Sentences with phrase «christian existence»

This is the point at which their Christian existence as married people is most vividly expressed.

So, in conclusion, let me say: be faithful, affirm life, have confidence, stand fast in a Christian vision of reality, enter more deeply into Christian existence, be assured.

Belonging to the Eucharist as Laity The Christian existence that is expressed by lay people in the Liturgy is, however, precisely an existence as lay people.

He established himself with a flurry of publications in the 1960s celebrating process theology — Varieties of Protestantism (1960), Living Options in Protestant Theology (1962), A Christian Natural Theology (1965), The Structure oJ Christian Existence (1967), and God and the World (1969), all from Westmminster Press.

To use the word «faith» to name the distinctively Christian existence is legitimate.

In Moltmann, the emphasis is on the Christian symbol system and how it shapes Christian existence in the present.

The idea of vocation that developed in the Reformation was originally a powerful one, and it remains a meaningful guide to Christian existence for a sizable group in modern society.

John B. Cobb, Jr., The Structure of Christian Existence (Philadelphia, Pa.: Westminster Press, 1967).

Third, we should study the Bible, aware of the cultural relativity through which we perceive and experience Christian existence.

(For a speculative account of a variety of emergent stages in human pre-history and history among which the rise of modern self - consciousness is one, see my The Structure of Christian Existence, Westminster Press, 1967.)

There is no way to grasp Luther's milieu of experience and faith unless one has an acute sense of his view of Christian existence between God and the Devil: without a recognition of Satan's power, belief in Christ is reduced to an idea about Christ — and Luther's faith becomes a confused delusion in keeping with the tenor of his time.

It seems that post modernism is the new philosophical background of our theological reflection and the entire Christian existence.

He seems to have found little help in The Structure of Christian Existence, although I myself understand the essay chiefly as supplementing that book.

Although Carpenter complains that I nowhere «expand upon what might constitute the criteria for a response sufficiently satisfactory to assure participation... within the structure of existence introduced by Jesus» (p. 108), I in fact devoted extensive attention to this topic in The Structure of Christian Existence.

They referred back to a slightly longer discussion in The Structure of Christian Existence (p. 143f) where I distinguished two modes of analyzing existence.

For the early Church, then, baptism was not a thing in itself, nor merely one of many aspects of Christian existence.

Carpenter rightly notes that I distinguish the structure of Jesus» existence from the structure of Christian existence and then imply that both are final.

But I agree that all of the theories about structures of human existence that I elaborated in The Structure of Christian Existence are in need of further testing and refinement and that this is even more true with respect to my theory of the structure of Jesus» existence.

When John Cobb opens his discussion in The Structure of Christian Existence, he states that to «claim that Christianity embodies a distinctive structure of existence does not involve the claim that this structure of existence is better or worse than other structures» (SCE 16).

It is true that in «A Whiteheadian Christology» my discussion of the human is very abstract, but I do not see that this criticism applies to my major work in anthropology, The Structure of Christian Existence.

So that is the way I define my Christian existence — and my friends.

He makes no apology for this doctrinally empty ethicality: «I've never lived or been trained in a tradition that has defined Christian existence in terms of doctrine anyway.

Nonetheless, Christian existence transcends both Pharisaism and the prophets (SCE 109).

This is the question of Christian existence: can one already be a Christian in this unredeemed world, and therefore exist as a messianic person?

The power of the hyphen in Indian - Christian existence resides in its ability to reconstruct and reconceive.

In short, hermeneutics understood this way is coextensive with the entire economy of Christian existence.

This formal analogy between Christian existence and existentialism draws attention to another aspect of «historicism» which is theologically illegitimate.

In a later chapter I shall have something to say about them, although I shall emphasize that they belong to the realm which our ancestors used to describe as «a religious hope» rather than to the realm of verifiable experience or the realm of concrete Christian existence as we are called to share it.

When, in theological reflection, attention is given to the primal expressions in Scripture of the vision of reality with which the emergence of Christian existence was intertwined, there is greater assurance that selection and emphasis of those elements of common reality that characterize Christian existence will occur.

Christian theology is the effort to give full expression to that reflectivity which supports and furthers Christian existence, whose primal forms of expression are those of its founder and his first followers (cf. AB 200 and PT 38).

It also involves consideration of how and in what direction the Spirit that animated Christian existence in the past will move in the new situational context, in which consideration insights are also drawn from other sources, religious and secular.

And the determination of what is appropriate for Christian theology involves more than interpretation of «scripture and tradition»; it also involves consideration of how and in what direction the Spirit that animated Christian existence in the past will move in the new situational context, in which consideration insights are also drawn from other sources, religious and secular.

Theological reflection is Christian to the extent that its openness to other perspectives does not curtail the influence of central elements in the primal expressions of the vision of reality, with which the emergence of Christian existence was intertwined.

Visions of the future and particularly visions of heaven, reflected this joyless, flat, and unimaginative terminus ad quem of Christian existence.

4 For a more extensive treatment of the Christian structure of existence, but not having to do expressly with the problems about to be raised concerning Cobb's approach m» «A Whiteheadian Christology,» see his book The Structure of Christian Existence (SCE).

Christian existence requires imaginative acts.

The dialectic of presence and hiddenness is fundamentally constitutive of Christian existence.

The Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith, based at Valparaiso University in Indiana, has been encouraging people to think about and live the communal practices that form Christian existence.

Earlier, in The Structure of Christian Existence, he had also developed a system that can yet prove helpful in reconsidering the doctrine of original sin.

In this milieu, Philippians 2:5 - 11 pictures the exaltation and self - emptying of Christ as the center of Christian existence and as the paradigm for the life of the church in the world.

Even if one does grant the validity of both reasons for thinking that the Eucharist is nonessential to Christian existence, one need not grant the conclusion.

7One should compare the particularism of his early work The Structure of Christian Existence with his later Christ in a Pluralistic Age.

Cf. also the preface, and the first two sections of «Christian Natural Theology and Christian Existence,» The Christian Century, XXXII, 9 (March 3, 1965), 265 - 267.

The Structure of Christian Existence (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1967).

Furthermore, it is supplemented by a separate chapter on love, which attempts to clarify the distinctiveness of Christian existence by comparative treatment of this essential element in it.

But just as there are many modes of existence in which Buddhist, Homeric, Socratic, and prophetic existence have been embodied, so also there have been many modes of existence in which Christian existence has been embodied.

What is Christianity, and specifically, what is the structure of Christian existence in relation to all these other structures of existence?

Christian existence has been described as spiritual existence fulfilled in love, and the rise of spiritual existence has been identified with that of Christian existence.

But as we attempt to understand the character of Christian existence in the primitive community, the decisive point is that the personal God was known as inwardly present without loss of the sense of responsible personhood.

But there were special features in Jesus» relation to God and in the experience of the Holy Spirit in the early church that, while essential to the original transition into Christian existence, are not typically present in that existence.