Not exact matches
Radical or countercultural feminist religion offers a rejection of
biblical faith and the creation of a
new faith to respond to a
vision of the equality of men and women; Christianity could offer an even more comprehensive and profound
vision.
For Christians however,
biblical religion provides a fuller
vision of what such participation and stewardship entail and the substance of human flourishing, for which the dominant teleological and eschatological images are a Garden and a City, a
New Eden and a
New Jerusalem.
The coming - apart of unholy alliances, such as that between utilitarianism and
biblical religion, could lead to some
new imaginative
visions, some alternatives to the ever - increasing dominance of governmental and corporate bureaucracy into which we have fallen.
The subtitle of this book is «a
new vision of who he was» like as if N.T. Wright is smarter than all the
biblical scholars of the last two thousand years.
New England's Puritans retained the
vision of
biblical Christendom that their English coreligionists had left behind.
Biblical visions and images of the rule of Christ such as a heavenly city, the household of God, a
new heaven and earth, a marriage feast, and an unending day culminate in the image of the kingdom.
They are functionally identical with
biblical visions of joy and hope — the eschatological sense that language and faith may indeed convert and convict and lead men and women to that great imaginative
vision of the
New Testament: a new heaven and a new earth in place of a crowded and tired plan
New Testament: a
new heaven and a new earth in place of a crowded and tired plan
new heaven and a
new earth in place of a crowded and tired plan
new earth in place of a crowded and tired planet.
The
biblical vision of «
new heaven and
new earth» (Rev. 21:1) and our confession that Christ is renewing the cosmos (Col. 1:15 -20) compel us to the earth and to its liberation and transformation.
Ladouceur utilizes a language that will be blurrily familiar to many of us, subconsciously quoting comic / cartoon characters we faintly remember from childhood, as his characters guide our boggled understanding of the world's belief systems across
visions of totem poles, lotus blossoms and piles of elephant heads; all the while
new age gurus, goofy mystics and
Biblical actors flex and fumble through their roles as spiritual advisors, leaving us to sort it out for ourselves.
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New Vision Counseling we seek to offer a unique service that blends proven therapy techniques with a
Biblical worldview and Christ - centered application.