Sentences with phrase «christian life shifts»

When sin is defined in terms of sexual purity, the focus of the Christian life shifts away from expression of love for God and neighbor to an obsession with internal conflict between «higher» and «lower» impulses.

Not exact matches

I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all wrote about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the church.

So Smith's «Dead Lady» tells of the miraculous revival of Christian faith, sine ecclesia, and it is no surprise to discover that Smith was a China specialist who shifted toward a denominationally fuzzy Christianity late in life.

Best in Nonfiction: Among nonfiction reads that released in 2014, my favorite included The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns (read the review here), The Oldest Living Things in the World by Rachel Sussman, God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines, and Faith Shift by Kathy Escobar (read the review here).

The mentality that Rauschenbusch deployed to seduce his readers — the turn away from troubling debates about doctrine, the shift from personal salvation to social reform, and the reassurance that progressive disdain for traditional religion was in fact a sign of a more authentic and scientific faith — provided a way to remain Christian while setting aside whatever seems incompatible with modern life.

As Christians take the next step in liberation thinking, recognizing that the very theme of liberation needs to be extended to the whole of life, two shifts in thought and action are needed.

In the course of Christian history, theology has tended to shift its focus from Jesus» death as the manifestation of God's glory and life to Jesus» death as a guarantee of our eventual glory and life.

For the difference between Jewish or Christian belief and atheism is so profound that it utterly shifts the axis of one's personal life.

I sense a shift from glorifying individualism to embracing community, especially when it comes to biblical interpretation and Christian living.

For the purposes of our sketch of the Christian life, however, a shift in terminology helps us note the need to change our orientation to God in order to tap the new mode of divine presence.

We recently spoke with McManus about the book and how every Christian can benefit from shifting their perspective on life.

The shift from understanding Christian life as directly expressed in the service of the neighbor to understanding that the salvation sought is that of the whole society is an easy one, and those who made it can claim to be faithful to Wesley even if he did not take that step.

«During my career, opinion has shifted from life's origin being a bizarre fluke unique in the universe («almost a miracle» in the words of Francis Crick), to the belief that the universe is teeming with life («a cosmic imperative» in the words of Christian de Duve),» Davies said.

And what's more, that's a real - live six - speed manual transmission Christian is shifting.