Sentences with phrase «many such confessions»

There should be no confusion deriving from the mistaken assumption that such a confession refers to an eclipse of God or a withdrawal of God from either history or the creation.

The Catholic confessional with its questions for moral inventory has great value in stirring the individual to self - examination and penitence; it gives rise to great abuses when such confession is taken too lightly.

Such a confession plants a particular congregation in a wider history that looks to its Hebrew past as well as to an eschatological future, a history in which Jesus Christ is the center.

Without such confessions, however, I suspect that we can not be church at all.

Of course, all we can do here is to offer a few preliminary considerations of a theological character to pave the way for such a confession.

Obviously, Boe's role at Wounded Knee was not a traditional ecclesiastical one; AIM was not a «parish» of the American Lutheran Church (though that church has made regular grants to it); probably no one was confessing his or her sins; and Boe was not asked to divulge the content of any such confessions anyway.

But such confessions, often used as the silver bullet to defeat SBS skeptics, became less conclusive upon further scrutiny.

A date who cares enough and wants to know you better will not be thrown off balance with such confessions and will still go through with the date.

Another thing, on free dating sites lots of such letters are sent by PPL marriage agencies, which are trying to hook you up into paying for correspondence, so, take any such confessions with a grain of salt.

One might not expect to hear such a confession from a figure like David Gregory, the NBC newsman who moderated «Meet the Press» and served as the White House correspondent during the second Bush administration.

Those writers feared the scorn and scepticism such a confession would provoke.

Wire - tapping laws exist at the federal level as well as the state level — some state versions are more stringent, and such laws may make such a confession inadmissible in court.

While such operations have a long history in this country, courts have yet to create a legal framework that addresses the unique issues which accompany such confessions.

Attorneys, of course, can also use this at trial to deny the validity of such a confession.

Not exact matches

Despite Stormy's own 2011 confession, Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen has continued to deny the affair, saying, «President Trump once again vehemently denies any such occurrence, as has Ms. Daniels.»

Many conservative Christians, among them Roman Catholics, will be offended at such a vitriolic attack on a famous conservative humanist author, and I use the term vitriolic advisedly («just a little spiteful,» in Hart's confession).

Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.

Book X of the Confessions repeatedly professes wonder at the God who has made us with such a capacity:

And no one wants to make the obvious awkward confession that there is an arbitrary human component of contract, agreement and such [that creates «ethics»].

Nonetheless, she is surely correct that conversion narratives (such as, most famously, Augustine's Confessions) are of little help in plotting these social changes and that Christianity was indeed influenced by the values of aristocratic culture.

I wrote, «Feeling great after confession is probably the most widespread experience in Catholicism, a religion not founded on religious experience as such.»

Describing its author's life up until his conversion to Christianity, the Confessions grounds Augustine's individual, mutable life in the unchanging nature of God: «I entered into the depths of my soul,... and with the eye of my soul, such as it was, I saw the Light that never changes casting its rays over the same eye of my soul, over my mind.»

Feeling great after confession is probably the most widespread experience in Catholicism, a religion not founded on religious experience as such.»

we have to fulfill that confession with our hearts and turn away from those wicked ways, so that only and then God will heal our land / heart of such sin.

We can see how the Apostles» Creed is an extension or expansion of such «confessions,» made necessary because of movements of thought or opinion which were beginning to invade the Christian community and to threaten the integrity of the gospel the Church preached.

«25 Such playful autobiography is, at its core, a confession of faith.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

Moreover, the poignancy of the sense of public guilt was reflected in private self - accusation, and the issue is seen in such prayers as the psalmist's confession of deep - seated sinfulness,

The priest listens intently, and then asks questions, and in a productive confession (yes, priest friends of mine tell me, there are such things as unproductive and antagonistic confessions during which even a seasoned priest is discombobulated), there is then an often piercing and moving conversation.

Most theological formulations take as their starting point statements that have been sanctioned by the community in which the theologian's perspective has been nurtured, statements such as creeds, confessions, scriptures, or the fully articulated systems of past theologians.

Such theological differences need not destroy the unity of faith and confession, they need not be a cause for schism, and today neither side ought to emphasize them to such an extent as still to justify the separation of the ChurcSuch theological differences need not destroy the unity of faith and confession, they need not be a cause for schism, and today neither side ought to emphasize them to such an extent as still to justify the separation of the Churcsuch an extent as still to justify the separation of the Churches.

Augustine, who grieved over the death of his beloved mother, Monica, spoke about such grief in his Confessions.

On the basis of an argument that partially parallels my own up to this point, Boers concludes that in this passage «acts that are as such non-Christian, even though performed by Christians — they were not done in the name of Christ — are used to interpret the meaning of the confession of Christ» (6:72).

Most people in the world today believe that God expects them to perform a wide variety of religious practices, such as going to church, attending mass, tithing, going to confession, giving up tobacco and alcohol, and a list of other rules that are variously taught in churches and on television.

He has followed up this dialogue with concrete steps on his own initiative, such as giving Society priests faculties to hear confessions and witness marriage, despite their unusual canonical status.

«I see this as a more than personal manifestation and a symbolic confession,» he wrote, «and accept it as such.»

He is «man of God» at least in the sense that his office is as such a human acknowledgment of the sovereignty of God, as the Church in its very existence is a confession of faith in God.

But so long as his confession is a kind of bid for favor, it will impede the reconciling process unless it is as recognized as such.

In any case, the High Priest construed it as a confession that he did make such a claim.

«12 The curriculum of the seminary provided for lectures by Bonhoeffer, reading of books, pastoral duties such as visitation, times of worship and confession of sin.

Such solidarity in opposition to the forces of unbelief is aptly called cobelligerency, and such cobelligerency is the more solid as it is more firmly grounded in the Bible, the creeds, and our confession and worship of Jesus Christ as LSuch solidarity in opposition to the forces of unbelief is aptly called cobelligerency, and such cobelligerency is the more solid as it is more firmly grounded in the Bible, the creeds, and our confession and worship of Jesus Christ as Lsuch cobelligerency is the more solid as it is more firmly grounded in the Bible, the creeds, and our confession and worship of Jesus Christ as Lord.

Figure out how to put such pieces together in a coherent whole, and you are doing theology; suggest the answer you figured out to your fellow Christians, and you are proposing doctrine; write down what you and they agree on, and you have produced a confession.

Our confessions give no support to such characterization, nor do our best theologians.

We find it easy to confess such sins, if their confession keeps us unaware of our sin.

At any rate, among such people as David Burrell, Stephen Crites, Samuel McClendon, Donald and Walter Capps, James Wiggins, John Dunne and, in a different way, Richard R. Niebuhr and William Lynch, it is a concern with concrete, ordinary experience that for some has meant a renewed interest in religious autobiography — Paul's letters, Augustine's Confessions, John Woolman's Journal, Kierkegaard's writings, the theological work of Teilhard de Chardin, Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers, Dorothy Day's autobiography and so on.

As such, I am bound to firmly confess what I see in the Word, (that would be my beliefs), but I do not firmly pronounce that my confessions have ended.

If a couple are sincere in trying to keep to such a decision — even if they fail on occasion and go to confession when they do — then the way is open for them to receive Holy Communion.

Such assertions as those just cited appear to be Hartshorne's clear confession that, in order to be supremely interesting for man, his metaphysical knowledge of God requires supplementation from empirical sources, including Christian revelation.

Usually, we believe that creeds and confessions protect the gospel, defending it against heresy, keeping at bay those who teach a false gospel, and leading people toward central truths of gospel, such as God's holiness, our sinfulness, and the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Protestant theology came to be defined in terms of confessions, and Roman Catholic theology, reacting as the «Counter-Reformation,» came to define itself also in words in the form of defensive statements, such as the conciliar documents of Trent and subsequent councils.