Sentences with phrase «imparting knowledge of the faith»

Those who do practise often function at a fairly minimal level, and are unfamiliar with the great Catholic writers — or even with the lesser ones — and have no sense of zeal or excitement about imparting knowledge of the Faith, much less devotion to it.

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Philipp Jacob Spener (1635 - 1705), the apostle of Pietism, held that the aim of preaching should be to «awaken faith and [to] urge the fruits of faith,» and hence that the aim of ministerial training should be «not only to impart knowledge but to have truth penetrate the soul.»