Sentences with phrase «covenanted communities of faith»

This conviction could shape covenanted communities of faith, and thereby influence both the character of persons and the structures of public institutions to upbuild, broaden, awaken and guide the conduct of life.

To hear the Word that God wishes us to hear in this passage for today, we can surmise that the return of the ransomed of the Lord to Zion could refer to the gathering of the elect into the covenant community of faith.

covenant community of faith.

Not exact matches

This new mutuality is one that allows each community to maintain its own faith integrity in relationship with God, with the members of its own covenant, with the members of the most proximate religion (which I hold is, for Jews, Christianity), and with the world beyond.

Christian faith is conceived as a new covenant, which moulds all the theology, ethics and organization of the community.

Israel, the community of covenant faith, is explicitly called by God to reflect these same qualities in its life.

The real unity of our Christian Bible, then, lies in the covenants between God and the community of faith, the Church.

Repudiating this lethally false theology, Sacks unfolds a genuinely inclusive and pacific Abrahamic faith by burrowing into the Hebrew Bible, beneath the surface narratives of tense sibling rivalries (Jacob versus Esau) and tribal genocide (Joshua's extermination of the Canaanites), discerning deep themes conducing both to a universal justice between all peoples and to a profound sense of God's particularizing love for diverse covenant communities.