Sentences with phrase «early disciples»

The scriptural account of Acts shows the apostles and early disciples doing exactly that.

This is not the culture of Paul and the early disciples; this is the culture of Constantine!

Although the various scriptural arguments for the resurrection of Jesus are open to question, modern writers insist that some explanation is needed of what empowered the early disciples to spread the message of Jesus across the world.

There is evidence of this in the stories of Jesus's early disciples.

For one thing, as we saw in the case of the early disciples, it is important that reason and faith communicate so we don't make grave mistakes when it comes to understanding the requirements of our faith.

What it can do is to work towards a discovery of the earliest strata of material in the gospel narratives, and thus indicate what it is highly likely the earliest disciples believed.

From its Palestinian origins, the Church has reached out into alien cultural and linguistic settings for a conceptuality and imagery that would communicate to a continually wider circle of people the inclusive message its earliest disciples had experienced in Jesus.

We know what you did to Jesus and the early disciples and the many others since then who dared to walk this path.

As careful historians all we can say is that according to the record these early disciples claimed to believe that Jesus was resurrected.

To try to explain this miraculous sonship to God physically, as some early disciples did in stories of virgin birth, seems to add nothing to its remarkable character.

Earlier Disciples have thus presented both the Churches of Christ and the Christian Church with an ironic heritage — a movement to restore the church, but one whose self - understanding has inhibited sustained theological reflection about the church's nature and mission.

Some of the earliest Disciples missionaries, for example, were sent to Europe to «restore» Christianity on the Continent.

This meant for the earliest disciples a basic renunciation of the struggle for existence, implemented by a complete break with the power structure of society: the automatic prerogatives of the chosen people, the security of the holy tradition, the comfort of established religious organization and clergy — all such props, controlled by man and as a result constantly available to him for securing his existence, were in principle eliminated.

For Chuang Tzu, one of the early disciples of Taoism, there is an excellent introduction in Waley's Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China, and the writings of Chuang Tzu are found in Hughes's Chinese Philosophy in Classical Times and in a recent reissue of Chuang Tzu, Taoist Philosopher and Chinese Mystic, by Herbert A. Giles.

Perhaps he believes that the earliest disciples did not understand it as Paul did.

It is clear that as a historian, and as a second - generation Christian, Luke is aware of a certain distance between himself and the earliest disciples.

However, it might be noted that there are examples where the early disciples and the Apostle Paul attempted, with great fervor, to reason with the unbelievers.

The earliest disciples seem to have thought and spoken of themselves as members or followers of a distinctive «way» of life.

Svetambara Jains believe that the canon as adopted at Vallabhi is based squarely upon the old texts compiled at the earlier Council at Pataliputra, and that this goes directly back to Mahavira, and his early disciples.

Bultmann has stated elsewhere that «the only historical event which can be established is the faith of the earliest disciples in the resurrection».

Whatever the historical and psychological explanation of that experience, the Easter faith of the earliest disciples is for us as it was for them «the proclamation of himself by the risen Lord, the act of God in which the salvation - event of the cross is completed».

Acting as Jesus» early disciples, they will work within themselves and beyond to give authentic witness through action of the love, forgiveness and care of God for all people.

Luke makes this point more explicit when he describes the errors of the earliest disciples, who supposed that the kingdom of God would immediately appear (19:11, etc.); it is in the life of the Church that the kingdom is to be realized (22:28 - 30).

That his argument was not couched in terms of the racial debate made it vulnerable and allowed antisemitic physicians to dismiss psychoanalysis itself as mass hysteria, a «psychic epidemic among physicians» — an interesting twist, given that most of Freud's early disciples were Jewish.

I was also an early disciple of Boyle and I bought into the ideology that we need only work inside the intervals of our sport or perhaps a little longer... but not too much!