Sentences with phrase «covenantal thinking»
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.
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Much of this relationship reflection makes one think of covenantal concepts in salvation history.
McCoy suggests that Whitehead, too, may have been shaped by biblical ways of thinking: «Indeed, it is highly probable that the process philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries emerged from contexts influenced by the covenantal or federal tradition and thus are in part intellectual progeny of covenantal theology and ethics» (CCE 360).
The truth is that, as, for instance, in Rawls» A Theory of Justice, contract thinking engages ideas of promise and obligation that take on at least the appearance of being covenantal.
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.
Natural law is the bridge, so to speak, for Jews who want to leave the ghetto without becoming so assimilated that they abandon their religion: «What a natural law perspective does for Jews at this level is to enable them to make rights claims, but without having to adopt the type of all «embracing secularism that is antithetical to the covenantal basis of traditional Jewish life and thought.»
Cynthia Jarvis, minister of Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, thinks support for Messianic Judaism is inconsistent with the Reformed insistence that God keeps his covenantal promises.
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?