Sentences with phrase «christian idea of freedom»

It is a decisive element of the Christian idea of freedom that it is not only dependent on God and refers to him as the basis of the freedom of choice, but that it is also freedom before God.

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As a CHRISTIAN i do support the idea that they put a cross but in all fairness america gives the freedom of speech but i will say only god can judge and no ones perfect.

The purpose of this study is to focus on key ideas that every genuine Christian would agree with, and one of those ideas is that the Holy Spirit brings freedom.

The process by which this happened - by which concepts such as personal freedom, human rights and equality have been slowly distorted to mean something quite other than they did when Christian Europe gave birth to them - has been laboriously traced by historians of ideas such as Charles Taylor and Alastair Maclntyre.

Also central to her book is the contention that in their opposition to the totalitarian Roman state, «Christians forged the basis for what would become, centuries later, the western ideas of freedom and of the infinite value of each human life.»

It is essential that those of us whose roots are still within the Judeo Christian system of ethics, who value freedom, who strive for the just society, and who recognize the enormous productive potential of market capitalism should be fertile in ideas in the coming battle for minds.

But if you want to introduce a whole new criticism that you don't believe the Bible is what Christians believe it is, you are of course also wrong, and simply blindly railing against the idea of religious authority and expertise because, God forbid someone else suggest to you what is right or divinely inspired because that might limit your imaginary freedom and insult your nonexistent expertise and intelligence.

I had no idea that my beliefs of non-violence and meditation were considered so «evil» until I thought one day maybe I could partake in that same religious freedom Christians get.

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.

The contributions which the Jewish people make, often through their original and profound ideas, to the global extension and deepening of freedom and the horrendous injustices they have suffered over centuries at our Christian hands weigh heavily in our considerations.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the pope's vicar for Rome, it is said, is one of those who hold this view: what is needed, he is thought to believe, is (in the words of John Allen Jr of the American National Catholic Reporter) «good relations with Islam, but also a more robust capacity to challenge and critique Islamic leaders, especially on issues of «reciprocity» — the idea that if Muslim immigrants benefit from religious freedom in the West, Christians should get the same treatment in Islamic states.»

Thus the not - really - an - Edict of Nicomedia and Elsewhere cemented into the foundations of the West ideas first sketched by the Christian philosopher Lactantius: that coercion and true religious faith don't mix because «God wishes to be adored by people who are free» (as Joseph Ratzinger would rewrite Lactantius a millennium and a half later, in the 1986 Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation).

Christian's ministers were accustomed to his status as figurehead, but Struensee starts whispering in his ear — revolutionary ideas like freedom of the press or universal smallpox inoculations.

Welcome to the limelight, curated by Natalie Woyzbun, includes works by Jessica Craig - Martin, Instant Coffee, Christian Jankowski, David Kramer, Liisa Lounila, and Tony Matelli that invite the viewer into spaces of entertainment and leisure; You don't live here anymore, curated by Montserrat Albores Gleason, features works in which ideas of dwelling and building transform the site of art and its methods of construction; Uninvited (working with restrictions), curated by Kerryn Greenberg, considers how success can be realized in failure, and freedom found through restriction, in the performances of Steven Cohen and his partner, Elu; and In Other Words, curated by Mariangela Méndez Prencke, focuses on bilingual works that use collage and other visual devices to translate themselves into a foreign context.