Sentences with phrase «common meaning of faith»

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The polarization is so deep that when, in 1996, the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin founded the Catholic Common Ground Initiative as a means of addressing division in the church, he was criticized by some liberal Catholics who thought that the project was not radical enough and by some of his brother cardinals who believed that it jeopardized the essential truths of the faith.

This means that InterVarsity seeks to foster close - knit communities, tied together by a common faith and a common vision of what that faith ultimately means for one another.

This means that the lections, though similar in function to preaching, also have a distinctive role as the written record of the community of faith's common memories.

Thus, the common faith of early Christianity involved a considerable measure of agreement not only as to the significance of the event and the meaning of the community, but also as to the nature and role of the person: Jesus was Lord and Christ.

The America of the recent past has lost faith in words, in reliably coherent meanings, in the possibility of common language, in the very idea of truth.

I won't argue with you about «religion» if by that you mean the organization of groups of individuals who share a common faith and manner of worship and study about that faith.

What needs to be explored is the effect this constant conditioning in consumerism is doing to the common understanding of what it means to be human, what it means to be religious, and what it means to have faith.

Yahweh in hebrew means my Lord and is a common reference meaning supreme God.In the bible satan is referred specifically as the adversary in hebrew or slanderer in greek its quite clear there is no confusion.Satan is not in the same league as God he is sovereign in fact God has satan on a leash and limits his control particularly over his people as we read in Job.Christians need to realise that satan can influence us if we walk according to the flesh.In the case of David calling a cencus meant he gave in to his pride he wanted to know how many soldiers he had believing numbers would give him the upper hand and so Satan took advantage of his weakness and Davids choice displeased God.David of all people should have known as he as a young man had defeated goliath a mighty warrior and it was because of his faith and trust in God that he overcame.But it wasnt God that made David make that decision it was his own and satan tempted him and he gave in to that desire In the two verses there is no confusion if you understand how God and satan operate i did at one stage have the same issue with Jesus sending the demons into the pigs why would he help satan or at least it appeared that way?

Religion as the means of well - being for a community and thus for each individual, who has a role in that community, requires a common understanding between like - minded involving faith in a creed, obedience to a moral code set down in sacred Scriptures or participation in a cult.

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.

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.

But language is what the poet has to work with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using words in odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas with sensuous images and fragments from scripture, and the common language of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these odd juxtapositions.

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 churches of America, though far from decadent, are doing much less effective work than they might be doing with their resources, and the major cause of the difficulty lies in failure to present the meaning and claims of the Christian faith in terms that seem vital to the common man.

I would suggest that this conditioning in consumerism is changing the common understanding of what it means to have faith.

«To speak unqualifiedly of «our common love for God,» as if the Quran's Allah and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ are one and the same, and as if what it means to «love God» in these two faiths means the same thing, is to say more than I am willing to grant,» he said.

The WCC study project anticipates a process of explication of the creed's meaning, which will lead to the churches» common recognition of the faith the creed expresses, and, finally, common confession of that faith.

Therefore, Pascal does not mean to suggest that his famous Wager could lead someone to faith in God independently of the grace of God (a common misunderstanding of Pascal's Wager frequently perpetrated in undergraduate courses in the philosophy of religion).

It stated that the status of a probationary employee has «acquired a clear meaning at common law», enabling an employer to terminate an employee without common law notice during the probationary period if the employer makes a good faith determination that the employee is unsuitable for the position.