Sentences with phrase «christian order of life»

It raises energetically the claim for the establishment of a Christian order of life, «but de facto the redeemed Christian soul stands over against an unredeemed world of men in lofty impotence.»

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One opinion that makes any sense to me, out of hundreds, that's sad both for muslim and christian civilization... why one has to turn to some farytales characters and holy books in order to live a normal, productive and moral life?

Christians in North Korea were ordered to celebrate the life of their brutal dictator's Gran rather than... More

In particular, we pray for peace in Ukraine, a country of ancient Christian tradition, while we call upon all parties involved to pursue the path of dialogue and of respect for international law in order to bring an end to the conflict and allow all Ukrainians to live in harmony.

I dream of a movement of biblical Christians who even as they are carted off to jail will express Christlike tenderness to policemen, who even as they are sentenced will explain Jesus» way of love and justice to incredulous judges, who will even dare to risk their own lives in order to release the captives and free the oppressed.

These and other principles of just war arose out of Christian convictions about the value of human life, social order and the rule of law.

We're to spend this treasure of Christian practices now in order to fund a future rooted in «life that is really life.»

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

In order to overcome that complacency, Christians must understand the radical nature of the Christian life.

Every Christian is a citizen of this new world order, this kingdom with no end, we live our lives in light of this truth and it effects our worldly interactions and supersedes our earthly allegiances.

Instead, Christians should be action - oriented, and we experience a full spectrum of emotions in order to carry out God's purpose in our lives.

The commitment to a culture of solidarity and a just economic order may be even more challenging as it questions the standard of living to which many Christians in the West have grown accustomed.

At the request of the order, he spent the last forty - five years of his life as a Christian thinker on the Jewish question and a senior Church envoy to the Jewish state.

Yet it remains the unshakable conviction of Christians, from New Testament days until today, that there is what must be called, for want of a better word, an «eternal» order, an «eternal» plan and an «eternal» life.

Newman goes on to argue that claiming that faith must always proceed works in living the Christian life is «mistaking a following in order of conception for a following in order of time...» In fact, he writes, our works are «the concomitant development and evidence, and instrumental cause, as well as the subsequent result of faith.»

For many nominal Catholics may not live a Christian life at all and may be quite uninterested in the Church, but might nevertheless claim their right to vote for electoral bodies precisely in order to work against the interests of the Church.

Karl Barth radically rejected all these distinctions, positing instead a theology of the one Word of God from which all structures, orders, commandments, and ethical norms for Christian living in the world must be derived.

Finally, on the orders of the city magistrates, there was a wholesale arrest of Christians in Lyons, they were flung into prison where they lay in their own filth and excrement, some died and some lived.

We can sum up what actually did become the way of Christian living in the ancient world by saying that the Christians lived in the economic, political and social orders of their time seeking new patterns but conforming to the general requirements of the common life, and accepting constituted authority except when it required idolatrous worship.

That said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

I approach the Bible in all three connections as the communication of doctrine from God; as the instrument of Jesus Christ's personal authority over Christians (which is part of what I mean in calling it canonical; as the criterion of truth and error regarding God and godliness; as wisdom for the ordering of life and food for spiritual growth; and, thus, as the mystery - that is, the transcendent supernatural reahty - whereby encounter and fellowship with the Father and the Son become realities of experience.

If we were to say of someone that they are not Christian, we would mean specifically that their lives are not ordered in this way.

But the duty of the Christian is to be dissolved, to «lose one's life» in order to communicate it to others.

Christians have also taken life and limb all over the planet in large numbers over long periods of time in order to forcibly convert people or enforce certain «morals».

There is no such thing as a Christian method, or code, or set of rules that would apply to the whole realm of human life in order to tell us at each step what is the proper way to do things.

So we sometimes have recourse, in Christian circles, to the «living Jesus» in order to overcome our sense of the abstractness, the remoteness, and the emptiness of what in truth is a living, concrete presence.

A Christian social policy in favour of freedom can not simply consist in advocating freedom and tolerance while trying to abolish all compulsory ordering of social life and public opinion because these are felt to threaten freedom.

We must live and act as Christians in this order of the state as also we must live in the economic order, and in the family, but «we should be fully aware that the Christian, in the service of love, is summoned to place himself within an order which is inherently loveless.

It sometimes leads Christians to the sacrifice of all privilege in order to share life with the lowliest and neediest of mankind.

The Christian conception of the moral life as service in the world of the order of good which is never wholly realized in the world opens the way to moral integrity.

Dysart approaches the threshold of the Hebraeo - Christian faith when he discerns that in order «to go through life and call it yours — your life — you first have to get your own pain.

Since we become Christian as we participate in the life of a congregation, the way church leaders order the life and worship of a congregation is crucial to the spiritual well - being of all members of a congregation.

The problem of the compromise of the Christian with the necessities of secular life is solved in Catholicism by the establishment within the Church of religious orders in which, through renunciation of «the world,» the life of love can be realized and the moral merit thus achieved, shared with all the believers in the Church.

One does not need to «live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God» in order to be a «good Christian»; one need only be pliant, docile, and obedient (p. 19).

Part III: Bearing Fruit examines how this deepening awareness of the spiritual life bears fruit in prayer and, indeed, how necessary lectio and the liturgy are in order for us to remain rooted as Christians, especially in these days when free expression of faith is becoming less acceptable in the public forum.

As we have seen, Wright advocates a view in which Christian teaching focuses not on life after death but «life after life after death,» which includes the resurrection of the body and the redemption of the created order.

Meanwhile, in your stress on the Old Order of creation in Genesis 1:27, you seem to have overlooked that we as Christians no longer live under the old creation, but are a new creation in which there is no «male and female».

By a Christian society, he did not mean one that was composed solely of Christians, but one in which human life is ordered to ends that are befitting the true God.

In order to explore deeper what it means to live, confess and act, «according to the Scriptures» as Christians, Churches and a Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches established a portfolio of Biblical Studies in 1971.

The modern world, however, has seen the collapse of the power of Christian belief to order the lives of individuals and societies.

Christians therefore would be forced to live under a government whose actions violate the biblical ordering of social life and threaten the first institution ordained by God.

So, while we can affirm the right to life as a noble political value, as Kingdom people we have to revolt against the temptation to this noble value above the value of self - sacrificial love in order to manifest the beauty of the Jesus - looking Kingdom (The Myth of a Christian Religion, 84 - 85).

We can formulate the Christian principle of justice in this way: the objective order of justice consists in the terms upon which men may so live together that the way is opened to reconciliation and communion.

He ordered this material in a manner that reflected his convictions about the Christian life: first the law (Ten Commandments), then the gospel (Apostles» Creed), and finally the life of gratitude and dependence on God (Lord's Prayer).

Jesus Christ, is and it will be forever more the unique object lesson of living, the human being not ever, although we may be Christians we don't leave of to sin, for the very her writing she says Aerquémonos confiadamente at the throne of your handsomeness in order to reach forgiving in order to the perpetual help, in as much as not tenemos one God which not it can feel pity for of we, rather one which fué tempting all over, but without sin, according to the letter at the age of Hebrews, and the apostle John she says, whether various hubiere sin, solicitor tenemos in order to with the parent to Jesus Christ the that's right, not ever not any human being it will be the best object lesson not other than The Christ Jesus, nor Buddah bo Mahoma nor none, we don't follow to humanity rather at a God which fué tempting all over but without sin, not ever we owe put her scope in the humanity not other than in the.

The base of each tree displays a little plaque listing the name and country of a Christian who risked his or her life in order to save the lives of Jews.

While Tertullian's disillusionment could be due to the rapid decline of Christian community life, which he traces back to moral laxity in the sphere of sexual behaviour, the decline, as he understood it, could also be due to a tension in the life of the community provoked by a more and more hierarchical understanding and ordering of life, which neglects the horizontal relationships, affecting the very texture of Christian communities.

They called for reinterpretation in order to promote renewal in the life of the Christian community.

But quite apart from such matters, is it not true that the vast majority of Christian people today simply do not know that prayer is the very air a Christian must breathe, and that a Christian life without some ordered pattern of prayer is not really a Christian life at all?