Sentences with phrase «hope of resurrection»

That would be something believers appear to do - to live only in hopes of the resurrection and of life in heaven.

Freedom in the light of hope of resurrection has a personal expression, certainly, but, even more, a communitarian, historical, and political expression in the dimension of the expectation of universal resurrection.

The only pearl worth casting before a corpse is the sure and certain hope of the resurrection.

It is certainly the case that Thomas Aquinas, and many following him, thought of the soul as the «form», or information - bearing pattern, of the body, and that they saw the Christian hope of the resurrection as being the reimbodiment of that form by God in a new environment of His choosing.

As Wayne Meeks has argued, «This letter's most comprehensive purpose is the shaping of a Christian phronesis, a practical moral reasoning that is «conformed to Christ's death» in hope of his resurrection.»

You also said, «In Christ you will have the hope of the resurrection and the mortal body you now have being transformed into an immortal one!»

'» Or as the Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it: «The bodies of the dead must be treated with respect and charity, in faith and hope of the Resurrection.

In Christ you will have the hope of the resurrection and the mortal body you now have being transformed into an immortal one!

But for Christian faith, under every cross and every sad story lies the hope of resurrection.

He goes on to say that if the resurrection is not real, that then one might as well eat & drink because tomorrow we die... that there is no hope of the resurrection.

We might ask in turn how sure the course really was, but as to the first question, I know what answer Neuhaus --- a man who lived every day in the hope of the resurrection --- would have offered.

You, the pastor, who has shared in their bereavement and shared in their Holy Saturday — they're ready for you to share with them the fellow suffering of Christ in death and the hope of the resurrection.

For Christians of yesteryear, this familiarity with the pungent reality of death brought the hope of resurrection into sharp relief, not just in old age, but at every stage of life.

Yet we live in the hope of resurrection.

Nowhere are we closer to the Christian kerygma: hope is hope of resurrection, resurrection from the dead.

In any case, there is a great risk of reducing the rich content of eschatology to a kind of instantaneousness of the present decision at the expense of the temporal, historical, communitarian, and cosmic aspects contained in the hope of the Resurrection.

In the Old Testament and the Apocrypha the hope of a resurrection from the dead has been expressed in a clear but restrained way.

Although not inconsistent with the growing eschatological concern at that time, the hope of resurrection for the martyrs was not wholly dependent upon it in the way the apocalyptic visions and the idea of general resurrection were.

The language of the eschatological hope of resurrection was used by the followers near the beginnings in order to express the Easter message.

Jesus Christ is risen, and in him is our hope of resurrection.

That distortion of the New Testament witness to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (which carries its distinctiveness clearly stamped upon it) whereby its character has been translated out of particularity to the generality of immortality, makes it increasingly difficult even to declare the hope of the resurrection.

As we say, they «have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection» (Eucharistic Prayer II).

Many people came to Christ and I preached on the hope of resurrection.

Ruth's taking leave of her mother seemed, in the days following my grandmother's passing, somehow more Christian, more full of serenity and confidence in the hope of the resurrection, than my mother's darting from the room at the last minute.

In his appreciative Foreword, the National Director of «Aid to the Church in Need», Neville Kyrke - Smith, calls the book fascinating and goes to the central issue in saying that Pope John Paul II's whole life and witness could be said to be like that of Our Lord Himself, often in the Garden of Gethsemane but translucent with the hope of the resurrection.

(For some «death» means physical death, such that there is the hope of resurrection and not just an «intimation of immortality.»)

Civilization could be saved, she contended, only by a Platonic Christianity stripped of its carnal, Jewish side, through identification with the suffering Christ rather than in the hope of resurrection.

It's the gospel without hope; Good Friday with no hope of resurrection.

Ezekiel's seemingly bizarre visions and trances nevertheless reveal a hope of resurrection for Israel in a new covenant.

And, in a more general statement that would include members of so - called «natural» religions, it is stated: «This [i.e., the hope of resurrection] holds true not only for Christians, but for all men of good will in whose hearts grace works in an unseen way.

The hope of resurrection and immortality resides in the idea that the Omega Point will use its infinite computing capacity to produce emulations of you and me.