Sentences with phrase «christian faith»

Process philosophers may recognize the influence of Christian faith on their thought, but they do not try to think about all matters from a Christian perspective.

CNN: Franklin Graham apologizes for questions Obama's faith commitment The Rev. Franklin Graham on Tuesday apologized for publicly raising questions about President Barack Obama's Christian faith, saying «I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.»

But the skills these churches require and the conceptualities they use to understand what they are doing have only a vague relation to Christian faith.

It's not what Jesus taught but who Jesus is that lies at the heart of the Christian faith.

Victory over death has been won for us by Christ on the cross: «In the context of Christian faith, the drama of evolution merges inseparably with the (abysmal) death and (grounding) resurrection of Jesus and, in him, with the eternal drama that is the Trinitarian life of God.»

Looking back today, I conclude I was just a cultural Christian and that the Christian faith that I professed was little more than doing what I was supposed to do.

The implication is clear: a Christian faith without a social dimension is a wimpish impostor.

I speak of the Christian faith so casually and effortlessly that I begin to think, «Fine thing,...

He offers an attractive witness to his own Christian faith but argues that in the final analysis it is not experimentally or rationally «provable».

Indeed the kind of Protestantism that fades into abstraction owes much to Lutheranism for its peculiar tendency to reduce the whole of the Christian faith to the doctrine of justification.

What Sarah Bessey does is claim the voice of feminism for her own Christian faith — an evangelical faith, no less!

This most basic character I described as openness to developments in the culture and presentation of reasons for the Christian faith without any appeal to supernatural authority.

Martin tends to equate Christian faith with the acceptance of the supernatural elements in the New Testament picture of Jesus.

To do anything for God, and to do it well, was the fundamental hallmark of authentic Christian faith.

Activity within the world, motivated, informed, and sanctioned by Christian faith, was the supreme means by which the believer could demonstrate his or her commitment and thankfulness to God.

Many atheists have very similar morals to Christians — particularly if they live in a country influenced by the Judaeo - Christian faith.

And yes, we do believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, which sounds like the definition of a Christian faith to me.

But this more relaxed, multiperspectival faith is not Christian faith at all; it is just another name for historical skepticism.

He says spiritual mentors like a Sunday school teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and some of his Redskins players helped him get back on track with a deeper, more meaningful Christian faith even while the struggles were at their worst.

The Christian faith is about having a real relationship with the living God, and he wants us to express our thoughts and concerns to him.

Pedophiles use the Christian faith to re-offend.

Protestant liberals were bent on proving that genuine Christian faith could live in mutual harmony with the modern developments in science, technology, immigration, communication and culture that were already under way.

And we have also seen much false «evidence» of other religions creeping up in the past 100 years, claiming to have come before the Christian faith.

This has resulted in a way of understanding Christian faith that maximizes the «forensic» rather than the actual impact of grace and tends to contrast faith and reason, faith and works, and so on.

If a fair summary of the New Testament became a goal then The Sermon on the Mount (Mathew 5 - 7) and & «The truth shall set you free» (St. John 8:23) would present as center tenants of Christian faith.

Following the news that Theresa May will be Britain's next Prime Minister, Sam Hailes explains how her Christian faith may have impacted her... More

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

Two - time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has spoken to Men's Health about his Christian faith... More

Ah yes... those crazy militant Atheists and their quest to hide the fact that the US was a nation created on the Christian faith... only it wasn't.

As Paul argued in I Corinthians 15, if Jesus of Nazareth has not been raised from the tomb, then Christian faith is useless.

Yet his vision of the Christian faith extended far beyond the piety of a privatized faith or the cerebral conundrums of an intellectualized theology.

Of my original assertions, none encountered more uncompromising rejection than did my claims concerning the rationality of the Christian faith in God's revelation.

(CNN)- President Barack Obama delivered an unusually stark Christian message at the White House Christmas tree lighting Thursday night, saying Christ's message «lies at the heart of my Christian faith and that of millions of Americans.»

Christian faith means believing that I can not be moral by myself — nor can I construct my own morality.

More sustained than his vision of judgment is his statement of Christian faith and doctrine in verse.

Cochran's perspective is that he was fired for expressing his Christian faith.

Fury has been the target of furious rage from the politically correct establishment, after making some eyebrow - raising comments about women, homosexuality and his Christian faith.

And Broadchurch's Paul Coates doesn't present a Christian faith with neat, fluffy answers to profound questions of suffering.

He formed the College of Propaganda in the 17th century in order to propagate the Christian faith.

He does not help the believer both for these reasons and because the solution he proposes is both lame and inconsistent with any sort of Christian faith, evangelical, liberal or Roman Catholic.

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But even the more conservative wings of the Wesleyan tradition (which because of their basically orthodox stance and their commitment to a «supernatural» articulation of Christian faith, have often felt some affinity with the fundamentalist wing of modem Protestantism) have not been able to find a home in the circles of either modem fundamentalism or more recently in neo-evangelicalism.

Persecution was most intense during the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), years when Christian faith could become a death warrant, as it was for Chinese pastor Wang Zhiming, executed in 1973.

I might be wrong but it could be the reason she thought you needed to meet Jesus is because the Christian faith is more about a relationship with Him than it is about His flawed followers.

At the same time I came to realize that history presents that aspect of the world of our experience which, according to Jewish and Christian faith, reveals God's presence in his creation.

Millions of Americans today feel free to buy as much of the full Christian faith as seems desirable.

On top of playing at underground raves and orgies, Moby wrestled with an addiction to alcohol and adopted a Christian faith.

It may be possible to spiritually dip a toe into some religions that are primarily about performing rituals, but a distinctive at the heart of the Christian faith is the offer of a relationship with the personal God.

At no point in church history have so many people written so many books and articles, not to mention blogs, wikis, and e-newsletters, about the Christian faith.

The problem of Christian faith may be complicated by the rise of secular rationalism, and Wesley was quick to repudiate its manifestations in his own time, but the basic problem of Christian faith, at least as perceived by the Wesleyan tradition, remains the same both before and after the Enlightenment.