Sentences with phrase «content of their faith»

Therefore, the content of faith is significant for our salvation.

But our access to the normative content of the faith, the effect of that content on us, and the normative content itself must be kept distinct.

Though we human beings must use concepts to grasp the content of our faith, in the end God does not reveal a series of ideas: He reveals the «mystery» of Himself in the person of Christ, who is «the fullness of all revelation».

The difference between believing that God exists and believing that God does not exist is not the difference between the «presence» and «absence» of faith — it is simply a difference in the content of that faith and belief.

Note first of all that the intelligible content of the faith is affirmed: «the teaching and realities signified by the words».

In the light of Pope Benedict's recent announcement of a «Year of Faith», calling all the faithful to a more «profound understanding of the content of the faith» (Porta Fide?)

The Holy Father has consistently affirmed throughout his pontificate a renewed need for the content of the faith to be handed on to future generations.

Did the object and content of faith change after the death and resurrection of Jesus?

I think rather that what he is saying is this: Revolutionary violence is to such a degree the only possible expression of the Christian faith that, if I suspect that my faith is leading me to become less violent, I am mistaken about the content of the faith and must abandon it; because, having decided for violence, I am sure that I am in the true Christian succession.

That is, many contemporary theologies tend to believe that we can derive the normative content of faith, truth and justice directly from the immediate contexts of our social, economic and political situations; at the same time, other contemporary theologies have abandoned even trying to argue that theological claims are in any sense normative.

We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.

Such a movement can not be defined by unchanging beliefs or structures, yet it can never exist apart from a content of faith.

Faith is present in the human being from the point of birth, and it is in the infant that the intellectual content of faith is at its absolute minimum.

He agrees with Pannenberg that the content of faith is foundational for the act of faith, and not vice versa; what we believe is more important than our act of believing it.

Jüngel's question is about the relation between the content of faith, that which is believed, and the act of faith.

'» It is this existential dimension of the content of faith that he misses in Pannenberg's dogmatics.

There is a theoretical knowledge of the content of faith, but it is inseparable from a practical knowledge, a transformation of the knowing self in the very act of knowing.

In other words, teens consider religion to be of marginal importance and are inarticulate about the content of their faith.

The usual content of these faiths is that another world exists wherein all the disappointments and denials of the present world will be made good.

But if they seek to make the membranes surrounding the deposit of faith completely impermeable to the influx of alternative insights and modes of expression, this will inevitably lead to a serious inhibition of the transmission of the revelatory content of the faith.

Their reserve is partially understandable in that they implicitly see the need for boundaries and constraints in the informational processing of the content of faith.

If the content of a faith is not checked by some externally objective evaluations, it can easily become too esoteric.

(b) The Bible gives the authoritative content of the faith which provides substance for the small group experience, helping members avoid the «self - centeredness and sentimentality» of many prayer groups.

We are not meant to find «reunion all round» by denying, forgetting, pretending, minimizing and clouding the content of faith and morals by ambiguous formulas which can mean all things differently to all men.

It will be far wiser and truer to the nature of man to allow the essentials of the content of faith to «sink in» so that human culture itself becomes imbued with the truth of Revelation.

As Vergote remarks quite accurately «The religious content of mystical visions is not different from the content of faith; figurative representations are derived from natural perceptions., As far as revelation is concerned, visions add absolutely nothing.

When the subject of Christian education is how faith develops or is transmitted, the equally important task of theological reflection about the content of faith may be neglected.

Those who are familiar with Western religious traditions have been instructed repeatedly that the content of these faiths has been «revealed» to us.

It is almost as if the new translation forces us to trip over the content of our faith.

It is the content of faith and not the form of its expression which is independent of the character of changing human society.

In the early twentieth century Protestants are mistaking dynamic cultural forms for the content of their faith.

Form is made more significant than the content of faith.

It is the business of men of faith to see to it that they employ the forms which, in a particular cultural environment, will give the clearest and most exact description of the content of their faith to the people who live in that environment.

All over the Protestant world it is obvious that preoccupation with the cultural form in which their faith is expressed is a more decisive factor in determining the future of the Protestant churches than preoccupation with the content of their faith.

In the early fifteenth century the Catholics mistook static ecclesiastic forms for the content of their faith.

And it is to this record that Christians have continually made reference in re-examining the content of their faith from generation to generation.

We must not allow the content of faith and theology to intrude into the sphere of scientific investigation.

The content of our faith is different from yours, we can say to skeptics — but don't pretend that we have faith and you don't, or that having faith is in principle a bad idea.

Historical thinking has been distinguished from metaphysical thinking in order to preserve the personal and unique content of faith.

A wholly legitimate concern to show gentleness in our pastoral approach has become confused with compromising the content of the faith itself.»

This one term had important ramifications for the whole content of our faith.

It is open to all the meta - theories through which the content of faith is relativized, while rejecting their attempts to avoid their own relativization.

And if the philosophy we use as a vehicle to present the content of our faith can be dismissed as irrelevant, so also the content of our faith may be dismissed as irrelevant.

This «new theology» is an attack on the content of the faith — an attack not with honestly intellectual weapons but with the appearance of rationality and scientific rigor, thus an attack that is a spiritual aggression.

Every believer ought always to be examining the content of his faith, ought willingly to undergo this test; because it is only the faith that is «unprotected» by some intellectual or sociological reinforcement that is true faith in God in Jesus Christ.

You do not believe Christ's deity, death for sins, or resurrection, are essential elements of the «content of faith that must be believed for salvation».

«Checklist Evanglelism» gives as the content of faith a series of ascending beliefs starting in Hamartiology, progressing through Christology, and ending in Soteriology.

Not exact matches

I'm not going to debate you on the content, except to say that this portrays a Jesus not found in the Bible, and confirms suppositions of a judgmental and graceless faith.

Before the giveaway, Colorado literary agent Rachelle Gardner warned in a blog that if Christian authors fail to mention their books» faith - based content, they are in danger of receiving nasty reviews.

Or Shane Hipps, who said: «Within the forms of media and technology, regardless of their content, are extremely powerful forces that cause changes in our faith, theology, culture and ultimately the Church.»