Sentences with phrase «imagination of christians»

But impossible as these commands appear, and as remote as such a city seems, they continue to fascinate the imagination of Christians.

Unless you live in an alternate universe, Jesus is a non-existent mythological character that exists in the over-reactive imagination of Christians.

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The mental picture of the risen and ascended Christ, which the imagination of the Christian believer developed from the memories of the crucified Jesus of history and from the initial apostolic experience, expressed the sense of faith, hope and victory to which the believer had been led.

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Except for the vulgar allegiance of what McGinn calls «Fundamentalist Christians,» «the legend» of Antichrist no longer captures the imagination: «Most believing Christians seem puzzled, even slightly embarrassed by Antichrist, especially given the legend's use in fostering hatred and oppression of groups.»

Long the poster child of pure Gothic, he is revealed in Ethan Anthony's work as the possessor of an imagination that displayed the Christian spirit in a myriad of expressions.

Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations on the New Evangelization, by Robert P. Imbelli (Liturgical Press): For those who've watched (as every sentient Catholic should have watched) Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series, here's the next step — a theologically rich, entirely accessible walk through the great themes of Evangelical Catholicism, keyed to four masterpieces of Christian art.

Christmas occupies such a large part of the Christian imagination that the absolute supremacy of Easter as the greatest of Christian feasts may get obscured at times.

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

Once there, he fell sway to the Fine Arts department, where a resurgent neo-Thomism, trumpeted by Professor Frank O'Malley, captured the imagination of the young Schickel with its vision of Christian humanism.

Somewhat redundant» and with perhaps unavoidable generalizing about «the Catholic imagination,» «a Protestant landscape,» «working - class aesthetics,» and «middle - class notions of taste»» this study argues persuasively that «distinct categories of sacred and profane are inadequate to capture the complexity of Christian practice» in the corporeal world.

Cobb concludes that it is «the task of the Christian imagination to generate visions of what is actually possible that can give realism to efforts guided by the passion for justice» (PTPT 151).

And indeed McDonald had a wonderful imagination, writing fairytales for children and adults full of Christian imagery and indefinable beauty.

For Christians, sexual difference and union is a type of Christ and the church... Only as allegory can the Song play its central role in healing our sexual imaginations.»

To obey Paul's command for your children means giving them more than a rational faith — it means also giving them a well - formed Christian imagination that can look at a starry night sky and see more than the infinite reach of empty space and the eternal stretch of endless time, that can «keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God» (3:1).

Well asking a Christian college to accept a view which is directly contrary to it's most basic foundational premise, a belief which literally denies the very core of their faith, might be a bit more than simply stretching their theological imagination.

In Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan captured the imaginations of many generations with his image of the Christian life as a journey.

This feast of fiery tongues and intoxicating presence has haunted the Christian imagination.

An outstanding example of theology as hermeneutics is the work of David Tracy, especially The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism.

In our hymns he is both «Beautiful Savior» and «Judge Eternal, throned in splendor» An enormous variety of representations have emerged from 2,000 years of Christian imagination, and we can find in these diverse images some element that identifies it as a portrait of Christ.

Both the message and the allegory have been sturdy traditions in Christian literature and, as Lynch suggested in his comments on the univocal imagination, they share the characteristic of tending to flatten out the complexities of historical life for the sake of the «idea.»

Berry also believed that there had been a failure in religious imagination in Christian thought over several centuries, and wished to marry it to our scientific understanding of the universe.

The Chronicles of Narnia left its indelible mark on the Christian imagination forever.

For my own part, I can not imagine how di - polar theology could be genuinely Christian so long as it places christology and eschatology at the periphery of faith and understanding, nor can I see how it could ever gain real relevance or power so long as it continues to be unable either to address us or to speak in terms of the imagination.

Just as St. Paul's letters gave early Christian commentators examples of how to interpret the Old Testament in light of Christ, so the Church Fathers stretch our exegetical imagination by showing how other passages can be read in that way.

I found myself reading some of my favorite lines out loud to Dan — «For a lot of Christians, their imaginations are liabilities, like the five senses and genitals» (p. 51); «Then my father introduced me to Sam, a thirty - something single man who had recently converted from being Episcopalian to Christianity» (p. 52); «A month or two later Laura and Jesus broke up, and she started dating a nice - looking keyboardist from Arkansas» (p. 156).

A recently completed book on systematic theology (The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism [Crossroad, 1981]-RRB- defends a second, less obvious but no less genuine notion of the kind of publicness that systematic theologies actually achieve.

I have been arguing that good cities are an essential component of the good life for human beings, who are made in the image of God, and that urbanism — for good reason — is a privileged symbol in the Christian imagination.

I have seen things that defy imagination of the corruption I have seen in the so - called Christian Church..

The Tie That Binds Whatever were the problems with «theologizing» the American experiment, the near disappearance of that tradition may reflect a failure of nerve and imagination, a loss of confidence in providential purpose, a refusal to accept the responsibility that attends the reality of Christian America.

There is certainly a stretch of the imagination to making Mormonism a Christian sect.

The Hell (literally) of it is, «Old Testament» style religion is a product of the Christian imagination & bears no relation to Judaism.

Fumbling to find them materials from the history of Christian spirituality that might fire their imagination, I took in a sheet of selected sayings from the desert fathers that stressed the efficacy of simply «remaining in one's cell» as a purposive means of monastic self - knowledge.

jmac, yes, christians have wasted their time and lives worshiping a figment of their imaginations.

Today, Christians of integrity are thrown back upon the never reducible testimony of Scripture, Tradition and the divine Spirit — a testimony that defies possession, but also manifests an exceptional trust in the insight, imagination, reasonableness and spiritual courage of ordinary human beings when they are modest enough to ask for what they do not and can not possess.

Such a feminist reconstruction of Christian origins requires a disciplined historical imagination that can make women visible not only as victims but also as agents.

The right of Pulaya Christians «to assemble for learning, or to take Sabbath for a rest» were shown as evidence of such privileges.47 Similarly, George Mathan, the pioneer of the anti-slavery movement, preached to the Pulayas about their wretched condition and of the benefits they would derive, temporally as well as spiritually, by embracing Christianity.48 Such messages linking Christianity to certain privileges that the Pulayas might enjoy definitely caught their imagination.

For example, whereas Gregory suggests that medieval Christians fled towns for the forests because of the moral effects of money, Le Goff's work shows how the forests occupied the medieval imagination as a place of adventure and trial.

In The Analogical Imagination I tried to rethink the traditional Christian theological dialectic of sacrament and word as the more primordial religious dialectic of «manifestation» and «proclamation.»

In his Attack upon «Christendom» Soren Kierkegaard suggested that «the illusion of a Christian nation is due... to the power which number exercises over the imagination... It is said, that [an innkeeper] sold his beer by the bottle for a cent less than he paid for it; and when a certain man said to him, «How does that balance the account?

From a Christian standpoint such an existence (in spite of all aesthetic) is sin, it is the sin of poetizing instead of being, of standing in relation to the Good and the True through imagination instead of being that, or rather existentially striving to be it.

«Some day,» he predicted, «it will be universally recognized that the objects of Christian religion, like the pagan gods, were mere imagination.»

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

I've been a Christian most of my life, and part of what sustains me, I think, is that along the way, when in one season my faith stopped making sense to me, when it stopped connecting with me in a deep way, I had the tools and imagination I needed to refashion my faith.

I think this is one of the reasons that the Christians on the Left «Patriots Pay Tax» campaign has so captured the imagination.

Indeed, filling in that gap may help to explain — for this reader, does help to explain — at least part of what makes the Chronicles so alluring as a work of Christian literary imagination.

Readers who know Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), Holy the Firm (1977) and Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982) are not only familiar with the autobiographical turn of her writing, but also with the power of a religious imagination that, while recognizably Christian; roams free.

O'Connor believed that Christian dogma is what forms the Christian imagination into something larger than our own intelligence or the intelligence of those around us.

... Dawson thought it strange that 16th - century men should read so many pagan classics and, philosophy and theology aside, so little of the great Christian works that had subsequently appeared, especially works of the imagination like the Cid or Parzival that were built around the question of what it means to live the Christian life in the world.»