Sentences with phrase «confession of the faith»

Ross writes, «Nonsacramental Christianity is one faithful way of embodying the shared confession of faith.

He argues that monotheism by its very nature admits the confession of faith only in the one God of Israel, so that the worship of other gods is suppressed — along with their worshippers, if necessary.

Moreover, it was difficult to explain why the church could forge new confessions of faith in the sixteenth century but could not do so in the present.

The telephone number flashed at the bottom of the TV screen and the camera's occasional glance at three tiers of telephone operators might make you think you were watching a telethon, with the callers transmitting promises of gifts rather than the confessions of faith they are in fact making.

And behind that creed, we can see that the primitive «confessions of faith,» to which Professor Cullman has lately drawn our attention, are the almost immediate result of the proclaiming of the gospel itself.

«25 Such playful autobiography is, at its core, a confession of faith.

Perhaps it should be noted that although Elisha did not receive the famous general when he came the first time from the king of Syria and also from the king of Israel, he did receive him the second time when this man came to make a confession of faith and to show him the conflict of faith.

All Muslims know the Word of Witness, the confession of faith in Allah and the recognition of Muhammad as His Messenger, and all Muslims repeat it as their confession of faith.

The fact was that the synod did not produce merely advice; it produced a confession of faith which included even the form of Church government.

Here it is necessary, of course, to make a distinction between the later developed creeds — and above all, the various «confessions of faith» of the Reformation period — and the Apostles» Creed.

Unless lay people came to their own confession of faith and were committed to the beliefs at which they arrived, I could not, and can not, foresee a healthy renewal in the life of the denomination.

More to the point, the context speaks about confession of faith and love of one another — are these regulative statements or just as conveniently non-binding on you, someone who clearly does not take much joy in the fact that the bible * instituted * ecclesial offices?

This was American Puritanism's first confession of faith concerning doctrine and Church government.

We confess «I believe» with the baptismal (Apostles») Creed, because the focus is on the individual's public confession of faith.

First, we must recognize that the proclamation of the death of God is a Christian confession of faith.

The emphasis on his divinity, the Canadian scholar Larry Hurtado suggests, was brought about by praying and singing hymns to Jesus, by celebration of the Lord's Supper, by confession of faith in Jesus and prophetic pronouncements of the risen Christ5 Even so there seems to have been some hesitation to speak of Jesus simply as «God» and those verses which appear to do so in English versions of the New Testament may have been mistranslated.

You say that your parents are church members and that you were christened in infancy, but that you never have made a personal confession of your faith and joined a Christian congregation.

A still more serious breach between Campbell and his Baptist cohorts stemmed from his outright rejection of confessions of faith.

In bringing about one of the great ecumenical goals — multilateral and bilateral conversations between denominations developing a common confession of faith — the UCC may have a Reformation role to play today.

The story of the virginal conception is not a marvel of biology, but an early Christian narratival confession of faith in and affirmation of allegiance to Jesus.

Although he was the most important opponent of confessions of faith, Campbell was not the first Baptist to oppose their use.

Thus the confession of faith involves a claim to cognition at the same time as the adoption of an attitude.

To live, as a society, without a confession of faith has often been attempted» but we have yet to be informed of the first instance of its succeeding.

«Thou art Peter and on this rock, I will found my Church,» The rock in question was his confession of faith, not his ability to lead man.

We Presbyterians, who share so much — a confession of faith, a rich theological heritage, the advantages and the burdens of wealth and social power — could covenant to stay together, to labor with each other, in love, for justice and truth.

Belief in God is to be understood as a confession of faith.

The report on the church's common confession of faith brought to the front the creedal controversy.

But this was contrary to the Old Side orthodox view, which stressed the strict adherence to a confession of faith and argued that the presbytery, and ultimately a synod, determines the fitness of a man for the ministry on the basis of his education and doctrinal beliefs, and an external call from a congregation.

The first action of the Synod was to draw up a «true apostolic and orthodox» confession of faith which repudiated both Monophysitism and Chalcedonian orthodoxy of the West.

Even to say «Our Father which art in Heaven» is to make a confession of faith which depends on a three - storied universe of heaven, earth, and hell.

Heretofore in Israelite Yahwism the meaning of the present was taken primarily from the understanding and interpretation of the past, as, for example, in the ancient cultic confession of faith recorded in Deut.

He is «man of God» at least in the sense that his office is as such a human acknowledgment of the sovereignty of God, as the Church in its very existence is a confession of faith in God.

Book Review: Creeds and Confessions of Faith In the Christian Tradition.

A true believer receives the Holy Spirit upon confession of faith in Christ for the forginess of sin.

In the 17th century, both Catholics and Protestants systematically executed Anabaptists for holding to the «heresy» that a confession of faith should precede baptism.

In Chapter 10 we discussed the origin of this confession of faith.

Creeds and Confessions of Faith In the Christian Tradition.

’41 Stories which originated as signs, or confessions of faith, now came to be regarded as historical testimonies.

A tension is thus created between confession of faith and narration of things seen, at the heart of which is renewed the ever present tension between the judgment of the judge, who decides without having seen, and the narration of the witness who has seen.

A theology of testimony which is not just another name for the theology of the confession of faith is only possible if a certain narrative kernel is preserved in strict union with the confession of faith.

This rather clumsy attempt at harmonization was not successful however, for Matthew went on to appeal to «all that was happening» as the evidence which brought forth from the centurion his spontaneous confession of faith.

We would be tempted to say that the confession of faith has eliminated the recital of things seen (H. Strathmann in the article martus, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, IV, constantly opposes the witness of facts and confessing truth).

This is our confession of faith, and the language of worship remains our only way to speak this mystery.

In our confession of faith, the Prophet's role as a servant surpasses his role as apostle.

Movement toward a confession of faith in Jesus Christ can begin in childhood through the formative experience of weekly worship.

Matisse's stations of the cross stand as a magnificent confession of the faith of modern secular humanity.

Among the new Gnostics, the confession of faith might go «We like Jesus and he lets us do anything we like.»

A confession of faith should be the most important decision of a lifetime.

When I was baptized as a teenager, my father (who is a pastor), before he plunged me under the water, said these words: «Jeremy, based on your confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I now baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.»

When we affirm a particular denominational confession of the faith, whether the Westminster Confession of Faith or the Sixteen Fundamental Truths of the Assemblies of God or any other set of propositions about God, we often make artificial barriers between believers and lose the blessing of diverse voices.