Sentences with phrase «god as their central theme»

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In some other writings he was critical of religion as wishfulness which expected God to satisfy personal needs, a theme central in prison letters.

In short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian belief).

I do not believe there is any theme more central to Lewis's vision of human life in relation to God, and I think there are very few indeed who have managed as well as he to invoke simultaneously in readers both an appreciation for and delight in our created life, and a sense of the pain and anguish that come when that life is fully redirected to the One from whom it comes.

Hildegard represents but a beginning in a retrieval of the theme of love as central to the being of God.

In the prevailingly liberal churches for years now few books have been written, few sermons have been preached, few church - school classes have been taught in which sin as sin against God has been the central theme.

«Neo-orthodoxy» is a term which points to that widespread movement in contemporary Protestant theology which seeks to recover the central theme of the Reformation: justification by faith in the redemption wrought by God in Jesus Christ, as the foundation of the Christian Gospel and of the Church.

In the present work, therefore, without in any way claiming adequacy for our treatment, we shall bring to the front the theme of God's self - emptying as central to the theology of revelation.

At a 1974 meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in West Berlin the chairman, Dr. M. M. Thomas, said almost wistfully, at the conclusion of an address insisting (these were not his terms) on the inseparability of the Word of God and the word of earth: «I sometimes wish... that we could interpret (the theme) «Christ only» as withdrawal from these many worlds and many responsibilities.

The Pope says that the passage contains a great mystery which is to be understood «as God's salvific plan in regard to humanity, it contains the «central theme of the whole of revelation, its central reality.

And secondly, an echo of the central theme that Megan and I want to hold above everything else as we write these posts and work on our book... Listen to your heart, your child's unique needs, and most importantly — to God's guidance as you make each decision, including this one.