Sentences with phrase «christian ethical teachings»

Especially offensive, it seems, are traditional Christian versions of such teachings, other than those Christian ethical teachings, such as special concern for the poor, that are already widely shared in the academic culture.

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We can therefore characterize the Christian ethical outlook without attempting the perhaps impossible task of reconstructing the precise teaching of Jesus.

The propensity of scholars (and Christians more generally) to confine the ethical teaching of Jesus to his words has been shown to be a misunderstanding of the genre; the contrasting actions of Jesus are just as important.

c) Those opposed to WW2 fell into one of three major groups: * The communists, which remained opposed until Hitler invaded Russia; * The isolationists, that believed that non-interference was the only ethical foreign policy; * The Christians, that believed that all war was immoral, unethical, unjust, and contrary to what Scripture teaches.

Love of God; love of neighbor: an important part of the ethical teaching of Jesus can be brought under these twin heads, and this has often been done by Christian moralists.

This relation of the Christian teaching to life (in contrast with a scientific aloofness from life), or this ethical side of Christianity, is essentially the edifying, and the form in which it is presented, however strict it may be, is altogether different, qualitatively different, from that sort of learning which is «indifferent,» the lofty heroism of which is from a Christian point of view so far from being heroism that from a Christian point of view it is an inhuman sort of curiosity.

Earlier liberalism saw in the proclamation of the Kerygma itself a stumbling block to modern man, and thus sidled away from its eschatological message, preferring to center upon the ethical dimension of Christian faith as this was expressed in the life and teaching of Jesus.

The massive shift in the ecology of education in the 20th century has made it more important than ever for congregations to teach their members the basic theological and ethical concepts of the Christian faith.

When we have recognized the fact that in general structure the catechesis of early Christianity followed the lines of other ethical teaching of the time, we shall be better prepared to recognize the points at which specifically Christian motives and sanctions are introduced.

But his deep concern for retaining ethical coherence in a postmodern world was also evident, as was his traditional allegiance to Jesus: «In his baptism, his teaching, his healings, his passion, death and resurrection — in all of it, there is a demand laid on us, or an offer tendered, and it is the task of the Christian to embody that offer in his world, being as candid as he can about the difference between Jesus» beliefs and his.»

As passionately as I believe in social justice and nonviolence, I must still insist vigorously that we have everything confused if we suppose that the ethical teaching of Jesus is the essence of Christian faith.

Of course the approach of the western Christian mission and national churches have changed their attitude in this respect, though they would make a distinction between the centrality of the person of Christ and a general devotion to the ethical teaching of Christ in saving faith.

Although the moral standards and ethical judgments of this country have long been permeated by Christian teaching, there is a widespread ignorance both of the actual history of the Christian Faith and of its revolutionary character.

An intense individualist and having no use for monks or scholasticism, reluctantly a priest, he was sincerely Christian and wished to see the Church purged of superstition and to return to the ethical teachings of Christ.

In a lesson designed to teach the Air Force's core values to ROTC cadets, Christian beliefs such as the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Golden Rule are used as examples of ethical values, CNN has learned.