Sentences with phrase «atonement wrought»

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

We're completely confident that we understand what it means to be «saved,» how atonement works, and what happens to those who chose not believe or follow Jesus.

The atonement works in history through the living memory of the community.

There are no sequences with the scope of his Atonement work, but this story shouldn't have a sequence like that.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa, April 24 - Wells Fargo & Co executives planned to convey a message of atonement to shareholders at the bank's annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday as it works to convince investors and regulators a sweeping sales scandal is a thing of the past.

Director Joe Wright (Atonement) is hard at work on a new origin story - ish movie for Captain James Hook, one that aims to do for the good Captain what Wicked did for Oz's witch.

Mormons believe in a partial atonement, and work off the rest through their own efforts.

But since Calvinists believe in limited atonement, that's not gonna work, so the NIV has, «For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.»

If we think of Jesus» work apart from traditional atonement theory, what happens to the doctrine of Jesus» person?»

28And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

Some Christians might believe this, but it is not explicitly taught in Scripture, and there are many other views on how the «atonement» worked and what the death of Jesus accomplished.

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.

All these metaphors have been worked into theories of the atonement in Christian history; but it is remarkable that no single doctrine of atonement has ever become the accepted theory to the exclusion of the others.

You must accept both Jesus» sacrifice as an atonement AND Jesus» sacrifice and resurrection as a work releasing your from sin and dead.

Jeremy — I agree with what you're saying about the flawed nature of atonement theology, but could you explain how you see the mechanism at work with how Jesus» death cleansed our sins or defeated death and Satan if not for a price being paid?

Can even God tolerate a people and a preacher who have presumably taken his work in the sacrificial and costly atonement of Jesus Christ, his Son and our Lord, if their leading image of ministry and servanthood is devoid of genuflection?

In Christianity, the work of building the bridge («I am the way» «reconciliation» «atonement») is already complete.

When we say that these patterns of experience have been used in doctirines of atonement, we do not mean that the theologians have tried, to reduce the meaning of God's saving work to forms of human experience.

Both orthodox and liberal Protestants subscribed to theories of the atonement reflecting their respective visions of Christ's work.

Atonement is that working of love in which the meaning of being human is made plain.

God's creative action in history works in human language to make it the vehicle of truth instead of lies, and of reconciliation instead of hurt and destructive bitterness.14 In Jesus» work of atonement he spoke the words of forgiveness and reconciliation and he spoke them as indicatives and imperatives of the spirit.

Our clue is that if the atonement means God doing what needs to be done to reconcile the world to himself, then the human experiences which may reflect this work of God must be those of personal reconciliation.

But in interpreting the «how» of redemption, the question has too rarely been asked, «What is the meaning of atonement as love doing its distinctive work in dealing with guilt and self - destruction?»

As C. S. Lewis once said, «The important thing about the atonement is not HOW it works, but THAT it works.»

Here's where, when you're finally done killing all gay folks, you should maybe take a week off then get right to killing anyone who works on the Sabbath, or day of atonement.

The three offices may be summed up as revelation, atonement, and kingship, and these in turn may be understood as three mutually related aspects of one work, in which each includes the others.

But Christianity, which is the first discoverer of the paradoxes, is in this case also as paradoxical as possible; it works directly against itself when it establishes sin so securely as a position that it seems a perfect impossibility to do away with it again — and then it is precisely Christianity which, by the atonement, would do away with it so completely that it is as though drowned in the sea.

1) that eternal life given on the basis of faith alone, in Christ alone, apart from works; 2) that eternal security is part of the gift of eternal life; 3) that assurance of salvation is through faith in Christ's promise of eternal life, and not by looking at one's own works 4) Christians can apostatize in this life, and are still eternally secure 5) eternal rewards are earned by faithful works, and lost by unfaithfulness 6) unlimited atonement 7) free - will to respond to God's drawing or not

Unless one bleaches the debate of its living doctrinal substance — and the Rav explicitly states that requiring men of faith to bracket their deepest experiences constitutes unacceptable censorship — it inevitably raises questions about atonement, justification, faith and works, and so on.

The following chapters explain how this understanding of Christ sheds light on the intra-relations of the Trinity, political theology, atonement and sacrifice, and the working of the Spirit in the world.

i.e. what at the profoundest level it effected — is portrayed in objective imagery: The pre-existent Son of God is delivered up to the death of the cross, and thereby atonement is wrought for the guilt of mankind, the righteousness of God satisfied and the curse of sin removed.

The saving work of Christ is so rich and multifaceted a work that all the great «theories» of the atonement contain vital insights into what Christ's death accomplished: The ransom theory, so widely held in the patristic period, and the satisfaction theory most commonly associated with Anselm both contain indispensable motifs.

I have to reckon with the degree to which my theological thought may be vitiated by a readiness to conceive or to represent the work of atonement in ways that depreciate the extent to which it necessarily includes within it personal response on the part of those who are (to use traditional language) recipients of its benefits.

In reviewing different metaphors and images of the atonement in the New Testament and the works of Brunner, Aulen, Luther and others, the author posits that the best approach is through an understanding of God's reconciling love as seen in Christ and as experienced in disclosure, suffering, communication and community.

Christian affirmation about the work of Christ in transforming men is interpreted in the doctrines of atonement.

As we speak of the representative nature of the church and the expansiveness of atonement, we say explicitly with P. T. Forsyth: «Any theology of atonement must be adjusted to the indubitable fact that Christ's forgiveness may and does reach personal cases apart from conscious reliance on His atoning work, or grasp of its theology» (CC 81).

Director Joe Wright (Atonement) is hard at work on a new origin story - ish movie for Captain James Hook, one that aims to do for the good Captain what Wicked did...

A staunch Puritan, Baxter could not suppose that the salvation of pagans nullifies the need for atonement; it must mean, rather, that the efficacy of Christ's saving work extends to some, at least, who have never heard of him.

In relation to God's incarnational goodness and incarnational judgment, we can interact with God in an endless variety of way's: repentance, good works, faith, forgiveness, anger, atonement, and many more.

Even where these virtues of the One who alone is the only perfect atonement are wistfully alluded to in Kiefer's work, his constantly interjected reminder that all things are completely subject to the same corruption that Hitler brought upon German culture so overwhelms his visual field that nothing remains except scorched - earth, dead gods and the shattered ruins of the Third Reich.

Human beings could not earn justification, but could only be put right with God by faith in Christ's work of atonement.3

According to them, He made atonement by sweating blood in the Garden of Gesthemane, and it will only help pay for our sins after it's been determined that we've done all we possibly could have to save ourselves through our good works.

Other film work includes Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of WARHORSE and Peter Guillam alongside Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Colin Firth in Tomas Alfredson's TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, STARTER FOR 10, AMAZING GRACE, STUART: A LIFE BACKWARD, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL and the role of Paul Marshall in Joe Wright's Oscar nominated ATONEMENT.

It is also a product of one my favorite director and composer teams (Joe Wright and Dario Marianelli — Pride and Prejudice, Atonement), with work on par with their previous projects.

Ian McEwan has said that he decided to adapt his 2007 novel On Chesil Beach for the screen himself at least partly because he did not want anyone else to do so (with earlier works, including Atonement, he was glad not to have taken on the adaptation).

A Golden Globe nominee in previous years for her work in «Brooklyn» and «Atonement,» Saoirse Ronan was recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. on Monday morning for her portrayal of the title character in «Lady Bird.»

While director Joe Wright previously worked on the costume epics «Pride and Prejudice» and «Atonement» with star Keira Knightley with fantastic results, «Anna Karenina» is a strange entry in his filmography.

Much like their previous collaboration, 1988's «Dangerous Liaisons» (and other Hampton works such as «Atonement» and «Total Eclipse»), this is a story of sexual awakening gone awry — which is not to say that the novel lacks for romance.

However, in the middle of this three ring circus happens to be one of my least favourite actresses, Keira Knightely, however on occasion (Atonement and Pride & Prejudice) she's shown that she can let the story work around her.

It is also a product of one my favorite director and composer teams (Joe Wright and Dario Marianelli - Pride and Prejudice, Atonement), with work on par with their previous projects.