Sentences with phrase «kind of faith christians»

The faith that little children have in Santa Claus is the same kind of faith christians are so proud of

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Faith, too, demands a kind of Negative Capability, and that does not always sit well with many of the folk who distribute Christian art and many of the folk who consume it.

These types of ra nts lead down the path of religious per secution and have been the same kinds of words during horrible religiously motivated at roci ties — ki ll ing of people because their flavor of Christian faith didn't meet the standard of some other self - right eous mob.

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

For $ 7 a month, XXXChurch offers porn - detection software that fires off automatic e-mail alerts to a subscriber and his or her chosen «faith buddy,» a kind of whistle - blowing system designed to keep Christians from going astray.

Third, the reason I say that Christians are generally happy is because usually on these kinds of boards, I see Christians proclaiming their faiths and atheist says we are «delusional» and living in a fantasy world.

Indeed the kind of Protestantism that fades into abstraction owes much to Lutheranism for its peculiar tendency to reduce the whole of the Christian faith to the doctrine of justification.

«These ministers represent the kind of Christianity that makes me reluctant to say to people I don't know that I'm a Christian, and the kind of speakers for the faith that drove all my children out of churches because they would not put up with such judgmentmentalism.

Any real faith (meaning the kind that actually does move mountains) died out of the «Christian Church» when the Bible was canonized, with little exception, and most of the exceptions were exterminated.

There are people all around the world dying because of their faith, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, or etc. «Martyrdom» may remind you of Christianity's history of «violence, intolerance, and fanaticism»... but why be reminded of something that ocurred in the past when religious persecution is still happening today among people of all kinds of faiths, including Christians?

In summary, the theology I am proposing is a kind of heuristic construction that in focusing on the imaginative construal of the God - world relationship, attempts to remythologize Christian faith through metaphors and models appropriate for our time.

Nowadays, for a Christian to say that violence (any kind of violence, whatever its origin and its aim) is the ultima ratio is to signalize his infidelity — and the primary meaning of that word is «absence of faith.»

With and only with these men, and only on the basis of their affirmation of faith, could Christians and the church hold dialogue on matters of this kind.

The important thing is to make him see that he has to draw the consequences of his faith; and perhaps he will verify the fact that it is impossible to be a Christian and at the same time to conduct a successful politics, which necessarily requires the use of some kind of violence.

If faith, simply as a human phenomenon, can do these things, then why is there any need to be concerned with some additional special kind of faith known as the Christian faith?

I didn't pray for leukemia but I got it children die everyday new souls in this sometimes very cruel world what kind of god does that I'm sure you'll say the sins of the father or it just wasn't gods plan or if we were better Christians then we wouldn't be punished or our faith was being tested and to all of you I say what a cruel child of a god you have that» tests his flock he so lovingly created excuse after excuse I'll keep my faith in the science that put my cancer in remission and if I'm wrong I'll march straight into hell knowing I made no excuses

People turn to a faith for all kinds of reasons, and they come from all kinds of backgrounds, some were atheists who became christians, christians who became Muslim, Muslims who became Christian..

They are profoundly oriented to public life, and they push for the kind of Christian faith that would help end massive suffering.

These ministers represent the kind of Christian that makes me reluctant to say to people I don't know that I'm a Christian and the kind of speakers for the faith that drove all my children out of churches because they would not put up with such judgmentalism, cruelty, and, too often, drive for power and money.

«The kind of faith that Obama articulates is not the sort of Christianity that's understood by the media or by a large swath of Christians in the U.S.,» says Bass, a progressive Christian.

One such distortion is a kind of premature closure on this image as if it represented the whole goal of Christian faith and life instead of what it actually is, the basic mode of ministry to evoke faith and life.

I'm ready to see the same type of article written about Romney & Mormonism... if you are going to question if a candidate is «the right or wrong» kind of Christian, I believe a great number of the Christian Right would be stunned at some of the practices & beliefs of the Mormon faith.

That's the kind of faith our earliest Christian leaders wrote about and lived out (James 2:14 - 17).

Now this man in Norway claims to be some kind of Christian and you have chosen to now call for all Christians to accept this man as a brother of the faith and then repudiate Christian extremism.

But it is undeniable that the same kind of spiritual rhetoric and understanding of faith allowed Christians in America to oppress others for hundreds of years on the one hand, while feeling spiritually righteous or justified on the other.

To that kind of understanding the specifically Christian faith makes an addition which provides a much more adequate assurance about such establishment and preservation.

You do not understand everything the Christian church teaches, you say, and some things that you think you do understand you do not believe, but you at least see enough in the kind of faith and life for which Christianity stands so that you would like to do something about it.

The finite world would move and grow (undergo a kind of self - transcendence)(Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith, 178 - 203.)

Various kinds of Christian denominations and sectarian groups are looking into China openly or secretly to seek to convert the Chinese to their particular Christian faith.

I would like to see more action of this kind, though maybe not so pointed toward Christians, but to encompass all religious, faith - based, thinking.

Applied to the description of the Christian life, this means that our standpoint is directly opposed to that neo-orthodox doctrine which stresses the discontinuity of Christian faith with the rest of experience in such a way that it is asserted, for example, by Dr. Daniel T. Jenkins that there is «no kind of continuity between the «old man» and the «new man in Christ.»

Thenceforward a kind of natural armour protects, at such points, the faith of simple Christians.»

Dr. Altizer's book — also black — is a kind of volcanic eruption against the «Christian death» which threatens the life of faith.

It is generally agreed that the drama of the present religious conflict lies in the apparent irreconcilability of two opposed kinds of faith — Christian faith, which disdains the primacy of the ultra-human and the Earth, and «natural» faith, which is founded upon it.

We've been taught it is an evidence of our Christian faith to boycott businesses who profit from artistic contributions of these same kinds of characters.

It is with that kind of faith and hope that we can enter the new millennium as we come to the end of the Christian era.

The directive of the churches represented in Faith and Order — that a study of worship be pursued over a number of years — indicates a recognition that there is a giveness to Christian worship, and that the common degradation of worship into gimmicks for religious mood - engendering is a kind of impoverishment, a failure, a positive disobedience hiding behind the face of individualism, spontaneity, freedom.

From a Wesleyan perspective, this is problematic because it can lead to what Wesley called solafidianism in which the Christian life enters a kind of stasis where the believer, having embraced Christ in faith, need go no farther.

The problem of the relations of the law and the gospel is essentially that of two kinds of authority: code morality or externally given or authoritarian morality versus the loving, faith - filled response of the Christian to the grace of God in Christ.

For this reason the kind of new life which Christians claim through faith in the risen Christ is essential to the actual advancement of community and to the creation of the religious outlook which underlies it.

Indeed, everybody holds certain principles of «elemental faith»: for example, that the world has some kind of order to it, and that we have some kind of moral responsibility Elemental faith and other forms of secular faith provide «points of contact» for Christians trying to explain saving faith.

I thought that this subject could really augment our discussion surrounding my recent post about A New Kind of Fundamentalism, in which I argue that a commitment to love God and love people provides the foundation for the Christian faith.

But whereas I had presented this as a kind of apologetic for Christian faith, Shepard saw it as displaying the enormous culpability of Christianity for the profound sickness of our time.

Surely we can never think of Christian teaching about faith and morals, or about anything else, as a kind of closed enterprise, at the end of which the job is done and we have finally got our people «fixed» where we should like them to be.

There is a young man (on a short video) that I have featured on my blog, who is just the kind of person in the church who causes people to become prideful jerks, or who causes them to despair deeply in the Christian faith.

This is the kind of world that the theologian lives in and to which he must relate the faith by which he lives and the Christian heritage which has been entrusted to him.

At a time when Americans have grown accustomed to hearing public officials invoke a kind of generic national religion that's sensitive to diverse faith traditions and nonbelievers alike, Perry has often gone a big step further, telegraphing a distinctly Christian message.

There are far more people of faith — all kinds, not just Christian — than there are atheists in the world.

Why do books of this kind have to work so hard to be so wrong about the Christian faith?

But if the kind of trust in God's love and loyalty to its cause that are Christian faith are, in fact, authorized by ultimate reality in its meaning for us, the encompassing whole of reality in its structure in itself must be as individual as it is universal, or as universal as it is individual, and hence an exception to the rule by which individuals and universals are otherwise distinguished.