Sentences with phrase «from covenantal»

We too need to interpret the Scriptures from a covenantal viewpoint rather than a magical one.

It is a word drawn from covenantal and, indeed, contractual notions: where there is some sort of commitment between two parties, the consideration or fidelity one shows to the other is hesed.

Whereas I had been taught to see the covenant as central and creation as a peripheral and dispensable extension from covenantal thinking, it is at least equally justified to see that the ancient Jews located the covenant within creation.

And when we reject the desires of gay Christians to express their sexuality within a lifelong covenant, we separate them from our covenantal God, and we tarnish their ability to bear his image.»

Not exact matches

Until that time, the relationship between Jews and Christians, viewed from either side, was one whose ultimate meaning could be located only within the overall covenantal relationship between God and his people.

Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.

Since your quote from Leviticus is a directive for the people of Israel who made a covenantal agreement with God for their nation and Christians are not in that covenant nor that position, your childish and ignorance of the basics of understanding ANY text is demonstrated.

There is no biblical reason to exclude the covenantal bonds of gay Christians from that affirmation.»

And I reminded myself that this is part of the work of resurrection, the making things right, the covenantal partnership of shalom, the work Jesus has invited us into alongside of him: these moments of quiet #MeToo far from social media and attention of celebrities, the ones uncelebrated and unacknowledged.

Covenantal Rights is a learned and tightly reasoned argument that should elicit critical responses from Christian and secularist thinkers.

McCoy suggests that Whitehead, too, may have been shaped by biblical ways of thinking: «Indeed, it is highly probable that the process philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries emerged from contexts influenced by the covenantal or federal tradition and thus are in part intellectual progeny of covenantal theology and ethics» (CCE 360).

These serial readings from Acts end with Paul established in Rome (probably in today's Trastevere district), speaking with the Roman Jewish community about the fulfillment of their ancient, covenantal hopes in the Risen Christ.

One must recognize, however, that in moving beyond the intention of the Song, in moving from creation theology to covenantal theology, in speaking of God's love for his people, one is assuming a prior and definitive understanding of God.

If our people do not learn from their teachers and shepherds the covenantal nature of marriage and the power of reconciliation in the Gospel, from whom will they learn?

Maybe the worst result of all, from my perspective, when affirmations and negations are valued over contemplation and learning through practice is a fear - based, certainty - seeking, defensive version of Christianity that grows up in the place of a living, covenantal trust.