Sentences with phrase «identification with christ»

He stressed identification with Christ.

When we feed one of Christ's brothers who is about the work of the kingdom; when we visit one of Christ's sisters who is proclaiming the gospel message; it is the same as if we had done that act of identification with Christ himself.

And if baptism symbolizes our spiritual identification with Christ in his death and resurrection, I suppose you're right in seeing it as a celebration — because of the joy of new life in Christ Jesus.

It draws attention to all sorts of things that baptism enacts: our plunging into and identification with Christ, the washing away of our sins, our drenching in the Spirit, our burial with Jesus in his death, and our rising again to new life in his resurrection.

To think this way and realise the intercommunion of creation at all levels and in all three orders, helps us, one suggests, to understand better the problem of evil - its inevitability, and our personal identification with Christ.

In many of these paintings of the nursing Virgin, Christ twists around to gaze at the viewer, making eye contact that establishes the viewer's identification with Christ and invites the viewer to share the nourishment of the Virgin's breast.

The crucifix, for example, could serve as a focus for meditation on Christ's sacrifice for our sinfulness and help the devotee cultivate the virtues of humility, gratitude, and identification with Christ's suffering on behalf of the world.

For the Christian today, it is at least a symbolic identification with Christ — it is a spiritual death.

Not exact matches

If the Christ paradigm offers salvation to the rich via his identification with the oppressed masses in their struggle for justice, this route must really mean a greater enrichment of experience for that rich man than, let us say, the enjoyment of good books and music which the continued leisure of the upper class could have afforded him.

It's different with the priest, he mirrors Jesus Christ, in Our Lord's office as Head and Bridegroom of the Church, and that is a much deeper identification.

The ontological identification of the priest with Christ, Head and Spouse of the Church, is here described in penetrating spiritual and psychological detail.

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....

This is pointed out on another occasion when Bonhoeffer says that to confuse Christ with a particular stage in the «religiousness» of man would be to confuse him with a human law.33 It is to be carefully noted that the introduction of the concepts of law does not imply the identification of religion and law.

There is no greater example of identification with the «other» than the incarnation of Christ.

What the Church knows as the descent of Christ into Hell is not, according to Blake's vision, a descent apart from the body, but rather a descent into the very depths of bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanity.

I think he felt «accursed» because he was in conflict, between his former total identification with his own people, and the fact that many of them did not accept Christ, whereas many non-Jews became Christian, and Paul had to work through in his own mind where his loyalty belonged..

In this case, baptism for the dead would be our own baptism, representing our passage from being dead in sin to alive in Christ through our full identification with the death and resurrection of Jesus.

If he accepts other norms besides this, then he must return to some identification of revealed propositional truth, admit some other encounter with God than that which occurs in Jesus Christ, or allow authority to the conclusions of philosophical speculation.

Purcell has offered a profound reflection on the place of God in the midst of suffering, the illustrations from his own life and those of others giving helpful, concrete expression to the traditional identification of our sufferings with those of Christ on the cross.

Karl Barth himself perhaps even fell into an exaggerated identification of a political cause with the cause of Christ in some of his writings during the war.54 In any case the Christian affirmation is that the reign of Christ involves a demand for justice and freedom throughout the whole of life.

The radical identification of our suffering, the intense life of this world, with participation in Christ marks a major tenet of Bonhoeffr's notion of holy worldliness.

The meaning and truth of God's self - revelation in Christ is known through identification with the incarnation, both in sacrificial living and in significant dying.

If science and technology are ever to be liberated from tutelage to the dominative powers of history, if the drama is to be «interrupted» redemptively rather than destructively, then Christian theology, which has itself been enticed time and again to legitimate dominative power, can contribute to that future by mediating more dialectically to the present the subversive memories of God's identification with the struggles of victims everywhere in the mystery and message of Christ Jesus.

There are thus two layers of meaning as to Christ in this work, neither of which allows for the conventional simple identification of Christ with Jesus only.

This in turn is tied to a concept of God as «Absolute Actuality» which is the identification of universality with concrete individuality.10 Apparently relying here on F. H. Bradley's concrete universal, Thornton conceives of divine individuality as an all - embracing unity, and it is this principle of unity which must be incarnate in Christ.

The later conferences spoke of God's preferential option for the poor, divine judgement on oppressors, the pattern of Christ's own identification with the poor, the risk of suffering for Christ's sake, and Christian support for change in political studies - themes seldom associated with such passion in evangelical circles.30

How does this fit with our functional identification of Jesus as the Christ?

This identification of the risen, living Christ with the Spirit goes back to the moment of the church's creation.

These symbolic rituals could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

These are a few examples of symbolic rituals that could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

The word «baptism» means «immersion into, identification» so that we we get water baptized, it symbolizes our immersion into Christ, our identification with Him.

Might not those characteristics reveal our true identification with (total immersion in) Christ?

Our identification with the death of Christ, it maintains, is not merely a present event, but a present event controlled by a real event of the past — i.e. the dying of Christ: «Bultmann takes over from Heidegger the concept of existence, and uses it to describe the stripping away of illusions and the consequent entry into the authentic human existence.

And in Christian faith's never fully cherished identification of God with the crucified Christ, the projection is radically dismantled.

To believe that «everyman is the brother for whom Christ died», requires an identification with the neighbour which is deeper than any humanitarian sentiment, for now the neighbour is seen as one who is created to share in communion with God and his fellows in eternal life.

He saw the dynamic significance of Christ's self - identification with man.ii Christ confesses man's sin, not indeed as one individual arbitrarily substituted for others, but in his aflirmnation of the solidarity of the human community and his identification with its burden.

The history of the Church shows us all too plainly the dreadful consequences of this identification of a static orthodoxy with faith in God through Jesus Christ.

Jesus» possession of miraculous powers, it is not unreasonable to believe, would have represented for Paul a qualification of that complete identification with man, that complete sharing of man's lot, which was at the heart of Paul's whole conception of Christ.

The deepest note in the way, however, is sounded only when we come to the identification of the lover with Christ.

The Mystical Body paradigm, much in favor under Pius XII, makes it all but impossible to give any ecclesial status to non-Catholics and leads to a false identification of the Church with Christ her Lord.»

In a booklet published during Vatican II, Joseph Ratzinger wrote that the notion of the Mystical Body, as expounded in Pius XII's encyclical of 1943, «made it all but impossible to give any status to Christians separated from Rome» and that it «easily led to a false identification of the Church with Christ.»

Identification with the suffering Christ, she averred, should be enough.

What it does do is to allow latent identities and identifications with the church to emerge freely, and to provide an occasion to recapture and reconfirm one's identity as a servant of Jesus Christ.

Some of his disciples at Corinth (likely the «Christ party») viewed themselves as endowed with a special insight - the conviction that their experience of the Spirit thrust them into identification with the risen Lord in heaven.

There seems to be an identification of the Written Word of God (Bible) with the Living Word of God (Jesus the Christ) in the Confession.

That identification by the early Church requires at least that the Christ proclaimed by the kerygma be consistent with what we come to know of the historical Jesus.

As you have read me state, in Jesus» discourse with Martha, a strict identification is made between the terms «Christ» and «Son of God» with «the One who guarantees eternal life and resurrection to the believer».

We can be both Arian and Athanasian by denying the one point they share in common, namely, the identification of the risen Christ with the preexistent Logos.