Sentences with phrase «as exhortation»

Osama bin Laden composed an ode to the destruction of the USS Cole in 2000, which he recited at his son's wedding, and a second example of his verse was discovered in an abandoned safe house in Kabul, having been distributed among trainee jihadis as an exhortation to fight.

This saying, also, the Christians expounded further in their effort to produce as many of Jesus» instructions as possible for individual situations in their own life: they understood it as an exhortation of Jesus to the amicable settlement of lawsuits (Matt.

However the real process of character formation involves not merely an absorption of precepts, but also the general orientation of the soul in which the ethical life is integrated with «the good life» in its broadest sense, so that morality becomes a matter of aspiration as well as exhortation.

This section has often been regarded as an exhortation to those who are about to be baptized, and it has been suggested that the act of baptism took place at the end of it.

Not exact matches

We can't become discouraged, even when it seems as though our exhortations are falling on deaf ears and our hard work is yielding no fruit.

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Like (Episcopalian) Joseph Fletcher, who taught Situation Ethics in the 1960s, the exhortation suggests that there are exceptions to every moral rule and that there is no such thing as an intrinsically evil act.

I could just as easily have added Love and Responsibility; the Theology of the Body; the 1981 apostolic exhortation, Familiaris Consortio; the 1988 apostolic letter on women, Mulieris Dignitatem; and the 1995 Letter to Families.

All of the Sophia drawings resonate with me... The one that sits atop my bedroom bookcase at just the right angle to be seen first thing in the morning still fills me with the same joy and exhortation to keep being me — the real me — as the very first time I saw it.

In «Evangelii Gaudium» (The Joy of the Gospel), officially known as an «apostolic exhortation,» Francis calls for church reforms, urges Catholics to be more bold and joyful, and castigates elements of modern capitalism.

And if we could stick to our discipline for a few more weeks until then, he would like us to read Familiaris Consortio, the 1981 papal exhortation of St. John Paul II, our «pre-Cana,» as it were.

What remains was already evident when we began our reflections on the text of the «secret»: the exhortation to prayer as the path of «salvation for souls» and, likewise, the summons to penance and conversion.»

First of all, the gospel is not simply the teaching of Jesus, particularly when this is understood as denoting his religious and moral admonitions and exhortations.

On the other hand, Paul told Titus about Elders, «He must hold firmly to the faithful message as it has been taught, so that he will be able to give exhortation in such healthy teaching and correct those who speak against it.»

As is shown by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, and also in the exhortations in the New Testament epistles, we constantly separate the commandment from him who speaks it.

Buttressed by such a phalanx of support Leo XIII ended his encyclical with a ringing exhortation, «We exhort you, Venerable Brethren, in all earnestness to restore the golden wisdom of St. Thomas, and to spread it far and wide for the defence and beauty of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of all the sciences» [6] It was an exhortation that was welcomed and followed by many in the Church so that it has been written «We are accustomed to consider Saint Thomas, Thomism, and Aristotelianism as the predominant points of orientation and the most favourable to the Church.»

The Vatican issued the English translation of «Evangelii,» which is known officially as an apostolic exhortation and unofficially as a pep talk to the worlds 1.5 billion Catholics.

In his third Apostolic Exhortation, called Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Francis also suggested that believers ought to care for the welfare of migrants as much as they are concerned about preventing abortion.

Leviticus, taken only in its literal sense, is more of an obstacle to faith than a means of exhortation or edification, as Origen once observed.

Liberal commentators, both religious and secular, have cheered what they take as the recent comeuppance Catholic and other religious conservatives received in the sections of Evangelii Gaudium, the Pope's recent apostolic exhortation, that touch on market economics.

In that this exhortation to deeds of love is sanctioned by an appeal to the eschatological judgment, at which Jesus appears as Son of Man and judge, however, the lure toward love is bracketed by an implicit recognition of its confessional context.

Those standing in the Presbyterian pulpits before luminaries such as Carson, former Sierra Club head David Brower, and The Monkey - Wrench Gang author Edward Abbey were probably aware of Abraham Kuyper's exhortation that Jesus Christ cries «mine» over every «square inch» of creation.

In its exhortations to kings and judges, the messianic Psalm 2 draws a specifically political message from the enthronement of the Son, an application found as well in John's vision of Christ as the King of kings and Lord of lords (Revelation 19:15 — 16).

The report repeatedly stresses that «this crisis [is] one of the episcopacy as much as it is a crisis of the priesthood,» and it cites the 2003 apostolic exhortation by John Paul II, Pastores Gregis: «The title of Bishop is one of service, not of honor, and therefore a Bishop should strive to benefit others rather than to lord it over them.

He leaped from solemn exhortation to obscene epithet with ease, and the implication was that the latter was just as pertinent and critical and sane as the former.

So it was unfortunate that Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of the Holy See, recently described Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, as a «paradigm shift.»

Laudato Si is a pastoral piece, quite substantial as a work of moral instruction and spiritual exhortation, but not a treatise in the way that, say, Spe Salvi was.

The success at the end of a long - drawn process of the agricultural season comes from the divine care as evident in the exhortation against anxieties.

The idea comes in part from St John Paul's apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio, in which the pope indicated that as human persons we know, love and accomplish moral goodness in stages of growth.

For Dillard these small adventures are as exemplary of freedom as Augustine's robbing the pear tree is of sin; indeed, they are Emersonian exhortations to «cobble up an original relation with the universe.»

Or we offer as solutions the improvement of education, the return to religion, or pious exhortations to achieve the «Great Society»...

The critique of deontological and utilitarian abstractions (as evidenced in the categorical imperative or in the exhortation to maximize happiness) offered by virtue ethicists is enhanced by Hartshorne's own critique of metaphysical abstractions.

Of course Paul was living with this inheritance as a Pharisee before conversion, and the possibility of walking in this inheritance remained after his conversion hence his exhortations to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh.

The sermon as «exhortation» is not the same as the sermon as «story.»

In the past I remember listening intently as Genesis 1, the account of the Passover, or the exhortations of Deuteronomy were read to the newly baptized.

Why is it that we continue to flock to megachurches, eat hungrily from the hands of prosperity - gospel preachers and buy Christian - living books that aren't much more than humanistic doctrine camouflaged as biblical exhortation?

Perhaps nowhere does the character of this promising mystery present itself more graciously, extravagantly, and surprisingly than in Jesus» exhortation to think of God as «abba.»

As we await the Papal Exhortation following the recent Synod on «The New Evangelisation for the Transmission of the Christian Faith» Dr Dudley Plunkett encourages a humble realism concerning the state of British «outreach».

As Pope Francis reminds us in his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, «with Christ joy is constantly born anew.»

I am with an anglican church and they do allow women ministers and they preach.So if you are a women and God has put a calling on your life to preach then join a church that allows you to use that gift from what i understand exhortation prophesy and evangelism are topics that can be preached in any church by women and there no restrictions outside of church as in home group type situations.This is one of those situations that we may not agree on scripture but we still are one in Christ and to God be all the glory.brentnz

As a person approved by God, an unashamed worker, and one who is already living according to the gospel... this is exhortation to continue down the road he is already walking, without letting others tempt him into a different manner of life.

As R. R. Reno noted last week, progressive commentators strained to cast Trump's exhortation of the West as a nasty case of white nationalism and racisAs R. R. Reno noted last week, progressive commentators strained to cast Trump's exhortation of the West as a nasty case of white nationalism and racisas a nasty case of white nationalism and racism.

One would like to think that each of us, at one time, might have been, before being saved, a «hard nut to crack» — so that spreading the gospel is not simply «putting out a statement» but, indeed, providing impassioned exhortation to the unbelievers to believe on Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

Surely no real Christian would accept this, thanks to Paul and his exhortations agaisnt women being considered the equals that Jesus saw them as.

We have sharp rhetoric about social justice, but the preferential option for the poor is an open - ended exhortation, not a precise moral demand like the condemnation of taking innocent life as an intrinsically evil act.

As Cardinal Ratzinger put it in a CDF document on communion for the remarried, «The structure of the Exhortation [Familiaris Consortio] and the tenor of its words give clearly to understand that this practice, which is presented as binding, can not be modified because of different situations.&raquAs Cardinal Ratzinger put it in a CDF document on communion for the remarried, «The structure of the Exhortation [Familiaris Consortio] and the tenor of its words give clearly to understand that this practice, which is presented as binding, can not be modified because of different situations.&raquas binding, can not be modified because of different situations.»

Unhealthy anger has been strolling through the ranks for a while now, masquerading itself as passion or exhortation or social justice, and we've said, «Yes, go ahead.

Reviewing Whiteheads book in the New Republic (April 14), Margaret Talbot retorts that such moral exhortations for commitment will simply fall flat since they fly in the face of the American ideal of marriage as an enduringly affectional relationship.

When America's civic culture promulgates its acronymic exhortations, it announces its own impotence as a formative culture.

Second, Paul's exhortation to a universal brotherhood of believers was meant not only as a recommendation of charity but also as an actual prohibition upon any attempt to give charity concrete form in acts of real social justice, because we have to change hearts before we strike off fetters.