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The emphasis on his divinity, the Canadian scholar Larry Hurtado suggests, was brought about by praying and singing hymns to Jesus, by celebration of the Lord's Supper,
by confession of faith in Jesus and prophetic pronouncements of the risen Christ5 Even so there seems to have been some hesitation to speak of Jesus simply as «God» and those verses which appear to do so in English versions of the New Testament may have been mistranslated.
Not exact matches
And let's not forget Yahoo's
confession that hackers actually managed to pilfer data for all 3 billion
of its users in 2013, followed
by the international Appleby law firm announcing the loss
of 13.4 million legal documents known now as The Paradise Papers.
In his book «
Confessions,» written between A.D. 397 and A.D. 400, the classic scholar St. Augustine
of Hippo wrote: «I saw with my own eyes and I observed carefully a young child devoured
by jealousy.
Shkreli funded the Merrill Lynch settlement — and avoided the filing
of the
confessions of judgment —
by causing a $ 900,000 investment in Retrophin equity securities made
by MSMB Healthcare to be recharacterized as a «loan,» causing the «loan» to be repaid with interest, and using the «loan» proceeds together with other money taken from Retrophin to pay Merrill Lynch.
Guidance /
Confessions / Pre-Announcements: These terms refer to announcements made
by companies prior to the official release
of their financial results.
What I meant
by cognitive dissonance, though, is that whole thing about the «institutional» church, throwing a whole tradition, a whole world - wide
confession, millions
of individual believers into some sort
of barrel.
Whereas God is always available to being taken
by us as the object
of our metaphysical reflection» we can think about him whenever we choose to» the praise
of God that fills the
Confessions is first elicited in us
by God and is possible only as a response to his prior call to us.
He argues that monotheism
by its very nature admits the
confession of faith only in the one God
of Israel, so that the worship
of other gods is suppressed — along with their worshippers, if necessary.
Requirements
of personal
confession of sin, absolution
by a priest, fasting, restoration
of broken relationships, and the reading
of a long cycle
of prayers prior to participation in the Eucharist have discouraged frequent reception.
Hence, White insists upon the doctrine
of the «hypostatic union» as guarantor
of the Tradition's
confession of Christ's uniqueness — as well as upon the legitimacy, indeed the necessity,
of reason's probing
of the essential traits
of human nature, notwithstanding the deformation wrought
by the Fall.
Yet some
of the most substantive theology being written
by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle
of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning
of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines
of congregational life, and the positive role
of creeds and
confessions in the life
of the church.
He has cast into verse paraphrase St. Patrick's
Confessions and Letter Against the Soldiers
of Coroticus, along with the well «known Patrick's Breastplate, which was probably not written
by the saint.
Just as at last summer's Lambeth conference (the decennial meeting
of the world's Anglican bishops), there was a strongly expressed desire to grow closer together as a global communion, to become a genuine church marked
by common
confession and discernment, rather than a mere federation
of autonomous local bodies.
Cardinal Bernardin Gantin: Let us pray that our
confession and repentance will be inspired
by the Holy Spirit, that our sorrow will be conscious and deep, and that, humbly viewing the sins
of the past in an authentic «purification
of memory», we will be committed to the path
of true conversion.
Nonetheless, she is surely correct that conversion narratives (such as, most famously, Augustine's
Confessions) are
of little help in plotting these social changes and that Christianity was indeed influenced
by the values
of aristocratic culture.
I agree if he understands eternal truths in the sense that there are
confessions of truth eschatologically valid once for all time, never out
of fashion but always worthy to be remembered, confessed, and more deeply reflected upon
by the people
of God in order to discover always anew their eternal newness (as Pope Francis says in Evangelii Gaudium, 11).
Food shortages are caused
by by nations warring over whose god is the biggest, while those who have plenty
of food go to
confession once again to relieve their guilt.
Those existing before the Cross were presented with the Gospel
by Jesus and the criminal on the Cross that went with Jesus to paradise did not make any unique
confession of Christian faith only asked Jesus to remember him.
This debate took place in the aftermath
of the awful «Access Hollywood» tape, which revealed that Trump had made comments that could be described (charitably) as bragging that starstruck women had consented to being casually (and brutally) pawed
by him, or (less charitably) as a
confession of serial, unrepentant sexual assault.
In the thirteenth century, a Dominican friar
by the name
of Etienne de Bourbon was preaching in the village
of Sandrans, near Lyon, when he heard during
confession that many
of the local woman had....
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How we discharge the duties
of citizenship — whether
by accepting the creeping authoritarianism
of the last two decades, or
by raising our voices on behalf
of the laws and democratic norms
of our country — is a question
of moral conscience, suitable for
confession, and demanding repentance if we err.
Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us:
Confessions of a Compromised Faith
by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people
of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.
This process
of release (aphēsis forgiveness) begins
by agreeing with Him that we have sinned (
confession), and then making the changes necessary in our lives (repentance) to get back onto the path
of righteousness.
In fact, those who understand it will see the event in its present context immediately following the first prediction
of the passion and Peter's
confession of that which never comes
by observation
of flesh and blood but only
by revelation (16:17).
The call to
confession «invite people to get in touch with themselves and asks where they feel some empty spaces in their lives» (symbolized
by a display
of empty, clear plastic bags on the communion table), as if admitting emptiness were the same as confessing sin, and as if sin were merely the absence
of good.
Release a list
of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list
of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed
confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word
of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.
The necessity
of dealing with international institutions, with lawmakers who defend total national sovereignty, with an American public that is often fixated on its own context, and with churches preoccupied
by their own
confessions demands new steps toward a Christian public theology.
It must have been a somewhat embarrassing detail that the canonical writers «massaged»
by attributing to John a clear
confession of subordination («He must increase, but I must decrease»).
By the clergyman's evaluation of the experience, by catharsis, confession, remembrance, and release, the members are guided to new purpose
By the clergyman's evaluation
of the experience,
by catharsis, confession, remembrance, and release, the members are guided to new purpose
by catharsis,
confession, remembrance, and release, the members are guided to new purposes.
All three also managed to agree that the content
of this witness was largely set
by the terms
of the early Protestant
confessions, that the solas
of the Reformation constituted fundamental truths that must remain the ground
of future Protestant ecumenical engagement.
According to Tradition, Islam is based on five foundations: the
confession that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the Apostle
of Allah; prayer; almsgiving; fasting during Ramadan; and pilgrimage to Mecca
by those who are able to go.
She practiced what she preached in a separate thread, in which she used Twitter for a little public
confession and repentance (there's a novel use
of social media), asking God for forgiveness for «ways I've been complicit in & contributed to misogyny & sexism in the church
by my cowardly and inordinate deference to male leaders in order to survive.»
Most theological formulations take as their starting point statements that have been sanctioned
by the community in which the theologian's perspective has been nurtured, statements such as creeds,
confessions, scriptures, or the fully articulated systems
of past theologians.
(If, like me, you're a skeptic
by nature, check out «
Confessions of a Child Sponsorship Skeptic.»)
This is followed
by the final stage
of Chaucer's
confession to the Scrivener
of his «rape»
of Cecilia Chaumpaigne, which continues right up to the entombment
of John
of Gaunt.
In contrast, some other prayer forms — including those shaped
by the formula
of the acronym ACTS (adoration,
confession, thanksgiving, supplication), so popular in some traditions — may serve to balance elements
of prayer, but not necessarily in a way that helps us think about the flow or connections between the elements.
That may seem to be a strange turn and solution
of this question for some people, but yet only for someone, who has not yet experienced the cure
of the whole man
by confession and forgiveness.
I was thinking about this recently after our conversation on Monday about corporate
confession and lament and after this week's controversial conference on homosexuality hosted
by the Ethics & Religious Liberty Foundation
of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The answer is very simple and yet touches the ultimate depth
of our life:
by true private
confession and
by divine forgiveness
of all my sins.
He must want to be troublesome to the Church, because he represents that unrest and constant revolution
by which the permanent
confession of the Church always renews itself.
In its report, the commission acknowledged the significance placed upon the confidentiality
of religious
confessions, particularly
by the Catholic Church.
This selectivity leads to a crucial irony
of the genre: Written
confessions are not in fact direct representations
of the true person but are works
of artifice, including and omitting details
by design.
When I first read the
Confessions I was irritated
by what I took to be Augustine's scrupulosity (the redoubtable «pear tree incident,» for example) and outraged at his characterization
of sex as slavery.