Sentences with phrase «traditional conservative christian»
On page 15 of «The Interpreters Bible», Dr. Herbert F. Farmer, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University wrote about the indispensability of the texts, their importance and how the «truth» of them should be approached, after an exposition of the traditional conservative Christian view of person - hood, sin and the salvific actions of Jesus (aka Yeshua ben Josef), known as «the Christ» in human history.
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I'd like to share a few thoughts about the conversation, or lack thereof, between traditional / conservative Christian institutions (e.g., churches, Christian universities, Christian organizations) and the gay community.
New relationships lessons planned by the Government may «stigmatise» traditional marriage, two leading conservative Christian figures have warned.
Traditional and conservative Christians will tend to regard the gospels as straightforward accounts of Jesus» life and death.
I've known hundreds of conservative christians, and none of them would describe the traditional, conservative hermeneutic as being that God's behavior was «just like Hitler» but since he's omnipotent it's ok to be like Hitler.
Certainly Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant mainline Christians would not yield to a 20th century innovation a patent on «biblical» or «traditional and conservative» orthodoxy.
Yet despite the churches» traditional teaching on the subject, the demand to reject all forms of discrimination seems likely to lead to growing acceptance of different lifestyles and patterns of relationship, although this is already a divisive matter between conservative and more liberal Christians.
It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»
She had already learned how to forge a conservative alliance between traditionalist Catholic and evangelical Christian women, and she deftly enlarged the coalition to include Mormon and Orthodox Jewish women in a decade - long battle in which the stakes, as she defined them, were the home, the family, and traditional faith and culture.
Some Christian conservatives believe such laws communicate approval of homosexuality and thus disapproval of traditional Christian teaching on sexuality.
Far more urgent is the need for supporters of the «hate group» designation to explain how such a pronouncement doesn't immediately apply to thousands of traditional Christian, Jewish, and Muslim organizations, and many millions of religious believers, who take conservative positions on sex and marriage.
When secular America openly broke away from traditional Christian values in the sixties and seventies, political involvement by conservative Christians became, in retrospect, inevitable.»
I can not agree that hatred is the exclusive domain of conservative Christians when I see liberals bashing traditionals.
The great news is that traditional conservative Catholic Christian orders not associated with this self - licking matriarchy of aging «hippie nuns», are overflowing with young postulates.
Pentecostal and charismatic Christians still hold conservative views on the Bible, end - times prophecies, faith healing and traditional morality.
Putin's cynical pose as a defender of traditional Christian values and persecuted Christians in the Middle East is part and parcel of this new, cooler Cold War attack on the cognitive security of the West — and too many Christian conservatives have swallowed that noxious bait.
He grew up in a traditional conservative household, went to a Christian college, and waited until marriage to have sex.
I hear «heresy» used in a joking manner more than a serious one, as most younger Christians have been so inundated by the word to refer to any deviation from «traditional» (read: conservative) Christianity that they are inoculated from the possibility that heresy is a real and dangerous thing to avoid.
Most Conservative American * Christians * cling to the Law, not the Cross, Pentecostal / Charismatics use traditional church - speak to cloak a spiritual gnosticism in much the same way as Liberal * Christians * hid their secular humanism behind traditional theological terminology that has been redefined by context.
In his book, Campolo follows a distinct pattern» first, he somewhat apologetically admits that he holds to the «conservative» and «traditional» point of view; then he argues persuasively for the other side; and finally he hints suggestively that young and progressive Christians have moved beyond him on issues like abortion, homosexuality, and premarital sex.
I believe that some Jewish conservatives, or neoconservatives, have been influenced by the 1980s rhetoric of Christian conservatives calling for the return to traditional values.
She also demonstrated a true commitment to sector - agnosticism — she visited traditional public schools, not just private and charter ones — and celebrated schools that are as far from her own conservative Christian upbringing as one can imagine — and did it all with grace and humor.