Sentences with phrase «christian teaching challenges»
The origins of this tradition are usually traced to Augustine, who grappled in the fourth century with the undeniable fact that Christian teaching challenges any resort to violence.
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While Father Brown nowhere challenges classical Christian teaching regarding the suffering and death of Christ, he is theologically abstemious to a fault.
During times of wrestling with God and in rereading the teachings of Jesus, I uncomfortably came to see that for ten years I had failed to challenge the American assumption that affluent Christians can enjoy the benefits of a life with God without seriously compromising their lifestyles.
And it perhaps suggests that Christians are reading their Bibles for themselves and are not afraid to challenge what they regard as false teaching.
The feminist challenge to inherited Christian teaching may be more fundamental than that of the global crisis or other religious Ways.
But in the midst of those challenges, they have something to teach Christians and the world at large: a way of being Christian that requires us to rethink some of the disconnects between our love of God and our love of justice, or our ability to talk about personal spirituality without also talking about social transformation.
Indeed many of the challenges facing the family in the modern world are probably symptoms of the mostly uninformed rejection of this beautiful teaching, held as truth by the entire Christian community until the 1930s.
Just look at the role it has played in organizing and reporting on the Ferguson and Baltimore protests, in challenging the teachings and behaviors of authoritarian religious leaders, and in amplifying voices that have traditionally been sidelined (like those of women and LGBT Christians).
It hardly needs to be said that the new view of man, to which today's studies and sciences are leading us, constitutes a severe challenge to the doctrine of man assumed and taught by Christian orthodoxy.
This challenge is finally no different from the traditional Christian challenge of love and holiness taught through the centuries.
With capitalistic globalization the Eucharist would be still more of a challenge to the Christians to follow the teaching of Jesus for an egalitarian, free and just human community of disciples and all persons of good will.
The challenge with competing worldviews is that there are fragments of similarities to some Christian teachings, and some may recognize and latch on to these ideas, not realizing they are distortions of biblical truths.
It's like they've never bothered to challenge their brains over the idea of «death to self» that is taught time and again in both scripture as well as other Christian traditions such as the catechism.
His favourite theme is to challenge Christians to rethink what they've been taught about their faith and their identity...
But despite intellectual challenges, issues in his personal life and emotional swings, Lewis is ultimately remembered for his writings on faith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.»
Why do some Christians feel so threatened when things like the churches teaching on hell are challenged?
I just feel that there are lots of Christians going about teaching sloppy ideas and careless theology, which then gets us in trouble when thinking people of other religions challenge us on our beliefs.
Still they realize that members of other Christian churches challenge the sufficiency, or even the rectitude, of their teaching and practice.
The ecumenical conversations between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity distinguished three contemporary Reformed attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church: of those who remain unconvinced that the Catholic Church has actually dealt with the fundamental issues that divided Rome and the Reformation, those who «have not been challenged or encouraged to reconsider their traditional stance» and remain «largely untouched by the ecumenical exchanges of recent times,» and those who have engaged «in a fresh constructive and critical evaluation both of the contemporary teaching and practice of the Roman Catholic Church and of the classical controverted issues.»
The real challenge is how to teach virtuous behavior to a generation that does not come from a tradition of Judeo - Christian morality and hence has no sense of revealed truth.
In doing so, they are removing the important aspects of the Christian faith which can only be communicated through an interactive, person - to - person community: personal challenge to change within a supportive community, individualized teaching, and personal - care functions such as counseling, support, and continuity of relationship.
Christian teaching, as Paul admonishes, is passionate and consistent, fearless and compassionate, truthful and patient, challenging and encouraging, embracing and discriminating, affirming and critical.
Today both of these things would be questioned: it is no longer self - evident that the historical Jesus is, in fact, the central concern of Christian faith, and it may no longer be assumed that the major aspect of that faith is to follow the dictates, encouragements and challenges of the teaching of that Jesus.
Pope Francis, through his teaching on priestly witness, challenges a certain kind of conservative Christian to realize his duty to be a light in the world.
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