Sentences with phrase «essence of faith»

The area in which the diversity moves is not unlimited; the diversity is the expression of a common essence of the faith.

The response of the larger Catholic community was very unfortunate and defeats the very essence of our faith as Christians.

Indeed, for him the very essence of faith is this conviction, and it is this faith which frees the Christian for total openness to the reality of his time, however dark and empty it may appear.

What if honest doubt is actually the essence of faith?

Sometimes the wound is apparently random and meaningless; to teach us there isn't a reason for everything, that we can't get our heads around it all, that not understanding and just trusting is the essence of faith — faith that takes us beyond our concept of God, which is always limited, towards a place of knowing the unknowable.

I get an atheist photographer trying to «capture» the essence of faith... but this pictures seemed staged and... like a newbie did them.

The mental habits of Christendom predispose us to look for one essence of the faith, with a corresponding global political structure as safeguard, whereas world Christianity challenges us to pay attention to the dynamic of power of the gospel and the open - ended character of communities of faith.»

The Death of God movement was part of a tradition of liberal Protestantism that sought to turn critics of Christianity into allies who could help midwife a fuller realization of the essence of faith.

In The Essence of Faith According to Luther (1844), it turns out that the felicity principle is nothing other than Luther's celebrated pro me («for me»).

Surely it is of the essence of our faith that it enables us to transcend the spirit of our time — not perfectly but at least in some significant measure?

And is this not also the essence of faith?

A passage from his The Essence of Faith According to Luther (1844) must suffice: «Omnipotence confirms the divine promises.»

The paradox is not based on the psychological processes of the believer, but on the essence of faith itself.

But that mystery is the essence of faith and the answers (I believe) will eventually be revealed to us through love of each other and of the being that deliberately created us all.

Likewise, it is of the very essence of faith that we acknowledge the transcendence of divine mystery over any of our propositional and symbolic representations of it.

In the essence of faith, with utter trust and confidence, Abraham replies, «God will provide the offering, my son.»

That is the essence of faith, and why religious beliefs and scientific knowledge should be kept apart to insure the integrity of both.

When the essence of our faith is inclusion and sharing (good news) with one another — then so should our focus be there.

The Lonely Man of Faith, for instance, tries to show how a religious man can reconcile secular endeavors with the existential experience that embodies the essence of faith.

Theologian Martin Marty has noted, however, that to impose certain restrictions on the broadcast of religious faith is to remove the essence of that faith.

That is the essence of faith — to keep expecting something from Christ even when all you get out of church is a good kick - drum sound.

It is easier than ever before to buy books while on the go via WIFI and not have to advertise to the world the essence of your faith, unless you want to.