Sentences with phrase «faith means absolute»

To be successful in your job takes a major commitment; family requires your full attention; a strong faith means absolute devotion.

Not exact matches

Scott's attempt to link Camus with Tillich's «absolute faith,» so as to demonstrate that «perhaps» Camus did not live completely outside of what Christians mean by grace, is unconvincing.

Drawing upon The Courage To Be, Scott is aware of three characteristics of «absolute faith»: (1) To live in the power of being that enables a person to withstand the onslaughts of guilt, death, and meaninglessness; (2) To experience the dependence of all manifestations of nonbeing upon being, such as the dependence of meaninglessness upon meaning, thereby testifying to the ultimacy of being - itself; and (3) To accept being accepted in spite of one's separation from the power of being (AC 95f).

And being a person of faith doesn't mean you must believe everything in the Bible as absolute.

In intellectual matters, religious faith means devotion to truth, keeping inquiry open, foregoing the demand for absolute certitude yet not despairing of progress, striving for universality, publicity, and objectivity in knowledge, and being thankfully obedient to the disciplines of reason and of empirical evidence.

Faith means trust and to trust, one has to obey as master commanded, not by hinduism, absurdity of a pot head hindu pagan, spewing his hinduism, denial of truth absolute on his name.

Justification by faith in the realm of justice means that we will not regard the pressures and counterpressures, the tensions, the overt and covert conflicts by which justice is achieved and maintained as normative in the absolute sense; but neither will we ease our conscience by seeking to escape from involvement in them.

That means preoccupation with those elements in the Christian faith that have an absolute and eternal value.

The absolute duty may cause one to do what ethics would forbid, but by no means can it cause the knight of faith to cease to love.

But if this feeling was to mean anything, it had to be defined or fenced in by criteria; so in On Religion Schleiermacher defined the feeling as an intuition of the whole and in The Christian Faith Schleiermacher defined the feeling as absolute dependence.

I mean, their belief system is generally based on faith that there is no god, even though there is no proof for an absolute materialist universe, which is as much a statement of faith as a religious persons» Note I am agnostic and find both extremes goofy.