Sentences with phrase «christian kind of authority»
Even before we started examining our candidates we pointed out that any authority that makes for sight instead of faith is wrong by the very nature of the Christian kind of authority.
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The problem of the relations of the law and the gospel is essentially that of two kinds of authority: code morality or externally given or authoritarian morality versus the loving, faith - filled response of the Christian to the grace of God in Christ.
From time to time thinkers and pastors, identified at the time by authority as «heretics», seen by others as prophets, and by some historians now as social revolutionaries, reached the conclusion that the Christian Gospel spoke of a body of Christians, of an incipient «Church», of a kind far removed from the type of political and economic structure maintained by Roman Canon Law.
There is a certain kind of Christian clergy who have the spiritual authority to get rid of such spirits / ghosts.