Sentences with phrase «liberty of christian»

As a result, Paul is the great exponent of the «liberty of the Christian man.»

Unfortunately, contemporary culture presents us — all too insistently — with issues which require a determined biblical and theological response: the continuation of the abortion regime; the intensifying pressure to acknowledge the legitimacy of same - sex «marriage»; the attacks on the religious liberty of Christians, forcing them to support practices offensive to their faith; and, most recently, «assisted suicide» now masquerading under the name «the right to die with dignity.»

Not exact matches

The Trump administration has consistently been a champion of religious liberty, particularly insofar as it pertains to evangelical Christian causes.

What a Christian buys is servitude in this life, at the cost of his liberty (and often property), to people who claim to be authorized agents of God, on hope of reward that can not be verified until they are dead.

His point is that Union stands for being «followers of Jesus» and «Christian unity» and «in essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, and in all things charity.»

(Declaration of Independence, 1776) They laid the foundation of our civil liberty and our Christian nation.

She is joined by a growing list of musicians who have dabbled with Christian labels only to find true liberty in underground grassroots movements.

We can debate the «were a Christian nation» thing back and forth without getting anywhere, but to imply that the freedoms we have now came only from Christian roots ignores the rest of world history as well as the fact that its often been the Church impeding civil liberties and progressive movements.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide works for the religious liberty of persecuted Christians, those suffering repression and children in need.

Do we need to be a Christian society to sustain religious liberty, as R. R. Reno argues in his splendid Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society?

But the argument over the motive for Cochran's firing and its effect on civil and religious liberties obscures a deeper disagreement over Christian conceptions of sin and the consequences of those ideas in a public work environment.

This Christian humanism has important political and economic ramifications, establishing for Röpke the true foundation of political and economic liberty that modern appeals to mere utility do not provide.

Neither the christian right nor anyone else can stand in the way of progress towards full realization of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in this country.

It was founded on the principle of personal liberty, which is in stark opposition to christian doctrine.

It is the hope of Christians who stand with Muslims in the common cause of religious liberty.

Paul addresses a concern of Christian liberty at the end of 1 Corinthians 10, when he states, ««I have the right to do anything,» you say — but not everything is beneficial.

Now in this country of traditional Christian values, a land which may well lead the world in matters of justice and liberty, it is very easy to underestimate the powers of evil.

Finally, Christians might engage in the cause of religious liberty with more hope and less anxiety.

«Every country, including the US, should be included in global assessments of religious liberty or persecution of Christians.

This election serves as a reminder that the Christian mandate of controlling women's bodies, telling gay people they're evil and can't access our liberties, or that the future is something to be feared are not relevant in politics.

It will insist that any version of Christian faith that does not grapple with war and peace, human equality, hunger, civil liberties, the hard decisions posed by medical technology, and a host of other social challenges is not a version of faith worth the time of either pulpit or pew.

Americans, for their part, should appreciate how much the Jewish and Christian traditions have provided the vision and context for creating and maintaining a society of ordered liberty.

For example, in 1923 Mullins, the champion of «soul liberty,» outlined various basic Christian beliefs (e.g., biblical inspiration, the miracles of Christ, his vicarious atonement, bodily resurrection, literal ascension, and final return) and declared before the SBC: «We believe that adherence to the above truths and facts is a necessary condition of service for teachers in our Baptist schools.»

The Epistle to the Galatians is a great declaration of Christian liberty.

Sexual exploitation of the unborn, the new born and youth of both sexes, together with the fact that even free men and women were expected to marry (usually arranged) and bear and rear children as a duty to empire and family, meant for many Christians that the only route to personal liberty led through the «freedom» of celibacy.

In the forthcoming Victories of Reason, Stark will attribute to Christian rationality and advocacy nothing less than the emergence of capitalism (pioneered by medieval monks, not industrious Protestants) and the foundational principles of equality and individual liberty that informed that most conspicuous Western achievement of all: modern republican democracy.

After the happy honeymoon she will receive for living down to a cheesey Christian conversion stereotype, she is going to find some ugly things about how Catholics respond to her «questions (about) certain aspects of Catholicism, including the church's positions on homosexuality, contraception and some aspects of religious liberty.»

Should they come to power, all other religions as well as other Christian denominations would be disenfranchised, and what kind of liberty would we have then?

So high is this God's valuation of human liberty of conscience that, even though He has launched a divinely commissioned religion in history (in two Covenants, Jewish and Christian), He would not have either of these religions imposed by force on anyone.

As a result, we should allow for a range of opinions, affirming our areas of agreement (e.g., that a vote is a gift to be stewarded) and recognizing Christian liberty in areas of disagreement (How should we weigh the personal conduct of one candidate against that of another?

Only the Jewish and Christian God made human beings free, halts the power of Caesar at the boundaries of the human soul, and has commissioned human beings to build civilizations worthy of the liberty He has endowed in them.

Christian liberty implies that reasonable and faithful Christians will disagree about issues situated farther away from the core of biblical teaching.

Thirdly, the attributes of the people of God (its liberty, righteousness, holiness and glory) do not belong primarily or of right either to individual Christians, or to the sum of all Christians at any one moment, or even to the whole of redeemed humanity in all ages.

William Penn of the Society of Friends first established religious liberty in the colonies and supplied the Christian rationale for it.

My opposition to this dichotomy is twofold: I believe that he has failed to account for the elements of our economy that should be particularly troubling to his fellow Christians, and that his model of the virtues necessary to maintain liberty neglects those with which we might combat these abuses.

And in the next place, describing what properly is defiance, it teaches that a man does wrong although he understands what is right, or forbears to do right although he understands what is right; in short, the Christian doctrine of sin is pure impertinence against man, accusation upon accusation; it is the charge which the Deity as prosecutor takes the liberty of lodging against man.

If there is any group of people that should be opposed to war, torture, militarism, the warfare state, state worship, suppression of civil liberties, an imperial presidency, blind nationalism, government propaganda, and an aggressive foreign policy it is Christians, and especially conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians who claim to strictly follow the dictates of Scripture and worship the Prince of Peace.

It is as if Paul was a split - person, unable to resolve his conflicts of sexism and Christian liberty in a consistent manner.12

Long before the founding of Christian public interest law firms, such as the Liberty Fund, The Becket Fund, and the ACLJ [American Center for Law and Justice], the Jehovah's Witnesses were using the courts to establish liberties.

Gregg Shively... the idea of a «stumbling block» is addressed to Christians who felt at liberty to eat food sacrificed to idols (1 Corinthians 8) and was not addressed to «outsiders».

In April 2016, Christian groups including the Evangelical Alliance said plans for Sunday schools to be forced to register with Ofsted and undergo inspections amounted to an «unjustified restriction of religious liberty».

Even with the present democratic and Christian emphasis on the dignity of personality and concern for «liberty and justice for all,» we are still far from agreement as to what constitutes for every man «his due.»

Do not great Christian nations, founded upon the rule of law and liberty, benefit the world in which they exist?

The objections to fasting — the resistance of the flesh and «evangelical liberty» — must not deter one from fasting as a form of discipline.31 When the Christian has failed in obedience, is guilty of sin against others, has lost the joy of Christian grace, and has come to little or no prayer, he needs to fast and pray.

They assumed that the Constitution, a distillation of Christian principles (life, liberty, etc.), would be interpreted in the light of the Judeo - Christian tradition, to which even the Deists and free - thinkers among them owed their conception of ethics [pp. 62 - 63].

That is why the moral essence of the US that men have inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is diametrically opposite of the selfless, self - sacrificial Christian morality.

The pope's decision to retire, rooted in this genuine concept of Christian liberty, is widely said to have «shocked the world,» and even much of the Church.

Beyond the issue of civil liberties lies a more prosaic political point: the possibility for a greater alliance between African - American Christians and white evangelicals.

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

«I deem the present occasion sufficiently important and solemn to justify me in expressing to my fellow - citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness...»