Sentences with phrase «christian vocation»

In the passion of the martyrs all Christians can see the universal Christian vocation, the call to love the Lord they met in baptism even unto death.

We must become sensitive to the peculiar forms which temptation takes in this sphere if we are helpfully to interpret an understanding of Christian vocation in this same sphere.

which foster the Christian vocation in the world).

Without necessarily seeking to do so, women clergy are presenting some serious questions about the nature of Christian vocation.

Why was the university designed to make the «gentleman» and not (as the Pope proposed) to help students «live their Christian vocation»?

It is such conscious «choice» that Thomas seems to believe is the only effective Christian vocation — consciously taking hold with one's eyes the cast - out landscape that numbs through its repetition and unarticulated contours, and resting there with it until the spot of suffered color brushes by.

Breaking the cycle of cruelty and pain is what the Christian vocation is all about.

7Grisez, G. «Healthcare as part of a Christian Vocation», in Issues for a Catholic Bioethic (Luke Gormally, ed), page 158.

The World Council of Churches, the National Council, and some denominational agencies are attempting to restore a sense of Christian vocation with regard to daily work.

Attentive to the New Testament conviction that ministry was service, to be exercised by all Christians appropriately, it developed both the doctrine of universal priesthood and that of Christian vocation of all Christians.

The vocabulary of Christian vocation assumes exactly this frame of reference, and it stands in sharp contrast to Aristotle's notions of magnificence or greatness.

But it was also a treatise in fictional form on the Christian vocation.

To reach the conviction that such countercultural life is our Christian vocation and to be enabled to live such a corporate existence, in but not of the world, necessitates conversion as well as nurture.

The Christian vocation is to lose oneself in others.

When members are involved in caring for others, a foundation has been laid for reflection about all work as Christian vocation.

Every Christian has a full - time Christian vocation, not just pastors.

He challenged it in the name of a call to service, openness, love, and to the vocation of giving life and love away, which becomes the Christian vocation.

Ordination has been spiritualized if ministry in a congregation is considered the only, or the highest, form of Christian vocation.

Members will continue to act as if only pastors have been called to a Christian vocation if pastors do not engage them in an examination of the expectations that control their lives.

As the volume's editor, Michael Sherwin, observes, this book is «nothing less than a theology of conversion and Christian vocation expressed in a narrative that traces the effects of God's mercy upon the lives of a generation searching for meaning.»

What we are really dealing with here is the legitimacy of any Christian vocation whose end seems, and perhaps is, unambiguously terrestrial.

It stems from the two closely related doctrines of the universal priesthood of believers and the universality of Christian vocation.

But the Christian vocation notion, while not in the forefront of this image, is not absent from it either.

Let your rejoicing be that your name is written in heaven — that is, that you have followed your Christian vocation, have proclaimed the gospel in both its verbal and its physical forms (preaching and healing), and that God has taken account of your stewardship.

The related Reformation doctrine was Christian vocation, which also had a constructive and a polemical dimension.

Either administering is an essential mode of ministry of the Word, or else the Reformers were entirely wrong about universal priesthood and Christian vocation.

With universal priesthood and Christian vocation both in mind, let us backtrack to the administering image and reexamine it.

And if they do not know, it is because we have betrayed our Christian vocation, and our civic duty.

In lonely responsibility the Christian is confronted with these secular cultural activities, and these, though not only these, are his Christian vocation and mission.

It is of course true that the expressly Christian and ecclesiastical elements are of irreplaceable importance as objective expressions of a grace which is incarnational in structure, and as a source of strength to endure the secular world as a Christian vocation.

They were committing themselves to what Rowan Williams has called the «fundamental Christian vocation of not belonging.»

But a Christian vocation to theologically interpret concrete Jewish being in the light of providence could not fail sooner or later to entail judging the sins of the Jews.

Violence is inevitable, but so far as concerns society it has the same character as the universally prevailing law of gravitation, which is not in any way an expression of God's love in Christ or of Christian vocation.

The promotion of missions and other popular programmes in parishes and in the workplace can help the faithful to rediscover the gift of baptismal faith and the task of giving witness, knowing that the Christian vocation «by its very nature is also a vocation to the apostolate».

Having shared the great grace of baptism and having been appropriately catechized into «the mysteries,» evangelical Catholics understand, appreciate, and live the biblical truth of Christian vocation as given by St. Paul: «Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.

The image tells us that the unique thing about the minister's vocation is his responsibility for guiding the Christian vocations of others.

Each local church should encourage some of its most able young people to enter the mental health professions, regarding them as Christian vocations in the most significant sense.

Applying this to the issue of homosexuality, there is a near - unanimous tradition that the only two possible Christian vocations with regard to our sexuality are marriage and celibacy.

May the anxieties that we are experiencing regarding our jobs and careers help purify our Christian commitment, and spur us to renewed theological inquiry about the nature of our Christian vocations.

Not exact matches

The only question is whether a particular society has enough of the faithful to care for its poor so as not to have the charitable vocation usurped by the state, at which point it is no longer a Christian society.

Christians were to choose a vocation that best made use of their talents.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

Nevertheless, if the Christian recognizes the good faith of the Jew in preserving the divine name in a Godless world, he must acknowledge his own bad faith in attempting to exercise the same vocation.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

Every Christian has a vocation to the work to which he or she has been called.

His call to artists to show the world the glory of beauty and goodness, his appeal to women to discover their own unique vocation, his call to youth to seek God, brought a Christian inspiration into areas of life where a secular world view had longdominated.

Instead, both in the suffering of the Holocaust and in the triumphant Jewish return from exile, he saw the call of a radical new Christian task: «to see the Jews as God sees them, to love them as He loves them, to understand their place in the divine plan for Salvation according to the theological vocation of God's people.»

But if a Christian is not to presume that God will supernaturally reveal his «personal vocation» to him, how then is he to know God's will for his life?

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

To preach justice, to call down judgment: For the Christian, this universal vocation does not have its origins in history but in the one who broke into history.