Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming
the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.
Not exact matches
Moreover, there is Karl Barth's (1886 - 1968) emphasis on how God's «
historical dealings with
humanity,» far from showing how God needs creation, actually reveal the perfect, self - reliant
life of the Trinity itself.
God continues to order the natural
life of humanity by means
of the concrete
historical structures that impinge on our existence — the particular systems
of government, economics, and family that frame our
life.
God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good
of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt
of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern
of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind
of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind
of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost
of human
lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve
historical consequences
Christian biblical scholars have also shown a vibrant new interest in the
historical Jesus, much
of it utilizing an approach to Christologv «from below,» i.e., an understanding that begins with the
humanity and ministry
of Jesus, who, precisely as a figure embedded in history, moves toward God and
lives as one wholly centered in God.
I argued that the
humanity of the Crucified Jesus as the foretaste and criterion
of being truly human, would be a much better and more understandable and acceptable Christian contribution to common inter-religious-ideological search for world community because the movements
of renaissance in most religions and rethinking in most secular ideologies were the results
of the impact
of what we know
of the
life and death
of the
historical person
of Jesus or
of human values from it.
We deny the presuppositions
of historical positivism in which the
life of humanity is portrayed as a closed system
of historical causation.
They consistently maintained that in the one
historical order that exists, God created
humanity for one destiny, the supernatural one
of sharing in divine
life.
LET's Religiosity Law # 7 — If you think the bible is
historical fact
of the creation
of the Universe, Earth or Mankind and believe without a doubt that some Jewish zombie can make you
live forever if you symbolically eat
of his flesh, drink
of his blood, and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master; so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in
humanity because a sinful woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree!
«All plots,» say Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, «depend upon tension and resolution, «6 and Kenneth Burke demonstrates the inescapable dialectic found in both fictional and
historical dramatizations.7 Although we are socialized to think that tension marks an embarrassing and probably unnecessary failure in ministry (one recent book for pastors asserts that «conflict was not God's plan for
humanity»), the agón
of individual and corporate
life is inextricable from a congregation's plot.
It is easy for filmmakers to chip away at the veneer
of larger - than -
life historical figures; it is far more difficult to acknowledge genius in a mere human and then construct a movie that attempts to capture both that genius and his or her
humanity.
Exploring the myths, misperceptions, and logical fallacies upon which such arguments are based, Welcome Home provides an alternative animal rights agenda for companion dogs and cats, one which considers the
historical antecedents
of those relationships, replaces despair for
humanity with optimism, and prescribes concrete action that can be taken today to improve the
lives and well - being
of these animals.
On an even deeper level, the work also takes on a horrific
historical identity
of a time when black men and women were stripped
of their
humanity and often had to run for their
lives.