Sentences with phrase «account of christian»

«While the nation is still nursing the wounds of the abduction of Chibok girls, the Islamists abducted another set of school girls in Dapchi and released over 100 of them who professed Islam as their religion and retained in captivity Leah Sharibu on account of her Christian faith.

«The continued abduction of Leah Sharibu, on account of her Christian faith, after all the other girls have been released because they are Muslims, further underscores the grave danger that Sharia ideology poses to the Nigerian state.

In addition to its call for a truce between revisionists and post-liberals, the book's principal constructive contribution is Placher's account of Christian truth claims.

I can not let these questions go, for I remain convinced that any truthful account of Christian convictions requires a display of the sanctified life.

The book's account of Christian history fails to address such questions.

To confess our sin, after all, is a theological and moral accomplishment., Perhaps nowhere is the contrast between the account of the Christian life I am trying to develop and most modern theology clearer than on this issue.

This means, in the first place, that faculties need to concentrate on the theological grounding of all that they do, and provide an account of Christian claims that is reasonable and accessible to real human beings in real settings.

In his Plain Account of Christian Perfection, Wesley defined holiness not as achieving sinless perfection but as having one's heart fully fixed on God, setting aside all other affections — «perfect love.»

Karl Barth famously attacked apologetics — the attempt to offer a persuasive account of Christian belief on mutually agreed - upon grounds of reason — as a misguided task, part of the failure of theological liberalism.

Evangelicals stand in continuity with the Great Tradition of Christian believing, confessing, worshiping and acting through the centuries, while not discounting the many local histories that must be written to give a full account of Christian communities in any given era.

We shall attempt to give some account of Christian belief as it appears to us from within the living Christian tradition.

Indeed, if we include sexual relations (and their absence) as part of a wider account of the Christian life, we will learn, as our lives are drawn further and further into the life of God, more about the undertakings God sets for us by making us male and female.

On the upside, I've never been ridiculed or ostracized on account of my Christian faith, and it's easy to live a moral lifestyle when most of my friends and neighbors share my value system.

One place to see easily the variety of theological norms coming into play is in Wesley's Plain Account of Christian Perfection, perhaps both the key text for those who wished to sustain continuity with the spiritual experience of classical Wesleyanism and a source of much controversy with outsiders who found the key doctrine of the Wesleyan tradition offensive.

I can't believe Prof. Moss dares to say there are only 6 reliable accounts of Christian martyrs, because the Romans kept good records.

The cross is central to all accounts of Christian wisdom.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

In the analogy, these differences in accent are the different accounts of Christian theology in the Church spectrum.

His claim was supported by Archbishop Issam John Darwish, Melkite bishop of Zahle, in Lebanon, who was one of four speakers invited to the charity's event at the House of Lords to give personal accounts of Christian persecution in their countries.

Not exact matches

«All my thoughts with the daughter, family and relatives of Pierre Hattermann who just died,» the president of the Riviera region, Christian Estrosi, said on his Twitter account.

After having worked for KPMG Luxembourg in the audit sector, Christian joined Intertrust Luxembourg in 2007 as head of finance where he was responsible for the corporate accounting team.

According to «Christians» this creature they call Satan is all about the values of the GOP - Greed, Selfishness, Materialism, Hording their riches in off shore bank accounts, denial of the Poor and Elderly and Exclusion of anyone who does not follow the same Creature they bow to in darkness.

These three phenomena — African growth, urbanization and the rise of Pentecostalism — also help account, I suspect, for the greater fragmentation of the Christian world.

For this reason Christian witness (both to unbelievers and to young Christians) must involve an account of the particular genre which one's Christian life embodies.

Do ANY of you Christians actually think you will be held to account for your misdeeds?

Yet Christians are commanded to be «prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you» (1 Peter 3:15), and unless one is determined to do no more than mutely wave people towards the nearest church, this can only be achieved by giving some account of the coherence (not perfection) and development (not fulfillment) one discerns in one's own life.

The book moves back and forth between accounts of meetings and chronological detail to a kind of theological interpretation grounded in the Christian language of death and new life.

«Christians account for almost a third of the world's population.

Taking into account hundreds of years of crusades, various inquisitions and witch burnings, not including all those good Christian southerners who held slaves of their own...

The life of the individual Christian, on this account, makes sense and achieves meaning through participation in this communally recounted narrative.

It is Christ's gift to the Christian that he should be reconciled with the world as it is, but now this reconciliation is accounted a betrayal and denial of Christ.

The best we can do is to remember the mystery that God chooses to call * us * to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ (a person whom Kerry neglects to mention in her heartfelt, but incomplete, accounting of the role of the Christian chaplain), and our job is to point the way to him; but this, and I think Kerry would agree, is best done through our loving actions and not, as the professor or «Nancy» above might suggest, through our fancy words, theology, or persuasion.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers, most of whom are Christian, have waged war against fighters who are Muslim, but not on account of their religion.

The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

The Biblical accounts of God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»

Trying to heap an ancient written Jewish code on modern Gentile Christians (and non --RRB-, tellingly without even an understanding of said code and a complete indifference to the message of Jesus and to the accounts in the very bible being worshipped in His place.

The chapter covering this period is one of the best in the book, with its careful account of how Bonhoeffer's censorious judgment of the superficiality of American religious liberalism gradually gave way to admiration for the central place of social justice and for the vital religious faith of the oppressed black Christians whom he met at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.

I think we all (Christians included) should understand that the intent of the book of Genesis was not to be a scientific text book, but an account of God's relationship with man.

I hold a degree in Science of Religion and Christian Counseling so in this I can give an account that in some instances the person may have a mental condition however there are times that it can be demonic oppresion or posession as well.

You represent the TYPICAL christian... can not comprehend what was originally said and have serious serious trouble connecting the dots and serious trouble discerning between what is evidenced and what is been rewritten a hundred times copied in differnt languages... originally written in greek... which wasn't the language of jesus but somehow the scribes met every eye witness and wrote all of it down... actually there are NO eye witness accounts in the bible so how is it that people get conned into believing this?

The Archbishop of Canterbury says IS must be «held to account» and the Prince of Wales describes his «heartbreak» over the suffering of Christians More

Yet, by State Department estimates, Christians accounted for up to 10 percent of Syria's population.

The fundamentalists were driving out Christians, who account for about half of the two million citizens in the islands, one of the strongest Christian areas in Indonesia.The violence has raised concerns in the international community and particularly in ecumenical circles in recent months.The woman told ENI that the Jihad warriors, shouting Islamic slogans, «attack and burn down Christian houses, shops and even entire villages, killing whoever comes in their way».

Having said this, however, we must also notice what ought in any event to have been obvious: that the several gospels are collections of brief tales, remembered incidents, bits of sayings, and the like, all gathered together in the interest of giving what St. Mark's opening words so well describe: «the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God» — the account of the historical happenings, as the Christian community remembered them, which gave rise to the faith that Jesus is the promised Messiah and the divine Lord.

Many Christians continue to accept the historical accuracy of the gospel accounts, which have formed the basis for dramatic re-enactment of Jesus» passion over the centuries.

Moreover, the problem of primitive Christianity is not to account for early Christian messianism — for there was enough of that element in ancient Judaism, after the second century before Christ — but to explain why Christianity survived when other messianic movements came to nothing and disappeared.

The account of the Calling of the Fishermen, standing at the very beginning of Jesus» ministry, serves as a charter for the Christian movement.

This is far from a comprehensive list and does not even begin to account for all the genocide at the hands of Christian conquests of Europe, etc., Muslim conquests of India (which is easily in the many millions), etc., etc., etc., since records were not always kept.

The first, of course, is that Barack Obama is a Christian, and by all accounts, including his own, is quite committed to his faith.

Traditional and conservative Christians will tend to regard the gospels as straightforward accounts of Jesus» life and death.