Sentences with phrase «christian convictions»

In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, a media outlet that also seems to double as a propaganda arm of the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt said his Christian convictions led him to conclude that America should use gas and coal freely because natural resources exist purely for man's benefit.

«Those who hold Christian convictions must apply them within the realm of public education,» said Forrest L. Turban, executive director of Christian Educators Association International, whose Aug. 7 annual meeting drew some 300 teachers, principals, school - board members, and parents.

An Akure princess herself (she is nee Adesida), I expected her to say a resounding no, based on Christian convictions.

Granted, such poets as T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden based some of their most important works (one thinks particularly of «The Four Quartets» in Eliot's case, and of «Horae Canonicae» in Auden's) on Christian convictions.

A Christian natural theology must not be a hybrid of philosophy and Christian convictions.

Where my philosophical work is poor it is to be judged simply as poor philosophy and not justified by my Christian convictions.

Christian convictions certainly play into liberal political and economic arrangements, but other non-Christian philosophies also play a big part.

Are they Christian convictions?

They located Jesus» teaching of the Kingdom of God in this tradition, and gradually they developed their Christian convictions into a theology.

Though I was critical of James's and Niebuhr's understanding of Christianity — an account that Barth saw could not avoid turning Christian convictions into anthropology — I hoped it would be obvious that I regard James's Will to Believe to be crucial for helping us understand how Christian theology can make claims about the way things are.

I wonder, in the present situation, whether our encounters may not come off more as a witness to the leniency of Caesar than to the courage of our Christian convictions.

Even RED CROSS started out with Christian convictions.

But the trend was towards the bankruptcy of reason when addressed to the basic Christian convictions.

The challenge of the sciences to Christian convictions may involve a direct challenge to one or another Christian conviction, but I suspect that the more determinative challenges the sciences present are more subtle.

I think this is a dire misunderstanding of the narrative character of Christian convictions.

Revisionists are said to «think it particularly important to correlate Christian beliefs with concerns and experiences that all people share and to stand ready to defend Christian convictions according to «publicly acceptable» criteria of truth.»

Like Esther, we face difficult ethical and religious questions in a highly political world that tends to be hostile to our most fundamental Christian convictions.

John Baillie, in the book to which I have referred, places the grounds for this «hope» in two Christian convictions.

It is a just acknowledgement for a man who has been able to relate his deep Christian convictions with a liberating commitment in the context of his cultural roots.

Though Ramsey and I disagreed, I hope our exchange illumines the descriptive power of Christian convictions.

The emphasis I have put on the faithful church as integral for demonstrating the truthfulness of Christian convictions makes the challenge all the more powerful.

I can not let these questions go, for I remain convinced that any truthful account of Christian convictions requires a display of the sanctified life.

While learning new approaches, I am still exploring how Christian convictions require moral display for understanding what we might mean to claim them as true.

On the basis of such Christian convictions, what can we agree upon further as to necessary steps to take for the conquest of war?

I was never an atheist but a decade ago I turned by back on by christian convictions for a life of compulsive sin.

They are both intellectual disciplines dealing with the deepest questions of human existence, and when they were being pursued by men of Christian convictions, who were asking the same kind of questions, they were not easy to separate.

His decision reflected the family's Christian convictions — not to risk loss to a female at any cost

One can deduce that the family's Christian convictions allow for their son to inflict violence on a boy but not a girl, and that given that wrestling is a combat sport, and at times violent, it is fine that two boys can be put in moves and holds that are compromising.

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

The Christian knows that a dialogue is valuable even if he must hold on to his Christian convictions with absolute commitment and can - not hope for unity in the foreseeable future.

... the «political» question crucial to the church is what kind of community the church must be to be faithful to the narratives central to Christian convictions.

Hauerwas agrees with Linbeck that what needs to be emphasized in a postliberal, postmodern theology and theological ethics is the distinctiveness, the particularity, of Christian convictions, its «language games» and «rules,» not for their own sake, but because they are true (AN 5).

With this declaration and by not straying from Western religiousteachings of the era, he indirectly affirms Judeo - Christian convictions while he continues with determination in his search for a definitive proof of God's existence.

With this judgment, Descartes is in complete agreement with the Church and its Judeo - Christian convictions.

Returning to the absolute commitment to human rights outlined here is right in terms of Christian convictions and right in terms of the interests of our nation.

I also know why I land where I land on those issues for more reasons than simply my Christian convictions.

Socratic reason, in its modern scientific form, has rendered the Buddhist doctrines of no - self and no - God more plausible to many modern men than opposed Christian convictions.

I have used Buddhist language in formulating my own Christian convictions.

For example, when research finds that Christian friendships reinforce Christian convictions, the question still remains why some people choose Christian friends and others do not.

Typically they are individuals whose lives have been radically transformed by God and who wish to share the good news of their Christian convictions.

Moreover, since God is infinitely good to all who truly seek him, I do not see how anyone's experience of grace or formation by grace can settle the truth of one confessional position as against another, and I doet want to look as if I think that the quality of my Christian experience or the strength of my Christian convictions should be decisive in persuading others to accept my views.

I pretty much judge a person's Christian convictions on how they act and the way they speak.

But, yea, lets analyze Obama's Christian convictions AGAIN.

It is rather to find a new way to sail through uncharted seas developing a moral code that is in touch with both our deeper Christian convictions and the reality of this generation.

But even in making their philosophical contributions they were conscious that the perspective that led them to press these questions arose from their Christian convictions.

All conscientious objectors are equal, it seems, but non-celebrity conscientious objectors with traditional Christian convictions are clearly a whole lot more equal than others.

These and other principles of just war arose out of Christian convictions about the value of human life, social order and the rule of law.

«it reflected the family's Christian convictions»... that females are subservient to men and can not be ever considered equal.

What has Christian convictions got to do with a high school wrestling match?

Thomas Aquinas tried to combine an acceptance of Aristotelian concepts with equally profound Christian conviction.