Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations.
Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations.
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.
Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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