Sentences with phrase «christian concept of a loving»

Neither is it in keeping with our Christian concept of a loving Deity to speak of God as acting this way.

(27) In removing this aspect of vulnerability, one removes the essence of the Christian concept of love.

Not exact matches

Some awkwardness and misunderstanding is inevitable in relationships, but sometimes, Christian women get so bogged down by the concept of men being «leaders» that we fail to recognize that God only calls us into this kind of «leading» relationship within the walls of a loving, respect - filled, and mutually submissive marriage.

Everyone's ideas of justice are on a spectrum, but I'd sum of my own in the fewest words by saying to follow the concept of the Golden Rule, which most Christians love to preach but don't follow.

The concept of God that all this requires does not fit with the loving God of our Christian faith.

Ranade agreed that «the Christian civilization which came to India from the West was the main instrument of renewal» of India which finds expression in the new love of municipal freedom and civil virtues, aptitude for mechanical skill and love of science and research, chivalrous respect of womanhood etc.; and it is interesting that his lecture on his new concept of «Indian Theism» (a redefinition of Visishtadvaita in the light of Protestant Christian thought) as the basis of national renewal of India was delivered in the chapel of the Wilson College Bombay.

If Christianity is to show the relevance of its doctrine of love to contemporary man it must make clear that in sex as in science the Christian view of the world is not confined to first century concepts.

And yet, as Paul Tillich notes, it is not uncommon to find Christian essayists who develop concepts of «The Politics of God» or «The Kingdom of God» in such a way that they seek a political order in which «powerless love» overcomes «loveless power.»

As a group, Christians and others may come to understandings on love or compassion or certain universal concepts... but even they wouldn't say that the «god» they know is exactly as they describe him... in part because you can't have that kind of universality without also haveing the humility to know you only have partial comprehension in the face of an infinite, and ultimately unknowable, god.

Thus, as we deal with the concept of justice, let us not suppose that it is of lesser relevance or importance for the Christian than the concept of love,

So throughout his writings, and in a great variety of ways, he elaborated his concept of the individual, of the person who is free to grow in Christian love, hope, joy and peace because he or she is not a spiritual slave to social context.

Thus the gospel was concentrated in the person of Jesus; the hope of the Kingdom receded and became eventually only another name for «heaven,» the other world, the state of bliss beyond death, or, as in Thomas Aquinas, a term for the divine theodicy in general — though in truth this interpretation really emphasized a fundamental element in the whole biblical conception, in Jesus» teaching as elsewhere — and thus an intellectual concept of the person of Jesus tended to become central for Christian doctrine, theology, and devotion, rather than the person of God, his sovereignty and his redemptive will, his wisdom and his love.

The whole concept of marriage to a Christian is that it represents God's love for the church.

However, to my mind, any concept of a limited deity finally entails a denial of the capacity of God to redeem the world and thus, ironically, raises the question of whether God is in the last analysis even love, at least love in the Christian sense of the term.

In Centesimus Annus, he designates solidarity as «one of the fundamental principles of the Christian view of social and political organization,» tracing it back to Leo XIII's notion of civic friendship as the enduring bond that unites the often antagonistic relations of labor and capital in modern society, through Pius XI's concept of social charity and Paul VI's evocative phrase «civilization of love.»

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

He said, «Yes, the man did have some understanding of love, but it was incomplete as compared to the concept of Christian love presented in the sermon.»

Professor Williams's recent book entitled The Spirit and Forms of Love is a sustained application of the concepts of process - thought to the Christian understanding of love as the cosmic ground and the basic meaning of all existeLove is a sustained application of the concepts of process - thought to the Christian understanding of love as the cosmic ground and the basic meaning of all existelove as the cosmic ground and the basic meaning of all existence.

[PM] No, Actually the Bible has many, many passages on concepts upon which Christian therapy is based: truth, love, compassion, confession and even the use of medications — balm in the Old Testament, medicinal wine for Timothy's stomach problems in the New Testament.

In searching for a worthy response, Rollins says he is drawn to Christian mystics like Meister Ekhart, «for while they did not embrace total silence, they balked at the presumption of those who would seek to colonize the name «God» with concepts... By speaking with wounded words of their wounded Christ, these mystics helped to develop, not a distinct religious tradition, but rather a way of engaging with and understanding already existing religious traditions: seeing them as a loving response to God rather than a way of defining God.»

Many Christian Fundamentalists would love to remove the concept of separation of church and state, but it won't happen in the USA.

It's not like it involved a wave of acceptance of the concept of free love, exploration into knew spiritualism, a reavluation of morality and ethics, and the first real key stages in recognizing that the idealized «Good Christian Family Values» of the 50's were a lie and a sham, that often enough were just a cover for a an abusive house - hold, treating women like second class citizens, and culuraly engrained and supported bigotry.

You just can't label every Christian, a hate monger, only those who forgets the concept of love your neighbor.

I learned, through Sunday school, about the Christian concept of God's grace — the mysterious mixture of love and mercy that God bestows on fallen mortals, regardless of whether they deserve it or not.

I know other reviews have said this was a problem of it translating Buddhist ideas into German Lutheranism but I'm not sure if I'd find any of the true Buddhist texts so different — that is, any more than I find the actual Bible so much more enlightening than watered - down feel good Christian concepts about loving your neighbor.

Though its roots may be traced back as far as the pioneering era of sexuality in India, and later to the Enlightenment (Rousseau, Marquis de Sade) and the Victorian era (Algernon Charles Swinburne's scandalous Poems and Ballads of 1866), it was a development in the modern world which saw the significant loss of power by the values of a morality rooted in the orthodox religious traditions such as the Christian tradition and the rise of permissive societies, of attitudes that were accepting of greater sexual freedom and experimentation that spread all over the world and were captured in the concept of «free love».