Sentences with phrase «emphasis on faith»

The site provided a meeting place for Jewish singles who wanted to continue the traditions they were raised with, but weren't interested in a heavy emphasis on faith.

But there is a consistency of emphasis on faith healings that is impossible to dismiss.

Second, his emphasis on faith as a gift of God, rather than salvation being a gift of God (Eph.

and they are entirely coherent with the emphasis on faith in the exorcism - healing tradition.

Recent studies of the miracle stories in the Gospels in comparison with those told of Jewish and pagan saints and sages or «divine men» have brought out the fact that the emphasis on faith as a condition of healing is a distinctive element in the Gospel narratives.

But with the Reformation's emphasis on faith, rather than works, physical expressions fell out of favour.

First and foremost is the heavy emphasis on faith, as in Romans 1:17 & 4:5.

It may be overstating a significant truth to notice that, in part because of the emphasis on faith, the generations after the Reformation were devoted to the clarification of the faith and they left us the legacy of great creeds and doctrinal symbols.

Not exact matches

She cites John's emphasis on personal faith, de-emphasis of high offices, and prioritization of Christology as ways in which this particular gospel has deeply influenced low - church liturgical practices.

This would suggest that there are faiths out there that place emphasis on another world.

Nevin was attempting to articulate an approach to Christian faith that was both Protestant and catholic, placing a great emphasis on Christian unity and on the centrality of the Eucharist in the Christian life.

This distinction points to what is perhaps the major flaw in Dreher's otherwise winsome effort: the lack of emphasis on creation as a normative order to which everyone, irrespective of faith, is subject.

If they live their faith, I bet by and large, they are contributing members of society who place emphasis on good work ethic, honesty, education, family and kindness.

Roof and McKinney's emphasis on liberals» secular drift aptly calls attention to the perennial liberal problem in propagating the faith and inculcating piety.

World Vision, the largest faith - based charity in the world has been helping refugees from Syria for a long time, with a special emphasis on children and food.

An emphasis on the decision character of faith has a long and deep history in the American psyche going back to our Puritan and evangelical ancestors.

Building on the emphasis on the individual in pietism, moving through Kant, and in this century appropriating existentialism, Lutheranism has too frequently tried to construct in the private experience of justification an area for faith that can not be touched by the challenges of modernity.

There's a big emphasis, I think, on identity and owning [it], and faith is just a part of that.

And when Evangelical leaders regard an emphasis on the ordinary means of grace as jeopardizing the Christian faith while going easy on, for example, serious deviations from Nicene teaching on the Trinity, they have traveled a long way from the concerns of the Reformers.

What is often neglected in these ministries is that the emphasis in the context of these Scriptures is not on the kind of faith or the amount of faith, but on abiding with Christ and asking according to the will of God.

Through my own pastoral experiences I have come to see that neo-orthodoxy — with all its emphasis on realism in theology, on the kerygma of the Bible, on the sinfulness of personal and corporate life, on the radical nature of the new life, and so forth — is hesitant and weak in calling persons to a positive faith.

The emphasis on his divinity, the Canadian scholar Larry Hurtado suggests, was brought about by praying and singing hymns to Jesus, by celebration of the Lord's Supper, by confession of faith in Jesus and prophetic pronouncements of the risen Christ5 Even so there seems to have been some hesitation to speak of Jesus simply as «God» and those verses which appear to do so in English versions of the New Testament may have been mistranslated.

Just as the emphasis on spiritual experience moves a person beyond differences of ritual and belief, so the urgency of the need to end war and violence and injustice, to bring relief to the hungry, to stand with those who are exploited and to seek to protect the environment unites Christians with people of other faiths.

I find it confusing that a faith that places so much emphasis on loving their neighbor spends so much time condemning others and opposing equality.

Obama's faith showed many of the elements of a liberal Protestant church: an emphasis on the separation of church and state, religious tolerance and the refusal to embrace a literal reading of the Bible.

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.

Or, as Father Urban Roche, hero of Powers's first novel, puts it, «There was too much emphasis on dying for the faith.

The emphasis on praxis in contemporary theology reminds us that what we do is an integral part of our faith commitment.

However, the amount of emphasis placed on «grace through faith» in some Christian circles doesn't provide much incentive to be good.

What are the implications for ministry in an environment where faith is transmuted away from an emphasis on the service of God to one of selection of aspects of faith and churches according to what one perceives one's needs are?

Many converts are attracted by Orthodoxy's emphasis on mystical experience as opposed to the perceived preoccupation in Protestantism on the rational aspect of the Christian faith.

There is, to begin with, the problem of Berger's» and liberal Protestantism's» emphasis on individual faith and personal experience.

JW has been praised for putting into practice the emphasis on community and on the kind of post-Christendom, mission - oriented faith that McLaren, Newbigin and others have written about.

Further, the emphasis on the practical may allow faith communities to avoid the challenge to their traditional exclusivism which a mystic vision implies.

That experience taught me to appreciate the Mormon faith, where there is a great emphasis on integrity.

Many Christians do not believe this, and I think it opens the door to an over-spiritualizing, and an internalizing of the faith which can place the emphasis on the self.

Witness the emphasis on a canon within the canon, Luther's response to the Anabaptists on the question of infant baptism, as well as both Reformers» insistence that the Word always stands in juxtaposition to faith and that neither is possible without the activity of the Holy Spirit.

When pistis is understood as «faith,» the emphasis must lie on the forensic element.

Nurtured toward sunny faith in human disposition, under God, they confronted the revived emphasis on original sin, total depravity and the human condition as diminishing the grandeur of the human as God's creation.

Unfortunately, in the Western Church, after the substitution of «right beliefs» for «works» or «fruits of the Spirit» as the sign of authentic faith by in classical Protestantism and the Enlightenment's emphasis on a reductionistic understanding of reason based solely on empirical logic, faith became confused with orthodox theological beliefs.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

by David Bebbington): conversionism, or an emphasis on the «new birth» as a life - changing religious experience; biblicism, a reliance on the Bible as ultimate religious authority; activism, a concern for sharing the faith; and crucicen - trism, an emphasis on Christ's atoning work on the cross.

The emphasis on justification by faith became common coin among the Reformers and their confessions.

There are shades of this in Gestalt Therapy, with its emphasis on the «wisdom of the organism» and its faith placed in the hierarchy of needs.

My own emphasis will be on faith in learning, and the axis around which my musings cluster is what I take to be the central notion of the Christian faith; namely, the incarnation.

The emphasis in seminary teaching seems to focus on retrieval of traditions interpreted in a contemporary light, and leaving room for hope of a more ecumenical understanding of Christian faith.

I plan on beginning with a course on the gospel, with a special emphasis on the relationship between faith and works.

We have no conflict with Alpha's emphasis on the centrality of Christ's redeeming work and the importance of reading the Bible to a growing faith.»

As a short, inductive introduction the emphasis is on meaning and especially on the meaning of the ancient text in the life and faith of that ancient people, Israel.

It places great emphasis on the overt experiential and emotional aspects of religious faith, making it more appealing and engaging to television viewers than other more mystical or conceptual expressions of Christianity.