Sentences with phrase «common life of faith»

Its membership consists of churchmen: existing and historic individuals, gathered together in a common life of faith which among other things seeks understanding of itself, of God and neighbor.

Not exact matches

We study all these topics because they shape the practices that constitute the common life of contemporary communities seeking in faith to respond appropriately to God.

The peace that Jesus promised abounds in the Jerusalem church, both in their common faith — «They were of one heart and soul» — and their common life — «No one claimed private ownership but everything was held in common.

In a truly meaningful service of public worship one feels not only the companionship of the living, who share common needs and a common faith, but the companionship of those who have gone the king's highway before us and have left a priceless heritage.

This too was a common emphasis in the faith of Reformation churches as M. E. Osterhaven explains: «Scripture presents a unified message concerning God's grace made manifest in Jesus Christ and the Christians call to live unto him.

Joined in an inexplicable unifying movement men who are utterly opposed in education and in faith find themselves brought together, intermingled, in their common passion for a double truth; namely, that there exists a physical Unity of beings, and that they themselves are living and active parts of it.

A crisis in authority suggests the possibility that our churches have lost the will and lack the men and women with those powers of soul required to articulate, promulgate, and defend a rule of faith and a way of life that is indeed common to Christians.

When a group of parents in a community of faith work together to educate their children in the life of faith, this gives members of each family something in common with other families.

It would appear that the crisis in authority we now face has been caused by the dissolution of a common standard of belief (what used to be called the rule of faith) and a common form of life (what used to be called «the way»).

In this process, the members of our churches must learn to articulate their own beliefs, not so that they can proselytize more effectively, but so that their living faith becomes a useful tool in building the common good.

My Lutheran friend is pleased that Catholics and Lutherans can approve a common statement on justification by faith, but «doctrinal agreement turns out to be sheer abstraction apart from a concrete vision of the shape of the Life we are saved to live.»

Although there are certain basic forms which are common to nearly all Christians, such as, «I believe in God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior», no two Christians would describe the experience of the life of faith in exactly the same terms.

But both traditionalists and revisionists can share in common a commitment to the full authority of Scripture in faith and life, and the vast majority of those who call themselves evangelicals do just that.

And in fact in the course of this book we have seen how we can develop a theology (which is an explanation of our religion, a conceptualization of that which gives real meaning to our lives) that is consistent with both our faith and our common sense.

Only as we rethink the radical nature of Christian community and reform our institutions so that they might faithfully strive to transmit their cumulative tradition through ritual and life, to nurture and convert persons to Christian faith through common experience and interaction, and to prepare and motivate persons for individual and corporate action in society can true Christian education emerge.

All of these people have different perspectives on life and faith and the Bible, but what they all have in common is a commitment to some idea of «biblical womanhood.»

Among other topics, Volf discusses faith in the public square, and asks what kind of religious conviction will be able to give meaning to human lives and help people seek the common good.

The dark night of the soul is actually a common experience in the Christian life and can occur throughout a person's faith journey.

The pastoral role is concerned with ministry to individuals; the priestly role has to do with the proclamation of the faith and with leadership in the liturgical life of the church; the prophetic role focuses on judging the level of humaneness in the social order and pointing to the changes required if common justice is to be approximated; the kingly role takes up governance and the expression of neighbor love through responsible corporate action.

Richard recently in Christianity Today: «Only a thinker so well grounded in the Reformation traditions could be an honest broker in bringing faithful evangelicals and believing Catholics to recognize the common source of their life together in Jesus Christ, the Holy Scriptures, and the great tradition of living faith through the centuries.»

It does not require profound knowledge of human psychology or vast experience of life to understand why the imagination can never provide a basis for a common faith.

Equally important, the two foci of each dimension of practical theology — one in the church and one in the world — help to encourage a dialectical relationship between the Christian faith community and other perspectives and efforts to shape our common life.

H. Richard Niebuhr suggests that these sources offer to faith, among many other rich elements, the gift of an image that makes intelligible what would otherwise remain unintelligible: «By revelation in our history we mean... that special occasion which provides us with an image by means of which all occasions of personal and common life become intelligible.

The bottom line here is that the Republicans» fascination with an unfettered free market and their lack of faith in the government's ability to provide any benefits to our common life (except to assist business in making money) is no more consistent with Catholic teaching than the Democrats» emphasis on individual freedom in social questions and their faith in human perfectibility through government action.

Nothing twee here, nothing bleak or forbidding either — instead this book's message is a celebration of life and love, written with common sense, an attitude of reverence, and an evidently joyful faith in Christ and a love of his Church.

But let's not confuse «living in faith» with stupidity and / or a lack of common sense.

I swear - there are common sense Christians who live by faith and follow ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS and then there are the pick - and - choose, no - understanding, ignorant Christians who can quote a couple of Bible verses (turn the other cheek, thou shalt not kill and judge not being the most popular amongst your ilk) who LITERALLY have NO READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS AT ALL and for whom CLEARLY The Lord has not chosen to reveal the most basic of Biblical tenets.

A theology of interfaith cooperation lives honestly alongside your theology of salvation and evangelism, but also asks what in your Christian faith — your relationships to Jesus, your understanding of the Bible, your knowledge of Christian history and tradition — speaks to why you might work together with people of other faiths on issues of common concern.

If one lived in a region where sinkholes were common, or in a warzone, we would consider doubt of these faiths justifiable, but otherwise, these faiths are more or less accepted as reasonable, and anything else is delusion (and, perhaps, rightfully so).

They are aware of faith's horizontal dimension: they live as members of a community of believers whose common faith strengthens the faith of each individual.

Any witnessing together on public square issues must be grounded in a common faith in the Holy Trinity, in Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word made flesh, and in the Bible, the written word of God which norms Christian life, thought and action.

Religious players are pretty common in the league, but for many of these players, they live out their lives and faiths together — going as far as being baptized by a teammate in the team's recovery pool at the practice facility.

We'd all like to think that we live and work and pray from a center that is full of bravery and hope --(and when I think of the times when I have really stepped out in faith to follow Jesus, I think that perhaps we can indeed summon these virtues from time to time)-- but I wonder if to deny the role that fear plays in our art, our faith, and our theology is to deny one of those dark but universal things that, deep down, we all have in common.

The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which had developed its own traditional culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

But the vital things were found there unencumbered — a common faith, a living hope and a new level of love.

Instead, «the faith» refers to the body of common Christian beliefs or the essentials of Christian life and practice (cf. Acts 6:7; 13:8; 14:22; 16:5; 1 Cor 16:33; 2 Cor 13:5; Gal 1:23; 6:10; Php 1:25; Col 1:23; 1 Tim 1:2; 4:1; 5:8; 6:10, 21).

An etiological story out of the common fund of Middle Eastern mythologies becomes in the context of Israel's life and faith profoundly theological.

At the Old Testament's end, therefore, we face contradictions, everywhere to be found in living religions, between the great insights of the prophets and the common faith and practise of the people.

In the former, the Catholic - Protestant War to secure domination of public life lasted three decades before they listened to the rationalist proposal to build nation - states which were common to all who lived in the territory irrespective of their religious affiliation or their atheistic faith.

In recent decades they have preferred to explore the experience of faith itself as a universal human experience that exhibits common stages of development through the succeeding phases of human life.

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

We need Hispanic theologians and social scientists who will reflect from within the common experience of faith of our people, not as outsiders but as believers who are seeking to understand, clarify and enrich our own 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.

Christians in affluent countries in the twentieth century have grown used to such a fast pace of life and to such constant changes in the material environment that we tend to think that our problems are unique, that the past is worthless as a source of wisdom for modern times, and that our ancestors in the faith have little in common with us.

Even some groups that do not use the creed as a central expression of faith in their own internal lives can nevertheless affirm it as a common expression.

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About Blog A Thoughtful Faith features the stories and perspectives of thoughtful Mormons and other religious thinkers who have something to say about the common challenges and issues facing those who are seeking to live a life of faith within Mormonism and beFaith features the stories and perspectives of thoughtful Mormons and other religious thinkers who have something to say about the common challenges and issues facing those who are seeking to live a life of faith within Mormonism and befaith within Mormonism and beyond.

About Blog A Thoughtful Faith features the stories and perspectives of thoughtful Mormons and other religious thinkers who have something to say about the common challenges and issues facing those who are seeking to live a life of faith within Mormonism and beFaith features the stories and perspectives of thoughtful Mormons and other religious thinkers who have something to say about the common challenges and issues facing those who are seeking to live a life of faith within Mormonism and befaith within Mormonism and beyond.

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