Sentences with phrase «individual salvation»

And when preparation for the last things is addressed, it is usually in terms of personal preparation for individual salvation.

Is it about individual salvation from hell or something else?

Elements of this orthodoxy were retained in subsequent changes such as in the next big movement, known as pietism, which emphasized the subjective aspect of individual salvation as contrasted with intellectual acceptance of doctrines.

Likewise, when Wheeler notes the apparent contradiction between «the preeminent emphasis on individual salvation so characteristic of... American evangelical Christianity, in particular,» and the process emphasis on the transformation (salvation) of the world as a whole,» he appears again to favor a compromise (110).

This appears to contradict the pie - eminent emphasis on individual salvation so characteristic of Christianity, in general, and American evangelical Christianity, in particular.

Religion has to do with individual salvation; the church should not become involved in the problems of technological civilization.

There can be no purely individual salvation.

The encyclical also includes a criticism of contemporary Christianity, saying it has largely limited its attention to individual salvation instead of the wider world, and thus reduces the «horizon of its hope... As Christians we should never limit ourselves to asking, how can I save myself?

It accentuated individual salvation out of the world, personal moral life congruent with the ideals of the saved, and fulfillment or its absence in the rewards or punishments in another world in a life to come.

The Bible says we must all work out our own individual salvation.

Thus in India, the quest for individual salvation from the pain of sheer individuality was immediately and inextricably involved with the ontological or metaphysical question as to the real.

The fact is that Western Christianity, especially in the post-Reformation period, has been preoccupied with the question of individual salvation.

Until last week, I was under the impression that anyone who identifies himself or herself as a Calvinist would interpret «election» to refer to individual salvation from hell — that God chooses some before the foundation of the world to encounter Jesus and spend eternity in heaven while choosing others for irreversible damnation in hell, with no hope or possibility of salvation.

If we had healthy loving communities, perhaps this would be less of an issue... but instead we focus more on individual salvation and not enough on living together in faith...

Then if «my» individual salvation is not the point, all the debates that are built on this foundation, which seems to me to be one of the cornerstone of the catholic (and by extension the protestant) faith, are just pointless (calvinist / arminianism, faith / deeds, can we achieve perfection (methodist) or not, etc etc)...

I was raised evangelical where all the emphasis was on personal, individual salvation.

We are beginning to see that the vast purpose of God can never be confined to individual salvation or to the welfare of any particular race or nation, or even to the necessarily restricted physical life of human beings on this planet.

This more «horizontal» reading of Romans — and of all of Paul's letters — has been embraced and widely disseminated by N. T. Wright (Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology, 1992), who emphasizes that Paul is not otherworldly but this - worldly, is focused on social healing more than individual salvation, and is more concerned with political resistance than personal holiness.

Individual salvation is seen as the solution to our worldly problems.

It is surely easier to treat Christianity as a purely private matter of individual salvation or, as it is more commonly said these days, of personal spirituality.

Since Talmudic times Judaism has upheld the idea of individual salvation.

He is, of course, quite correct that the biblical vision of redemption is one of cosmic restoration, not merely one of individual salvation, or of the rescue of souls; it is an unfortunate fact of history that by the Christian High Middle Ages this had been forgotten by almost every significant Western Christian theologian.

Individual salvation has its meaning and place only in relation to that!

But then he'd consign the whole question of individual salvation to the back burner if not the dustbin.

It strikes me that while our Lord Jesus is the grounding for our individual salvation, in procuring our salvation he defeated the principalities and powers that govern the world.

Niebuhr was at one with the Social Gospel in caring much more about social justice than about his own or anyone else's individual salvation.

Whereas Putnam reached for the central Christian plot of individual salvation, Heston exploited a marginal moment of Pentateuchal satire.

As the missionary - theologian Lesslie Newbigin puts it: «A religion of individual salvation had been taught, along with a wholesale rejection and condemnation of traditional culture.

Contemporary Christianity, with its emphasis on individual salvation, has lost sight of that.

I thank God every day that he sent Jesus to die for all of our sins for each of our individual salvation to accept as a gift.

Individualism and individual salvation have been a pervasive theme in American Protestantism.

Individual salvation is a matter of growing social concern and acting on that concern.

The hilarious supporting cast (Patton Oswalt and comic TJ Miller have memorable moments that wound up in the trailer for good reason) falls by the wayside, dies or gets left in Knightley and Carell's dust as they team up and travel farther and farther down the road to what they think will be their individual salvations: he to a high school sweetheart and she to her family in England.