Sentences with phrase «greater understanding of faith»

Any other practice breaks the unity of the church, and the lack of water baptism is actually a tradition of omission, thus not showing a greater understanding of faith, but rather a lack of reverence for the will and intention of Jesus himself.

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Recently, I've come to understand to a greater degree how «a theology» can replace «a faith» and mask itself as the real thing.I'm not anti-theological, in fact, I'm very theological - the difference in my approach now is a realization that if one has some degree of traditional, but contemporary faith in God (as I do), then a theology is inevitable....

I suspect that this man will happily return to his faith, but he will do so with a greater understanding of his fellow humans, and a greater respect for others.

For that matter, a great deal of how we understand the faith has been more or less settled in this way — after decades, if not centuries, of heated debate.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

Indeed, I believe the greatest challenge before us is one of understanding the integral and mutual relationship between apocalyptic faith and a dialectical mode of thinking and vision.

While we may have faith that comedians are the great truth - mongers of our age, it's simply a faulty exegesis when you understand the jokes and jokers in their proper context.

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I can see how one can look at this idea and look at the following examples in Hebrews 11 as «Because they were sure they would get this reward, they did this thing» but as the author points out in verse 39 that they didn't get what they imagined they would, so if we understand faith as «being sure» it would turn out that it is «being sure» of something and being totally wrong — instead it makes more sense to understand Hebrews 11:1 as saying that «faith is a realization (or actualization)» of our hopes, a realization that the author points out is greater than we could expect and be sure in.

Commenting about the doubts Mother Teresa experienced, Gumpel asked, «Do not these researchers understand that periods of doubt, and even severe trials of faith, have affected some of the Church's greatest saints — St. John of the Cross, Therese of Lisieux — and that persevering and overcoming them is considered one of the signs of sanctity?»

Despite its great relevance to our situation, the faith of the radical Christian continues to remain largely unknown, and this is so both because that faith has never been able to speak in the established categories of Western thought and theology and because it has so seldom been given a visionary expression (or, at least, the theologian has not been able to understand the radical vision, or even perhaps to identify its presence).

The following centuries of monastic experimentation gave them deep insights into humility, and into the great theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, They understood the Gospels to be saying that we are meant for great things — meant to live in imitation of Christ himself.

Neville great quote i read that he was an atheist from what i understand he certainly had issues with the established church and it seems that he may have had some kind of faith in God he certainly had a gift for writing..

I think the whole book of romans is a great book to read about faith and grace Jeremy, I am sure I may frustrate you at times, but just understand all this interaction is growing me.

«We will continue to pray for peace, to work towards greater understanding between peoples of all faiths and none, and to advocate for the needs of those most marginalised.»

What shall he do with the great words of the faith such as God, grace, and forgiveness, which he knows may be in certain circumstances blocks to a person's understanding of his problems?

The great truths of the Christian faith are timeless, but the way in which those truths are expressed must fit the understanding of a particular time and place.

Unfortunately there is no single brand of specialists — call them «hominists» — to whom one can turn for authoritative answers about man, as one might turn to linguists for information about languages or, if he had great faith, to meteorologists for understanding the weather.

Great faith is fully convinced of the difficult promises and the hard to understand truths of Scripture.

His great achievement, contrary to the tendencies of his time, in marrying knowledge through faith with knowledge gained by reason, is mirrored in his understanding of Scripture's letter and spirit.

As I studied the passage, I came to a new understanding of what great faith is, how it is developed and how great faith produces great results.

Such an understanding of faith also offers an apparent solution to the great problem of dogmatic development.

Whatever fault we may find with that document in other respects — and Anglicans may be grateful that it is no longer commonly said, as ancient prayer books required, at public worship on certain great festivals of the Christian year — it gives us the right understanding of this triunitarian conception of God when it affirms «This is the Catholic faith: that we worship Godhead in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.»

So it follows that the notion of God's revelation, as Christians believe it, must be understood always through the great Hebrew affirmations — this, in fact, is why the early Church refused to cut the Gospel of Jesus Christ loose from its moorings in the Old Testament, and why such thinkers as sought to do this, like Marcion and other Gnostic writers, were condemned as perverters of the faith.

Whereas in the earlier Luther the fear of death was the ultimate form of unbelief, the Luther who discovered justification by faith understood that no matter how great our faith, it can not be strong enough to stave off terror before death.

As they worked through this change, Jason and Alise discovered that there was much more holding their marriage together than pulling it apart, and they began to work in their faith communities to bring about a greater understanding of what the others actually believe and to bring about a better dialog between atheists and Christians.

Many people gain ego support by identifying with the preacher as he proclaims the great themes of wisdom and faith, courage and hope as understood in the group's tradition.

The country's economic downturn has diminished the Word of Faith prosperity gospel boom that took off during the 1990s and 2000s, and he sees a shift away from efforts to «bribe» God into blessings and toward a greater understanding of a God of grace who extends blessings freely.

Peter Faber, SJ, one of the great figures of the Catholic Reformation; and by doing so, gave us a key to understanding his own approach to the new evangelization, and a model for spreading the faith in modern times.

Catholic Studies programs must be interdisciplinary, offering students an encounter with «the imaginative tradition of the faith, its approach to beauty, the great - souled works of literature [and] deep artistic traditions of Catholicism, its understanding of the human person and of the range and limits of politics.»

I hope it's not too utilitarian for the pages of this magazine to say that the poem has helped me understand fatherhood differently, to more deeply appreciate my own parents» sacrifices, and to have greater patience and faith with my own austere and lonely offices.

I liked her line: The purpose of faith, as I understand it, is to infuse life with greater meaning.

The purpose of faith, as I understand it, is to infuse life with greater meaning.

To a great extent our theological understanding of faith, virtue, and happiness has lost this emphasis on the primacy of openness to the surprise of promise.

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

Other groups were the Scotists using the works of the philosopher Duns Scotus, championed by the Franciscans; the Thomists using the texts of Thomas Aquinas, championed by the Dominicans — Aquinas had worked philosophy and religion into a great single Summa, transposing Aristotle into the context of Christian theology under the influence of Augustine and Bernard, in which fides quaerens intellectum, faith seeking understanding, was integrated organically with philosophy; finally there was also a via antiqua, the ancient way, which was centred on Plato, but was also used to describe the Thomists.

This conclusion bears great theological significance for an understanding of human nature, obedience, and faith, but Turner seems content to state that it calls into question the idea that God's will overcomes all obstacles in Genesis.

These were to develop in two main ways: in greater experience of the mystery of the universe and in broadening sympathy with, and understanding of, people of other faiths.

For some of you, I don't think you understand that for many of these people, faith is all they know when they go through trying times, and it is what gets them moving and picking up the pieces... believing in a greater purpose.

In particular, our leaders are exhorted to use every means available to deepen our knowledge of the Catechism, as well as the documents of Vatican II, so as to «aid both the encounter with Christ through authentic witness to faith, and the ever - greater understanding of its contents».

In this Biffi depicted Anselm's perspective as, contrary to much modern emphasis, grasping that «reality as a whole is much greater than we grasp through simple natural understanding, substantiated solely by sensory experience, inductive and deductive reasoning, mathematical calculation -LSB-...] faith not only is not separable from reason, and does not harm it, but is even the greatest and highest exercise of our intellectual faculty.»

No, you have a basic understanding that your bible is flawed but take great leaps of faith to cover over the gaps in logic and reason that allow you to continue the faulty conclusions of your religious peers who have been using the bible to control the uneducated masses for thousands of years.

Maksim you are 100 % percent right about Dan Petrescu's faith in youngsters.In just a few months he gave chances to Ivan Solovyov, Pavel Solomatin and Vladimir Sobolev to play in the first team.As for Mogilevets i think he will become and excellent player but not at Zenit.He needs to move elsewhere (and not on loan) to play first team football like Ionov did a few years ago.In my opoinion Zenit needs a striker (if they sell Hulk to AS Monaco) to score goals.Kerzhakov is not at his best, Bukharov has forgotten when was the last time he score and Dordevic is not gonna get a chance.I understand that midfielders of Zenit are all capable of scoring goals like Shirokov, Danny, Witsel, Bystrov and Fayzulin but thats striker's job and Zenit may lose a player on the filed.And something else, i was so impressed with Yuri Lodigin's performance against Krasnodar and maybe Zenit found a great replacement for Malafeev.

He advised the Muslim faithful and adherents of other faiths to always demonstrate love and understanding towards one another in the quest for a greater and more prosperous Nigeria.

• The report also states that «Some within the Methodist Church have argued to end our involvement with faith - based schools on the grounds that they generate a privileged elite within the national system and take a disproportionate amount of the Church's attention when it should be focusing on the needs of the poorest community schools... we find it hard to understand how promoting Christianity within all schools will be assisted by removing» the privilege» of greater contact with Methodism and therefore with Christianity in 79 schools.»

The rigours undertaken by devout Muslims inspire respect for Islam among people of all faiths and this can bring hope of greater understanding for good will.

But so often with feminist art history, what you see is a display of bad faith, a disregard for the achievement of great artists and a failure to understand why women often did not participate.