Sentences with phrase «intellectual understanding of faith»

that is the intellectual understanding of faith.

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Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

By pressing the ancient moral criterion of equity while refusing to discuss the economic criterion of growth, the clergy in effect revived a medieval understanding of faith as intellectual sacrifice.

The Faith movement has this principle at the heart of its approach to the formation of young Catholics, seeking to foster an inquisitive approach to the faith, just as in the natural sciences, and to develop such intellectual curiosity within a theological framework that is faithful to Christ's Magisterium and to our understanding of the created univFaith movement has this principle at the heart of its approach to the formation of young Catholics, seeking to foster an inquisitive approach to the faith, just as in the natural sciences, and to develop such intellectual curiosity within a theological framework that is faithful to Christ's Magisterium and to our understanding of the created univfaith, just as in the natural sciences, and to develop such intellectual curiosity within a theological framework that is faithful to Christ's Magisterium and to our understanding of the created universe.

If there is to be active commitment, then there must be some degree of intellectual understanding of what the faith involves, and this in turn means that the faith is expressed in certain practices and doctrines.

They recognized and analyzed the social, intellectual, and emotional role of faith and the Church in shaping crusaders» mentalities, creating a more rounded understanding of motive, incentive, and cultural context.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

These must be the basis of continued growth in understanding the meaning of the Christian faith, in finding God's power in one's life, and in that self - commitment in action from which intellectual debates can be an escape.

The relation of love to the intellect proceeds from three assumption: first, that faith transcends rational categories through God's self - revelation in Christ; second, that intellectual understanding is necessary for the guidance of human life; and third, that both seek the same object in God's being and His revealed truth — namely, that it is through agape with its consequent repentance, humility, and understanding of human limits that the intellect can appropriately function.

Inculturation should not be understood merely as intellectual research; it occurs when Christians express their faith in the symbols and images of their respective culture.

As expressed in the preface to his Foundations of Christian Faith, his theological intention was «to reach a renewed understanding of this message and to arrive at an «idea» of Christianity... and... try as far as possible to situate Christianity within the intellectual horizon of people today.

Where theology has been conceived as an intellectual activity, method served to build up a system of explanation for the understanding of faith — fides quaerens intellectum.

It does mean that the books of the Old Covenant are studied in the context of an intellectual love of God and neighbor, of a faith that seeks understanding.

Rabbi Gellman's idea of the «Judaectomy» that many Jews feel they must perform on themselves in order to participate in civic discourse rang true (mutatis mutandis) for these young Catholics, who understand that a certain unwritten code of etiquette requires them to check their faith at the door in order to be heard as intellectuals.

In this Biffi depicted Anselm's perspective as, contrary to much modern emphasis, grasping that «reality as a whole is much greater than we grasp through simple natural understanding, substantiated solely by sensory experience, inductive and deductive reasoning, mathematical calculation -LSB-...] faith not only is not separable from reason, and does not harm it, but is even the greatest and highest exercise of our intellectual faculty.»

As intellectual center of the Church's life it is the place where in specific manner faith seeks understanding.

(4) for someone who (like me) generally respects your opinion and uses your technical expertise as a touchstone for evaluating technical questions they are incapable of understanding (either by way of insufficient background or intellectual limitations — or both, as in my case), you undermine your own credibility by accusing someone who at least seems to be engaging in good faith, of engaging in bad faith.

Because the goal is for the candidate to live the faith (not merely have an intellectual understanding of it) and is more likely to achieve this praxis when the candidate becomes self motivated as a consequence of the relationship with the sponsor... i.e. «I can do this because my sponsor has made it clear to me that he / she is enough like me that I now know I can also live the (faith) tradition as effectively as he / she does.