Sentences with word «covenantal»

However, all traditions may find that the idea of covenantal relationships can help to frame the issues for both individuals and communities.

Thomas - «David's love towards Jonathan was a type of covenantal love, not a contractual love.»

If marriage is intended to convey the unwavering, covenantal faithfulness of the Messiah to his bride, is allowing for divorce in cases of adultery not the antithesis of this symbolic representation?

Relations among God and all creatures are seen to be matters of covenantal responsibility.

Theories and practices of confidentiality based only on secular professional ethics or legal norms are not adequate for covenantal understandings of the church in which the community's relationship to God is primary.

William J. Everett takes up the East German case in the context of a wider study of the relationship of covenantal theology to social life, with comparative analyses of India and America.

More fundamentally, what covenantal obligations do community members share as participants in a particular community?

Whereas I had been taught to see the covenant as central and creation as a peripheral and dispensable extension from covenantal thinking, it is at least equally justified to see that the ancient Jews located the covenant within creation.

Much of this relationship reflection makes one think of covenantal concepts in salvation history.

So while Christian Reconstructionism might self - identify as a kind of Reformed covenantal thinking, this doesn't mean that all Reformed covenant theology is either postmillennial or prone to theonomy.

Later the Jerusalem establishment was caught in its own illusion of security; the prophets repeatedly urged Israel to give up its illusion of entitlement and to face the reality of covenantal requirements.

Both Ishmael and Esau are explicitly blessed; they do not bear the specifically covenantal blessing, but never does Genesis say God rejects them.

E. P. Sanders's seminal work Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977) weakened the traditional perspective further by demonstrating that Paul was not a critic of the law but rather, like his fellow Jews, operated religiously within the framework of «covenantal nomism.»

These serial readings from Acts end with Paul established in Rome (probably in today's Trastevere district), speaking with the Roman Jewish community about the fulfillment of their ancient, covenantal hopes in the Risen Christ.

The magi needed to burn their astrological maps when they found Christ and entered into covenantal relationship with God.

Perhaps one of the reasons the church in the West is irrelevant to postmodernists is because of its own covenantal forgetfulness.

It includes the entire covenantal context in which God intends for sex to take place.»

This entire covenantal process is the vocation of every individual in his personal, social and cultural reality.

In Greenberg we find a theologian who calls on Jews to validate the realities of statehood and power» an almost Hobbesian affirmation of what survival requires in a world where Auschwitz is possible» and who also calls Jews and Christians to revise radically their theologies as the first step in the project of perfecting and redeeming the world as partners in covenantal pluralism.

In gathering and interpreting their collective ethos, they further participate as Christians in a prophetic ministry that sets forth the story of group in the light of God's covenantal history with all God's people.

Regarding the New Covenantal spiritual Jews, that is, those who endured a painful circumcision of the heart (Rom 2:28 - 29), just in case they forgot what one of their future offices would be, Paul reminded the Corinthians,

In this light, I am hopeful that Msgr. Hocken might reevaluate my suggestions for how to understand divine covenantal action.

Once the question is framed in terms of participation, disagreement with Kinzer does not mean that one conceives of divine covenantal action strictly along a supersessionist timeline, according to which what is later negates and displaces what is earlier.

In this light, and in light of how pervasive the legal paradigm is in contemporary Christ thinking, is it any wonder we see so live covenantal trust and trustworthiness in the lives of professing Christians today?

Without those reminders they could become the victims of what Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat call «covenantal forgetfulness:

Mission is the result of God's initiative, rooted in God's purposes to restore and heal creation and call people into a reconciled covenantal relationship with God.

So too, whereas the legal model was focused on belief and therefore didn't involve our character transformation as a central consideration, the covenant model is all about character, for its anchored in faith, and as I've said, covenantal faith is about our willingness to trust another and to live in a trustworthy way in relation to another.

Operating in covenantal terms, teachers devote themselves to what Eugen Rosenstock - Huessy called the «healing of communal memory,» rather than gleefully subverting students» unreflective commitments.

Arguing that children have a right to a mom and dad rings hollow when Evangelicals are not saying to moms and dads the Gospel demands covenantal faithfulness, even in unfaithfulness.

Until that time, the relationship between Jews and Christians, viewed from either side, was one whose ultimate meaning could be located only within the overall covenantal relationship between God and his people.

The stereotyped notion that gay men are promiscuous is given the lie by many who have established a lasting covenantal relationship with one other person.

It invites conservatives and liberals together to reembrace the dangerous rhetoric of covenantal interaction.

That is why the bishops must affirm that consummated covenantal marriage is indissoluble.

Creation is, even when made safe, joyous and fruitful by Yahweh, a domain of righteous, caring, covenantal behavior.

Covenantal Rights is a learned and tightly reasoned argument that should elicit critical responses from Christian and secularist thinkers.

Like the unfinished cathedrals of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth, Williams's projected covenantal history of the people of God was never completed.

It was always disagreement in the service of truth, and within friendship and civility bounded by a shared acknowledgment of covenantal accountability.

Many experts both within and outside of the church think that there is much we can do to help couples and modern societies learn to hold together genuine covenantal love (a much stronger concept than that of romantic love) with the economic, kinship, networking and child - rearing aspects of marriage.

In this construal, the end of history — meaning, more or less, the globalization of our kind of political and economic order — depended neither upon social contracts nor upon the promise of covenantal purpose.

Covenantal Realism: The Self - Referential Incoherency of Conventional Social Contract Theory and the Necessity of Consent Paul R. Dehart

Even by the account of Israel's own historians, only three kings in Israel or Judah measured up to covenantal standards.

The perfect Torah «restores the soul,» as the Psalms say, which means the soul does not restore itself without being in a strong covenantal relationship with God — a relationship constituted by the Torah and nothing else.

In the seventeenth century, Baruch Spinoza suggested that the Jews made the Gentiles hate them by claiming to be God's people and setting themselves apart by their practice of circumcision — the bodily sign of God's covenantal election.

(A reminder: we're not talking modern business contracts in this relationship: we're talking ancient covenantal relationship, which carries a solemnity and respect and consistency come what may.)