Sentences with phrase «as prophetic voices»

Menno Simons, John Howard Yoder and Ronald Sider were no longer seen as extremists but as prophetic voices.

So, open air evangelism has a place in reaching the masses as a prophetic voice, but as I think you believe, nothing can take the place of relationship evangelism as the solid ground game of the Church.

If congregations continue to reflect the racial and sexual prejudices of American culture in the way they define membership, authority, and power, the church will have very little credibility as a prophetic voice in God's world.

As the years go on, and the Church continues to flounder in the West and to be split over fundamental questions of morality, Fr Holloway can be seen as a prophetic voice, whose message is becoming more and more urgent if we are not to lose the battle with atheism completely.

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They truly are a prophetic voice for peace and wholeness and the kingdom of God as a sisterhood.

But I now see more clearly — thanks to the voices of the new theologies allied with the welcome recovery of spirituality within theology — that in practice and thereby in theory this pervasive religious dialectic of manifestation and proclamation is best construed theologically as mystical - prophetic.

So called progressive evangelicals such as Brian McLaren, David Gushee, Jim Wallis and the all the other «prophetic voices»....

To his readers, who as Gentiles had been taught to eulogize Caesar as divine and to view Caesar's and Rome's military conquests as «good news,» or who, with Jewish contemporaries, had concluded that the prophetic voice had been stilled — to them Luke writes of another source of good news: the story of Jesus, and he declares that the word of God is still to be heard: it had come to John.

In truth, if he could speak to us today as clearly as he did to earlier generations, it would not be in the amiable tones of someone familiar to us but in a distant, almost prophetic voice, full of ironic moral reproach.

And it is the voice of Sir Laurence Reading the King James Bible That I hear within me as I write these words, Which echo resonates within and bequeaths to me The Prophetic Strain, At least as far as you know.

Only in this way can they have a perceptible impact on such pastoral - prophetic local issues as how sick people can get better care, how the homeless can find decent housing, and how the voice of the church can be heard in the din of competing voices at city hall.

If Christian churches are ever to become a prophetic voice they must give serious attention to the fundamental issues Ellul raises in this book as well as in his previous works on propaganda in technological societies.

What the church desperately needs now is a prophetic voice reminding us to value both men and women as equally and wholly made in the imago dei.

God grant us a new prophetic voice in our time, perhaps rising up in protest from the pews, or sounding forth, as did Karl Barth, from an obscure and seemingly unimportant pulpit, a prophetic voice that proclaims justice and equality for women, but on the sure basis of the authority of the Bible and the equalizing nature of the apostolic Christian faith.

This is why I think such voices such as Berry's, who is often called a prophetic voice in America today, are needed in this world.

Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures on an epic journey through the environmentally barren remains of America where it encounters strange creatures, brief love in the sky, a colony of prophetic torn bags on a fence and more as it searches for its maker.

All the while, Hanne Lippard's familiar voice filled the room, as her audio narrative «Dings (Horrorscope 2014)» (2013)-- a series of prophetic reflections on suffocating office atmospheres mixed with astrological truisms — emanated reassuringly from a laptop on a table.

Truly, it was in Northern California that Duncan began to develope his unique, prophetic voice as a poet in the 1940s.