Sentences with phrase «in this new perspective jesus»

And in this new perspective Jesus was seen to be himself the ultimate truth: the very embodiment of God's Word.

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Understanding this new perspective on church is as difficult today as it was in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a different perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same: Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual maturity.

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If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

The New Testament tells us to focus on eyes on Jesus (Heb 12:2); and to have that eternal perspective where we know that this world is not our home and that all we do should be done in the light of eternity.

A process perspective on the language through which Matthew brings his christological witness to expression thus in my estimation lends support to Ogden's contention that the message of the New Testament is one that «can be formulated in complete abstraction from the event Jesus of Nazareth and all that it specifically imports.»

A process perspective on the language through which Matthew brings his christological witness to expression lends support to Ogden's contention that the message of the New Testament is one that «can be formulated in complete abstraction from the event Jesus of Nazareth and all that it specifically imports.»

I found a new faith in Christ Jesus and until I get it all written down about my views / perspectives I can only live my Life day to day one day at a time.

But focus on what Jesus Christ has done, who He is, the forgiveness of our sins against God, the new life He gives us, the victory over Satan we have, and the plethora of benefits of being a child of God... and then your perspective will shift from depressiveness to optimistic hope in God no matter your circumstances or conditions.

A personal meeting that touched my heart and gave a direction and a new meaning to my existence»), theology («Jesus rose from the dead: not to be triumphant over those who refused him, but to certify that the love of God is stronger than death, the forgiveness of God is stronger than any sin») and his perspective on grace («God's mercy has no limits if he who asks for mercy does so in contrition and with a sincere heart»).

From the perspective of the New Testament we see this prophecy fulfilled in the advent of Jesus Christ.

In 1971 Peter Hodgson of Vanderbilt picked up this concern and issued Jesus — Word and Presence, a programmatic essay on Christology from the new hermeneutic perspective.

In 1972 he provided the first substantial Christology from the new perspective, Jesus Christ Liberator (Orbis, 1978), just one year after Gustavo Gutierrez's A Theology of Liberation brought Third World theology to the attention of the rest of the world.