Sentences with phrase «in human salvation»

Consider this one: Christians might think that the dynamics of grace and faith in human salvation could only be worked out in Christianity — until they learn, for example, about the intricate, debates between the «cat doctrine» and the «monkey doctrine» in Bhakti Hinduism.

Lombardo's primary goal is to provide a theological evaluation of three traditional understandings of the role of Christ's death in human salvation.

Not exact matches

They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the church.

Other faiths believe in burning candles or saying prayers in behalf of the dead — the Latter - day Saints believe in the same concept, but taken to the next level: that we really can open a portal to salvation for every human on earth, if they want it.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Faith did a pundent stating, «It's vital for every human to admit that he is stupid, repent of his sins, ask for forgiveness and trust in Jesus for salvation.»

It's vital for every human to admit that he is stupid, repent of his sins, ask for forgiveness and trust in Jesus for salvation.

Rather, the new NIV here makes it possible for English readers to discover a more Catholic or Orthodox or truly Lutheran Paul, one who teaches that the problem with the Jewish law is its ethnic and temporary character and that human salvation concerns our real sacramental participation in divine life, real transformation, and ultimate resurrection.

God has set a narrow, specific yet plain way of salvation (faith in Jesus alone) so only honest humans who honor God can make it to Him.

Personally I am glad that God chose the Semites in order to bring fourth the good word, and salvation to human kind.

The Baptist tradition, as shaped by American revivalism in the Great Awakenings, has generally leaned toward Arminianism, a modified version of predestination proposed by Jacob Arminius (d. 1609) that allowed a greater role for human cooperation in salvation.

The non-existent god I don't believe in doesn't save the day, their is no «salvation for the christians», but maybe, in the late afternoon sunlight, while tracking a dust mote through the air, it might be that human invention of «god» was an attempt to take away «sin» so that we could find the beautiful, and ethical, and loving within ourselves and others.

So, salvation clearly comes from another way, otherwise why would God even create humans and put them in these areas?

In a time in which the human body seemed to lose any iconic significance, in the weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.&raquIn a time in which the human body seemed to lose any iconic significance, in the weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.&raquin which the human body seemed to lose any iconic significance, in the weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.&raquin the weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.&raquin the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.»

If only those who are exposed to the gospel and express explicit faith in Jesus Christ receive salvation, I reasoned, then that would mean the majority of the human race is damned to hell simply for being born at the wrong place and the wrong time.

He gives the salvation package — from sin and death and slavery to exaltation in the heavens (Ephesians 2:1 - 3, 6 - 7)-- freely, by His grace, without any human works, effort, or sacrifice involved.

But when a Christian prays for the salvation of human beings» either individually or en masse» does he do so in the same manner?

Indeed the «world,» that is, human society, has not changed very much in nineteen centuries, and the message of salvation is as greatly needed now as then, or ever.

Just this: that, far from being unconcerned about the human plight, the Church Fathers were motivated by their theology of salvation in upholding doctrines of divine immutability and impassibility (God's transcendence of human suffering and passions).

Nobody attempted to split human health into a multiplicity of functions, and likewise nobody attempted to promote the welfare of one individual in abstraction from the salvation of the community.

In the Judeo - Christian tradition, the church has never separated its message of salvation from its concern for concrete service to human beings, including the healing of sickness.

The author holds that the most unequivocal way in which Wesley was liberal was in his insistence on human participation in the process of salvation A second respect in which Wesley was clearly liberal in his own time was his attitude toward those with views differing from his own.

You are a sign of the great mystery of salvation, proclaimed at the beginning of human history and fulfilled in the marriage covenant between Christ and His Church.

One might call this the soteriological captivity of creation, because it succeeds in emptying the world of its own meaning as a realm of divine governance and human involvement prior to and apart from the biblical story of salvation culminating in Christ.

Perhaps the most unequivocal way in which Wesley was liberal was in his insistence on human participation in the process of salvation.

Does the New Testament, in asserting that Jesus is risen from the dead, mean that his death is not just an ordinary human death, but the judgment and salvation of the world, depriving death of its power?

Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their schools, etc..»

In confining God's revelation to the written word, sola scriptura theology not only cut itself off from much of the rich trinitarian thinking since Nicaea, but limited revelation to the exigencies of human salvation.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

Undoubtedly a certain insight was promoted in regard to such questions as how the papal primacy and the episcopacy founded by Christ can exist and work together in the Church, how the necessity of the Church for salvation is compatible with the possibility of salvation of a human being who does not belong to it, how in the realm of grace each of the regenerate can depend on every other and so above all on Mary, while there is nevertheless only one mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ.

, Newman saw these assorted proto - revelations as themselves signs, not just of the presence of God's logoi spermatikoi in all of human society but also as pathmarkers for the Church's evangelizing pilgrimage through salvation history, a journey he describes in one of the most magnificent passages in his Essay on Development:

«Mr. Graham's calling is not to pass judgment, but to proclaim the biblical truth that Jesus is the only way to heaven (Jn 14:6), allowing every individual and group to fall along that plumb line...» «He further stressed that salvation is the work of Almighty God, and that only He knows what is in each human heart,» the statement said.

Where salvation in the gospel is the joint work of God's hand and human hands, submission to soul - salvation took place across the table as a deal between seller and customer, supplier and consumer, the professionals and their clientele.

Where faith invites the Holy Spirit to participate in human decisions, in answer to God's invitation to participate in God's work of creating human beings, Africans accepted to be unmade, Christianized, catholicized, presbyterianized and pentecostalized as a price to pay for the salvation of their souls.

The experienced fact of human sinfulness and the promise of salvation through the unmerited forgiveness of sin have placed much emphasis on divine judgment in traditional Christian thinking.

Of course in its train the consideration of the theme of being human and common human values and goals will bring trans - historical questions of God, salvation and immortality, in a challengingly relevant way, as the transcendent dimension of being human is raised.

In the former passage, a surrogate of the love - commandment functions as the eschatological criterion of salvation; at 11:25 - 30 the human insensitivity of the pharisaic attitude is implicitly contrasted with the «easy yoke.»

More will be said about God's answer to human lovelessness in later chapters, particularly the one that deals with our salvation from sin.

In Eddy's theology, Jesus» virgin birth, crucifixion and bodily resurrection were the pivotal events in human history, absolutely indispensable to human salvatioIn Eddy's theology, Jesus» virgin birth, crucifixion and bodily resurrection were the pivotal events in human history, absolutely indispensable to human salvatioin human history, absolutely indispensable to human salvation.

It will buy any recipe for salvation as long as that formula leaves the responsibility for cooking up salvation firmly in human hands.

Yet another suggestion of the total image concerns the way in which living and non-living realities are to be joined in human life and for human salvation.

That is to say, salvation depends finally upon right human action in response to God's gracious Torah, and Jesus» function is simply to re-present that Law as it exists primordially in the mind of God — not to create a new possibility for human existence.

In their book Pentecostalism and the Future of the Churches, Richard Shaull, emeritus professor of ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary, and his colleague Waldo Cesar, a Brazilian sociologist, argue that Pentecostalism may represent a new paradigm of salvation in which the problem of human sin and the solution of repentance and forgiveness have been reconfigured along more hopeful, even joyful lineIn their book Pentecostalism and the Future of the Churches, Richard Shaull, emeritus professor of ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary, and his colleague Waldo Cesar, a Brazilian sociologist, argue that Pentecostalism may represent a new paradigm of salvation in which the problem of human sin and the solution of repentance and forgiveness have been reconfigured along more hopeful, even joyful linein which the problem of human sin and the solution of repentance and forgiveness have been reconfigured along more hopeful, even joyful lines.

Moreover, if there is in fact a basic human need for deliverance, salvation, etc., then it may well be manifested in part as a need for deliverance from mystery, salvation from ignorance, etc..

As many a TV situation comedy has demonstrated, human finitude can be very funny, and Auden heightens the humor by suggesting that the humdrum is caught up in salvation history.

The eschatological elements of the salvation history theme have implied that the fullness of life lies only in the future; consequently, American churches have often responded to human suffering in the present by pointing the sufferer to God's future.

In fact if Jesus was sent to save the human race then his gospel of salvation should have started in Egypt where he was raceIn fact if Jesus was sent to save the human race then his gospel of salvation should have started in Egypt where he was racein Egypt where he was raced.

The fact of Jesus Christ, therefore, is a total fact, with a unitary quality which makes it include and express (a) a human life which was remembered, (b) a vital experience of salvation which was enjoyed, and (c) the activity of God that was in, through, with, and behind this totality.

Christ manifests the divine will by his obedience unto death, which means by denouncing human passions and strivings, revealing in this way God's eternal thought concerning the salvation of humankind.

The purpose of contrition is so that humans may be in a state of readiness to receive the salvation brought to humankind by God's Advent.