Sentences with phrase «challenged the way christians»

But, in many circles, the refugee crisis and the displacement of millions of people from predominantly Muslim countries has challenged the way Christians put the Bible's call into practice.

Not exact matches

What I find usually what Christians consider hate is usually something that just opposes his / her's belief or challenge their way of thinking.

The Catholic challenge seems clear: if the way forward depends on intentional communities of Christian formation rather like Benedictine monasteries, then what shall we hope for from the parishes located, as it were, outside the monastery walls?

The formulation of the other Christian challenges my formulation of Christian faith in a way that the Buddhist formulation does not.

But in the midst of those challenges, they have something to teach Christians and the world at large: a way of being Christian that requires us to rethink some of the disconnects between our love of God and our love of justice, or our ability to talk about personal spirituality without also talking about social transformation.

They need, however, to be challenged because the way in which Christians have heard the story of Jesus» passion has inflamed prejudice and hatred of Jews and has been a cause of persecution in every century — most of all in the horrors of the Holocaust.

And there are increasing numbers of Christian businesspeople who are taking this challenge seriously and seeking not only to create jobs but to do so in ways that genuinely liberate other people's talents, without long - term ties.

The author refers to doctrine to challenge Christians to act in a way he thinks is more moral.

In this way, Hays challenges the old critical view (which has also been challenged in recent years by Larry Hurtado, Richard Bauckham, and others) that high Christologies are late developments, entering Christian history as secondary, Hellenistic theological innovations.

The Christian is being challenged to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the word «God», he is speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply repeating an archaic form of words which belonged to the old world, and which is no more relevant to the new world than goblins and fairies.

So the challenge for us is to conceptualize our Christian faith in a way that is not dependent on the common sense of a different time, in a way that is understandable to us today.

Dr. King comments on the thoughts of Lorenzo Dow McCabe who attempted to challenge the metaphysical foundations of traditional Christian theology: If theological reconstruction is to meet the needs of philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and religious experience, thought McCabe, then theology must reassess its traditional theistic assumptions in such a way that it can speak of a God who is capable of relating fully to the contingencies of personal life and historical change.

I want to consider three ways in which the church confers a Christian identity and focus on the challenges presented in each of these areas: the church as a community of memory, the church as denomination, and the church as a supportive community.

But Francis was in fact — as Buddhists see clearly — a Christian of such excess and challenge to ordinary, even good, Christian ways of understanding all of God's creation as beloved that we still can not see him clearly.

At a deeper level, as people are conditioned to a consumer outlook, the church finds itself under challenge to present the Christian faith in a way that meshes with people's desire for answers, and in a more pernicious way for a faith «product», that will meet their needs with a minimum of effort and disruption.

It is good to challenge the status quo when it does not line up with scripture (like confronting the desire for violence and vengeance especially among «conservative» Christians), but we should not in our zeal push the pendulum too far the other way and undermine our view of God's sovereignty, power, and holiness.

He studies his Bible and admits to an affinity for the «Christian sentiment,» but insists: «I accept the Gospel of Jesus as a challenge to go my own way.»

I would challenge readers to seek His calling (His word, prayer, Christian counsel, etc) in how He would have them love their «neighbors», in the ways most conducive to their strengths.

Thus, rightly to believe in the central Christian «miracle» of Christ's resurrection is in no way to challenge the method of science or to suspend the warrants of responsible historical inquiry.

Eliot's proposal is that the way to meet this challenge is to form a «new Christian culture.»

In an insightful yet challenging way, Timothy Beal writes about how we got our Bible and how it is used today by most Christians.

Those who hear the proclamation may have full confidence in the God of which it speaks: If... how much more must... Luke, concerned with the ongoing life of the Church and experience of the Christian «way», understands the reference to be to confidence in prayer; but it seems more probable that the original reference was to the totality of the proclamation as it challenged the hearer.

One of the challenges today is to retain intact the function of general supervision or oversight, in the name and for the sake of the totality of functions of the church, and yet to have some nonhierarchical way of using persons with the needed special knowledge in the work of the church — all over and above the voluntary service of every Christian.

They want to challenge the way government — which is supposed to represent all of the citizenry — seems to, in some cases, afford Christians certain platforms that aren't given to other religions.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

Three emergent theological movements — black theology, feminist theology, and liberation theology from the Third World — challenge traditional ways of doing theology on the grounds that Christian consciousness as it has been» given shape in the modern world is burdened with Western, liberal, male and white perceptions of reality.

Although it challenges the dominant inherited theology, it does so in ways that release the most convincing features of the Christian faith from immersion in incredible and damaging ideas.

The challenge is; the way in which over the years, even centuries, the clergy system (I agree with you) has made the Christian walk into a formula.

As white Christians have tried to move beyond the prejudice of their grandparents and second and third generation black British Christians feel less need for the safety of a culturally specific home church, the challenge is to find ways of reintroducing both sides to each other.

Nevertheless, it seems to me as a Protestant outsider that, when one sets Newman in the context of his brothers, the conservative interpretation is surely strengthened: John, Charles, and Frank were all responding to the same challenges to authority; in juxtaposing them, it is clear that it was the paths of the other two brothers which represented that of private conscience and there seems no reasonable way to interpret Newman's move to Rome as anything other than a decisive rejection of such a move in all of its forms, even the moderately Christian.

Professors and classmates who challenge them to think in new ways or who critique their preformed notions of truth are often dismissed as less than Christian.

In others, the Christian faith may pose a radical challenge to the way in which the mass media see the world and people in the world.

I have come to the sad conclusion that many Christians of my generation [I am 70 years old] are not only not up to the challenge; but they are reluctant to pass the mantle of power / leadership to the next generation and take the role of advisors / encouragers to them as they trial and error [the only way we can learn a new thing] their way to discovering and institutionalizing the New Reformation Rose.

The challenge before us is to find our way toward a more particularized, more Christian cosmopolitanism.

Ham was a high school science teacher who found his way to creationism when his students, knowing he was a Christian, challenged him to reconcile the science in their textbooks with the account of creation given in Genesis.

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