Sentences with phrase «human salvation concerns»

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.

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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.
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