Sentences with phrase «expiation of»

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.

5:11) If Jesus was the Messiah, God's Son, why then had he died the shameful death on the cross, the last penalty of a criminal in expiation of his misdeeds?

The Sacrament of Eucharist becomes a ritual contra ritual in that it brings to a close a cultic tradition of animal sacrifice for the expiation of sins.

[13] The inversion from the usual «flesh and blood» is probably designed to emphasise the role of blood in the expiation of Jesus as high priest in 2,17.

The expiation of sin achieved by Jesus» priestly sacrificial death on the cross is brought to fulfilment in the Eucharist of which Jesus is the heavenly high priest.

Had Augustine or Aquinas considered his philosophical description to be a sufficient response to evil, he would not have needed to invoke the cross or, more broadly, the expiation of sin.

Pope Pius XII, in an important allocution to medical experts, declared that it was reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life in expiation of their crimes.

In this case it is reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned person of the enjoyment of life in expiation of his crime when, by his crime, he has already dispossessed himself of his right to life.

This is the expiation of your oaths when ye have sworn; and keep your oaths.

It is characteristic of the worship of the post-Exilic temple, therefore, that the two forms of sacrifice added to the rubric were the trespass - and the guilt - offerings, both expiations of sin, and that, in general, the sense of public guilt in the later Old Testament is poignant and profound.

Not exact matches

Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith Martin Luther believed that the theology of this text was...

The passage you're referring to, when read in context, seems to be forbidding the marking of one's body in ceremonial expiation for the dead.

Two new kinds of sacrifice of major importance were added after the Exile the trespass - offering, a sacrifice of restitution either for wrong done to man or as tribute due to Yahweh, and the sin - offering, an expiation for the unwitting guilt of the people.

There is no theology of expiation, of testing, or of the presence of Satan.

''... People today no longer have an immediate intuitive grasp of the fact that Christ's blood on the Cross is expiation for their sins.

As St Paul says: «Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by His grace as gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, Whom God put forward as an expiation by His Blood.

Even for one who has been brought up «in the faith» a bit of reflection makes one admit that the shades of difference between propitiation and expiation or between redemption and ransom are rather vague in one's mind.

Through this expiation, we are justified and freed from the condemnation of the Law, and redeemed from evil ways.

I labelled it forgiveness, some type of expiation, maybe I would use my life to rectify those mistakes, sort of make up for their misgivings by leading a life seeking to change those faults laid upon me.

This interpretation of the scriptures and understanding of Christian anthropology gave Christian spirituality a view of God as a harsh judge who wanted the sacrifice of the life of Jesus as expiation and atonement for the sins of humanity.

No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood.

How does one do that — if not via some avenue of expiation?

Now that end is the salvation of souls from eternal punishment, now the cure of guilty souls through their apprehension of the love of God, now the reconciliation of God and man through sacrifice and sacrament and works of expiation.

«The refusal to regard the dispersion of the Jews as a divinely decreed expiation or a form of divine discipline»; and 3.

I prefer to conceptualize Christianity in this exemplary resurrectional fashion, as did many of the Greek Fathers, rather than in the crude Roman legalistic sense of sin - punishment - vicarious expiation, so popular with the African Fathers and particularly with Tertullian, the proto - canon lawyer, God help him.

Dodd rightly insists that the term «expiation» should be read instead of «propitiation» (The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, pp. 54ff.)

-- the situation is not that an angry God needs to be placated and that he is placated by the blood of an innocent victim (such an idea would have seemed monstrous: after all, it is God who is «setting forth the expiation»; it is God who is seeking to «reconcile the world to himself»), but rather that sin needs to be covered or annulled.

But whoso forgoeth it (in the way of charity) it shall be expiation for him.

Hebrews continues, Christ «had to be made like His brethren in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make expiation for the sins of the people.»

The old Roman Rite, which emerged from a long tradition, was understood as the sacramental offering by the priest, acting in the Person of Christ, which He offered on the Cross to his Father in expiation for the sins of the world.

The priest acts in the Person of Christ in so far as He exercises His Mercy towards men by offering Himself to the Father in sacrifice for the expiation for their sins.

This doctrine holds that healing functions as evidence of expiation; therefore, whoever has not been cured also has not been pardoned for his sins.

Donald Dayton observes that, in the development of North American Pentecostalism, the doctrine of «healing as part of expiation» (Dayton, p. 6) played an important role.

The five stages of grief are a well - known reaction to loss, but Stéphane Gerson added a sixth when his 8 - year - old son, Owen, died in a commercial rafting accident on Utah's Green River: He decided to write about it, «in expiation, in homage, in remembrance.»

In 1959, Rothko, who was of Russian Jewish descent, invited to participate in the Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany, proposed the creation of a chapel of expiation offering to paint works for it for free, but an agreement with the organizers was never achieved.