 1914 his professors, liberal Protestants to the last, signed a declaration of support for the Kaiser and the coming war.
As for the world of thought, the very furor the young theologian has aroused in academic Protestant circles proclaims him a portent of the first magnitude.
A number of presidents have suggested that young theologians will not seek the mandate.
A young theologian recently called from Switzerland had made an amazingly impressive debut at the University of Göttingen.
It was a risky doctrine to defend, especially for a young theologian early in his career.
The young theologian named Frenzel amassed a remarkable amount of sources and argued that the indissolubility of marriage was not contained in scripture, nor in the utterances of the Fathers nor the councils and could therefore not be regarded a dogma.
John Shea, a young theologian and author of three books, says that many fine thinkers of his generation prefer to «act out what they believe in social or political programs, or talk out their ideas in conferences and workshops, rather than write them out.»
So much for this young theologian's chief claim to fame — totally lost on these Africans!
Van Buren thought he had found a secular way of preserving the moral message of the New Testament, but to Thomas Altizer, a young theologian at Emory University, such an approach was theologically inadequate.
But I sense an even more heartening cause for rejoicing as I hear some of the young theologians talk here in the Southwest who recognize a significant thrust toward a new focus of theological thinking in what their colleague, Schubert Ogden, has done.
Some younger theologians are starting to acknowledge that the whole correlationist project was a failure.
For the younger theologians who follow in the trajectory of Karol Wojtyta and Joseph Ratzinger, the solution to the problems of both the Church and the World is to preach Christ as the alpha and omega of all creation, even if this amounts to the presentation of a master - narrative.
Dietrich Bonhöffer, a young theologian of great promise, was martyred by the Nazis for his participation in a plot against the life of Adolf Hitler.
His involvement in the ecumenical movement as a young theologian brought immense respect from older and better known men.
Readers may recall that the «Baxter controversy» has to do with Father Michael Baxter, a young theologian who is a disciple of Stanley Hauerwas of Duke University and was appointed to the theology department of the University of Notre Dame against the wishes of most of the faculty.
Even the «God is dead» movement of the younger theologians claims Biblical sanction for its insights.
First of all, there is very little theology in America today: dogmatic theology has virtually disappeared, biblical scholarship is largely archeological and philological, church history barely maintains its existence as a discipline; and, in terms of German influences, Bultmann has replaced Barth as the guiding light of the younger theologians.
And, as Marsden notes, what they described, others celebrated, including a young theologian soon to join Harvard's faculty.
This provoked something of a crisis within me as a young theologian.
In Europe in the sixties, two young theologians, Wolfhart Pannenberg and Juergen Moltmann rejected the picture of a vertical transcendence.
As a young theologian, I found this theory mind - blowing.
I used to try, like her and almost all young theologians and ministers, to reform the church to become more open - minded, less discriminatory and more inclusive, only to be met with stubbornness and even hostility.
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