Sentences with phrase «call to faith»

Hans Frei, a historian who reflected upon the history of biblical interpretation, was a theologian who called us to faith in Jesus Christ as presented in the texts, not behind the texts.

think about the situation of the world, the complete darkness over our personal fate and my present imprisonment, then I believe that our union can only be a sign of God's grace and kindness, which calls us to faith.

He told us enough to build on, and a great call to faith and love, to dedication, to service and pure living in the midst of persistent evil, runs through all his teaching.

Reviving the vision of the Greek Fathers it saw Jesus Christ as the recapitulation of the whole of history, but it did not offer much specific development of philosophy or theology to underpin a new apologetic able to inform a fruitful dialogue with modernity and a new call to faith.

And as we engage in these physical acts, God is moving spiritually as well: the words of Scripture call us to faith, baptism grants us the Holy Spirit, and communion offers the very real body and blood of Christ which bring the forgiveness they purchased for us at the cross.

The call to faith, to trust in Christ, and be fully a saint in the redemption he provides freely, is a true reality, and still I am sinner all the time, if not doing bad, then thinking bad... though I don't want to.

The resurrection is a call to faith.

Some sought the Christian kerygma, the call to faith, in individual passages.

Thus when we discover, parallel to the exclusivistic elements in the text, the tacit assumption of a broader principle by which these elements are in fact interpreted, it seems to me that we have the right to speak of a subtle lure toward the recognition of a metaphysical framework within which the call to faith is set.

Cosmos as Creation [Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1989] pp. 86 - 102: «The call to faith is not a call to place our trust in the ordered cosmos but rather in the faithfulness of the Beyond which has committed itself to determine a future that is redemptive.

When someone answers the call to their faith, all that came before is forgiven.

Whatever the proper rendering, the woman runs, not with the answer but only the question, to the city and gives the call to faith, «Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did.

they give a high priority to evangelism: they will have one church service in the week devoted to evangelistic outreach or will give prominence to a call to faith in special services (however, this is less true of some Exclusive groups which keep themselves separate from society).

This is a call to faith.

Following this relation of what God has done, and a call to faith, the epistles proceed to outline the ethical requirements which God's new works command.

He was a writer, first and foremost — a professor of literature who embarked on writing fiction after he was called to the faith.

J. Patrick Thomas is a four - time cancer survivor who wrote a book titled «A Call to Faith `.