Sentences with phrase «christ in a given context»

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If the very laws of matter are aligned upon the Body of Christ and humanity finds its identity and fulfilment in the Incarnation, this does not distract from the drama of redemption but rather gives it a fuller context.

In pastoral care settings, the context may generate a petition that sends the pray - er on a search for other parts of the prayer: «Almighty and loving God, your son Jesus Christ promised to give rest to the weary.

The most negative statement by Paul regarding same - sex acts occurs in Romans 1:24 - 27 where, in the context of a larger argument on the need of all people for the gospel of Jesus Christ, certain homosexual behavior is given as an example of the «uncleanness» of idolatrous Gentiles.

That is, having made one's image of Christ for instance, in a given context, the theologian then needs to show how this image reconciles, in broad terms, with the mainline «conservative» or traditional» components of Christianity.

As a result, the world, regardless of its particular shape at any given place or time, is disclosed as a suitable context within which man can enter into the possibilities of existence set forth in Jesus Christ.

A year after writing The Mass on the World, Pere Teilhard further defined his thought, in Mon Univers: «To interpret adequately the fundamental position of the Eucharist in the economy of the world... it is, I think, necessary that Christian thought and Christian prayer should give great importance to the real and physical extensions of the eucharistic Presence... As we properly use the term «our bodies» to signify the localized centre of our spiritual radiations..., so it must be said that in its initial and primary meaning the term «Body of Christ» is limited, in this context, to the consecrated species of Bread and Wine.

Whatever the context in which this parable was first spoken, whatever general thesis we may hold of the function of parable in Christ's teaching, we are given here a story which, in fact, describes a raw piece of human life.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

The empirical reality, Jesus Christ, always involves all three; but one or another category may be dominant at a given moment or in a given context.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

We use our reason to discuss things as the historical context, when the disciples worked and Jerusalem fell, etc., but it does not give us the gift of faith (certainty / ceritutde of God's mercy in Christ.)

However, it is all context as Jesus does not own us because we give ourselves to Christ because of all that He has done to bring us into life eternal in Christ.

Chair of the scheme and Bishop of Burnley, Rt Rev Philip North told Premier: «The chance to give a year for Christ, exploring where he might be calling them and doing that in the context of service - often among some of our poorest communities - is an attractive one to young people.»

He gave His only Son to take the place of sinners who accept Christ because He doesn't want them to perish, but so many just spit in His face and take the Bible completely out of context.

Whitehead was no biblical scholar, but he noted, in the same context as the quotation I have just given from him, that «we do not possess a systematic detailed record of the life of Christ.»

And in the context of maturity, it would seem to me that Christians would want to claim the higher ground by giving up the need to defend the ego since, supposedly, having Christ in one's heart gives the Christian such peace.

In view of the ambiguity of the meaning of baptism in the Indian inter-religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts in other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratioIn view of the ambiguity of the meaning of baptism in the Indian inter-religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts in other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratioin the Indian inter-religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts in other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratioin other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratioin the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploration.

It continues the flow of offsprings and, in the remoter context, gives you the Christ as made of the seed of David according to the flesh as in Romans 1:3 - 4 «Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:» -LCB- declared: Gr.