Sentences with phrase «more ultimate faith»
His faith in metaphysical reason appears to rest upon a prior and more ultimate faith in God.
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It would seem, Follow of Christ, that the creator has a lot more to answer for than simply «having faith» in his so - called grand plan when his ultimate creation has already been made.
Although acknowledging that pastoral counseling had the same ultimate aim as other dimensions of pastoral work — that of bringing people to Christian faith and the Christian fellowship, where those goals were «relevant» — Hiltner defined the special aim of pastoral counseling in more flexible terms, virtually indistinguishable from those of secular counseling: «The attempt by a pastor to help people help themselves through the process of gaining understanding of their inner conflicts» (Pastoral Counseling, 1949).
It is a way never formally considered by the Christian faith, and its ultimate acceptance or rejection will be determined only by whether it can persuade Christians that it is a more suitable explanation of what they believe about God than the traditional explanations.
I find that when you speak about your faith and your experiences, in regards to yourself, I am far more comfortable in hearing what you have to say... when you bring your beliefs and experiences to a level that it is ultimate truth and applies to everyone, in regards to us, the fellow blogger / responders... it rankles.
By dismissing Marx's ultimate faith in the goodness of Historical progress — and by holding open the possibility of a return to a life both more human and more natural, left conservatives might seem to have freed themselves of the illusions of History.
Dana and I spoke with our children of Ruth's ultimate healing — of having faith that their sister was no longer in pain, no longer struggling but in the presence of the one who would wipe away every tear in a place where there is no more death or sorrow or crying or pain (Rev. 21:4).
For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with it.
When then a man turns to molecules and atoms alone as the ultimate realities, he is not being more factual than the man of religious faith.
Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.
But he can repose no more confidence in this faith than he has in the infallibility of his own judgment — for it will necessarily be his judgment that is the ultimate criterion of what is included in the synthesis, and what is left out.
It is even more dependent than the scientific community on the direct relation of the knowers to theological reality — the God of faith and believing men, the subjects and objects of ultimate love, the commander and the commanded, the forgiver and sinner.
Martin Scorsese's SILENCE tells the story of two Christian missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan in search of Read More →
But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.