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This is theologia which is constant, regular, and inevitable as these people encounter God in worship and adjust to the changes God visits upon them.
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Instead of seeing the cross as a reminder of God-with-us in the flesh-and-blood sufferings of the world - a theologia crucis - the cross has been turned into a sanitized symbol of victory and ecclesial triumphalism - a theologia gloriae.
Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: Art, Censorship, and the Scandal of the Cross Ph.D. Rev. Patrick S. Cheng 2011
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Not too surprising, insofar as he defends the proposition that Chant is theologia prima, or 'sung theology' in his work.
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Instead of seeing the cross as a reminder of God-with-us in the flesh-and-blood sufferings of the world - a theologia crucis - the cross has been turned into a sanitized symbol of victory and ecclesial triumphalism - a theologia gloriae.
Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: Art, Censorship, and the Scandal of the Cross Ph.D. Rev. Patrick S. Cheng 2011
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From the Florentines, he took the concept of a prisca theologia, the body of books by ancient sages who were believed to antedate even the Greek philosophers and to record divine revelations that paralleled God's revelation to the ancient Hebrews in the Bible.
Loss of Faith 2009
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This was true not only of the Jewish Cabala but also of the prisca theologia and the philosophical writings of the Platonists.
Loss of Faith 2009
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To Agrippa and many of his contemporaries, the prisca theologia paralleled the wisdom of the Bible and was harmonious with it.
Loss of Faith 2009
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Modern scholarship frequently applies the term prisca theologia to the learning of these thinkers, especially to Pythagoras and the ancient sages who supposedly preceded him.
Loss of Faith 2009
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By a theology of the cross in this connection I mean inferences from the theology of the cross in the narrow sense, Luther's theologia crucis.
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His insistence that his great discoveries had been anticipated by the ancients picks up the idea of the Hermetic philosophers that there had been a prisca theologia, an esoteric wisdom handed down from magus to magus.
III: Seeing the Invisible Hill, Christopher 1973
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