Sentences with phrase «christianity as a way of life»

The Christian who accepts violence, like the Christian who thinks he can ignore violence, has abdicated from Christianity as a way of life.

And then paints a vision for what Christianity as a way of life comprises.

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I find it interesting that people who adhere to orthodox / fundamentalist streams of Christianity feel the need to make everyone live as they do (regardless of their beliefs)-- it's as though the only way these people can come close to living in accordance with their views is to make sure everyone else pretends to be like them in order to remove the temptation for them.

However that may be, there also persisted a widespread perception in medieval Christianity that those who worked «in the world,» as distinct from monastics and clerics more generally, were engaged in a less worthy way of life and, indeed, were second «class Christians.

Christianity itself has become a principality and holds thousands captive, Before anyone comments on me calling todays Christianity a principality, (a demonic stronghold) let me just make a request that those who do answer are those who live as the followers of the way did in biblical times, that is, meeting every day, considering nothing they owned as their own, laying their lives down for the gospel (and not getting paid to do so) and having signs and wonders accompany them when they speak of the Lord.

This sympathy for Christianity and solicitude for its enduring influence over the American way of life marked Kristol as a unique Jewish voice in his generation.

What a shame that Christianity has been cast as a position in a debate rather than a loving, life - giving way of life.

Christianity has been described as a set of beliefs about God and humankind and as a way of life; or attention has been centered on the worship of God through Christ.

He was able to picture early Christianity this way with the more assurance because he did most of his scholarly work before attention shifted back to Palestine in the time of Jesus (thanks in part to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and before the themes of light against darkness, life against death, came in the 1960s to be understood as first century Jewish themes.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

This theoretical attitude, which comes so naturally to modern scientific humankind, is likely to be far more destructive to Christianity than any attack that the atheists might launch, because it can cut the very heart out of the Christian life — and in such a way that the individual does not at all think of himself or herself as having given up the faith.

The lamentable polarisation and confusion which has developed as a consequence of these conflicting interpretations of our present situation is only too familiar to anyone involved in the life of the Church and has led all too often into destructive polemic rather than real dialogue about the best way forward for Catholic Christianity in the third millennium.

Another preacher preaching what ever goes is ok with Christianity... If your going to preach Christianity based on the Bible, then you might as well forget gay marriages are ok... If you want to twist it around then thats up to you... Paul said, «The Berens were of noble charachter because they didn't believe what they heard, but they took what they heard and confirmed it with the Bible... So its like the Yen or Yang... Its either Gods church or Satans Church... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actions...

while breifly going thru this artical it was makeing my stomach turn, this is just what the devil wants is for doubt and confusion, christianity is growing stronger than ever, souls are being saved and lives are changing every day, and do nt for one minute think any different, or try tp put christians down, why would we loose faith, god answers our prayers everyday, think what you want and do what you do, but do nt try to put things in other people's opinion or minds, jesus died for our sins, so that we can have better lives and be forgiven for our sins here on earth and move on to a beter place, becouse souls do nt die «read the bible, if you do nt understand it, find a church that can help you learn a better way of life, I pray for everyone out there that does nt know jesus christ as ther savior to accept what he has to offer to you «love forgiveness and ever lasting life «Christians» stay strong and [ass the word of god on and share all your tedtimonies in life» god bless everyone»»

Christianity offers an alternative to communism, it is said, as a way of organizing the economic life.

Rene Padilla of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Buenos Aires denounced the «culture Christianity» associated with the American way of life as being as harmful to the Gospel as secular Christianity.

Fundamentalist / Evangelical «Christians» are as much a danger to real Christianity and the American way of life as the Taliban / al Qaida are to Islam and the Middle East.

«There have been changes... in Christianity, particularly in evangelicalism over the years, and as sports has increased its popularity and increased its ways of invading our lives,» said Shirl James Hoffman, author of «Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sport.»

True Christianity is not a religion, Christianity is a way of life as given by God through His Son Jesus.

It's easy for us to see that Christianity is, in some ways, quite the untraditional religion, depending as it does on wonderfully spectacular unprecedented events — such as creation, the Resurrection, the unique irreplaceability of each of our created personal lives, and the grace and the salvation given to particular persons.

So I conclude by returning to this theme of Christianity as a sacrament of the sacred — as a tradition that mediates the reality of God to us — and the Bible as a collection of stories that invites us to see in a particular way, to see reality in a certain way, and to see our own lives in a certain way.

Five times in this letter, the author warns his readers what could happen to them if they reject Christianity and return to their old way of living as Jews.

They provided a channel for following what many regarded as the full Christian way of life rather than the nominal Christianity professed by the majority of the population.

In contrast, as the root and source of Christianity is the conviction that Christ is «the way, the truth, and the life» — that in Christ God has revealed Himself and acted for man's salvation in such fashion that no other revelation or act is needed.

Western culture may be compared to a lake fed by the stream of Hellenism, Christianity, science, and these contributions might offer an extremely valuable way of considering the conceptions of a life of reason, the principle of an ordered and intelligible world, the ideas of faith, of a personal God, of the absolute value of the human individual, the method of observation and experiment, and the conception of empirical laws, as well as the doctrines of equality and of the brotherhood of man.

Traditional Christianity understood not primarily as a system of ideas but as a shared way of life with caritas at its center, and the historical effects of the manifold failures to enact caritas from the Middle Ages to the present, is one of the book's major themes.

If anybody starts making a religion of it, or starts telling you to live a certain way because of it, treat them and the religion as I treat you and christianity..

Agora documents the life of Greek professor and scholar Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) against the backdrop of Christianity's rise within 4th century Alexandria, with the bulk of the proceedings following Hypatia's friends and colleagues as they deal with the tumultuous changes in radically different ways (ie some convert while others choose to fight).