Sentences with phrase «in radical grace»

«It's the hole in the soul, that place where we are radically broken, where we are powerless and therefore open,» writes Richard Rohr in Radical Grace.

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I also knew that it had to have something to do with the radical, free grace of God in Jesus Christ.

Accordingly, radical or spiritual Christians believe that the demands of the God of law and judgment are annulled in the grace of the God who died on Calvary.

but the fact that you are asking that question DOES mean you are actually hearing the radical nature of grace in comparison with the self - salvation of religion.

Unless people are jumping to this erroneous conclusion because of your teaching, then you are not teaching grace in its most true and radical form.

However, Augustine had some extremely valid insights into the Pauline insistence on our radical dependence on grace, and unlike most of his Catholic predecessors Augustine caught something of the Pauline sense that everything is finally held in the electing hand of God: «For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all» (Rom.

A dualistic radical opposition of Grace to nature has led to bibliolatry, the denial of the human element in the process of Revelation.

In the last chapter, the connection of the radical demand for love with the primacy of grace and the sense of original sin was discussed.

The radical opposition of Grace to nature in classical Protestantism has resulted in a Western civilization that despises our humanity and ignores our responsibility to practice stewardship rather than exploit our natural resources.

It is dualistic, setting the complementary opposites of Grace & nature, Bible and Tradition, faith and reason, and Grace and faith in radical opposition to each other so that, becoming «spiritual» requires us to despise our own humanity — a humanity that God merely loved; but assumed in the Mystery of the Incarnation.

The indictment against us is more radical: in our corrupt humanity we never do a single good thing (Sproul, Grace Unknown, 120).

Among theological issues most deeply engaging me in the past year are sin in believers, the virginal conception of the Lord, providence in history, prevenient grace, the holiness, catholicity and apostolicity of the one church, radical judgment at the end of history and the rejection of sin by atoning grace.

However, it is «Protestant» in its profound declaration that Christianity can be proclaimed only in symbols of human brokenness, and in its awareness of the radical tension between nature and grace.

This is not to deny the transforming power of the gospel, to which Paul gave such eloquent witness, for by the workings of divine grace radical changes do take place in individuals, and through individuals in social institutions.

The three major forms of the interpretation of love in the Christian tradition are: the Augustinian with its neo-platonic roots and existential developments; the Franciscan with its radical nonconformity and nonintellectual approach; and the Lutheran with its insistence that love of God can only be known by grace through faith.

Throughout the book, Capon presents a view of grace, the universal forgiveness of all sins, and the presence of Christ in everybody at all times which is contrary to most of what is taught and believed in most churches today, but which seems to be closer to the radical grace of God which is presented in the both the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Many have thought in the past that the radical understading of grace came into history only through Jesus and that, hence, the affirmation of the uniqueness of Jesus in this respect was warranted.

Christians who had a lot more invested in this than I confounded me with their capacity to forgive and their commitment to radical, unexplainable grace.

Yet the Reformers combined this radical freedom with the insistence that the new life is lived in the community of the church with its tradition, its scriptural authority and the celebration of the sacraments, for now the church is known as the community which God creates by his grace.

Both Nygren and D'Arcy seem to sense this though neither considers the question whether another metaphysical outlook might be compatible with the radical nature of love as grace, and with God's self - involvement in history.

So in the wake of the Supreme Court cases, which have many people up in arms on all sides of the issue, let's remember the witness of Jesus that announces no one is excluded from God's radical grace.

I also affirm that from this radical gift of self, second only to the gift of martyrdom, greater graces flow than from lesser sacrifices, because God can not be outdone in generosity.

I feel this church is about to be pushed deeper into the radical grace of God in Jesus and Iâ $ ™ m not sure how weâ $ ™ re going to take it or how well Iâ $ ™ ll lead it?

Thus the negative import of the gospel of God's grace is the radical undermining of all our attempts to establish ourselves in the pursuit of either «righteousness» or «unrighteousness.»

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Daring and radical, Tilda Swinton owns the red carpet, an oasis of grace in a sea of frothy Cinderella frocks.

But they start with just three: Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head.

Gina Lake is the author of over twenty books about awakening to one's true nature, including From Stress to Stillness, All Grace, In the World But Not of It, The Jesus Trilogy, A Heroic Life, Trusting Life, Embracing the Now, Radical Happiness, and Choosing Love.