Sentences with phrase «as all traditions affirm»

It is not implausible to believe that after preaching in Gundaphar's kingdom in the North, Thomas moved on as all traditions affirm, to preach the Gospel to other kingdoms as well, the kingdoms of south western and south eastern India, until at last he was put to death, perhaps near Madras.

As my tradition affirms, «in essentials unity.»

Not exact matches

We also affirm that tradition, rightly understood as the proper reflection of biblical teaching, is the faithful transmission of the truth of the gospel from generation to generation through the power of the Holy Spirit.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

The materials of the Indian scriptural tradition do not dearly affirm brahman as either static or dynamic.

But as the true modems they don't realize they are, they have remembered these traditions faithlessly — by the letter and without the spirit of traditional piety — and have erased the life - affirming themes of Israel's covenant.

We do need to mine our own traditions critically and carefully, rejecting what is historically and scientifically wrong as well as what is repressive and oppressive, while we affirm what is healing and liberating, personally and historically.

Bringing as they did, quite different theological traditions and resources, were there some things they could affirm together?

As Jacques Dupuis put it, Vatican II affirmed positive elements not only in the personal lives of people of other faiths but in the religious traditions to which they belong.

Some feel it reflects a negative valuation of human sexuality based on the dualism of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing of the soul from the body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness of the whole creation.

Third, Swain acknowledges that Christ should be at the center of evangelical preaching, as Barth and Jenson affirm, but argues that for this we need classical traditions of premodern thought that they reject.

In the present Discipline the church affirms its openness to divergent theological traditions and projects, declaring that the UMC's «theological spectrum... ranges over all the current mainstream options and a variety of special interest theologies as well.»

Many contemporary Baptists would be surprised to learn that venerable shapers of the Baptist tradition such as Andrew Fuller, Richard Furman, B. H. Carroll, and even E. Y. Mullins often spoke in an affirming way of «the Baptist creed.»

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

But those tasks can be classified broadly into two groups: those in which theologians want to regard themselves as doing something special and unique and those in which they wish to affirm community with other religious traditions.

The outsider can question another tradition's language as to its inner logic, argues Lindbeck, but to understand the realities being created and affirmed by that language — both the personal commitment and the worldview — takes more identification with it than most of us can usually manage.

[1] Later talmudic texts affirm belief in a G - d - given oral tradition [2], as do the writings of medieval and post-medieval Orthodox scholars.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

It was surely in ignorance that the Jews and their rulers had put him to death, as the old tradition affirmed.

As a working hypothesis, «infallibility» is kept in order to affirm with the Christian tradition that the Bible as «Godbreathed» has full doctrinal and moral teaching authority.29&raquAs a working hypothesis, «infallibility» is kept in order to affirm with the Christian tradition that the Bible as «Godbreathed» has full doctrinal and moral teaching authority.29&raquas «Godbreathed» has full doctrinal and moral teaching authority.29»

However I saw not a single mention of the important tradition affirming Moses as the author; though there was a suggestion that some parts went back to Abraham.

Von Campenhausen himself affirms that «the disputes of the Christians with their opponents... show themselves as a factor at work on all sides, forming the old tradition and refraining it more and more.»

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

It is quite appropriate to speak of the history of God's activity if this is bound up with concrete response to creaturely activity, as both biblical traditions and process theism can affirm.

Its necessity to marriage which is clearly affirmed by Catholic tradition as brilliantly brought out by Gormally, actually, in Holloway's vision, flows from the pattern of the Annunciation.

With Hauerwas & Co. he betrays a tendency to reify «liberalism,» turning it into a concrete and coherent doctrine far beyond what many who affirm «the liberal tradition» recognize as their own position.

Not every trace of tension, however, can be assuaged without sacrificing some of the power of Bergson's account of creativity As proposed at the outset, such tensions are unavoidable in a view that affirms the idea that creativity advances knowledge, a tradition, and all intelligible process by generating new intelligible outcomes, new forms or kinds that were unpredictable.

Literalists: I can not affirm what you say because the way you've said it could be misinterpreted as not in agreement with our faith tradition.

The broadly catholic tradition — Roman, Orthodox, as well as Protestant — affirms the reality of Christ - with - us, in the Eucharist.

Maintaining Trent's fundamental teaching on justification, the sacraments, and the relation between Scripture and tradition is consistent with affirming a more comprehensive and balanced formulation of that teaching as a fruit of serious theological dialogue.

I will devote my next talk to this question of faithfulness to Christ as we affirm and appreciate other religious traditions.

(Professor Gilkey has listed five marks of the death of God tradition, and they should perhaps be set down: (1) the problematic character of God and of man's relation to him today, (2) the acceptance of the secular world as normative intellectually and ethically good, (3) the restriction of theological statements to what one can actually affirm oneself, and with this the rejection of certain traditional ideas of tradition and authority, (4) the centrality of Jesus as one who calls us into the world to serve him there, (5) uneasiness with mythological, super-historical, eschatological, supernatural entities or categories.

His experience is one that questions and pushes against what is affirmed by the environment he was raised in and studied in and confirmed in.I'm not denying that David's cartoons represent his experience in his «church» I'm turning up (best I can) the limitation of that experience and how his version (Zombie pastor preaching re-chewing of the mind as transformational) is 1) a sad and pathetic reduction of the cultural tradition and 2) is evidence of his own ongoing entrapment.

I find the fundamental evangelical tradition to be as problematic you describe (though it apparently is crucial and affirming for them who embrace it.)

The people of Nineveh, as a certain ancient tradition affirms, are often already repenting in ways that we, the self - consciously religious, have yet to see.

But I am beginning to gather from statements in Muray's paper — such as that Hauerwas thinks «there is an unchanging core to the tradition» (86), which he means as a criticism — that Muray's anti-essentialism affirms that in fact there is nothing very definite to Christianity at all, meaning, I should think, that it is either everything or nothing — which in the end comes to the same thing.

In the past, the fundamentalist and evangelical traditions within Christianity have tended to stand in a counterculture relationship with American society while the mainline churches have been more identified as a culture - affirming religious tradition.

One can not affirm less about Mary and still believe in the full deity of her son, as orthodox Christians of all traditions have always taught.

They were both in the tradition of the social gospel as Niebuhr affirmed in Interpretation of Christian Ethics.

But in a broader sense, as we compare our Judeo - Christian heritage with other traditions we do see that it is a life - affirming one.

Emphasis upon an «unbound» Christ already present among people of various religious faiths may sound as though it fits more congenially with traditional mission language; and emphasis upon the saving action of God's spirit with people of other faiths may sound more congenial to those of the dialogue tradition, who are concerned that the dialogue partners be affirmed in their own right.

«If the assertion is correct that in associating exaltation with Parousia (thus not with resurrection) Mark does not see the celestial Jesus as presently operative, but affirms the complete absence of Jesus from his sorrowing and suffering Church, it then becomes possible to understand his not accepting the tradition of Jesus appearances: «appearing» is what Jesus will do at the Parousia, not before» (p. 418).

I would say that one segment or tradition within the church has «recognized» or «affirmed» your sense of call; maybe they were even the vessel through which God's call to serve as an elder came.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,