Sentences with phrase «in essentials of faith»

We are unified in our belief in the essentials of the faith.

A quasi-is one which uses the word Christian but is not in essentials of faith.

Not exact matches

These are schools who say they are «Christ - centered» and who believe in the «essentials of the faith» but who gather not to discuss theology but to help one another along in their commitment to Christian higher education.

Further, they are already aware of «disagreement about some theological matters» and the CCCU schools are committed to «certain essentials of the faith once for all delivered to the saints» simultaneously adhering to particular theological postures in one's particular school and its theological tradition.

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

I am convinced that the question of justice constitutes the essential argument, or in any case the strongest argument, in favor of faith in eternal life.

When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

The polarization is so deep that when, in 1996, the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin founded the Catholic Common Ground Initiative as a means of addressing division in the church, he was criticized by some liberal Catholics who thought that the project was not radical enough and by some of his brother cardinals who believed that it jeopardized the essential truths of the faith.

Therefore we should strive for unity in the essential parts of faith, give some wiggle room in the non-essentials, and most of all, be willing to give a lot of grace for those we disagree with.

Bishop «POD», as he is affectionately known by his domestic church, sets out the essential topics which must be addressed in any presentation of the Catholic faith as follows:

If you're a church leader wondering why some sermons are not delivering what you hope they will; an evangelist who wants to present faith in a way that connects; an employee wanting to persuade your boss; or a young person preparing for an interview, then mastering the five prompts of the Centre Brain is essential.

For while there are bits and pieces of new information here, the essential truths about the man — his deep (and deeply Bavarian) faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his human decency — were already on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations with Ratzinger.

«As they participate in various causes, it is essential that they engage in and speak in such a way that faithfully represent the college's evangelical Statement of Faith.

This ground is, quite simply, Christian faith in Christ, for I am persuaded that no full or genuine understanding of Christ is possible so long as the scholastic principle that there is an essential and eternal difference between God and the world is accepted.

But we can say at least this: the essential meaning of the concept of the miraculous, as this has been used in traditional theology, is grounded in the keen awareness men have of the unexpected and unprecedented experiences and happenings, the novel and hence the unusually stimulating events or circumstances of life, through which men in every age have been aroused to faith in God and have been given a deepening conviction of his love and care.

It is essential that leaders in communities of faith learn how to preach, how to counsel and how to manage an organization mostly staffed by volunteers.

«IT IS THE ESSENTIAL SIMPLICITY» of what NEEDS to be conveyed across for faith IN Christ's Salvation.

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

The change that has come about in theologies that partake of creative and emergent evolution can be described in this way: since mechanism is no longer the base of their evolutionary thinking, idealism is no longer essential as a strategy of thought in resolving the tension between science and faith.

For the future of the Church everywhere, too, what is most essential is the ancient yet ever - new message of Christianity, that is to say that in the darkness of this life the hearts of men must entrust themselves to that ineffable, adorable mystery of life which we call God in faith, hope and love and unconditional confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord.

In short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian beliefIn short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian beliefin Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian belief).

While this change may be viewed as moral progress, it is probably due, in part, to the evaporation of the sense of sin, guilt, and retributive justice, all of which are essential to biblical religion and Catholic faith.

EPC requires all churches to hold to «essential» tenets of the Christian faith, but allows each congregation freedom in forming opinions on «nonessential» matters, such as whether women can be elected as deacons and elders.

But most people leave seminary these days without the slightest notion as to what is essential and what is fluff in a eucharistic prayer, even though the church has no older form of proclamation of its faith.

According to writer Harry Lee Poe, the Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University, C.S. Lewis addressed the people of Iceland in a broadcast called «The Norse Spirit in English Literature» that was absolutely essential in warding off German invasion in Denmark and the rest of Europe.

Believing in the physical resurrection of Jesus is a 100 % essential article of faith to anyone who wishes to claim the moniker «Christian» for him / herself.

First, in every domain of teaching the following essentials of religious faith should be emphasized and demonstrated in the teacher's own outlook: That the world, man, and his culture are neither self - sufficient nor self - explanatory but are derived from given sources of being, meaning, and value.

For after all, in any faith which is genuinely theocentric or focused upon God, it is essential to make sure that it is God, not human desires or wishes or aspirations as they now stand, who is to be «given the glory»; and it is in God, and in God alone, that we may speak meaningfully of the significance of our own existence.

They insisted upon it as an indivisible whole; He distinguished between essentials and non-essentials, singling out, in words which pointedly recalled a famous prophecy of the Old Testament, «justice, mercy and faith» as the «weightier matters of the Law».

In addition to faith, hope is another basic ingredient essential for human existence, for man can not live indefinitely without some form of hope.

These books, in spite of their wide diversity of genre and style, have a certain guiding character essential for the shaping and transmission of Christian faith.

An essential condition for the Church's communication of revelation is that it have a deposit of faith that remains in some sense fixed or finished in order to remain a continually reliable source to draw on in new circumstances.

Such worship, in company with brothers and sisters in the faith, is no incidental part of the total Christian way of life; rather, it is integral to it and essential for it.

It will be far wiser and truer to the nature of man to allow the essentials of the content of faith to «sink in» so that human culture itself becomes imbued with the truth of Revelation.

There was and is a need for a philosophy of science which, as Edward Holloway writes, was more «existential in emphasis» than essential, whilst being truly realist concerning formal universality (cf. Perspectives in Philosophy, Vol III, Noumenon and Phenomenon: Rethinking the Greeks in the Age of Science, Faith - Keyway Trust).

Yet Person demonstrates that Kirk's feuds with libertarians and some neoconservatives belied his underlying faith in the essential justice of free markets» when they were not taken as self «justifying.

While joining people where they're already gathered is essential, the formation of believing communities is a natural response to faith in Christ.

If we use the overpowering rationality of God alone as the clue to resolving the problem of suffering in the world, then, we miss a fundamental element which has always been basic to Christian theology, namely, the recognition that both reason and faith are essential for salvation and liberation.

In this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctificatioIn this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctificatioin faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctificatioin forgiveness and sanctification.

It was in any case this faith, accommodating itself in one form or another to almost every conceivable circumstance of existence, which was responsible for the survival of Judaism's essential integrity, her unique entity — and, historically assessed, for the subsequent creation of the Christian faith.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

I profoundly disagree with his desire to deontologize religious faith; I think that this tendency following the lead of 19th - century philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach in reducing the transcendent to secular concerns, profoundly misconstrues the essential genius of faith — at least Christian faith.

The belief that the classical form of Christianity will come through every crisis in the long run is, of course, an essential component of the Christian faith.

Acknowledging God's providential hand in all things, the late Pope commented that the entire Galileo affair has helped the Church come «to a more mature attitude and a more accurate grasp of the authority proper to her,» enabling her better to distinguish between «essentials of the faith» and the «scientific systems of a given age.»

Even I had to admit the force of faith in human history, high art, and ethical codes and to have no interest in them was to reject outright an essential portion of the human story.

Only the full experience of this capacity can bestow upon human affairs faith and hope, those two essential characteristics of human existence which Greek antiquity ignored altogether, discounting the keeping of faith as a very uncommon and not too important virtue and counting hope among the evils of illusion in Pandora's box.

Before becoming Pope, Cardinal Ratzinger noted their «essential criterion» of being rooted in the faith and teaching of the universal Church and unwaveringly loyal to the Pope.

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

And yet, as tends to be true of Old Testament history, this is obviously written not merely for the sake of preserving a history of the life of David, the King, but in order to extract from the history its essential meaning in the Yahweh - faith.

Of course, it has gradually come to be agreed in the church that such beliefs are not essential to Christian faith in creation; and theologians today commonly maintain that the first two chapters of Genesis are properly interpreted as mythologicaOf course, it has gradually come to be agreed in the church that such beliefs are not essential to Christian faith in creation; and theologians today commonly maintain that the first two chapters of Genesis are properly interpreted as mythologicaof Genesis are properly interpreted as mythological.