Actually, Christian theology at its best has recognized that sin is not fundamentally an act but rather the condition of alienation or
estrangement out of which harmful acts may arise.
Not exact matches
In the process of that widening
estrangement, Christianity has lost its understanding of the Jewishness of Jesus; has lost touch with the culture
out of which the message of Jesus was spoken, thus bringing a Gentile definition to Jewish words; and has lost its sense of the immediacy of God's working through scandalous particulars in human history in order to affirm the universal goodness of his creation.
This very rarity brings
out an aspect of the
estrangement between the Church and modern science which is not properly dealt with by Professor Barr.
You really can't describe the situation we are in today as an
estrangement between the bankers and corporate CEOs and the rest of the 99 percent that brings
out the worst in both — barefaced greed and a hateful relish in the suffering of others in the first and a dystopic and quiescent resignation to the inevitability of capitalism in the second.
In the documentary film by Neel's grandson shown here, the artist describes how, when painting people, she «went so
out of myself and into them» that afterwards she felt like «an untenanted house», encapsulating the intensity and
estrangement in her portraits.
But although the initiative aimed to close the gap between the Facebook chief and the masses, it seems it has made Zuckerberg's
estrangement with normality even more apparent — and the internet was quick to take the piss
out of the billionaire.
The following couple's therapy is about Erica and Paul's journey
out of feelings of
estrangement from each other to the creation of joy and bliss for each other and life.