Sentences with word «exclusivism»

We must give up that kind of Christian exclusivism, and it is my impression that most of us, practically if not always theoretically, have done so.

It would mean that evangelicals are perhaps finding a «middle way» between traditional exclusivism on the one hand and outright universalism on the other.

As DiNoia notes in his first chapter: The Christian claim that there is no salvation except through Jesus Christ, or the Buddhist claim that there is no attainment of Nirvana except in the following of the Excellent Eightfold Path, reflects not an unwarranted exclusivism on the part of these communities but the seriousness with which each regards the true aim of life and the means necessary to attain and enjoy it.

The religious exclusivism of this God was common knowledge.

«we don't want the Vandy name associated with exclusivism.»

And using it to fight fundies, just feeds into their mistaken greedy - grasps for certainty and tribal exclusivism.

Communitarian inclusiveness is no innocent practice, because it reflects a reaction against exclusivism and so is readily given to a kind of reactive carelessness.

And it's important that a variety of views are represented fairly and accurately — from exclusivism to inclusivism to conditional immortality to universalism.

He readily admits the presence of a christological exclusivism in the various canonical writings but finds this emphasis contradictory to what he takes to be the genuine core of the witness: the proclamation of the action of a God who is ever gracious and to whom humanity is ever responsible — a proclamation which necessarily entails the presupposition of the genuine possibility of authentic existence at all times and places.

fact it is the very Christian character of «Dalitness» which will justify this primacy given to Dalits and the methodological exclusivism.

Because of the fact that lots of men are not able to offer women the amount of attention they want and need and because they are never willing to make financial sacrifices in order to see them happy, young women have decided that it is time for them to engage in a long - term arrangement that does not imply exclusivism and that are never jealous of them.

Do you think it is possible to escape the confines of the choice between exclusivism and universalism?

Any idea which supports exclusivism is, by definition, combative.

For those believers who genuninely live within the linguistic system, it may overcome lukewarmness, but it renews the dangers of the earlier exclusivism.

Traditional exclusivism holds that 1) Jesus Christ is the only Savior, and 2) explicit faith in Jesus Christ is necessary for salvation.

At the heart of the issue was the fact that exclusivism just didn't feel right to me, it didn't fit with my very core sense of right and wrong, of justice and injustice, of good and evil.

But whenever I worked up the courage to question exclusivism, someone inevitably fired back, «who are you to question your Creator?

In addition to these arguments against Harnack and his followers, adopting his historical exclusivism would make us into a certain kind of people.

It was in the context of Germany 1934 that the Confessing Church in its Barmen Declaration rallied around the utter exclusivism of our Johanine text and that other unyielding Johanine claim, «I am the way, the truth and the life: no one comes to the Father, but by me» (John 14:6).

If revelation is mainly propositional and if you don't know those propositions, you don't have a chance to know God in a saving way, thus exclusivism.

Exclusivism imposes false criteria on salvation — «If you do not join us and / or if you are not doing what we are doing you are not saved.»

Many postconservatives abandon exclusivism and opt for a new inclusivist view of salvation, believing it is possible for many who never hear the gospel message to be saved.

God the Son represents the whole of humanity, for he explodes all forms of racial, legal and ritual exclusivism, whether it be Jewish or anti-Jewish racism, Roman or Anglo - Catholic sacramental smugness, or Protestant moralism and sectarian perfectionism.

If exclusivism is true, then the majority of the human population was damned to hell without even the possiblilty of being saved.

For more on why exclusivism is not the only view supported by Scripture, check out this older post.

Like persons, a religion must «die» [abandon any non-relational exclusivism] in order to live.)

Although the old exclusivism dies hard, it is clear that many members of the Churches of Christ are diligent in the effort to bring the tradition into clear dialogue with current issues in theology and ethics.

The sense of being what Churches of Christ historian David E. Harrell has called «a peculiar people» has often lapsed into intolerant exclusivism.

In any case, the universalism accompanying Christo - centric exclusivism constitutes a major problem in today's inter-religious encounters.

An alternative way of describing what happened is that eventually the constituencies of schools — whether faculty, students, alumni, or other financial supporters — would not stand for continuing Protestant exclusivism.

If I were addressing a Catholic audience, near the top of my list would be the wish that Catholics would abandon — repent of — even the moderated exclusivism of Vatican II.

Theologians and apologists have defended exclusivism's truth since time out of mind, but never so much as in these pluralistic and relativistic times.

With his pronouncement that «there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him,» but that it is «the things which come out of a man that defile him,» Jesus delivers a devastating denunciation of Jewish exclusivism.

This reconsideration of historic Christian exclusivism involves a great deal of excitement and vitality, but it is still in a confused state, and it adds to the general theological confusion of the church.

This tendency has led to absolutistic exclusivism.

Despite my hesitancy to use selective passages of Scripture to «make a point» and my general aversion to bullet - points, I felt it necessary to include a more detailed presentation of a biblical alternative to exclusivism for the benefit of those readers who are themselves searching for one.

(the best theological book of the last ten years, though not written by a theologian), Arnold Toynbee suggests that those three religions of revelation which spring from a common historical root — Judaism, Islam, and Christianity have a tendency toward exclusivism and intolerance.

By «bad faith» I mean that Sartrean sense of self - righteousness, self - projection and non-engagement which promotes exclusivism and intransigence.

Liberal Protestantism opposed traditional Christian exclusivism and helped rule it out of bounds.

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