Sentences with phrase «christian mode of existence»

Theologians have increasingly directed attention to this Christian mode of existence and identified it with faith.

For Bultmann, one must cut himself off from all past forms of religious security before a truly Christian mode of existence can be realized.

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This view defines Christian faith in terms of continuity in a mode of existence, while recognizing the constantly new intellectual task of articulating doctrines required and supported by it.

Insofar as one partakes of this deepened mode of modern consciousness, one is made aware of depths and nuances in the complexities of man's existence which at once sober one with the limits of man's reason and perceptive powers, and awaken one to the very dimensions of experience to which the themes of the Christian faith bear witness.

Quoting an ancient Christian hymn in Philippians 2:5 - 8, Paul describes Jesus» mode of existence as a self - emptying and calls Christians to embrace this lifestyle.

This situation in which the destiny of man hangs in the balance is the ultimate call for new modes of Christian existence.

Further, in the primitive church, in the Middle Ages, and today, there is great diversity of modes of Christian existence.

Concluding the study with Christian existence implies the judgment that despite the great variety of modes of existence that have appeared, and despite the great distance that separates us from primitive Christianity, a single structure is expressed in the whole of Christian history.

But just as there are many modes of existence in which Buddhist, Homeric, Socratic, and prophetic existence have been embodied, so also there have been many modes of existence in which Christian existence has been embodied.

What distinguishes the structure of existence in Jesus» situation from that of the contemporary Christian can best be broached, Cobb suggests, through an analysis of the pronoun «I.» This «I,» we are told, is to be identified with both reason and the passions as the two dominant modes which have always characterized human psychic activity.

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