Sentences with phrase «christian view of the individual»

Society itself closely reflected the commonly accepted Christian view of the individual man as a combination of a visible body and an invisible soul.

Not exact matches

On the one hand, democratic freedom may mean the ideal of the individual exercising his or her own free will — a value based upon solid conviction and nourished by a Christian view of the competence and dignity of the individual soul.

Many within the homosexual movement are individuals who have been alienated or hurt; they typically have little chance of hearing an authentic version of the Christian view on sexual relationships or to understand all the temptations and confusion that can arise in this area.

When liberal Christians or socially conscious evangelicals challenge the failure of this view's adherents to articulate social and cultural concerns, the reply is that such concerns are not part of the church's proclamation, but that individual evangelicals have always been motivated to reform and renew society, almost automatically.

The reason for this may in part he here: individual Christians must be challenged to reflect on their commitment and to work from a biblical point of view.

It is assumed that the soul by its nature is eternal, which was also the view of the third century Christian thinker Origen (c. 185 - c. 254) although in Advaita philosophy from the standpoint of realization the individual soul is not other than the Universal Soul.

Gladden felt that this was still to be done primarily through the persuasion of individuals to the Christian point of view, but the results would mean a change in the structure of society — an overcoming of ruthless competition by enlightened self - love, co-operation, and sharing.

Crucially important to Meland's enterprise is a recognition of myth as the felt expression of the depths of human culture, In his view, religious faith, and more particularly Christian faith, finds embodiment and expression not only in religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western men.

From the Christian and Jewish point of view, the Creator himself set before every single individual this inalienable choice and thus gave to every human being a dignity higher than that of any other creature on this earth.

If the Christian vision presents an attractive view of our fate as individuals, it no less insists that our eternal life will be a life with others.

In Wilson's view the Christian ethic of selfsacrifice has functioned to encourage loyalty to the group, thereby tacitly promoting the selfish interests of the individuals who belong to these groups and promoting human survival.

Instead of the kingdom's being summed up in Christian redemption, they said that Christianity should be viewed as an ellipse with two foci: one, the redemption of the individual from his guilt into a new freedom in Christ; the other being the kingdom of God.

(From the Christian point of view (which in this coincides with the biological viewpoint logically carried to its extreme) the «gathering together» of the Spirit gradually accomplished in the course of the «coiling» of the Universe, occurs in two tempos and by two stages — a by slow «evaporation» (individual deaths); and simultaneously b by incorporation in the collective human organism («the mystic body») whose maturation will only be complete at the end of Time, through the Parousia.)

lmao... Hawaii, there's not a blessed thing in any of your writings or thoughts I need to address really, your a self indulgent clueless individual who for whatever reason is mad at anyone who has a Christian view of life.

Even more than a world view shaped by Newtonian science, the magnitude of evil that falls upon individuals and peoples rules out for these Christians any easy confidence.

Tinder's notion of Christian egalitarianism is based upon a Cartesian / Lutheran notion of the «exalted individual,» wherein «all individuals without exception — the most base, the most destructive, the most repellent — have equal claims on our respect,» rather than on a more ancient notion of dignified personhood, in which individuality is only the beginning of a complete view of man.

Social morality is to a large extent viewed as this personal morality writ large: there is little understanding in evangelical ethics of group morality, corporate ethics or social behavior, Christian discipleship has tended therefore to be interpreted mainly in terms of individual morality and witness rather than in action for change in other dimensions such as social structures or political systems.

Community of Real Christians A community of like - minded individuals who enjoy the same is viewed quite differently.

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CAMI recognizes Christian denominations as well as other groups and individuals hold differing views of marriage.