Sentences with phrase «christian response to this issue»

However, I rarely ever see a Christian response to this issue from a person that works within the government.

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A special issue of Studies in Christian Ethics is given to responses to Desire, along with O'Donovan's response to the responses.

But if that involvement is going to be informed, it will be necessary for us to know something about the technology itself, to isolate some of the major ethical issues, and to suggest some possible lines of response from the perspective of Christian commitment.

This, too, has had difficulty engaging broad theological issues, since attention has understandably focused on Christian responses to anti-Semitism and to the state of Israel (though, of course, there are theological dimensions to both these topics).

The writings of Harold Lindsell, Francis Schaefer, Bernard Ramm, Carl Henry, Clark Pinnock, Dick France, James Packer and others present a range of contradictory theological formulations on such issues as the nature of Biblical inspiration, the place of women in the church and family, the church's role in social ethics, and the Christian's response to homosexuality.

Evangelicals, all claiming a common Biblical norm, are reaching contradictory theological formulations on many of the major issues they address — the nature of Biblical inspiration, the place of women in the church and family, the church's role in social ethics, and most recently the Christian's response to homosexuality.

In response to a call to prayer issued by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), churches worldwide prayed for the release of Leah Sharibu on Sunday.

Unfortunately, contemporary culture presents us — all too insistently — with issues which require a determined biblical and theological response: the continuation of the abortion regime; the intensifying pressure to acknowledge the legitimacy of same - sex «marriage»; the attacks on the religious liberty of Christians, forcing them to support practices offensive to their faith; and, most recently, «assisted suicide» now masquerading under the name «the right to die with dignity.»

We realize the issue of a Christian response to homosexuality is a delicate one.

In their historical context, however, the issues, in response to which the Pauline formula was forged, no longer existed: because Christianity was well on the way to becoming a gentile religion, separate from Judaism, the question of the salutary benefit of faith in Christ, which earlier had arisen among Christians who did not observe the cultic requirements of Jewish law, and in that sense were without «works of the law, arose now among Christians whose lives exhibited moral laxity, which could be understood in terms of popular moral philosophy.

Christians» responses to particular moral issues will be too ad hoc and superficial if churches do not seek to understand the soil from which these issues spring.

In response, a group of 79 artists, curators, and arts workers — including artists Christian Boltanski and Oscar Murillo, curators Hans - Ulrich Obrist and Pablo Leon de la Barra, and Tate Modern director Frances Morris — published an open letter in Libération in support of Rodriguez and calling on France's Culture Minister, Françoise Nyssen, to look into the issue.