Sentences with phrase «as sanctification»

She can thus say that what Catholicism often understands as sanctification is very close to what Luther thinks of as sin.

He judged these traditions on the basis of their retention (or lack of retention) of the delicate, balance between grace as sanctification and as justification.

is increasingly subordinated to grace as sanctification (grace in man).

It was not an example of «justification by faith», theological jargon, which both Catholic and Lutheran understand differently with the former confused as sanctification.

This work may be most easily seen in the report of the Sixth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies (1977), published as Sanctification and Liberation (Nashville: Abingdon, 1981) and edited by Theodore Runyon of Emory University.

Not exact matches

«Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth» are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: «the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements.

It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmological wherein «activists» sometimes revolt against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

Always was and is and will ever be no matter what matters of materialized shapes to tend to seemingly clutter up His spiritual abundancy It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmologies as protruding «activists» are sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly being viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmological «activists» sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

With regard to salvation, sanctification and redemption the Bible is very clear and specific as to process as that is the way the truth and the life.

--------------- Beginning in 325AD, the amalgamation of church and government — aka, Roman Catholicism — had begun a dangerous journey away from the Apostle's teaching and into apostasy when it left the Bible behind, and began to claim justification as a result of sanctification.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

You are describing the process of sanctification, I think, as nobody can absorb or consider all the Bible has to say.

A certain soteriological orientation was maintained, but there was a basic shift away from the organizing motif of justification - at least as understood forensically - toward themes of regeneration and sanctification.

The most innovative gesture in Jones's feminist remap - ping of sin is her linking sin to the eschatologically oriented doctrines of sanctification and justification rather than to creation, as many of her feminist predecessors have done.

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

What we know as the traditional image of the Incarnation is precisely the means by which Christendom laid the ground for an inevitable willing of the death of God, for this traditional image made possible the sanctification of «time» and «nature,» a sanctification finally leading to the transformation of eternity into time.

Thus writers usually begin with an extended analysis of sanctification as death to a world that is passing.

Through sanctification we begin to understand what it means to live under the rule and reign of God, and we begin to see other people as God sees them, and ourselves as well.

As we grow, we do a better job of walking in the sanctification which has already been given to us.

They saw the preaching of entire sanctification as leading to self - deception on the part of many.

Sanctification occurs as we follow Jesus in discipleship and learn to love others like Jesus through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

I recall, for instance, not only the instruction I received from his chapter on sanctification and the «mortification» of sin in his book Keep in Step with the Spirit when I read it as an undergraduate, but also the way it salved my conscience.

Since 1910 a battle had raged over the Wesleyan doctrine of entire sanctification as a second definite work of grace.

If it is primarily applied to the first element, it is a positive, but not an exclusive statement, since the saving power and importance of the redemptive work of Christ (as the worship of God and the sanctification of man) affect man not only through their cultic presentation in the liturgy.

These doctrines were justification by faith in Christ; sanctification / Spirit - baptism as a subsequent work of grace; divine healing as part of Christ's atonement; and the literal premillennial return of Christ at the end of the church era.

The Eastern Church believes in sanctification after death, and perhaps the doctrine of purgatory really asserts nothing more; but can Rome ever say that in speaking of it as «temporal punishment,» which the pope may in whole or part remit, it was in error?

At that time Holiness leaders were attempting to interpret Pentecost as an experience of «entire sanctification» until the emergence of tongues - speaking Pentecostalism prompted them to purge features that might cause confusion.

This Church, constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure.

And, as we shall see in a later chapter, this is the basic meaning of Christian perfection and sanctification.

(NOTE: English versions translate the Greek hagios and its variances as; holy, holiness, sanctify, sanctification, hallowed, sanctuary, saints, sacred.

There are many other indicators in this context, as well as the chapter, that the writer of Hebrews is not talking about loss of the deliverance from hell to heaven, but loss of the blessings of sanctification and rewards, and the loss of «saving of the life» in vs 39.

We walk as human and even as believers who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit we are people with a continuing sin nature who are positionally sanctified and otherwise in process as to experiencial sanctification.

But as mainline denominations moved away from dependence on revivals and mass evangelism, they came to apply the optimism of perfection more to the arena of social transformation than to the sphere of personal sanctification.17 The result was that Methodist devotion to entire sanctification had to find expression outside the denomination in so - called Holiness groups.

This sanctification is achieved by union with the risen Christ in the faith - trust in God as Father which Christ showed as he offered himself on the cross.

It also teaches us «that matter is an essential part of us, and, as well as mind, is capable of sanctification»» (Chapter 7, ss.1).

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

It's obviously about both (as the Church has argued for two thousand years, incidentally, teaching that the three ends of marriage are procreation, marital friendship, and mutual sanctification).

For example, Wheeler grants that the «New Testament images and concepts of human transformation such as justification, reconciliation, redemption and sanctification» have a long, rich history of «evangelical» interpretation.

THIS is the sanctification process... and THIS is what He was doing for the believers in the church of Laodicia, who He clearly loved, «because the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastens everyone He accepts as his son.»

30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Isn't it necessary to integrate within process metaphysics the notion that the transforming power of God which comes as the result of salvation, regeneration, and sanctification is essential for humanity to deal effectively with the problems of suffering?

He believed that Paul's interpretation of grace as justification and sanctification were «closely related to Jesus» insistence that the righteous are not righteous before the divine judgment; and to his conception of the suffering Messiah as a revelation of the justice and mercy of God.

Thus Niebuhr looked upon his theology as a synthesis of justification and sanctification, but a more adequate synthesis than that of medieval Catholicism.

The apparent implication was that grace is of little aid to man's struggles Niebuhr did not so limit the Cross, and he eventually repudiated this confusing terminology as inadequate to «describe the real sanctification that takes place in conversion when the soul turns from itself to God.

Niebuhr said that modern culture too easily assumes that the level of sanctification in the life of the individual can be regarded as a simple possibility for social groups.

In this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctification.

Justification, and its resultant humility, is the step prior to sanctification in social life just as it is in individual life.

(Matt 12:25) The language of Christianity give full voice to the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah and the request for God's kingdom to come to restore the earth to a paradise, as Jesus said in the Model Prayer at Matthew 6:9, 10.