Sentences with phrase «as authentic faith»

Radical individualism may regard as authentic faith only that which is confirmed by the pulse, when the truth is, some things are more important than how we may happen to feel about them on any given day.

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They view the questions that rise in their minds as evidence of a lack of faith, which surely disqualifies them from being authentic believers.

How can Islam be true, full and authentic when it lacks one element that historically has been understood as a sine qua non of the faith?

Sarah shares her stories and discoveries as she searched for an authentic Christian faith — a search that led her away from the church and back home again.

While a definition of faith as subjectivity — i.e., authentic human existence culminates in faith — could be real in Kierkegaard's time, it can no longer be so at a time when the death of God has become so fully incarnate in the modern consciousness.

Hence authentic human existence could be understood as culminating in faith, the movement of faith could be limited to the negation of «objectivity,» and no occasion need arise for the necessity of a dialectical coincidence of the opposites.

If the death of God has resurrected an authentic nothingness, then faith can no longer greet the world as the «creation.»

There is, as the excellent Mrs Daphne McLeod has pointed out, a «total failure to teach the authentic Catholic Faith in Catholic schools, resulting in a staggering 90 \ % lapsation rate among school leavers».

And as Blessed John Henry Newman taught us, authentic doctrinal development is organic and in continuity with «the faith once... delivered to the saints» (Jude 1:3).

K. Wilson expresses it is as follows:» Christian Dalit theology does not forbid Christian Dalits from working with non-Dalit authentic Christians, the renascent Hindus, the reformed Muslims and humanistic forces from various other faiths and ideologies, on a common human platform and thus hasten the process of establishing a human and humane culture which is why the Word became flesh.

The dominant note of our aspiration as a people, the central direction of our efforts, the authentic measure of our success, has been the democratic faith.

Unfortunately, in the Western Church, after the substitution of «right beliefs» for «works» or «fruits of the Spirit» as the sign of authentic faith by in classical Protestantism and the Enlightenment's emphasis on a reductionistic understanding of reason based solely on empirical logic, faith became confused with orthodox theological beliefs.

Thus when I observe a meticulous and highly sensitive scholar like Bultmann proceeding with his method of demythologizing to interpret Christian faith exhaustively and without remainder as man's original possibility of authentic historical existence, and then making, as it were, a sharp turn from this procedure in his appeal to the saving event of Jesus Christ, by way of preserving the Kerygma, something demonic in me leaps up with glee, and I want to shout far joy.

The second he talks about the «worldly» folk being more «authentic» — my word, not his - and in the first quote he reveals his own anger at overhearing his father's prayers that sound both authentic and all about the inner experience as he wrestled with his faith.

I propose as that definition, realizing that it would probably exclude some of those already discussed, the following: The sacred book contains writings that purport to have been produced under divine or extra human inspiration or impulse, and which have come to be recognized by a substantial number of people as the basis of their religious faith, since it is regarded by them as the authentic revelation of God to them and to the world.

As an authentic saying, it vividly illustrates the nature of the obedience required as part of the faith response to the challenge of Jesus and his proclamatioAs an authentic saying, it vividly illustrates the nature of the obedience required as part of the faith response to the challenge of Jesus and his proclamatioas part of the faith response to the challenge of Jesus and his proclamation.

During the last 30 years of his long (89 years) life, Michelangelo had grown increasingly convinced that his earlier work, such as the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, had been not an authentic witness to the Christian faith but, rather, an exercise in Promethean pride.

We in the liberal churches must rediscover our own particular traditions and celebrate them as authentic expressions of Christian faith.

There is an ocean of people out there who have been cast aside by churches and holier - than - thou church - goers such as yourself that need to know that they are not alone and need a place to connect with other people who are on an authentic journey of faith.

If we already presuppose, then, that the theistic religious language employed by the Christian witness in authorizing faith in God's love as our authentic self - understanding can be metaphysically justified, we can say — as I, in fact, have already been saying — that ultimate reality includes not only the self and others but also the encompassing whole of reality that theists refer to when they use the name «God.»

Authentic heirs of the biblical tradition could not have the ancient biblical faith today except as nostalgia, because times have changed.

As such, however, faith is the only self - understanding that is both explicitly authorized by Jesus who is said to be Christ and — as Christians claim in saying this is who Jesus is — implicitly authorized by the whole of ultimate reality itself as our authentic self - understandinAs such, however, faith is the only self - understanding that is both explicitly authorized by Jesus who is said to be Christ and — as Christians claim in saying this is who Jesus is — implicitly authorized by the whole of ultimate reality itself as our authentic self - understandinas Christians claim in saying this is who Jesus is — implicitly authorized by the whole of ultimate reality itself as our authentic self - understandinas our authentic self - understanding.

Because it lacked a sure sense of authentic advantage in being the undertaking of a community of faith, it tended to look uncritically to the best - financed institutions as its models, and these invariably were secular or secularized.

He rejects Barth who is described as forfeiting the world as we live in it today (precisely the reason for Altizer's rejection of the theologies of the word), and he rejects also the left - wing Bultmannians who have, he justly remarks, given up the his - torical basis of faith for an idea of authentic existence.

They are often hailed as being an authentic example of what the Second Vatican Council really wanted to achieve, in terms of an active and informed laity working to pass on the Faith and to bring it alive in the hearts of those to whom the Church had seemed remote and boring.

The dialogue between faith and reason, religion and science, does not only make it possible to show people of our time the reasonableness of faith in God as effectively and convincingly as possible, but also to demonstrate that the definitive fulfillment of every authentic human aspiration rests in Jesus Christ.

Growing up in the church, having a «relationship» with Jesus was presented as the hallmark of an authentic Christian faith and the primary guarantee of personal salvation.

Fourth, it is to be understood as an authentic interpretation of the deposit of the faith.

That minority treasured the writings in which were recorded the teachings of the law - givers, the visions of the prophets, regarded as the authentic spokesmen of God (and again, a minority of those who claimed the role of prophet), and the poetry and hymns that had arisen from their faith.

(21) Theologically, this means circumscribing God within a private sphere, viewing the church as a closed community, and putting a quest for certitude in place of authentic faith.

In particular, our leaders are exhorted to use every means available to deepen our knowledge of the Catechism, as well as the documents of Vatican II, so as to «aid both the encounter with Christ through authentic witness to faith, and the ever - greater understanding of its contents».

It serves as a resource to all types of people, providing ideas for bringing the Bible to life, and helping kids grow a passion for praying and living out the Christian faith in a powerful and authentic way.

The 1964 Labour Manifesto, Lets Go with Labour for the New Britain, offered Britain «a new way of life that will stir our hearts, re-kindle an authentic patriotic faith in our future, and enable our country to re-establish itself as a stable force in the world today for progress, peace and justice.»

It quickly developed a reputation as an authentic site where Christians could meet other singles who shared their faith.

Alex Mutambudzi explains: «Grated Love was built out of a passion of bringing Christian dating to your fingertips though a mobile application, but still be as authentic as a faith - based platform.

Mutambudzi explains: «Grated Love was built out of a passion of bringing Christian dating to your fingertips though a mobile application, but still be as authentic as a faith - based platform.