Sentences with phrase «center of one's faith»

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In writing about the expansion of Christianity, you have drawn attention to the way Christianity has over the centuries established new centers of the faith in different cultures and in different parts of the globe.
And if you consider other places that at different times have been centers of Christianity — such as North Africa, Egypt, Serbia, Asia Minor, Great Britain — it's evident that these are no longer centers of the faith.
Seminarians also run the risk of dulling the warm, real center of their faith as they study Greek, Hebrew, sociology, psychology, hermeneutics and theodicy.
Though Christian atheism may seem to most theologians an abandonment of the vital center of the faith, the fact remains that belief in the «mighty acts of God» is increasingly difficult to relate to modern experience.
There is something at the very center of our faith which reminds us that Good Friday may reign for a day, but ultimately it must give way to the triumphant beat of the Easter drums.
The hymnal committee had touched the power center of faith: the religious imagination, the hunger for beauty arid poetry, the mythological world that sustains and energizes the believing community.
The ones who stayed behind are the ancestors of Iraqi Jews, whose numbers are today much reduced but who for centuries constituted a venerable center of the faith.
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Such a way of doing theology must, of course, avoid the suggestion that sacred sorrow is at the center of faith, that self - flagellation by whatever sophisticated technique is to be encouraged.
Universities that take religious faith seriously and that value their international relationship with the center of their faith contribute to diversity in a fruitful way.
For the center of that faith is not something but Someone at whom we may look.
On the one hand, I've often encountered a near idolization of Scripture, in which the Bible is hailed as the foundation and center of faith, when it seems to me that the foundation and center of our faith is Jesus Christ.
For me Jesus is at the center of my faith, but I haven't wanted to commit myself to any doctrine about him.
it's the center of the faith.
The destiny of the Hebrews continues onward through the people of the Southern Kingdom, who after their exile in Babylon returned in considerable numbers, though not as a whole, to resettle Jerusalem and its environs and rebuild the Temple as the center of their faith and fortunes.
As today's influential LDS leaders idealize the monogamous nuclear family and make it the center of the faith, plurality's extended households are a necessary reminder of the enormous extent to which Mormonism deviated from the U.S. norm in the not - too - distant past.
What happened in each case was decay in the heartland that appeared to be at the center of the faith.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the center of faith and forgiveness; that only God to be worshiped and that only God can forgive sins (simply because it is His laws that being transgressed and that God had have satisfied the sin's demand that is blood).
One thing that makes the Sayings Gospel so fascinating, not only for laypersons but even for theologians, is to see the first gingerly steps from Jesus» own, rather selfless message, oriented to God's reign, which he activated while otherwise being unaware of himself, to our focus on him as the center of our faith!
Liberal Christians typically put God at the center of their faith, not human beings.
The cross planted at the center of this faith is the high - water mark of suffering.
Remembering is the root of trust, hoping is the center of faith.
He is the center of faith and loyalty not only in the Jesus movement, but for many others who reject or by - pass the church yet find in his teachings of love and compassion the key to a better world.
To be sure, these nominal Christians may find excesses in the media which are too gross even for thoroughly acculturated Christians to ignore — too much sex and violence in films, too many commercials on television, too much acid rain, too many armaments — but these are seen as problems which can be adjusted, reduced, and reworked, rather than as expressions of a fundamental clash with the center of their faith.
The reality of divine revelation is a truth closer to the center of the faith than is the truth that religious freedom is a right of persons that should be recognized in law; but both are true.
On the other hand, if we were able to claim (in a way consistent with our common sense) that Jesus of Nazareth provides the answer to our deepest question and provides the center of our faith, then this would be to claim for him the most that could possibly be claimed for anyone.
The cross is central to almost every church sanctuary in America, and we have adopted it as the center of our faith.
Rather than discounting the authority and inspiration of Scripture, Smith provides better, more constructive and honest ways of reading it that put Christ at the center of our faith as the Word made flesh.
But these are seen as problems to adjust, reduce and rework, not expressions of a fundamental dislocation from the center of their faith.
The Bible is all true, but it's not the center of faith for Christians.
The recently established Dalit Solidarity Programme has brought together Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and Sikh people.36 Their centers of faith are not obliterated.
At the center of their faith was a God always seeking compensation, a God seemingly incapable of satisfaction.
And if the center of our faith is not simply Jesus but Jesus as the Christ — not simply a man trapped within the limitations of his own history, but the creative Word that God speaks throughout his creation — then Christians must be attentive to what God may have to say to them through the general culture and history, regardless of how apparently lacking those may be in credentials for such communication.
What would Christianity need to be like to avoid all the criticisms that are made about the shocking execution that is at the center of faith?
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