Sentences with phrase «effect on my faith»

Even if God did not grant one single prayer during a Christian's lifetime, that should have ZERO effect on their faith.

@Chris... Yes it is the beauty of science... which has no effect on faith.

I suspect it had the same effect on my faith.

Not exact matches

Spring Harvest leader Malcolm Duncan shares moments when God has spoken to him, and we look at the effect of theology college on the faith of those who go there.

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

I believe that birth control can be used by religious people without having a negative effect on someone's faith.

But our access to the normative content of the faith, the effect of that content on us, and the normative content itself must be kept distinct.

Their religious symbol should have no effect on you if you have no faith in the religion, the argument is entirely flawed and petty.

The Obama administration's policy requiring most employers to provide free birth control coverage in their health insurance policies takes effect on Wednesday (Aug. 1)- a deadline that has sparked apocalyptic warnings from conservative activists and some faith groups.

His legacy of writings and the Faith movement remain a remarkable achievement for someone who never really held any academic posts but was, in his quiet way, a «charismatic» figure, much loved by many and whose thinking and unique apostolate had a profound effect, especially on the young.

Critics of such faiths as Christian Science and Mormonism can not but be impressed with the beneficent effect that the reality of group life has on many young people.

Religion Can Make You Poor In her review of Lisa A. Keister's Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty (February), Naomi Schaefer Riley takes the author to task for the superficiality of her analysis of her study's findings regarding religion's effect on socioeconomic status.

This may mean helping a patient deal with the implications of his faith for his problems, raising the issue with the staff regarding the effect of the religious dimension of a patient's life on his present behavior, or in helping the staff to deal with their own religious feelings or understanding.

The best thing a candidate can say to me on faith is that his or her religious beliefs will have no real effect on how (s) he governs

But when it comes to modern media like radio, television, and the internet, we can be guilty of a certain level of naiveté about the effects of technology on our lives, especially as people of faith.

I was glad to see Kevin White's piece on the effects of microphones on the Mass in the recent issue of First Things («Drop the Mic,» December 2012), for microphones have been on my mind lately as I hear homilies at Masses several times a week and as I reflect on and teach about mission, liturgy, and preaching in various contexts for the Year of Faith.

A Choice of Theories Berger was never a Bultmannian in theology, but the early Berger offered a similar account of the corrosive effect of modernity on religious faith.

Daniel Clendenin suggests that while Orthodoxy may be too small to have an effect on American religion as a whole, conversions may be having a «seismic impact» on the way the faith is practiced in the U.S..

It had an effect on my personal faith.

The effect that theological questions can have on the faith of a young student is not a new one.

More people in the oldline churches are exposed to the corrosive effects of modern thought on the confidence of faith.

Theological education needs to take more seriously than it has that the mass media may be having a marked effect on religious faith, not just by the media's presentation of religious issues, but by the influence the media are exerting on perceptions of social reality within which religious faith is understood and experienced.

That masterful admission came from the executive editor of The New York Times, Dean Baquet, concerning journalists» inability to report on the effects of faith on the voters of the 2016 election.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

The fact that this has been raised at all in such a subjective fashion could have a chilling effect on service personnel sharing their faith at all.

Although decisions about this relationship had significant effects on the whole project, the debate itself could become very abstruse and remote from the questions asked even by those most personally and intellectually concerned about their faith.

In conclusion, then, we may say that biblical inspiration is the effect of God's promise on individuals writing within the context of a community of faith brought into existence and sustained by a vision of promise emanating from the Spirit of hope.

(d) refuse to give them any evidence of the ill effects of smoking, insist that they rely entirely on faith and then take them out into the backyard and burn them to death if you ever catch them smoking?

«And the survey says that this pope does, indeed, have a «Francis effect,» even on a group of people named for protesting the very faith the pope leads.»

But since evangelical Christianity is largely a faith of the head, heart and mouth, questions of its accommodation and its effect on military atmosphere are difficult to track and evaluate.

(d) refuse to give them any evidence of the ill effects of smoking, insist they rely on faith and then take them out into the backyard and burn them to death if I ever catch them smoking.

And if we review the book as a whole, we must judge that this excessive emphasis on the future has the effect of relegating to a secondary place just those elements in the original Gospel which are most distinctive of Christianity — the faith that in the finished work of Christ God has already acted for the salvation of man, and the blessed sense of living in the divine presence here and now.

This being postulated, do those in high places realize the revolutionary power of so novel a concept (it would be better to use the word «doctrine») in its effect on religious Faith?

But language is what the poet has to work with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using words in odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas with sensuous images and fragments from scripture, and the common language of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these odd juxtapositions.

Biblical inspiration is the effect of God's promise on individuals writing within the context of a community of faith brought into existence and sustained by a vision of promise emanating from the Spirit of hope.

Wuthnow draws the subtle distinction that «rhetoric about faith - based programs has had one kind of impact on civil society while the reality of these programs has had quite a different effect.»

Secondly, it meant that faith need not have any effect on a person's life.

Great theologians, like Augustine and Aquinas (to name but two), have worked in this fashion; but they were also strangely discontented in doing so, since their real faith was in the biblical God of unfailing love - in - action, effecting his purpose of love in nature and history, and most profoundly open to and receptive of what went on in the world.

Whatever may be true about the effect of Persian ideas on Judaism's thought of the future life, it is clear that between the Testaments there was a powerful swing of faith toward convinced hope.

This imaginative faith helps to effect the transition into a new perspective on life, into a new way of relating, and of thinking, and of knowing, and of living.

Do I think that faith has any effect on the macro sized level of the universe?

Does a persons faith have a personal effect on me, in this time and space?

Because your rationalization for your faith is exactly the same type as the Muslims and Hindus use, no god belief ever comes out on top — it's the belief that carries the placebo effect, not the specific religion or god..

And so instead of theology being a set of - conceptual accommodations [to special interests] it looked to me as if theology should have a disciplining effect on the individual... to make belief in God, judgments and confidence in one's own self plausible through old - fashioned things like repentance, faith, hope, love.

Reflection on the effects of Spirit on the life of faith helps us to undo this linguistic neutering.

Perhaps the skeptical and revisionist spirit of post-structural critical theory, which in its own terms rejects the disjunction of science and literature as false, will ultimately have the effect of reconciling the two on the quite different terms of a common faith in common fathers.

It is the nature of this rupture which I have been trying to outline in what follows, along with the reasons for it, and the effect of it on the Christian faith.

No treatment of our contemporary Catholic malaise can fail to mention the devastating effect on the coherence of our faith of the related issues of abortion and contraception.

That seems to me ludicrous intellectually; but even worse is its deteriorating effect on a man's confidence, faith, hope, and devotion in a dangerous time like this.

This thoroughgoing approach to faith and reason means that, as ever, we publish pieces that reveal what we think are aspects of the effect upon our church and society of the 20th century collapse of an agreed and coherent vision of the faith to hand on to our seminarians and our people.