Fiorini Morosini has argued that, in Calabria at least, godparents are less theological role models than "points of reference" and mob friends.
The risk then is that by doing so, one would add extraneous content to the theological doctrine: a future model might fail the technical criterion while still being consistent with the theological doctrine.
Furthermore, in taking faith to consist in belief that theological propositions are true, this model invites the assumption that theological convictions belong in the same category of factual claims as scientific theoretical hypotheses with which they accordingly compete.
We, too, are grateful for the ways you have modeled ecclesial commitment, theological rigor and have insisted that loving justice motivate our deliberations and actions.
In criticizing Henry of Ghent's theory of theological modalities, Scotus sketched the famous model of 'divine psychology' in which certain relations between theological, metaphysical, and modal notions are defined.
The liturgy includes a variety of models, or symbols, using formal theological statements as well as bodily perceptions and gestures (e.g., music, incense, prostrations) and the visual arts.
If the first two models of human/creation relationship are stewardship models which privilege human welfare, the third and fourth models are more biocentrist or, from a theological perspective, creation-centered.
His books include "Models of the Church, Doubledayay, 1974), a theological best-seller that appeared in many languages; "A Church to Believe In: Discipleship and the Dynamics of Freedom," (Crossroad, 1982) on American Catholic theological concerns, and "The Splendor of Faith: The Theological vision of Pope John Paul II," (Crossroads, 1999).
On both the 'special knowledge' and the 'belief' models, faith is intrinsically linked to theological content indeed to orthodox theological content, specifiable as one unified set of doctrines conveyed to receptive human minds by the operation of divine grace.
At the Zhejiang Theological Seminary here in Hangzhou, Professor Yan Ronghui said she was planning to use Lin's religious faith and basketball successes as a model for students in her course in "theological English" this semester.
