Sentences with phrase «deep faith as»

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I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

We atheists should be embracing it as a sure sign of the deep inanity of the Christian faith.

«As you've done to the least of these you've done unto me...» I think that a faith which s not broad or deep enough to inspire down to earth empathy - in - action, which doesn't strive for real world results (however temporary they may be), is far too small and narrow a faith.

The polarization is so deep that when, in 1996, the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin founded the Catholic Common Ground Initiative as a means of addressing division in the church, he was criticized by some liberal Catholics who thought that the project was not radical enough and by some of his brother cardinals who believed that it jeopardized the essential truths of the faith.

But above all, he is remembered as a gifted writer who wrapped wit, humor and wisdom into deep wisdom about faith and following Christ.

Bishop Jezierski has decided that a fitting sarcophagus will now be designed for the remains of Copernicus that have been discovered, not only to honour this renowned astronomer, but as a testimony to the unity of deep faith and meticulous science which his life's work represented.

What started as a feeling of betrayal by certain authorities within the church, spiralled into deeper and more enduring questions about faith itself.

If we keep things in mind, it's possible that as we wrestle with doubts, questions and skepticism we will discover a deeper, more robust faith than ever.

In Oriental Mysticism, Altizer describes faith as the «will to nothingness pronounced holy,» 33 and in «Theology and the Death of God,» he states that «eschatological faith is directed against the deepest reality of what we know as history and the cosmos.

In real life, Antonina lost her parents in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia as a child, an event that drove her even deeper into her Catholic faith.

Today, as never before, we have the opportunity to discover a deeper meaning to that faith and therefore a deeper commitment.

For eschatological faith is directed against the deepest reality of what we know as history and the cosmos.

There have been more obviously religious eras, as in the medieval «age of faith» or the periods of the great revivals under Jonathan Edwards or Dwight L. Moody; it is doubtful that there has ever been a period of such general high Christian intelligence or deep commitment to Christian social ethics as in our own time.

The real test of love as seen in the deeper moral traditions of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29

The language of mythology, or, as I myself prefer to say, metaphor, is the language which religion speaks; it can do no other, for religious faith is neither scientific formulae nor philosophical concepts, but a dramatic, poetic, symbolical way of speaking of the deepest realities and our apprehension of them.

The drama of divine incarnation and atonement ought not to be — as it has easily been — abstracted from the teaching of Jesus, his proclamation of God's kingdom made into an incidental preamble to the «deep» and «real» mystery of faith.

It was pride on my part that stopped me entering into that deeper walk i wanted to do it in my strength but we can not the more we walk according to the flesh the more of a foothold the enemy has on us so we struggle.When we crucify the flesh and the works of the flesh and draw closer to God and rely on him we become as he is and that is who we are called to be.So we do not fail but continue to overcome in his strength not looking to the flesh at all but to Christ.You and i were called to be overcomers more than conquerers.May the Lord continue to strengthen you in your walk and faith as you grow in him.Your brother in Christ brentnz

We seek true ecumenism, and its foundation is full faith, deep charity and tremendous personal, spiritual effort to live the integrity of Christ in morals, as well as in faith.

As long as German Protestants viewed the Kirchenkampf as an internal church battle about the proper direction and options for the church in a Nazi society, they ignored the deeper ideological challenge to the validity of religious faitAs long as German Protestants viewed the Kirchenkampf as an internal church battle about the proper direction and options for the church in a Nazi society, they ignored the deeper ideological challenge to the validity of religious faitas German Protestants viewed the Kirchenkampf as an internal church battle about the proper direction and options for the church in a Nazi society, they ignored the deeper ideological challenge to the validity of religious faitas an internal church battle about the proper direction and options for the church in a Nazi society, they ignored the deeper ideological challenge to the validity of religious faith.

He reserved his deepest faith not for America but for the world as he saw it, on the theological assumption that the ordinary and everyday — the most mundane elements of human existence — are a gift from God.

But second, as the deeper motivation of Christian faith comes into play, it can contribute much more.

And as we know from the great writers of every age, the revolt against convention can be a sort of faith, a conviction as deep as what it tries to overthrow.

Is it possible that the imagistic revolution of the information age is also a sacramental revolution in which the visual forms we identify as «secular» are themselves embodiments of faiths and values that compel our deepest loyalties?

Second, Korean Christian faith, unlike the «ghetto faiths» of many other Asians, bears witness to the ways in which Korean Christians, moved by their deep faith in Jesus Christ as the Suffering Messiah, joined other Koreans to resist historical forces of injustice that were denying Korean people of life, justice and dignity.

At a deeper level, as people are conditioned to a consumer outlook, the church finds itself under challenge to present the Christian faith in a way that meshes with people's desire for answers, and in a more pernicious way for a faith «product», that will meet their needs with a minimum of effort and disruption.

In the course of these remarks, this was said: «Those of us who shared our friend's deep faith in God as Love can have a confidence that nothing that he did, or said, or wrote, or thought can ever be lost.

He is repulsed by their superficial, skin - deep faith because, as C. F. D. Moule says, «Externals are worse than useless, unless the heart is in the right place.»

And even as I uphold this peculiar and particular faith, I want to teach William to engage his friends and teachers with different faith backgrounds and commitments with deep respect.

This leads into the deeper criticism that in this interpretation the risen Christ is not alive, whereas the coming into being of the Easter faith was earlier described as «the disciples» experience that Jesus was somehow alive among them.»

Alistair McGrath points out that «apologetics appeals to beauty and morality as much as to rationality [and] must go beyond demonstrating the capacity of the Christian faith to make sense of things, and speak meaningfully of deeper issues of purpose, value and identity.»

Once she was able to see this stage of her faith as an invitation to deeper trust and companionship with Jesus» suffering, her anguish was ended and she began a new, more empowered season of life and work.

In regarding mental illness as symptomatic of the diseased general condition of humankind, faith relativizes the simplistically absolute distinction between the sick and the well, and calls attention to a deeper, less obvious level of selfhood.

If my hope as a Christian investor in America is the despair of a black brother or sister in South Africa, can the gospel unite us through a deeper articulation of our common faith?

All the better for this conversation, of course, if Muslim dialogue partners bring to the table a deep memory of Muslim philosophers such as al - Farabi, Averroës and Avicenna, each of whom attended in various ways to the profound connection between faith and reason, the central point of the pope's lecture.

While Cobb's proposals about «incarnation» address the problem of the pluralism of faiths in a most exciting manner, we have deep reservations about his analysis of incarnation in the more usual, restricted sense as applying to how Jesus can be the Christ.

The legend of Solomon is not without foundation in fact, as we shall see in a moment; and some of the legend's accretions are superb creations, instructive to the life and faith of Israel and emanating from deep within it.

To make the point more strongly, I know of at least four priests who have come from families who were not practising when they were brought for baptism as infants, but who through the influence of a school, or priests, teachers or grandparents were led to strong and deep faith and then to ordination.

But no, the hoary old liberal standard - bearer mawkishly burbled, «Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical confirms him as a man of humour, warmth, humility and compassion, eager to share the love that God «lavishes» on humanity and display it as the answer to the world's deepest needs... This is a document that presents the most attractive face of the Catholic faith and could be put without hesitation into the hands of any inquirer.»

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

As it turned out, I came to a deeper understanding of the structural polarities and theological paradoxes that communicate «faith» in any efficacious performance of Christian liturgy.

As her pastor, I must help her to see that her deep, unmentionable secret is in the eyes of faith a church problem, an invitation to renew her baptism and possibly that of her son as well by allowing her brothers and sisters in Christ to minister to their neeAs her pastor, I must help her to see that her deep, unmentionable secret is in the eyes of faith a church problem, an invitation to renew her baptism and possibly that of her son as well by allowing her brothers and sisters in Christ to minister to their neeas well by allowing her brothers and sisters in Christ to minister to their need.

The moral law of Israel, as obedience to the will of the God who required of men justice, mercy, and faith, Jesus never set aside, though by his acts and his words he put deeper and wider content into these terms than any before him had done.

The deeper issue is the genuine spiritual power recognizable in a pastor who, as the spiritual guide of a congregation, has faithfully practiced the traditional disciplines of Christian faith.

This theme has deep affinities with H. Richard Niebuhr's Faith on Earth: An Inquiry into the Structure of Human Faith, as well as Michael Polanyi's description of tacit knowledge and similar writings.

Problem definition is time - consuming, a deep journey into our own prejudices and hopes for a Christian faith that actually makes a difference, a horrible awakening that giants of the faith may have little faith in God and more in courts and money, that fame - seekers exist within the church system and garner friends as shields, that a man that marries a second wife may wish to destroy the first wife at any cost, and that authors can indeed write good books but run away from women speaking of their own abuse, and that prior friendships dictate the limits of Christianity....

The pastor who feels it is his bounden duty to act as a spiritual mentor to an alcoholic who comes to him could perhaps succeed if he could recall out of his own experience some time of deep crisis or personal suffering in which he found comfort from his faith, and could tell that story simply and directly.

But if Christian experience of genuine exemplification of divine aim among us through Jesus Christ is valid at all as I have described it, this unification and transformation of humanity will exhibit striking coherence from the perspective of the historical Jesus, and congruence with him, and will manifest the «truth» of Christian faith in a way that is deeper than mere doctrine.

«The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths,» he continues, «and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered.»

Even as young teenagers, even as preteens, they're attuned in many ways to paradox, to suffering, to the deep questions of faith.