Rather, the new NIV here makes it possible for English readers to discover a more Catholic or Orthodox or truly Lutheran Paul, one who teaches that the problem with the Jewish law is its ethnic and temporary character and that
human salvation concerns our real sacramental participation in divine life, real transformation, and ultimate resurrection.
Not exact matches
My
concern for the
salvation of the world intensified as my eyes were opened to the danger to the whole planet resulting from
human excesses.
In the Judeo - Christian tradition, the church has never separated its message of
salvation from its
concern for concrete service to
human beings, including the healing of sickness.
After a pretty lame attempt to explain to him how doubt has actually enriched my faith over the years, how walking with a limp has made me more dependent on the steady shoulder of my heavenly Father, and how I don't really want to be fixed if being fixed means accepting without question or
concern the notion that God creates the majority of the
human population for hell with no hope for
salvation, I decided just to turn the response over to you guys instead.
They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal
salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance
concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom
human life could be «deicized.»
Christians are only seeking «heavenly things» and think that earthly matters do not
concern them and have no bearing on their
salvation, because these things have become exclusively secular and
human.
Yet another suggestion of the total image
concerns the way in which living and non-living realities are to be joined in
human life and for
human salvation.
Christ manifests the divine will by his obedience unto death, which means by denouncing
human passions and strivings, revealing in this way God's eternal thought
concerning the
salvation of humankind.
The Church claims to be the moral and spiritual guide of humanity, and to teach the truth
concerning God and
human salvation.
For all of Kaplan's
concern with
salvation, he has learned too much optimism from the positivists to account for the many profound failings in
human nature and in the rest of nature as well.
Lanzetta is not only
concerned that the Mother of God not be denied due honour but also that an opportunity to shed light on an anthropological question was being neglected: the ability of humanity freely and actively, through grace to merit grace, resulting in «encouraging deep down a more pessimistic vision of
human cooperation in
salvation» (p. 399).
A Response to Responses») writes: «Today the uniqueness of Jesus can be found in his insistence that
salvation or the Reign of God must be realised in this world through
human actions of love and justice, with a special
concern for the victims of oppression or exploitation.»
The primary
concern of Christian mission is with the
salvation of
human spirituality, with the
human being's right choice of structures of ultimate meaning and sacredness.31
If you are a Christian, then Jews, Muslims and Hindus are Christian, because all believe Christ to be merely
human and a very good model of behavior, just that the early Christian church was misled by St. Paul and St. John
concerning the co-eternal divinity of Christ and his role in our
salvation, which only God could provide.
Wieman was
concerned to show what commitment to the source of
human good would mean in institutional and national life as well as in personal life.26 It would be false in his case to say that personal
salvation is primary and social action its by - product.
In some respects it is more healthy to be an honest non-Christian than a Christian schizophrenic, for the former has at least preserved some element of that integrity or wholeness of the
human being for which the Christian faith expresses such
concern in its Gospel of
salvation.
Today the
salvation that
concerns me most is the
salvation of the Earth and its inhabitants from the destructive actions of
human beings who threaten to destroy its habitability for future generations.