Sentences with phrase «christian idea of the person»

I will even say, for now, I like Zuckert's Locke better, insofar that it can be understood to be an heretical or nonrelational version of the Christian idea of the person.

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I cintend that the bible also calls us to do the same thing — it calls us to action and then says when we have donr everything we can and there is nothing else we are to stand in faith that it will work out — of course i paraphrase — but wht do people think all christians do is sit on their butts and pray and look pie eyed at the sky - this christian worked her butt of on the streets - and look at Mother Thresa - and other christians working for humanity all over the world - i think athiests have the wrong idea about chtistians...

What really makes my head hurt trying to understand is when people claim to be of a faith or to be a Christian and have absolutely no clue as to the idea that they're supposed to actually believe and uphold the teachings of CHRIST and not their own religion ideas and call it «close enough».

The deluded ideologists of Realpolitik notwithstanding, the «hard» realities of American - Israel relations are ideas about chosenness, destiny, messianic promise, and a people that, however imperfectly, participates in the holiness of the land that Christians call holy.

So at the end of the day, even as a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ (the name Christian has been so stained, refuse to call myself one to distance myself from traitors to God like Bush and just about every Conservative American), I'd vote for an astheist with good ideas and was brave enough to push for the interests of people, not corporations, then I would vote for them.

Atheists (not all just as not all christians preach) that try to spread their beliefs to others do so with similar ideas of helping people free themselves from they view as mentally oppressive.

The idea of the people being compelled, essentially the point of a gun by the government, to surrender their property so it can be redistributed to people the government has deemed more deserving is socialist / communist not Christian.

«I never tire of repeating those words of Benedict XVI which take us to the very heart of the Gospel: «Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

@Chad «no serious scholar buys into that nonsense: The Christ myth theory (also known as Jesus mythicism, the Jesus myth theory and the nonexistence hypothesis) is the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was not a historical person, but is a fictional or mythological character created by the early Christian community.

Too often we've used the technological, economic, and even military power of Christendom to push Christian ideas on people.

Even among Christians, for whom scripture should be a guide to life's challenges, many cling to the idea that issues such as abortion and the end of life are so complex that only a simple - minded person, unable to see two sides of an argument, could possibly take a firm stance.

Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a relationship of love with them.

Like many of your fellow Christians you seem overjoyed with the idea, that people who do not agree with you will be horribly punished.

Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

During News Hour he said: «We've realised that there's a huge number of people out in the country - Christian techies and creatives - who've got lots of great ideas.

Some people are disturbed by the idea that Christian faith may rest only upon the testimony of certain individuals to have experienced a vision of Jesus after his death.

For Christians, this means that not only do people not feel they need to contribute anything to mitigate any further damage, but the idea of Godly stewardship goes out the window amidst a belief that «there's nothing really going on.»

Otherwise, you're as erroneous as the rest of the people who «claim» to be Christian but have no idea what that means, what the history is, what the rules are and what is expected of them.

[48] J. Van Lin defines theology of religions as the theoretical and practical foundational ideas on the basis of which «Christians can determine their relationship to people of other living faiths.»

A Christian vision of history need not, in principle, be opposed to the idea of «great person» history — for much the same reason that it need not, in principle, be opposed to history focused on the marginalized.

But the problem is, those that foster hate, bigotry and racism are the most vocal and most of the rest of the people get the idea that they are the majority of Christians.

Before telling me, like most christians do, that I don't know what I speak of, do note that as a Recovering christian I have a very good idea as to what I speak of and any rational minded person see's the belief for the true horror it is.

Unfortunately, Christian history is full of people who have either twisted or cut and pasted Scripture to fit their own agendas and prejudices, as well as church leaders who have taken advantage of people's general ignorance of scripture to plant their own ideas in people's heads and call it the Word of God.

However, it is possible to obtain some idea of the process from the nature of the Christian instruction impaired by the missionaries, the people involved, and the way in which Pulayas responded to particular aspects of Christian teaching.

In the contemporary situation the idea of the minister's call is undergoing a change in the direction of greater emphasis on the significance of the call extended to a person by the Church on the basis of its understanding of his Christian and providential calling.

The Christian Church is largely an outgrowth of the Jewish idea of the Chosen People.

They alone commend goodness to the world, for most people choose goodness, if they choose it at all, for the same reason that Tolstoy became a Christian: «I saw around me people who, having this faith, derived from it an idea of life that gave them strength to live and strength to die in peace and in joy.»

But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means of communion in the purpose of God.

And it is the «person» of Jesus as a theological idea, not as a historical person, the subject of biography, which he thus sets at the center of Christian thought.

«Christian thought,» he says, «discovered the kernel of the concept of the person» and in doing so «describes something other and infinitely more than the mere idea of the «individual.»»

But though I am deeply convinced that the ideas and ideals of economism are wrong, I am also quite sure that they are honestly held by persons who are sincere in their Christian beliefs and committed to the wellbeing of humanity.

«Somehow the idea of defending Christians has acquired a bad taste in Europe, as if it means excluding other people,» von Habsburg said.

'' What people need in this situation is hope in the Christian sense of the word, but hope is an alien idea here,» says the renowned organist Masaaki Suzuki, founder and conductor of the Bach Collegium Japan.

To suggest this only servers to futher the idea that Christians are somehow an elite group of people that seek to exclude everyone.

I do not think that asking these sorts of questions is a good way to do evangelism... I do, however, think that these sorts of questions are helpful to ask Christians as a way to gain insight into what sorts of ideas and truths people think are essential to the «gospel» and as a way to see what people think about how to gain or keep eternal life.

Do you have any idea how stupid it is to use christian quotes to try to prove that a person who killed in the name of christianity was not christian?

So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptions.

From Lucy: I personally find the deep connections between Christianity and Judaism very beautiful, but most Jewish people find Messianic Judaism (and its self - identification as a branch of Judaism) offensive - both the idea of Jews embracing Christianity and calling it Judaism and Christians embracing Judaism and calling it their own.

Describing the initial emergence of this new church, Tickle writes, «Where once the corners had met, now there was a swirling center, its centripetal force racing from quadrant to quadrant in ever - widening circles, picking up ideas and people from each, sweeping them into the center, mixing them there, and then spewing them forth into a new way of being Christian, into a new way of being Church.»

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

Some Christians would be extremely uncomfortable with the idea of liquor cabinet evangelism, but as you can see, it is enabling other people to open up to you, which allows you in turn to show the love of Jesus to them.

But the very nature of the division of spiritual formation of Christians between lay leaders in the Sunday School and pastoral leaders in the church leaves people with the idea that Christian faith can be learned by attending classes.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.

I think it is a great Idea for some Christians to enter areas which are traditionally places to be shunned as long as they use the model of sending people out in at a minimum of twos.

How can Christians do a better job of talking like normal people when it comes to sharing ideas, making decisions, and experiencing suffering together in community?

Didn't read the article, so I have no idea how President Obama's faith has been labeled, but as a person who began attending a Christina Church during adolescence, I know that it is very hard to accept a number of tenets of the faith, so I find myself doubting that a person who was raised for a number of years in a Muslim household and whose mother does not appear to have been of a Christian denomination, is likely to have adopted the tenets of the Christian faith.

A. F. Christian argues that «It's familial love that first gives people the idea of infinite love,» and that «it's families that make people religious, not vice versa,» a point Eberstadt addressed in another article.

I just feel that there are lots of Christians going about teaching sloppy ideas and careless theology, which then gets us in trouble when thinking people of other religions challenge us on our beliefs.

In the sharing of Christian experience and mutual reinforcement in the faith the idea has affinities with the Methodist class meetings of an earlier day; and when the cell principle is integrated sufficiently with the rest of life, it reminds one of those early Christian groups who «day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes,... partook of food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people.»

Especially is this so, as long as there remains a certain hangover from the not so distant past when orthodoxy was virtuous, doubt was appalling, and heresy was morally wicked, if, then, without being repelled by the wide range of disagreement and uncertainty among Christian people, we ask questions about their idea of God, we shall expect to receive diverse answers.