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Christian language terms for you; This secular article is demonically charged to turn - off others who might be open to receiving the Lord's gift of eternal life.
Not exact matches
Christian missionaries lumped all of these people together under the umbrella
term «pagan,» said Philip Shaw, who researches early Germanic
languages and Old English at Leicester University in the U.K..
4.8 - 13, which describes
Christian existence first in eschatological
terms such as Jesus used, and then in Paul's more typical
language of union with Christ.
«3 Theology today must attempt to reappropriate
Christian tradition and biblical faith in
terms of our contemporary situation and
language.
The first recorded use of the
term (or its cognates in other
languages) is in the New Testament, in Acts 11:26, which states»... in Antioch the disciples were first called
Christians.»
The
language of the
Christian faith, like the
language of friendship, is meant to be performative, in
terms of trust, decision, commitment, followed by behavior in both words and deeds.
The adult
Christian, no matter what the degree of his psychological or spiritual maturity and commitment, needs education in
terms of increased understanding and strengthened performatives at and beyond the level of
language.
In «Myth and Truth» he maintains that the truth of mythical utterances can be shown only by restating them in nonmythical
terms.113 Yet adequately to demythologize
Christian myths will require not just any nonmythological
language but one, such as process philosophy provides, which can do justice to the biblical view of God.
Consequently, many of us spent the next decade working through an answer to the question of the meaning of religious
language in
terms of ordinary experience, in
terms of a «revision» or «re-presentation» of the
Christian tradition «intelligible to modern minds,» and worked on formulating an appropriate and strong political theology.
The Greek
term psyche (soul), which
Christians naturally found themselves using in order to describe the spiritual aspect of a man, already implied the dualistic approach to human nature and introduced a concept for which there had been no verbal equivalent in the
language of ancient Israel.26
So, as governments oversee matters of security, we will care for the hurting, calling
Christians to embrace refugees through their denomination, congregation or other non-profits by providing for immediate and long -
term needs, such as housing, food, clothing, employment, English
language classes, and schooling for children.
Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), for example, has tried to break out of the traditional
language and discuss God and the
Christian faith in
terms that are still common to all men whether secular or religious.
By and large the church has been reluctant to venture far away from its traditional
language because of the conviction that certain fundamental
terms and concepts are indispensable to the
Christian faith, and if the world does not want to try to understand them, then it is so much the worse for the world.
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.
On the other hand, postmodern interpretations of the human self,
language, and textuality, while often couched in nonreligious
terms, call into question many assumptions of critical exegesis and suggest sympathy with the themes and sensibilities of the premodern
Christian tradition.
In our lifetime, however, biblical interpretation and theology have largely assumed that
Christians must translate their particular
language into
terms intelligible to the wider culture.
One of the criticisms leveled at traditional churches by the «emergent / emerging» crowd is that they use too much technical
language, theological
terms, and
Christian jargon that nobody understands.
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