Sentences with phrase «faith in some world view»

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Ultimately, then, religious faith, agnosticism, atheism, and everything in between are all ultimately world views.

I spend years in Apologetics and arrived at rational basis for my Christian faith, defend the faith against objections, and expose the perceived flaws of other world views.

Regardless of your views, I still have my personal faith, you may condemn me as simple minded or living in a fantasy world, but having witnessed first hand good triumphing over evil, I shall leave you to decide your own journey in life.

In his op - ed piece last Sunday in USA Today, Edward O. Wilson makes a sweeping pronouncement: «The two world views — science - based explanations and faith - based religion — can not be reconciled.&raquIn his op - ed piece last Sunday in USA Today, Edward O. Wilson makes a sweeping pronouncement: «The two world views — science - based explanations and faith - based religion — can not be reconciled.&raquin USA Today, Edward O. Wilson makes a sweeping pronouncement: «The two world views — science - based explanations and faith - based religion — can not be reconciled.»

Salvation by God's grace alone through faith in Christ alone as revealed in Scripture alone is unlike any other belief or world view.

Similarly, people born into any given religious faith — Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc, etc, etc — and who are immersed in that faith, and surrounded by people of that faith, all of their lives — and especially their childhood — can't be expected to suddenly cast off such total indoctrination when an atheist such as myself presents them with certain facts which conflict with their world view.

The method used in the writing of this book is the same as that used in the preparation of the two previous volumes — The Religion of the Hindus and The Path of the Buddha — which I have edited in an attempt to present to Western readers the major religions of the world from the point of view of the followers of those faiths.

Other works contributing to this view were Newman Smyth, Old Faiths in New Light (1879), Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World (1883), and Lyman Abbott, The Theology of on Evolutionist (1897).

If your world view and faith is so fragile that you can't accept even a basic flaw in your religion, you probably have greater problems than just trying to explain away a scientific theory.

In a post — Cold War, post-9 / 11 world strewn with conflicts involving competing religious postures and contradictory global views, where supposed divisions on lines of race, culture, and faith are loudly promoted and violently exploited, the example of past wars fought in pursuit of religious idealism has proved seductive for some seeking false assurance from continuity with historIn a post — Cold War, post-9 / 11 world strewn with conflicts involving competing religious postures and contradictory global views, where supposed divisions on lines of race, culture, and faith are loudly promoted and violently exploited, the example of past wars fought in pursuit of religious idealism has proved seductive for some seeking false assurance from continuity with historin pursuit of religious idealism has proved seductive for some seeking false assurance from continuity with history.

«The man in the Israelite world who has faith is not distinguished from the «heathen» by a more spiritual view of the Godhead, but by the exclusiveness of his relationship to God and by his reference of all things to Him.»

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.

The key to the situation lies in putting together what we know of God as Creator and Redeemer, and finding a view of God's relation to the world which will do justice both to the insights of biblical faith and to the facts of human experience.

Genuine faith in God is to be sharply distinguished from what is customarily called a world - view.

He chaired the World Council Conference on Faith, Science, and the Future (at MIT in 1979) and is the author of several books, including The Human Presence: An Orthodox View of Nature, in which he addresses environmental problems from an Orthodox perspective.

But it is just as important to know that our faith in Christ should challenge and shape our world view and our response to the genuine concerns that surround us.

It may serve the purpose of clarity if having made this qualification I state bluntly my thesis that the utopianism in the liberal faith had a lasting value which it derived partly from the Christian faith and partly from what was valid in the world view of the Enlightenment.

In chapter two «Faith Church» struggles to discover the world views of its members by making use of categories (comic, romantic, tragic, and ironic) laid out by Carroll and Hopewell.

It would mean accepting a view of the world in our faith and religion which we should deny in our everyday life.

In this sense, then, according to which belief in God is part of a world - view and stands in opposition to another world - view, in opposition also to doubt of God's existence, Jesus does not speak of faitIn this sense, then, according to which belief in God is part of a world - view and stands in opposition to another world - view, in opposition also to doubt of God's existence, Jesus does not speak of faitin God is part of a world - view and stands in opposition to another world - view, in opposition also to doubt of God's existence, Jesus does not speak of faitin opposition to another world - view, in opposition also to doubt of God's existence, Jesus does not speak of faitin opposition also to doubt of God's existence, Jesus does not speak of faith.

He said they had ups and downs in faith, were social critics, were highly interested in inclusivity and were relatively unorthodox in their view of faith and the world.

This intellectual concept of faith, in which belief in God is part of a world view, a general theoretical conviction of the existence of God, arose in missionary preaching, in which it was necessary to proclaim in contrast to polytheism the belief in one God.

By catholicity I mean the qualitative dimension of faith and theology pointing to identity and coherence in Christianity in view of the triune God who has joined Himself to the world in creation, in the assuming of humanity by Jesus Christ and in the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit.

In this declension, faith is viewed less as belief than as the energy or perspective needed to allow good to become manifest in the worlIn this declension, faith is viewed less as belief than as the energy or perspective needed to allow good to become manifest in the worlin the world.

The Reconstruction must move beyond narrow notions of religious groups and philosophical schools which conceive of themselves as tiny options, points of view, or faiths that exist solitarily in an otherwise cosmopolitan world.

There are lots of «good» things that I fight for in this world, but the two that could be considered driven by my atheistic views are: 1) No childhood brain washing by religious people, which leads to adults who think it's a virtue to ignore facts (ie, faith).

God does not force you to agree to his view, he gave this son because he loved the world, and love is free, he is God he did know that a lot of people would not come, but he have faith in us, it is a choice.

Accordingly, the process view holds that if man can see his world intelligibly again, he will again find purpose, meaning, and faith in the God that was present to «prophetic Israel» and present in the «sermon of Jesus.»

Newbigin is absolutely right that Christianity, or at any rate Christian mission and apologetics, is always involved in a pluralist tension — the tension between confidence in God and uncertainty about living out that truth in the world, between faith as God's gift and understanding as a form of growing discovery, between knowing who God is and seeking to bring that knowledge into situations of despair or resistance, not to say anything about the diversity and conflict of views among self - avowed Christians.

When a person begins to make accommodations in their religious world view for salvation by means other than Jesus and the teachings of the Bible, they have effectively denied one of the primary tenets of their faith.

Knowing the human mind must and will rationalize current belief and position in order to survive both atheists and believers have «faith» in their world view.

Marie Hendrickz, official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that in view of the growing popularity of animal rights movements, the church needs to ask itself to what extent Christ's dictum, «Do to others whatever you would have them do to you,» can be applied to the animal world.

I attempted to sketch the difficulties of relating the Resurrection narratives of the New Testament to the kind of world in which we live, and to show that, in spite of these, the Resurrection faith of the church can still have meaning for men who have left behind the world view of the first century.

it is a shame that many plp think so little of our faith... they do no understand what is like to be a true christian... and no not one of those plp who say im a christian and go to church from sunday to sunday, not one of the fanatics who advocate hate, not a bigot who proclaim god's name without understanding... this life is a journey to find something greater than spiritual awareness... it is a journey to see the world the way god does, it is a journey beyond any book, any view... that is why i belive in my faith... im a christian and i love my god but im not the one who follows faith blindly and question every thing

Namely, God's mission works primarily through Jesus Christ's sending the people of God to intentionally cross barriers from church to nonchurch, faith to nonfaith, to proclaim by word and deed the coming of the kingdom of God in Jesus Christ through the Church's participation in God's mission of reconciling people to God, to themselves, to one another, and to the world and gathering them into the church, through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, by the work of the Holy Spirit, with a view to the transformation of the world, as a sign of the coming of the kingdom in Jesus Christ.

The College of Cardinals believed that the Christian faith was in danger if the Copernican world view was allowed to flourish.

These are some of the questions which the new view of origins has raised for the Christian, and which must receive a satisfactory answer if the Christian faith is to survive as a living force in the new world.

For faith needs to be emancipated from its association with every world view expressed in objective terms, whether it be a mythical or a scientific one.

Now with the world becoming one, if it remains, and with our leading Western universities importing religious teachers from the East to teach students the religions that brought forward views like reincarnation, not to mention the success of missionaries in our midst from non-Christian religions, we Christians had better think long and deep concerning these religions, not only to be honest with ourselves, but to do justice to the central realities of our faith.

I do not believe in the separation of faith and politics, and the reason why is that faith is simply a world view.

In the least, they will more likely tend to focus on narrow issues critical to their view of the world as colored by their evangelical faith, rather than logically solving the problems that need to be solved.

Then David turns to Professor Simon Szreter — social historian and founder of «History & Policy» — to discuss how academics are trying to find ways of restoring the public's faith in politics, and bridge the gap between the politicians» narrow view of the world and how the voters see it.

Faith schools undermine social cohesion, discriminate in admissions and employment (potentially affecting up to 1 in 3 teaching posts) and may teach that a single world view is the correct one, without ever exposing pupils to other world views or philosophies, disregarding children's autonomy and their right to a balanced education.

Just as his belief in beautiful, orderly scientific theories mirrored a child's view of the world, so his belief in God as the ultimate manifestation of that order expressed an idealistic notion that God is so much greater than humankind that He can not be found in any one faith.

The eco-pragmatists who embrace the new geological epoch — Michael Schellenberger, Ted Nordhaus, Peter Kareiva, Erle Ellis, Emma Marris, Stewart Brand, Mark Lynas — express an unbounded faith in technology and human ingenuity, and view the natural world as ultimately conformable to human manipulation and resilient enough to bounce back from whatever humans throw at it.

He had taken part in the making of both programmes in good faith, yet the BBC had basically said to the world in his view, that climate sceptics are deniers and an organised group of these deniers are responsible for stalling political action to «save the planet.

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Deep Dive member Joanna Harmon, who played the character of Faith in OpenMind, describes it as the difference between giving an audience agency to explore a story world from a voyeuristic point of view, and the specific feeling that the story itself is responding to a participant's actions.

«My counseling approach stems from my biblical world - view and my faith in Christ Jesus.

Julie also welcomes people of all faiths and specializes in a Christian world view.