Sentences with phrase «by biblical values»

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The mass media reflect values that are challenged by biblical values.

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Science and natural history as we know them simply did not exist, even though they owe a debt to the positive value given to space, time, matter and history by the biblical affirmation of creation.

Biblical values were not only taught to me by my mother; she lived them out every day of her life.

We are also talking about repentance among evangelicals, dealing with their rejection of genuinely biblical values upheld by their theological opponents.

We also need a repentance among evangelicals, dealing with their rejection of genuinely biblical values upheld by their theological opponents.

Even so, I found Hartshorne's work to be highly suggestive for unfolding the distinctively Christian vision of God, perhaps because his own value assumptions have been significantly conditioned by the impact of biblical faith on Western thinking about God.

Both the biblical and philosophical humanisms that emerged in the first and second centuries C.E. were fostered by and responded to two enormous social changes: new discrepancies of status (the same person could occupy more than one role in a pluralistic and mobile society), and the downward mobility of values.

The clearest example of how little biblical criticism has been value - free is provided by Morton Smith in a statement which is exceptional only for its candor, not its convictions.

Funniest (nominated by Brian LePort): Matt Mikalatos with «How Sesame Street is Undermining Biblical Values»

I think James Cone is right when he says: «Theologians of the Christian Church have not interpreted Christian ethics as an act for the liberation of the oppressed because their views of divine revelation were defined by philosophy and other cultural values rather than by the biblical theme of God as the liberator of the oppressed.»

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

To measure our values and stretch our consciences by the challenge of inclusive generativity is to be faithful to the biblical vision of the good life.

«It is totally against our Torah values and the Biblical values that this country was based on as articulated by the Founders,» said Rabbi Noson Leiter.

Four deleted scenes featuring an option of a joint commentary by Lussier and Soisson are likewise useless in context, but do further the idea that the filmmakers really believed that they were involved in something of value not only to vampire lore, but to biblical scholarship as well.

A problem could arise with biblical literalists, but one could address that by suggesting that some fictional stories have great value in teaching some lesson or illuminating some aspect of the «human (or other sentient being) condition», and also address actual historical events in the translation of the bible — or one could be more abbrassive and ask «do you believe deaf people can't be saved» (see one of Paul's letters, and the history of the Catholic Church)-- oh, you don't — so when you said you were a literalist, you were speaking figuratively?»