Sentence examples for theological development from inspiring English sources
More than any of his contemporaries, Berengar applied to theological development the method of dialectic.
We are part of a church that has steadfastly refused to embrace, in both internal structures and theological development, modern concepts like democracy or gender equality.
A strong advocate of Marian devotion, Germanus in his works is a source for the theological development of her role as mediator of supernatural blessings.
In a very different spirit, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, the secretary general of the synod, said last week, "The Christian religion is a history, not an ideology … And there is theological development, all theologians say this.
The Orthodox diaspora the emigration from eastern Europe and the Middle East in the 20th century contributed to modern theological development through their establishment of theological centres in western Europe and America.
His tracking of theological development reinforces this hierarchy.
Precise connections between geopolitical events and new theological developments provide a fascinating field for speculation, but they are very hard to prove or falsify.Sir Diarmaid's assumption is that Christian doctrine was bent and twisted, and that certain church fathers were airbrushed out of history and then posthumously half-rehabilitated, according to the dictates of imperial expediency.
Second, this account was easily harmonized with theological developments in the seventeenth century, particularly on the Continent with the growth of Calvinism (Protestant) and Jansenism (Catholic).
The theological developments in the nineteenth century in reference to which the term "fideism" was first used had their philosophical inspiration not simply in the skepticism of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, however, but also, and more immediately, in Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy.
The theological developments of Edward's reign provided a vital source of reference for Elizabeth's religious policies, though the internationalism of the Edwardian Reformation was never revived.
Not all of his beliefs were welcome to all Quakers: his Puritan-like opposition to the arts and rejection of theological study, forestalled development of these practices among Quakers for some time.
