Sentences with phrase «biblical faith»

There are, however, implications of biblical faith which may help to inform possible responses to the ethical issues raised by the debate.

As a matter of deliberate design, biblical faith doesn't stay home or return to roots; it ventures forth.

In the evangelical world, for example, it seemed important several decades ago to insist that there is indeed a positive relationship between biblical faith and active involvement in political life.

Taking Berman seriously about the egalitarian structure of Israelite religion allows us to account for the survival of biblical faith in the Diaspora, when the Jews had no political offices at their disposal.

In its immensities of time and space, as well as in its love of endless diversity, it sacramentalizes the generosity, extravagance, and unpredictability of the creator known by biblical faith as the God of promise.

More importantly, it is the primary conveyor of a consumer culture whose values system is radically dissonant from biblical faith.

On the other hand, such activities require the perspective of Biblical faith which seeks the Kingdom of God on earth without falling into the illusion that we are going to bring this Kingdom into being by our own actions or that we can expect to participate in it within our own time.

In biblical faith God is so different from us, and the sacred so remote from our profane feet, that when we violate perfection, God — in this picture drawn from human emotions — is wrathful.

Following Kierkegaard's existential thesis that truth is «subjectivity,» Barth translated the eschatological symbols of biblical faith into symbols reflecting a crisis in human Existenz.

If Catholics in the United States are going to be healers of our wounded culture, we're going to have to learn to see the world through lenses ground by biblical faith.

«The bulk of the Regensburg address was directed to Christian intellectuals who, in the name of «de-Hellenizing» Christianity, pit biblical faith against the great synthesis of faith and reason achieved over the centuries of the Christian intellectual tradition.

But the bulk of the Regensburg address was directed to Christian intellectuals who, in the name of «de-Hellenizing» Christianity, pit biblical faith against the great synthesis of faith and reason achieved over the centuries of the Christian intellectual tradition.

It may be increasingly necessary, however, to allow the concrete situation, rather than the biblical revelation, to propose the «doctrinal» loci or the organizing forms in terms of which biblical faith needs to speak, because the secularism of our time has so transformed the way people think that Christian faith is now in a cross-cultural situation.

As I understand it, Alan Guth's work, and that of others exploring the first microseconds of what people of biblical faith know as Creation, builds on Lemaître's insights.

As much as we might wish it weren't so, biblical faith ultimately eschews such conditionality.

Some concluded that I had abandoned biblical faith.

But to suggest that biblical faith fosters a religion of sickness, weakness, mediocrity, cowardice and slavery, or that it debases life and individual worth, is like saying that the clown is a corrupter of morals, the jester an anarchist, and the fool a destroyer of reason!

Religion, including biblical faith, has produced awesomely humble characters.

Was that the «fall» of a truly biblical faith, or the providential consolidation of a perspective that preserved Christianity from being merely another cult?

The Reformation was a direction back towards the original Biblical faith, not that it figured everything out.

In general, these writers did implicitly concede Roszak's point that biblical faith rejects any mystical or animist interaction with nature.

Ladaria recognizes that «insofar as Gnosticism and Pelagianism represent perennial dangers for misunderstanding Biblical faith, it is possible to find similarities between the ancient heresies and the modern tendencies.»

It is worth asking whether Mr. Davies stops short of revealed truth or is in fact pondering aspects of the mystery for which biblical faith provides a name.

At a time when the church had grown too cozy with the ruling authorities, when faith had become a means to power and influence, some Christians who sought to live out an authentically biblical faith headed for desolate places.

In fact, as we shall see in Chapter 11, the perspective of biblical faith actually nourishes and supports the process of pure scientific inquiry.

Since biblical faith involves the further belief that these purposings include purposes for men — or, put existentially, for me — three things follow immediately.

Biblical faith insists that the sheer goodness of life is, ironically, most often discovered in the extremities of life.

But slowly in the 1950s, and then more vigorously in the next several decades, younger evangelicals insisted that biblical faith demands a strong commitment to both evangelism and social action, thus returning to the balanced position of much of 19th century evangelicalism.

I've come to realize you can't have biblical faith at all unless you are either being persecuted, suffering or helping those who are.

Authentic heirs of the biblical tradition could not have the ancient biblical faith today except as nostalgia, because times have changed.

When biblical faith is apprehended in its original form, it loses its radical uniqueness, and no longer exists at such a distance from the higher forms of Oriental religion.

Feminists who espouse liberation theology believe that within biblical faith there is a critical tradition which can be the basis for the liberation of women, as well as of other oppressed people.