Sentences with phrase «identification with jesus»

Paul would probably hasten to add that although it the Holy Spirit who accomplishes this complete identification with Jesus, it is helpful to provide an outward symbol of this inner reality by undergoing water baptism.

This insight moved Williams to advance the possibility that in black women's identification with Jesus as surrogate Lord they risk being «passive to the oppressive operation of surrogacy in our lives» and «oblivious to forces at work influencing us to stand in somebody else's place, to be at the beckon of somebody else's call and to forever service the needs and goals and tasks and responsibilities of somebody else.

Unfortunately, the «official» explanations I've heard from churchmen have been all over the map, but none have emphasized this total identification with Jesus and the life He lived.

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.

First, we must ask whether the Christian claim regarding the transformations effected by identification with Jesus is actually true.

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.

«That's quite different from focusing on forgiveness of sin to be found through identification with Jesus» self - sacrifice.

Not exact matches

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.

I have a friend that believes that Muslims an Christians worship a different God so I get the «Evangelical» point but to ban someone for showing solidarity with Muslims in the light of recent events is yes, I agree rejecting someone just as Jesus was rejected for identification with the marginalised.

With Gandhi formulating the political ethic of satyagraha as an application of Jesus» Sermon on the Mount and Tagore interpreting the Cross as the symbol of God's identification with suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots inWith Gandhi formulating the political ethic of satyagraha as an application of Jesus» Sermon on the Mount and Tagore interpreting the Cross as the symbol of God's identification with suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots inwith suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots in it.

Hence the purpose of a new quest of the historical Jesus would be to test the validity of the kerygma's identification of its understanding of existence with Jesus» existence.

The name of Jesus embodies the promise of these final things while simultaneously calling for a «Self - annihilation» that issues in a total identification with our neighbor.

Hays acknowledges this, but he has far less to say about the figural resonances of Jesus's humanity and his identification, for example, with the people of Israel.

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.

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.

The adventure was partly launched, but not finished, by Jesus, who showed us «the way of radical identification with all others» (McFague, 53).

As the gospels present him, Jesus conveys an astonishing empathy with the broken human beings whom he encounters; and it is only through this compassionate identification with their brokenness that he is able to become their healer.

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.

Papias» further inference from the presbyter's words is doubtless a correct one: Mark was not a disciple of Jesus, and had in fact never heard him — this rules out his identification with the young man in the garden!

It goes back to the solidarity of Jesus with those for whom he gave his life, and their identification with him.

In its emphasis on the aspect of reversal with the arrival of the rule of God, the «nature parables» stand in the same relationship with that of the parable of the Wicked Tenants.83 The images also testify to Jesus» identification with the peasant culture, with its values of sharing, caring and hard work.

By not making it about me but Jesus I find that paradoxically I have become more of my true self, letting go of a false self due to social programming and over identification with any particular group.

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.

Thus the identification of Jesus with God leads also to the identification of the Spirit with God (and with Jesus).

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

Some got into this imaginative identification a little deeper and began to talk about their sense of failure as disciples when Jesus walked with us.

Cobb understands there to have been an identification of the individual «I» of Jesus with Jesus» prehension of God which enabled Jesus to assume God's authority as his own (PPCT 392) and on this basis to have introduced into the world «a final and unsurpassable structure of existence» (PPCT 398) in which all individual believers are able to participate.

6:4), they put on new garments signifying their identification with the risen Messiah Jesus.

Thus faith's own ground and presupposition for faith in Jesus is God's identification with him in his death.

Examining this relationship leaves little doubt that Jesus had some significant identification with Pharisaism.

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.

«Jesus» primary concern is my absolute annihilation of my rights to myself and my unconditional identification with Him; having a relationship with Him in which there are no other relationships.»

Notice, then, that in the prayer Jesus taught the order of things is this: first, identification with God, his will, his kingdom of sovereign love; next, asking for daily bread or what is needed to make life possible; then, deliverance from evil and from the test that will be too much for us; and all of it, as Matthew's gospel recognizes when it adds the doxology to the simpler Lukan version, to God's glory — so that the divine will may be done, and be seen done, «in earth as in heaven.»

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.

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.

The special eschatological event of the identification of God with the man Jesus is at the same time the innermost mystery of divine being.»

For all of us, the invitation is clear; to follow Jesus in identification and sharing with the weak, marginalized and poor of the world, because in them we encounter him: Knowing from the Gospel and from historical experience that to be rich is to risk forfeiting the kingdom, and knowing how close the links are, in today's world, between the abundance of some and the needs of others, Christians are challenged to follow him, surrendering all they are and have to the kingdom, to a struggle that commits us against all injustice, against all want.

Both those who announce Jesus as the servant king and those who accept this announcement and respond to it are invited to enter with him daily in identification and participation with the poor of the earth.

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.

For the Christian this courageous decision is made in personal identification with the man Jesus, crucified for love.

The essential doctrine of the first few verses of the Fourth Gospel would not have been unfamiliar to educated people in Ephesus; only at the identification of the Logos with Jesus would difficulty have arisen.

Raymond Brown suggests that the author of John «capitalised and developed» [9] the primitive New Testament tradition of the identification of Jesus with personified Wisdom as found in the Old Testament.

One of at least six Marys that followed Jesus as a disciple, she was distinguished from the others through identification with her hometown of Magdala, a fishing village off the coast of the Sea of Galilee.

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.

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.

One of six Marys that followed Jesus as a disciple, she was distinguished from the others through identification with her hometown of Magdala, a fishing village off the coast of the sea of Galilee.

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.

So it is, to use our own words, the Church's identification of the risen Lord with the earthly Jesus that poses for us the problem of the relationship between the two figures, and demands an answer to the question of the significance of historical knowledge of the latter.

The absolute identification of the earthly Jesus of Nazareth with the risen Lord of Christian experience is the key, and the only key, to understanding the phenomena present in the New Testament tradition.