Sentences with phrase «biblical image of the church»

And at yet another point, we are told that, although evangelicals can not accept all of what process theists mean when they say that the world is «God's body», there is a «striking parallel» between the process concept of «God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world» and «the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ»» (111).

But, continuing with the thought of God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world, do we not find a striking parallel with the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ» (I Cor.

Not exact matches

To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.

The problem I've seen in the church, is this politically correct washing of Christ's image to present, not a biblical picture, but an image that is politically correct, with anything offensive and unpopular removed.

In contrast to the Paulsons» church signs, Fentress» images — on buses, on the signs of interstate - exit truck stops, on telephone poles, on flat rocks, on almost anything — are overwhelmingly biblical, as his title suggests.

To use biblical narrative as a descriptive tool by which to picture the local church is to reduce its meaning to that of a companion image, a metaphor that reflects and enriches careful self - understanding.