Sentences with phrase «christian symbols of faith»

If you don't like the Cross and other Christian symbols of faith, you could go to some other country near the hell's doors... it's only your choice, because the majority of italian people believes in Jesus and his Holy Cross, and also many Russian people incredibly after statal atheism need Christian religion.

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Imagine what the christian idiocy would do if they put up a symbol of the Muslim faith in the square.

The two beams that were left at ground zero are now a symbol of the christian faith and therefore should not be used to honor everyone that died in the attack.

This consists in an ordering of symbols and meanings that constitute the Christian faith.

It is worth pointing out in response that anyone who thinks Christians have never grappled with the problem of evil can never have noticed that the crucifix is the central symbol of Christian faith.

Jeremy Lin, whose parents are from Taiwan and who talks openly about his Christian faith, has become a symbol of that trend.

The Christian faith is the only world religion that takes as its logo an emphatic symbol of death.

Eschatological faith is the expression of an immediate participation in the «Kingdom of God» — an apocalyptic symbol that was never assimilated by Christian theology.

I know the cross is symbolic of the Christian faith and it's very presence is a symbol of hate.

The cross is rightly the eternal symbol and focus of the Christian faith.

Medieval art as well dealt in symbols in an era when artists were more concerned with the world of Christian faith than with the world of scientific observation.

On the one hand, his symbols are overtly biblical, and carry with them all the implications of Judeo - Christian faith.

For the Christian community, the cross is the supreme symbol, for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's existence, universally present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons.32

Christians turned it into a symbol of their faith as a snub to the Roman Empire.

At the same time, it opens the way for theologians more decisively guided by the distinctive character of biblical faith and of Christian symbols and images to appropriate the achievements of process thinkers into their own understanding.

Would a christian be comforted if a symbol of muslim or jewish faith was used to memorialize their loved one?

If any were not Christian, then the use of a symbol so widely associated with a faith the person it is meant to honor did not practice is not respectful of the deceased.

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote in 1939, «The idea of the resurrection of the body is a Biblical symbol in which modern minds find the greatest offence and which has long since been displaced in most modern versions of the Christian faith by the idea of the immortality of the soul.61

«Toward New Symbols» expands on a call to resymbolize the message of faith in God which he had issued in a CHRISTIAN CENTURY article, «Reformation: Continuing Imperative.»

The death of Jesus is portrayed in Christian faith and hope as an act of life, as an affirmation of life in the face of death, and the cross of Jesus are symbols not of death, but of an unquenchable and invincible life that this world can neither give nor take away from us.

On the one hand, this all too modern symbol of Yes - saying unveils the impotent passivity and the inhuman detachment of Christian faith in God, of Christian dependence upon and submission to God, the demonic consequences of which are so passionately portrayed in Ivan Karamazov.

Within the various theologies of liberation movements, the symbolic construction of justice seeks to express the dialectical movement within the function of Christian symbols: justice enables us to name faith, and faith symbols reconceived as justice allow us to envision new spaces of life together.

There sat before me a student who, in his own experience of an eroded Christian ethos and understanding and in his equally certain longing to find a faith with a magnitude equal to his problems, was a living symbol of millions in our generation to whom the gospel must be preached.

However, offering slang and fashionable jargon as «renewed» preaching, celebrating the secular embrace of certain Christian symbols (i.e., use of crosses as warnings at highway danger points, putting Christ in Christmas, etc.), or reducing the Gospel to the lowest common denominator of acceptable faith and ethic will hardly be received by a serious world as adequate penance.

Almost every department of theological study is involved at this level, and this means not only attention to the symbols and images of the Christian faith; it also means attention to the symbols and images and art forms of the contemporary world, as they are encountered in literature and the fine arts, but also in popular expressions, community rituals, social ideologies, and not least in the mass media of the time.

The letters showed a different woman than the symbol of Christian love and unwavering faith that much of the media portrayed her as.

Inculturation should not be understood merely as intellectual research; it occurs when Christians express their faith in the symbols and images of their respective culture.

Nor do such symbols play a peripheral role in eschatological faith; they are rather at its center, even if that center was lost in the established form of the Christian tradition and in its nondialectical theologies.

Chagall himself claimed that this dramatic use of the central symbol of Christian faith did not make it a Christian painting.

No doubt there are family resemblances among different concrete practices and symbols of the Christian life, but it is far from clear that they are all expressions and manifestations of some one underlying «structure» or «essence» of faith - as - such.

«Risking imprisonment in Castel Sant» Angelo, I propose four non-negotiables of Christian faith catechesis — even if kids lack knowledge of the filioque, the symbols in the Book of Revelation, and the insights of Teilhard.

In the Greek and Hebrew faiths, which converge in the Christian faith, we have a significant contrast of the symbols of this faith.

«We've seen men and women disciplined for wearing modest symbols of Christian faith at work, and we've seen legal challenges to councils opening their proceedings with prayers, a tradition that goes back generations, brings comfort to many and hurts no one.

Any cultural inclination to give less credence to symbols of the Islamic faith, however, would potentially be counter balanced by a desire to «take back control» by favouring more traditional Christian symbolism.

The policy recognizes that it is not practical for some religious symbols — such as turbans and hijabs — to be worn underneath the uniform; wearing the cross is not a necessary observance of the Christian faith.

The court ultimately held that schools must not proselytize on behalf of a particular religious doctrine and that the display of crosses in the classroom exceeded the constitutionally established limits on freedom of religion, as the crucifix is a core symbol of the Christian faith and was being displayed in a public school where attendance is mandatory.

It is Christianity stripped of all of the liturgy that has become a symbol of the Christian faith.

It is Christianity stripped of all of the liturgy that has become a symbol of the Christian faith.