Sentences with phrase «knowledge of faith»

Having been raised in knowledge of the faith, it was something she carried with her, though at times — not as she felt she should.

Unless we have personal, first hand knowledge of their Faith.

The decline in the basic knowledge of our faith, especially among the young, in recent decades is a fact hard to dispute.

It is time to translate all that into the life of the educational institutions that seek to transmit knowledge of the Faith: it can and must be done.

No longer can a new priest be expected to have a deep synthetic knowledge of his faith.

My venerable Predecessor the Servant of God Paul VI announced [a Year of Faith] in 1967... [that] the whole Church could reappropriate «exact knowledge of the faith, so as to reinvigorate it, purify it, confirm it, and confess it».

If a non-Christian, with no prior knowledge of the faith or its traditions, walks into your church, what might (s) he make of singing «These are the days of Elijah»?

As such, I would not call Lydia a new believer here, but rather a woman who was already a believer, but who had limited knowledge about what she believed, and who came to a fuller knowledge of her faith through the preaching and teaching of Paul.

Yet, missionary activity has been at least a factor in the renewal of the ancient religions of Asia and some missionary scholars helped to make knowledge of these faiths available in European languages.

Those who do practise often function at a fairly minimal level, and are unfamiliar with the great Catholic writers — or even with the lesser ones — and have no sense of zeal or excitement about imparting knowledge of the Faith, much less devotion to it.

To anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the Faith vision this must all sound uncannily familiar.

He quotes approvingly his predecessor Paul VI, who exhorts us to strive after an «exact knowledge of the faith, so as to reinvigorate it, purify it, confirm it, and confess it» (Porta Fidei 4).

First of all, as fellow believers we remind each other of the good news by talking about our faith together, by encouraging each other to grow in knowledge of our faith and by praying together.

But precisely the concern for rationality induced me to emphasize the provisional character of the knowledge of faith more than I did in earlier days.

Greeted with raucous applause from the 6,500 women (and a few men) in attendance, the former secretary of state touted her knowledge of the faith, spoke about her family's Methodist roots and addressed how the teachings of Jesus and John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, have guided her career.

I was confident in my knowledge of my faith and always eager to explain some minor point of theology to my friends and classmates.»

It wasn't a quiz regarding a persons level of faith, but their knowledge of that faith and things faith related.

The knowledge of faith is not therefore «subjective» in the sense that it happens primarily in the believer, but is «objective» because the believer participates in the eternal activity of the object of faith; the believer's subjective faith is therefore secondary and derivative.

The knowledge of faith, rather than relying on the outmoded theories of knowledge where the mind merely represents external objects, is participatory; the act of contemplating the things of God partakes in God's own Trinitarian activity.

John entered by the knowledge of faith and wisdom into a unique intuition of the Divinity of Our Lord.

This would enable us to deepen our knowledge of our faith so as to understand its eminent reasonableness, accept it, live it and be able to explain it to each other and to the world around us (the New Evangelisation for the salvation of the world).

It sees temporality as a crucial dimension of faith, and it accepts the culturally conditioned character of all human knowledge (including the knowledge of faith) as a sign that the transcendent God has become incarnate in human history and culture.

The knowledge of the senses is not the same as the knowledge of faith.

We do that because we believe in what John Paul II called the «profound and indissoluble unity between the knowledge of reason and the knowledge of faith» -LCB- Fides et Ratio, 16).

Each parish had one or more priests, charged with the duty of teaching their parishioners and, by catechizing, preaching, and the administration of the sacraments bringing them to a knowledge of the faith and to conformity with it.