Sentences with phrase «faith which»

Jesus made the people directly accessible to the Realm of God through his communication of the Good News and through the people's faith which was evoked by his message.

Jude (3) speaks of the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

This, then, is what ecumenism means for the black Christian: crossing those petty lines of division which we have patterned after white churches and denominations and entering into that broader area of the Christian faith which God has delivered into our hands.

Surely the gospel, and the faith which the gospel awakens, will not be destroyed by a knowledge, as accurate as we can make it, of how they originated.

Finally, the notion of «handing over» the faith through the centuries was expressed by Paul when he admonished Timothy to «hand over» the tradition of faith which he had received from Paul's teaching (i Tim.

This is for every Christian a faith which is confirmed historically, in his own experience of Christ.

To him may be attributed at least part of a revival of the Christian faith which was seen on the eve of World War I.

But sometimes it is based on a nationalistic faith which does not accord equality to those who are not citizens.

When a consummatory role is sought from religious television, such as in seeking a faith commitment from viewers, the medium exerts strong pressures on how the matter is to be «closed,» and essential elements of the Christian faith which can not be communicated en masse by television are necessarily excluded.

That an encounter with the Word of God makes a difference to man, whether he opens his heart to it or not, is a fact which only faith can know, the faith which understands that unbelief is a token of God's judgment.

To what extent, if at all, would these so - called Christians be shaped by the faith which they now professed?

Toleration was granted for private worship in a branch of the faith which differed from that of the prince.

A confession of faith which he either wrote or endorsed contained Protestant elements.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

Because the selective nature of television is often overlooked, the diversity of American religious culture is in danger of being narrowed to that particular strand of religious faith which is now being promoted by television largely because of its acceptance and coherence with television's own social and economic goals.

Faith in God means faith in justification, a faith which rejects the idea that certain actions can be marked off as conveying sanctification.

There are those who are eager to substitute the formula of magic which, properly executed, guarantees the magic - maker's glory, for the formula of faith which, in the last analysis, guarantees only God's glory and the forgiveness and ultimate healing of all our woe and bitterness.

In doing so, they are removing the important aspects of the Christian faith which can only be communicated through an interactive, person - to - person community: personal challenge to change within a supportive community, individualized teaching, and personal - care functions such as counseling, support, and continuity of relationship.

On the other hand, the essential faith which is enshrined in this story is the forerunner of the faith which in the Gospels so persistently cast Jesus Christ in the role of healer of all kinds of bitterness, the faith which appropriates to the suffering of the Cross the line first spoken of the Servant of the Lord: «with his stripes we are healed» (Isa.

When we say that faith alone, the faith which is aware of the divine encounter, can speak of God, and that therefore when the believer speaks of an act of God he is ipso facto speaking of himself as well, it by no means follows that God has no real existence apart from the believer or the act of believing.

Dear Brother Bishops, it is my hope that the Year of Faith which will open on 12 October this year, the 50th anniversary of the convening of the Second Vatican Council, will awaken a desire on the part of the entire Catholic community in America to reappropriate with joy and gratitude the priceless treasure of our faith.

Because the disciplined study of history has helped us to distinguish between history and myth, and to come to the tentative conclusion that the stories of the Virgin Birth, the Transfiguration, the Resurrection and the Ascension are mythical in character, this does not mean that the faith which they have traditionally expressed and conveyed is thereby undermined.

That is the faith which led Jesus to the cross, and to resurrection.

However, I must agree with Sam that there is much more to the Christian church and faith which goes far beyond the limited scope of the evangelical or fundamentalist camps.

He says when hearing stories of faith from Americans he is touched, «They reinforce the power of my Christian faith which has guided me through my presidency and in my life, as a husband, as a father, and as a president.»

There's no proof for any god and so all god - beliefs come down to faith which equalizes the playing field..

As a matter of fact, one of the chief difficulties that confronts the Christian theological world today concerns interpretations of the Christian faith which contain hidden and uncriticized philosophical assumptions that operate under the guise of being essential ingredients of the faith.

But Mathews increasingly realized that he could not formulate an account of the experience and faith which continue in separation from the beliefs and practices which change.

Every consideration and the fullest time should be given to those who have to make up their minds to hold an article of faith which is new to them.

I am not interested in a faith which relies on profound intellectual dishonesty.

Within the human race the people of Israel pioneered the way of faith which is our heritage, and there is no more powerful myth than the story of the Christ of faith.

In submitting himself to the life of obedience, in seeking to be used as an instrument in the renewal of the world, in shouldering the cross of Christ his Lord, the Christian shares in the life of faith which genuinely outlives death.

It is in this sense that one may say there is no miracle except for faith, although absolutely not in the Bultmannian sense, and this is not the faith which from the human standpoint sees a miracle in any event.

The result is that he discards all those aspects of the faith which do not fit nicely into the system which he has constructed primarily from sources and data outside the faith.

There is emerging today a new form of the church as the community of faith which is the leaven of that faith and of hope and of love in a unsettled world.

Do your own homework and join the majority of the Christian faith which recognizes that the bible is not inerrant if YOU want to be taken seriously.

Already we have seen that Christianity is the only form of faith which is not grounded in a backward movement of involution and return.

There takes place, then, truly a communion of faith which is at the same time a communion of cultures.

Countless individuals were cast adrift from their hereditary moorings and groups and were hungry for a faith which would give meaning to life.

«I fear,» you write, «that this faith which you exalt is wishful thinking.

The purpose of the New York meetings, if I understand it aright, is not merely to seek a superficial reconciliation between the diverse forms of Faith which divide the human spirit and make it at odds with itself, but to find what they have fundamentally in common.

What is needed today, I believe, is the radical attempt to work Out a theological pattern for Christian faith which is in the main influenced by process - philosophy, while at the same time use is made of what we have been learning from the existentialist's insistence on engagement and decision, the understanding of history as involving genuine participation and social context, and the psychologist's awareness of the depths of human emotional, conational, and rational experience.

There may be others that we should all agree on if we are going to become unified, but those are just a few examples of the essential beliefs of the faith which Paul mentions here in verse 13.

It seems not a little strange that the faith which is most insistent upon the principle of Ahimsa and will not take the life of the most humble living thing, makes a definite place for putting an end to one own life.

In the first centuries of the Roman Empire society was comparatively fluid and a new faith which could meet the demands of men could gain a hearing.

It expresses itself in the lives of those who embrace it and in the community of faith which together they constitute.

Is this the sign of a mature faith which has finally come of age?

Such examples show that Judaism was not simply an ethnic or national faith, but a community of faith which still occasionally looked outward.

Religious conversion to Christ in this setting essentially means a change of faith which involves participation in the local worshipping congregation of Christian believers without transference of community and cultural affiliations, but with a commitment to the ethical transformation of the whole society and culture in which they participate with others of different faiths.

Moreover, in our situation, a faith which nostalgically seeks an historical past, particularly a past having no integral relation to our present, can not escape the charge of Gnosticism.