Sentences with phrase «decision of faith»

Even Rudolf Bultmann, of whom Coakley is also critical, linked Christology with one assured fact, that Jesus came announcing the kingdom of God, but he did not ground the present decision of faith in his one fact.

True, a Bultmann could follow Kierkegaard and believe that the absence of an objective knowledge of Jesus provides the way to an existential decision of faith.

German Protestant theology had been dominated since the early 1920s by various theologies that had stressed and interwoven the concepts of revelation as foundational to theology and of the Word of God as a concrete address calling for a radical decision of faith or unfaith, with varying emphasis on whatever the address might actually say.

It makes the important assertion that God fights for us against sin and death, yet it is hard to see how our personal decisions of faith and our acceptance of forgiveness are involved.

Election dawns upon no one except in the full, independent, obedient and trustworthy decision of faith.

With a cultural quietness combined with the strength of an agile tiger, we are witness to contemplation, mindful journeying, and decisions of faith in this film.

We have to make a decision here, a decision of faith.

They have a strange way of calling an internal truce between the skeptic in me and the believer in me by forcing me to act, to make a decision of faith in that moment.

In other words, the decision of faith is never final; it needs constant renewal in every fresh situation.

That decision of faith mattered most to Bultmann of all the items which have collected into the creeds and confessions of Christendom.

He boldly maintains that theological assertions are not grasped merely by some blind «decision of faith.»

Considering that this is a league for private and PAROCHIAL schools, and a Jewish Day School is as much a parochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tolerance.

The commitment is seen as a response, the decision of faith as the recognition of grace.

(Niebuhr, 61) Only a decision of faith can make this jump.

The New Testament makes clear that there can never be peace in the world until people are in union with the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, a union effected by the Holy Spirit and realized in the decision of faith.

So it is here on the historical Jesus, as he is presented to me by the texts and encounters me as a person through historical reconstruction, that the decision of faith is made, not on the risen Christ as I would have liked him to be, or as, for example, he is accessible archetypally to all human beings as a symbol of the self.

This decision of faith is thus the center from which the previous definitions of myth and demythologization can begin to be taken up again.

Is the question no longer raised, is the question still under the sway of an objectifying thinking, which looks for the security of the Was in «general statements» and puts off surrendering to the insecurity of the Dass, of the decision of faith?

In other words, the decision of faith is never final, and needs to be renewed in each successive situation.»)