Sentences with phrase «forth old truths»

Rather he would mean it in John XXIII's sense of finding a new modus to set forth old truths.

It is through the same appropriation that he has articulated for the Church, and not only for the Church, a new modus of setting forth old truths.

This is Wojtyla's new modus with which he is going to set forth old truths.

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He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

She communicates the poignant truth that a character can indeed be extracted from an old life — saved to another for the task of intervening in evil to bring forth greater good.