Sentences with phrase «biblical faith at»

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.

Not exact matches

But the task of preserving even our moral floor is complicated by the determination of many that «we» should have free and full access to the remissive power of Christian forgiveness without any of the interdictory authority of biblical faith — even if this means that this power can only be «pried from God's clutches» by corrupting it, on at least some important occasions, into nihlistic nonjudgmentalism.

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

Then I'm off to Greenville College in Greenville, IL, where I'll be sharing about my faith and doubt in convocation on Thursday night at 9:30 p.m. and about my «Year of Biblical Womanhood» at Friday chapel at 9:30 a.m.

After that I'll be spending Sunday (October 6) with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Louisville, Kentucky, speaking at the 10 a.m. service and then sharing about my «year of biblical womanhood» at a 7 p.m. for their Dimensions of Faith series.

It was not Kierkegaard or Chesterton or Barth — Updike's much - admired knights of Christian faith — who called God «the eternal not - ourselves» or who spoke of biblical language as a human net «thrown out at a vast object of consciousness.»

Accordingly, although at some points it will be necessary to state wherein contemporary theologians differ in their interpretations of the Bible and of biblical faith, we shall for the most part keep to the main stream of Christian conviction.

The christmas myth as told by western culture, is a jumble of faith, popular culture, earlier festivals, and it is held at a time of year that is clearly not in line with biblical accounts of the birth of Jesus.

It is therefore at its best more inclusively Biblical rather than evangelical only; it is directed indeed to sinful men who need to be reconciled to God but also to men who need in all things to grow up into mature manhood in the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ and who are to interpret to others the meaning of Christian faith.

The first of these is made up of the evolutionary biologists themselves; the second consists of those who believe that evolution requires a materialist, and hence atheistic, interpretation (evolutionary materialism); the third group comprises the proponents of Intelligent Design Theory (IDT); and the fourth is the evolutionary theists, those who consider Darwinian evolution not only compatible with biblical faith, but an illuminating framework for arriving at a deeper understanding of God than is implied in the notion of a designer.

Although Jewett chaired the committee which formulated Fuller's revised Statement of Faith and recognized the need to move the discussion concerning Biblical authority from the issue of inerrancy to that of interpretation, the argument in his book is inadequate at this very point.

As the old models of biblical study break down, Gary - along with his former colleague at Harvard, Jon Levenson - has been at the forefront of efforts to rethink the relations between the historical - critical project and the living realities of contemporary Christian and Jewish faith.

The author looks at why we can not simply assert the truth of the Bible over our modern common sense and shows that Biblical literalism / inerrancy is an approach to the Scriptures that is unacceptable both to our reason and to our faith.

At the same time, it opens the way for theologians more decisively guided by the distinctive character of biblical faith and of Christian symbols and images to appropriate the achievements of process thinkers into their own understanding.

Of course not — but a great deal that passes historically and at the present time for Christian faith and theology is not biblical but an imaginative development or a logical implication out of the biblical sources.

the truth of biblical religion is pure and not the problem»... I envy yr faith... human artifacts, especially religious narratives are rarely as pure as you might suggest... at best, I think the scriptures shld be a means and not an end, so in that sense need not be pure... they are merely signposts along the way... ultimately, we are the judges of what is pure or impure, higher or lower, right or wrong

New texts on systematic theologies, along with new dictionaries, encyclopedias and biblical commentaries, are significant signs of efforts at retrieving the faith and «getting it all together.»

With all the Biblical basis what we arrive at is a conclusion that the present day caters to the martyrdom is not for the cause of our contention of faith, but for our action in fulfilling God's Commandment given by our Lord Jesus Christ.

Danger or not, there is no dialogue at all without the possibility of being converted to biblical faith.

(We are speaking here of the formal theology of revelation and not of the concrete life of faith in which, at least to some degree, the theme of promise remained alive, though not always in the biblical sense.)

I've given you two examples AFTER your quotes wherein Christians — against popular notion at the time — affected societal change due to their biblical, faith - based convictions.

I swear - there are common sense Christians who live by faith and follow ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS and then there are the pick - and - choose, no - understanding, ignorant Christians who can quote a couple of Bible verses (turn the other cheek, thou shalt not kill and judge not being the most popular amongst your ilk) who LITERALLY have NO READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS AT ALL and for whom CLEARLY The Lord has not chosen to reveal the most basic of Biblical tenets.

Your faith is illogical, not to mention a Biblical manifestation of your willful sin and hatred of God (Romans 1:18 ff)... If you can at least believe in that Biblical proposition (that we are ALL born hating God and wanting to be god) there may be hope for you yet.

But Tillich's acknowledgment of the fundamental difference between what he calls «God» and his understanding of the biblical God implicitly, at least, gives support to my assertion that this use of philosophy is in severe tension with biblical faith.

Sin, in biblical thought at its highest, is lack of faith, and faith is the affirmation of love.

Most of these books come to me from publishers and imprints with a faith - based focus, so at the end of each week I find myself sorting through a stack of freshly printed titles on topics ranging from biblical interpretation, to racial justice, to faith and doubt, to «Christian sex,» in the form of everything from spiritual memoirs, to specialty Bibles, to coloring books.

And at this climax, Lamentations embraces words that have continued to bring incalculable solace to persons in all branches of biblical faith in all time: Yahweh will not cast off for ever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love (hesed); for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

Thus our congregations are often at the mercy of the latest kooky cult (witness Shirley MacLaine and New Age religion), and there is no common biblical story that binds them together in their faith.

I have arrived at my position both on biblical and on theological grounds, and because of the movement from the established state church to communities of faith, a movement that is now in full swing.

I'd been convinced that young earth creationism (absent of any evolution at all) was a fundamental tenant of the Christian faith and the only truly biblical position... so rather than simply questioning my approach to science, I questioned my entire faith in God.

Nevertheless, the substance of biblical faith allows us to say, at the very least, the following: without a trust in the promise of a meaningful and unimaginably fulfilling future, the move into history would be intolerable.

We provide help and resources for strengthening believers in their faith and sharing the gospel; building resilient marriages that reflect God's design; equipping parents to raise their children with a thriving faith; advocating for the preborn, orphaned and life at every stage; and engaging the culture through a biblical worldview.

Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis is one such timeless story, similar to the biblical tale of Abraham and Issac in its exploration of faith and sacrifice.

Faith - based distributor Pure Flix is launching Biblical story «Samson» at about 1,200 sites with forecasts in the $ 3 million range.

Using symbolism exploring Biblical text, diagrams from scientific hypothesis, and visual psychedelia produced by an influx of cultural influence seemingly aimed at searching for the «unknown» the work serves as a catalyst to further reflect upon topics of belief and wonder as intellectual and spiritual intersections between fact and faith.