Sentences with phrase «christian language changes»
The 18 authors in this collection ask whether the feminist revision of Christian language changes classical Christian doctrines (especially the Trinity) beyond recognition.
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The point is that the common heaven - and - hell framework is like a black hole that sucks the meaning of Christian language into it, changing and distorting it.
Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.
But after years of work on the poetic, metaphorical nature of religious language (and hence its relative, constructive and necessarily changing character), and in view of feminism's critique of the hierarchical, dualistic nature of the language of the Jewish and Christian traditions, my bonds to biblicism and the Barthian God loosened.
Vincent of Lérins and the Development of Christian Doctrineby thomas g. guarinobaker, 192 pages, $ 26.99 The language of the Church has changed over time.
According to this new paradigm, Christians should discern from what God is doing in the world what they themselves should do; or, in language that those hostile to the change often quote: «The world sets the agenda.»
Our survey of self - involving performative language leads to the conclusion that what we expect to happen in Christian education may be expressed in terms of self - involvement and commitment based on a changed way of looking on God and the world.
We arc not concerned with all the methods of Christian education but with the use of language for the nurture and changing of onlooks.