Sentences with phrase «authentic faith in»

Our counselors are professionally trained, work from a deep and authentic faith in Jesus Christ, and genuinely love people and the work they do.

The answer is authentic faith in Christ.

Yet at the same time that these institutions asserted their readiness to remove themselves from church oversight and still remain a community of faith, they proved unwilling to undertake any of the essential tasks that a community of faith must perform in order to thrive or survive: the defining of authentic faith in seasons of dispute; the maintenance of moral discipline on standards grounded in faith; the invitation to communion and its withdrawal; concern for the personal welfare of its members beyond professional performance.

You've given up on the American Dream, and you're ready to embrace authentic faith in Jesus.

Such cultivation easily becomes an end in itself, an absolutization of psychic states at the expense of social action and at the expense of the risk and insecurity that accompany authentic faith in God.

Not exact matches

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

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

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.

Nevertheless, the crucial point is that Kierkegaard could identify authentic human existence with existence in faith.

18th April The Corriere della Sera assistant editor Magdi Allam, whose controversial Easter Vigil baptism by the Pope we reported upon in the May edition of this column, has stated that «the person who influenced me more than any other in determining my conversion to Catholicism was certainly the Pope, Benedict XVI, in indicating that the indissoluble union of faith and reason is fundamental to authentic religion.»

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».

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

The problem under consideration has been clarified considerably by Hendrikus Boers, who identifies several points in the New Testament at which christological exclusivism is clearly transcended: (1) the authentic teachings of Jesus, which «did not bring the love and forgiveness of God, but affirmed its presence... by articulating it» (6:23); (2) Paul's treatment of the «faith of Abraham» in Rom.

The mentality that Rauschenbusch deployed to seduce his readers — the turn away from troubling debates about doctrine, the shift from personal salvation to social reform, and the reassurance that progressive disdain for traditional religion was in fact a sign of a more authentic and scientific faith — provided a way to remain Christian while setting aside whatever seems incompatible with modern life.

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).

For he was in fact a first - rank thinker whose witness to the Christian faith endures, and in addition an authentic saint whose sanctity was sufficiently human to forbid sentimentalizing him.

The self's idea of faith is so laced with illusion that its quest must be displaced by the Spirit's drawings in order for authentic faith to emerge and mature.

In authentic religious faith the direction of concern is shifted from the striving, seeking self to the valued other.

In an authentic Hadith, Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) said: «Man is influenced by the faith of his friends.

Only in this way can the current impasse in regard to Biblical authority be overcome and the evangelical church prove itself to be a continuing authentic witness to the Christian faith in the days ahead.

Only in this way will the evangelical church prove itself to be a continuing authentic witness to the Christian faith in the days ahead.

The Church's doctrinal boundaries began to take on a more definite shape when, in response to the need to determine what falls within and what without the pale of authentic faith, it authorized a canon of Holy Books which it holds to be inspired by the Spirit of Jesus and his God.

She made a conscious decision to accept the religious faith of her family in order to gain an authentic spiritual life.

To the extent that they neglect their own training in the faith, or teach erroneous doctrine, or deficient in their religious, moral or social life, the must be said to conceal rather than reveal the authentic face of God and religion.»

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.

In holy writ, the conjunctions between authentic faith and the worlds of commerce are strangely varied: the Hebrew Scriptures contain much in the Pentateuch on the protection and use of property, but a different realm of existence is central to the prophets: «Ho, every one who thirsts, come..In holy writ, the conjunctions between authentic faith and the worlds of commerce are strangely varied: the Hebrew Scriptures contain much in the Pentateuch on the protection and use of property, but a different realm of existence is central to the prophets: «Ho, every one who thirsts, come..in the Pentateuch on the protection and use of property, but a different realm of existence is central to the prophets: «Ho, every one who thirsts, come....

If Evangelicals are looking for more authentic personal testimonies regarding the faith of political candidates, what part of Romney's stated belief in Joseph Smith's revelation in the forests of Pennsylvania would sway the vote of an Evangelical who adheres to a uniquely inspired Bible?

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.

Although we can not, today, reconstruct a single authentic healing or exorcism narrative from the tradition we have, we are none the less entitled to claim that the emphasis upon the faith of the patient, or his friends, in that tradition is authentic.

In the affirmation of their faith, they are no longer just defenders of authentic faith but defenders of life.

I was told to do it in faith that it was authentic.

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.

But it can change forward in the direction of the fullness of its meaning and unity with the one faith in its totality and its authentic grounds.»

Confident in the possibility of «human reason», in full fidelity to the immutable deposit of faith, -LSB-...] in order to promote -LSB-...] with all the energies and resources available, an authentic Christian humanism.

The priest beseeched the Lord Jesus that in granting the reconciliatory fruits of unity and peace he look on the faith of the entire Church.Thus the prayer gave rise to an authentic voice of the faithful in relation to the sinful cleric within the Church.

Yes, it may be less «safe», but in an age of fake news and even fake spirituality, people are looking for authentic conversations on faith to help them make their own mind up.

It draws us out of our comfort zone, forces us to rethink our own faith, and invites us to an authentic faith that consistently examines itself in search of evidence of Christ in the things we consider beyond ourselves.

Hence it is not only possible but necessary that we affirm «that authentic existence can be realized apart from faith in Jesus Christ or in the Christian proclamation» (CWM 144).

Rightly understood, faith and justice are in principle different because, while faith is a matter of human existence, of authentic self - understanding in trust and loyalty in response to God's love, justice is a matter of human action, whether right action toward all others (its generally moral sense), or right structures of social and cultural order (its specifically political sense).

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.»

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 - understanding.

Those were things that he thought were essential or, in his eyes, if you did not have then your faith was not authentic.

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.

This will mean making clear the authentic interpretation of the teaching of the faith, challenging false interpretations, and may mean re-examination of traditional teaching in the current socio - historical context.

«Make me to know what is acceptable in Thy sight, and therein to delight, open the eyes of my understanding, and help me thoroughly to examine myself concerning my knowledge, faith, and repentance, increase my faith, and direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ the Way, the Truth, and the Life,...» [from a 24 page authentic handwritten manuscript book dated April 21 - 23, 1752]

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.

On our way, always on our way in the earth, we will bring Elisha with us to the work of the Word of God and the word of earth; if we can not do more — it is enough — we will create islands of authentic Christian life, and we will be content in faith to leave the future radiation to the Holy Spirit