Sentences with phrase «meaning of the gospel»

That is the agenda of this book — to correlate earlier meanings of the Gospel with today's culture, especially as found in our communication media, in order to develop relevant understanding, interpretations and testimony today.

(Paul M. van Buren, The Secular Meaning of the Gospel [New York: Macmillan, 1963], p. 8.)

The fact that the church expected a coming that did not visibly take place should not blind us to the true meaning of the Gospel as containing the picture of God, always «coming» to us in Christ.

It is by means of the gospel alone that the child will become a student of God.

But somehow, getting caught up into the world view of things he has forgotten the true meaning of the gospel of God.

An invitation to share one's blik (See Paul M. van Buren, The Secular Meaning of the Gospel [New York: Macmillan, 1963], pp. 100 - 101.)

To this day, the greatest achievement of theological mediation in this direction is Bultmann's method of demythologizing, which assumes that any objective meaning of the gospel, any meaning that speaks of the world or reality as such, including the idea that the end of the world is at hand, belongs to the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarx).

Since white theologians and preachers wrote most of the books in religion and theology, they had a great deal of power in controlling the public meaning of the gospel.

My own denomination, the United Methodist, came into existence in the eighteenth century, helped to bring the gospel to the frontier in this country, took the gospel around the world, and devoted itself at home and abroad to realizing the social meaning of that gospel.

The main contribution of Latin American theology has not been the reformulation of the tradition in terms of non-European thought patterns but the appropriation of the European tradition for the sake of recovering the original political meaning of the gospel.

Paul van Buren's The Secular Meaning of the Gospel was the movement's first widely read publication.

We dare not move beyond the biblical limits of the Gospel; but we can not be fully evangelical without recognizing our need to learn from other times and movements concerning the whole meaning of that Gospel.

Commenting on criticism surround the Virgin Birth, Very Rev Michael Sadgrove said: «He wasn't deconstructing the meaning of the Gospel, he wasn't in any way devaluing what the tradition has to say about faith.

Hence, in order to understand the meaning of the gospel for a wider community than the first generation, these Fathers are our best source.

They need to remember that the laity are the ones in whom the meanings of the gospel and the meanings of the world meet.

This point is particularly important and relevant because of man's enormously increasing knowledge, the meaning of which has to be correlated with the meaning of the gospel.

I always get a little nervous when I encounter a bunch of theologians arguing over the meaning of the gospel, each armed with his own sophisticated definition of it.

You and so many others in this world simply do not understand the meaning of the Gospel - it is all about grace.

The crisis of preaching, therefore, exists because the meanings of the gospel are unmet by the meanings we bring out of our lives; and the meanings that emerge out of living are unmet by the timeless meanings of God's Word for us.

Preparation for preaching, therefore, should include time spent studying the human and social implications of their pastoral and community relationships; reading papers and magazines; listening to radio; watching television; attending the theater and movies in order that the church's preaching may engage the meanings that influence people with the meanings of the gospel.

, and be strengthened to proclaim joyfully the meaning of the Gospel.

These are not simply three different concepts of love, but three total perspectives, each with its integrity, in which the meaning of the Gospel is worked out in thought and life.

Again, the studies are Christian since they are written in the light of the meaning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, with its many facets that extend into all of life.

According to Russell, «ideological captivity» in theological education must be challenged «not only with pluralism but also with the claim that the community of faith must be joined by the community in struggle in interpreting the meaning of the gospel message and in setting the agenda.»

The title The Christian Century gave to Hamilton's review of van Buren's The Secular Meaning of the Gospel: «There is no God and Jesus is His Son» rightly points out the paradoxical nature of this strange theology.3

It has been a common and very serious error either to merge or to separate too radically these two meanings of the gospel.

Full - scale re-enchantment In such a situation, the Church's task is not so much to discover the secular meaning of the Gospel or to become the caring and sharing arm of secular society.

This position has been stated with the greatest clarity and consistency, in my judgment, by Paul M. van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel.2 Van Buren argues that the attitudes of contemporary men are in every respect «secular» and that no presentation of the Christian witness can hope to be understandable which fails to reckon with this fact.

Showing love to others is indeed a PART of «living out the gospel», but without verbal testimoney of the meaning of the gospel (ie doctrine) and a sinner's acceptance of the WRITTEN DOCTRINE OF THE BIBLE, a «loving» christian is simply seen as a really nice guy.

In this light the meaning of the gospel's opening Words: «Book of the origin of Jesus Christ» can more adequately be understood.

To know the meaning of the gospel requires experiencing reconciliation (with oneself, others, and God).

Many of them admit that they do not know how to talk to men except about church and religion, and even then only on the level of program and operation and not on the level of the meaning of the gospel for their lives.

Even more important, it shows the problem all Christians face in understanding the meaning of the gospel in their own cultures today.

Most of all the Christian might rejoice in this vision, for it may well embody a recovery of what the Christian has long since lost: that is, nothing less than the meaning of the Gospel, the meaning of Jesus» original proclamation of the triumphant dawning of the Kingdom of God.

Paul van Buren, in his book The Secular Meaning of the Gospel has given us an interpretation of the Christian faith which does not depend upon the use of the word «God» at all.

1963 saw the publication of John Robinson's Honest to God, of which I first heard in a one paragraph report in an Indian newspaper, and of Paul van Buren's The Secular Meaning of the Gospel.

In the first five chapters of this book we have analyzed the universal search for meaning, and in particular the Chritian's search for the meaning of the gospel.