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.
Not exact matches
I invested my time in reading, coaching, conferences,
and yoga / meditation
as well
as a
faith practice —
and, in each, allowed my natural instincts to discern what lessons to keep
and what not to.
We are also pleased to see that the CSA, IIROC
and MFDA may view refusals or low ball offers
as an indication of problems with a registered firm's complaint handling
practices including their obligation to deal fairly, honestly
and in good
faith with clients, act within the applicable standard of care, or have implemented
and maintained effective complaint handling procedures.
She cites John's emphasis on personal
faith, de-emphasis of high offices,
and prioritization of Christology
as ways in which this particular gospel has deeply influenced low - church liturgical
practices.
He believes that an exception can be made in every case, so that the principle will be preserved even
as it loses all force —
as if
faith need not shape
practice,
and practice would not remake
faith.
He requires repentance, the stoppage of sinning
as a regular
practice,
and faith in Christ for eternal salvation.
Atheists: I know many there are many people that
practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over
and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion
and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic
and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause
and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science
and technology instead of putting their
faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not
as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics
and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot
and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?
Nevertheless, this current situation described earlier makes us reflect,
and,
as pastors, we are worried about the fact that many people who contract marriage are formally Christians, since they have received baptism, but are not
practicing the Christian
faith at all; not just liturgically, but also existentially.
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.
some of you atheists are still talking... I can hear you... the little patter of your heart
as it increases in rate because you are so ticked off at those mean «ol believers whom you hate so much you just have to put all your time into the CNN posts dealing with
faith and God... You are so predictable... blather on without me though, I have to go get my sons from
practice, so you will have to spew your hate on those left behind... Merry Christmas!
But in Ker's view, they can not fairly be counted
as Catholic writers, since Conrad had stopped
practicing his
faith before he began to write
and Sitwell
and Sassoon had stopped writing before they became Catholics.
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. . . .
... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic
faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades
and Inquisitions,
and as people
practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their
faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived
and never to marry anyone outside their
faith...
and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.
If there is afterlife
as most of us
practicing Chiristians believe then we have to live our
faith and die faithfully to what we believe.
The
faith has absorbed some Christian teachings
as well, but peyote remains at the heart of its theology
and practice.
Given the «miracle» Nicaragua already is
and could be — a Latin American nation where the hungry are being fed, the sick are being healed
and the homeless are finding homes, where schools
and parks are being built
and faith is being put into
practice as well
as proclaimed in temples — it is hard to deny the reality expressed in a common slogan one hears there: «There is no contradiction between Christianity
and the revolution.»
Should we say,
as some inclusivists do, that it is because of Christ's saving mystery, offered to all, that salvation is available to the Hindu, for example, in the sincere
practice of his or her
faith — that in Christ salvation is mediated to Christians through the church
and to non-Christians through other traditions of
faith?
Sometimes I get the idea that folks in the mainline are so frustrated with how evangelicals have wielded the Bible
and faith in the public square, they avoid language,
practices,
and teaching that might be construed
as overly religious, overly biblical, or overly exclusive.
The purpose of the
Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradi
Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the
Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradi
Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic
Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradi
Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental
practice of their
faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradi
faith,
and above all, through this same activity
and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of,
and further insight into, the Catholic
Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradi
Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture
and Tradition.
Supplemented it may be by other literature, but it stands apart, sacred, relatively inviolable, abiding, unchanged across the centuries
as the basis of religious
faith and practice,
as do no other writings.
It is still great we three
faiths Jews, Christians, Muslims worship the same God we are monotheists but it is other things related to how the religion is
practiced that we dispute each other with, just
as Muslim branches dispute each other on the
practice or the Christians Catholics
and Protestants despute each other?
A large segment of Christianity holds to Sola Scriptura, which is typically defined
as the belief that the Bible alone is the final authority for all things related to
faith and practice.
It is the duty of the Caliph or Imam, the leader in Islam, to consolidate public opinion, execute judgments, administer state machinery, encourage the faithful in the
practice of their
faith, such
as prayers
and the religious tax,
and look after affairs of public interest with the guidance of a parliamentary democracy, the basis of government in Islam.
Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether
faith was thought of
as a power - releasing confidence in God, or
as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or
as the power by which we apprehend the eternal
and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or
as the climactic vision of Christ
as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or
as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie
and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement
and enrichment of
faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God
and was influencing deeply both the idea
and the
practice of prayer.
I speak throughout Canada
and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities,
and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our
faith journey, the embrace of ancient church
practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice,
and many other topics.
For example, if one understood by the church simply the historically given communities with their multiplicity of beliefs
and practices, the view of theology
as the articulation of the church's
faith would lead to a plurality of theologies that could hardly escape the recognition of their relativity with respect to historical factors.
Even when,
as with the Protestant Reformers, knowledge of God is reserved for the eschaton
and theological schooling focuses on
faith, schooling remains a
practice of paideia — notably, in Calvin's academy in Geneva.
Scripture is the primary source
and guideline «
as the constitutive witness to biblical wellsprings of our
faith,» but tradition, experience
and reason also function
as sources
and guidelines,
and in
practice «theological reflection may find its point of departure» in any of them.
There are nuances to shared values
as well
as distinct differences,
and that plays out in the beautiful, diverse expressions of our
faith and faith practices.
So he pointed to the well - known ruins of the earlier sanctuary of Shiloh
as a sign that the Jerusalem temple too was destined for destruction, for the religious
practices in it were leading Israel into a false
faith, dishonesty
and immorality.
Though we will loudly, repeatedly
and confidently proclaim Christ
as Lord, in reality, many of us no longer
practice faith in a God that has any real power, any true control or inherent God - ness.
Though early Christian exegesis may on first reading appear idiosyncratic
and arbitrary, it arose within the life of the Church
and was
practiced within a tradition of shared beliefs
and practices, guided by the Church's
faith as expressed in the creed.
The movements Howell mentioned were all led by powerful personalities, but they also dealt with basic issues of Baptist identity
and Christian
faith: namely, the balance of Scripture
and tradition
as norms of belief
and practice (Campbellism); the nature of the true church
and its identity markers (Landmarkism);
and the reality of divine grace in the plan of salvation (hyper «Calvinism).
Latin American theology today lives by «hope against hope,» in the apparently absurd confidence that small
and humble
practices of
faith such
as singing together or remembering the stories about Jesus can work toward rekindling a viable praxis of structural change.
My own view of all of this,
as a
practicing social scientist interested in the relationship between religious
faith and empirical science, is that the general perspective taken by Evans - Pritchard, Douglas,
and the Turners is not only entirely reasonable but close to the best account we might give.
The James O'Kelly Christian Church, which represents an important southern heritage of the United Church of Christ, underscores other nonhierarchical biblical Reformation concerns by viewing the Scriptures
as «the only creed, a sufficient rule of
faith and practice.»
The Jesus we meet in this book reverently
practiced his Jewish
faith as he grew in strength
and wisdom.
As Schama notes, Rembrandt's move from Leiden to Amsterdam took him from a bastion of Reformed conservatism to a polyglot capital in which the Remonstrants dominated politics
and mercantile pragmatism made it sensible to tolerate anyone who offered a good deal, whether Mennonite, Jew, millenarian or Calvinist — anyone, that is, except Roman Catholics, who were required to
practice their
faith in clandestine sanctuaries disguised within private homes.
The body, described by Christian
faith as an integral
and permanent aspect of human being, must be explicitly cared for
and enhanced by any ascetic
practice that we accept
as good for our souls.
Indeed,
as Paul Gutjahr
and Peter Thuesen show, scholarly criticism is just the beginning of Protestant worries when it comes to defending the Bible
as the sole authority for
faith and practice.
If we insist that we will always
practice some sin
as long
as we live on earth, we are believing for unrighteousness,
and it will be done to us according to our
faith!
In these ways, the objections to the idea of truth
as correspondence can be cleared away,
and we can explicitly reaffirm this notion, which we all implicitly affirm in
practice,
and we can therefore reaffirm that the task of the theologian involves the attempt to formulate the Christian
faith in true doctrines,
and to defend the truth of these doctrines by showing them to be self - consistent, adequate to the facts of experience,
and illuminating.
Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism
as «the theory
and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious
and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage
and intelligence to support our
faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).
See, that is the case here, at least for me, how do Christians
practice their
faith, is it
as a true belief in a Christ, or
as a sword to condemn
and chop away at those who do not believe
as they do?
He seemed to view
faith as a romantic adventure
and the universe
as a wild fairy tale — I had a similar perspective on the world,
as a twenty - one - year old in D.C. Chesterton died long before YouTube, but if he were alive today, I think he would advocate new, creative methods to revolutionize the
practice of journalism.
For the Christian tradition, the answer is
faith, hope,
and charity,
as embodied especially in the Church's liturgical
practices and articulated by her theological tradition.
Such an identity appears to be possible because,
as Walsh claims (most clearly
and emphatically in The Third Millennium: Reflections on
Faith and Reason), following Heidegger
and Voegelin, the transcendent must be utterly «differentiated» from our worldly or secular existence: the withdrawal of the divine into utterly transcendent mystery relieves existential - theological
practice of any ends «higher» than humanity.
As Paul Pfeutze has pointed out, both the dialogical philosophy
and pragmatism emphasize the concrete
and the dynamic, both reject starting with metaphysical abstractions in favour of starting with human experience, both insist upon «the unity of theory
and practice, inner idea
and outer deed,»
and both insist on the element of
faith and venture.
From these papers
and from other contacts I have had with Pure Land Buddhism, I sense that there are disagreements
as to how to understand the relation of
faith and practice.
As a result of this strategy some students switched from one version of Protestantism to another; other students left Protestantism entirely and became Orthodox or embraced certain features of Catholic teaching such as no longer practicing artificial contraception; others returned to their own branch with a greater sense of where its strengths and weaknesses resided; and still others discovered that their journey away from the Christian faith was not as simple as they had once conceive
As a result of this strategy some students switched from one version of Protestantism to another; other students left Protestantism entirely
and became Orthodox or embraced certain features of Catholic teaching such
as no longer practicing artificial contraception; others returned to their own branch with a greater sense of where its strengths and weaknesses resided; and still others discovered that their journey away from the Christian faith was not as simple as they had once conceive
as no longer
practicing artificial contraception; others returned to their own branch with a greater sense of where its strengths
and weaknesses resided;
and still others discovered that their journey away from the Christian
faith was not
as simple as they had once conceive
as simple
as they had once conceive
as they had once conceived.