Sentences with phrase «christian sense of fulfillment»

Life everlasting, in the Christian sense of fulfillment, has the deepest meaning of all for those who within a life of love have already begun to glimpse the faithfulness of God.

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In order to recapture the robust sense of moral purpose that once characterized the Christian way, we must discard contemporary notions about self - fulfillment.

Perhaps the clarification Neuhaus needs is provided by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in its declaration, Dominus Iesus (2000): «The lack of unity among Christians is certainly a wound for the Church; not in the sense that she is deprived of her unity, but «in that it hinders the complete fulfillment of her universality in history.

All Christian claims that Judaism confesses a God of law in the formal / legal sense in contrast to a «Christian God» of grace are based on false views of fulfillment; such views not only damage Christian - Jewish relations but are devastating for the life of the church itself.

In relating ourselves to the promise given to Abraham (who stands to Jews, Muslims and Christians alike as «our father in faith»), and by observing the partial fulfillment of this promise in surprising ways time without number, we sense that we have been given a new context, beyond the purely natural, within which to dwell.