Sentences with phrase «faith and practice»

Such logic can not be maintained consistently in every matter of faith and practice.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office.

What do we do when we begin to come to different conclusions about faith and practice than are taught by our faith community?

I came out of a denomination with a book of discipline, but it was called Faith and Practice.

The glory of American theology has been its ability to combine faith and practice.

Muslim parents have responded by supporting full - time Islamic schools that create a stronger environment of support for Muslim faith and practice.

And the ones that do make it there offer no challenge to the authority of scripture on matters of faith and practice.

This bill would limit freedom of religious faith and practice to programs, courses and activities directly and narrowly intended to train pastors and similar vocational church leaders.

«We are deeply saddened that the Holy Bible, our primary authority for faith and the practice of Christian living, and our Book of Discipline are being grossly ignored by some members and leaders of our church in favor of social and cultural practices that have no scriptural basis for acceptance in Christian worship and conduct,» the African bishops stated.

It is a remarkable argument that, in effect, offers modern Muslims a way to directly engage Christian sources and assess what Islam considers to be their corruptions (e.g., claims of Christ's divinity), all while extracting a much - needed Gospel remainder (Injil) for Islamic faith and practice.

The faithful and their good shepherds are looking to the Vicar of Christ for the confirmation of the Catholic faith and practice regarding marriage, which is the first cell of the life of the Church.»

Novelty provides cheap thrills, and a student of Christian theology is rightly skeptical of agendas and programs that claim to renew Christian faith and practice with new concepts, new paradigms, and new theologies.

Religious broadcasters certainly have not created this effect, but they have capitalized on it, and in acquiescing to it they have reinforced its application to religious faith and practice as well.

As I have written in a recent article on the topic of shoplifting demand letters, when lawyers send letters that mislead the public as to their legal obligations, there is a strong case that these lawyers are breaching rules of professional misconduct by, among other things, knowingly assisting their clients in dishonest conduct and violating their obligations to act in good faith and practice law with integrity.

So faith and practice of these things can make things more «solid.»

«Solo» Scriptura is the idea that we can learn all matters about faith and practice using the Bible alone, plus nothing else.

If faith and practice similar to that of Christianity have emerged independently of Jesus Christ, then I would expect them to have similar salvific efficacy.

Now, however, interest has shifted more and more to unmediated aggiornamento, the updating of faith and practice by direct translation into presumably more intelligible and relevant modern idioms and actions.

First, he was a thinker and doer who united faith and practice.

They also were some of the same people who might not be able to tell you much about what was in the scripture, but they sure could quote Faith and Practice, particularly when it came to their pet issues.

His own style and theology are rooted in a deeply traditional faith and practices: struggling with age and painful foot problems he is routinely heard to mutter «all for thee, Jesus» in the tradition of «offering up» suffering.

Further, in presenting his interpretation of Matthew 16 and John 20, he merely illustrates the Protestant dilemma of a lack of common faith and practice resulting from each Christian interpreting Scripture as he will in the absence of a divinely sanctioned interpreter, the Catholic Church.

Part of the theological task is to reconstruct this development in search of the apostolic faith and practice which was «handed over» to the next generation.

Nine years later, in Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church, 393 U. S. 440 (1969), the Court held that Georgia's common law, which implied a trust upon local church property for the benefit of the general church only on the condition that the general church adhere to its tenets of faith and practice existing at the time of affiliation by the local churches, was inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore could not be utilized to resolve church property disputes.

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

But, of course, whether or not that is possible must be answered by those who credibly speak from the heart of Islamic faith and practice.

State Rep. Drew Springer (R), who had not endorsed either candidate, said that the «ad released by Senator Craig Estes mocking the Catholic faith and the practice of confession was over the line,» and said that Estes should «take his fight outside of the Church, take down the ad and apologize.»

Indeed, not long before, the Idumeans (the descendants of ancient Edom), from whom the Herods came, were induced by force to embrace the Jewish faith and practice.

This moving back and forth between faith and practice, between spirit and reality, between the realm of God and the realms of this world, is precisely the calling of all who today consider themselves religious.

In this crisis, the Holiness Code, with some of its regulations reaching far back into Israel's ancient faith and practice, is freshly presented.

The people of India would never refer to their religious faith and practices as Hinduism except as a concession to Western thought, for the Western label implies a pattern of beliefs and practices which is alien to their way of life.

Like anyone with a radio ministry over an international network I received hundreds of thousands of letters from all over the world and, whenever they presented important questions about religious faith and practice, I answered them.

The phrase sola scriptura refers to the primacy and sufficiency of Scripture as the theological norm — the only infallible rule of faith and practice — over all tradition rather than the mere rejection of tradition itself.

Although the creeds of our denomination pay lip service to the idea that Scripture is «authoritative» and «sufficient for faith and practice,» many of us have moved far beyond that notion in our theological thinking.

The mainline Reformers of the sixteenth century posited what is called the «formal principle,» which holds that the Scriptures are (in the words of the 2000 Amsterdam Declaration) «the inspired revelation of God... totally true and trustworthy, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice.»

In our own attempts to integrate action and contemplation, faith and practice, we found our way into new monastic communities.

On the other hand, one must welcome the true conquests of the Enlightenment, human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its practice, and recognize these as being essential elements for the authenticity of religion. . . .

A religion's a system of faith and practice, while a relationship is a connection between individuals that could be based on things like emotion, blood, common interest, etc..

A religion's a system of faith and practice, while...