(27) In removing this aspect of vulnerability, one removes the essence of
the Christian concept of love.
Neither is it in keeping with
our Christian concept of a loving Deity to speak of God as acting this way.
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 existe
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 existe
love 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».