Sentences with phrase «coherent life of faith»
Though the visions of worship can not coincide with the patterns of politics, we need to worship and live in some kind of common language if we are to shape a coherent life of faith.
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The example of Daniel and company is irrelevant to Israel's life in the days of Neo-Babylonian ascendancy; but their heroic adherence to the faith and practice of Judaism is sharply coherent in that one bitter biblical epoch when Judaism was forced to fight for its very existence.
Robert Bellah has shown that most Americans today express a vague religious belief in God, but are utterly incapable of relating their faith to any kind of morally coherent life.
It is the shared faith that we live in a universe that is coherent, a universe that manifests a specific mathematical scheme of things, a universe that is, at least in part, intelligible to sentient mortals.
The context for the entire treatment will be a consistent and coherent worldview that in my belief is appropriate to the Christian tradition of faith, worship, and life and that at the same time can make sense to men and women today in their desire for a meaningful interpretation of their existence, of the world in which that existence is found, and of the divine reality we call God.
In Habits of the Heart (University of California Press, 1985), Robert Bellah and co-authors show that most Americans today express a vague religious belief in God, but are utterly incapable of relating their faith to any kind of morally coherent life.
In the narrative of Israel's experiences at Sinai we find, by and large, a remarkably coherent, instructive account of the faith of Israel as Israel looks at her own past and the meaning of her continuing life.