Sentences with phrase «between concupiscence»

Please don't feel sorry for me; the balance between concupiscence and holiness is carefully but eloquently held in the Western theological tradition, and as an inheritor of that tradition, I'm really rather joyful — Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!

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Specifically, the second of the four «elucidations» in the Annex addresses the relationship between grace and merit vis - à - vis Lutheran and Catholic understandings of «concupiscence»:

However powerful are the effects of Adam's fall in intensifying the inclination for concupiscence and sinning, the free will and the moral ability to make decisions between good and evil are not impaired.

Carnal concupiscence on the other hand, also present in marriage, tends in its self - centered forcefulness to disturb the loving relationship which should exist between husband and wife, and so can easily prevent marital sexuality from being completely at the service of love.

In doing so, he offers a way forward for the 2009 debate between David Schindler and Christopher West over the place of concupiscence in Pope John Paul IIs Theology of the Body [2], as described in our May 2010 issue.