Sentences with phrase «object of one's faith»

When reading the Bible and participating in the Sacraments and other means of Grace become ends in themselves and objects of faith then the Church is teaching bibliolatry and ecclesiolatry and comes an impediment, not an inducement to true faith.
There is no question but that Matthew's gospel intends to lure the readers toward Jesus as a specific object of faith.
As it advanced, it made «finer and finer distinctions between layers of tradition in the Gospels, beneath which the real object of faith — the figure [Gestalt] of Jesus — became increasingly obscured and blurred.»
If we could put the same keen intelligence and careful judgment into the revival of faith and the discovery of the proper objects of faith that we now put into the production of magnificent machines, man's life on this earth might come into a new and glorious day.
There is first a kind of christological scheme, in which Jesus is a divine or more - than - human object of faith.
Though the absence of faith means eventual spiritual death, the presence of faith does not ensure spiritual life, since there are many kinds of faith and there are radically different objects of faith.
There is but only one object of faith which is the irreducible minimum to be believed: Jesus Christ in His promise of eternal life to the believer.
3) The object of faith in every age is God.
It is dependent on the character of the believer & the object of faith.
... ya know... in all the paintings and sculptures, and mosaics, et., depicting any faith or belief... I never once saw the object of that faith to be... CARRYING AN UZI...
Used correctly, as a means of Grace rather than an object of faith, both Sacrament and Bible point beyond themselves to the Ultimate Reality of the Living God.
If God is our exemplar of a superior violence, violence itself becomes the object of faith, and religious people then engage in a perpetual holy war that is deemed a valid form of religious expression.
This statement reminds us that God is both the subject and the object of faith.
I described him in terms ofatonement, logos, the object of my faith, and absolute truth.
If a person must believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, what was the object of faith for OT people and the apostles who did not (as far as we can tell) believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus?
We respond in faith to the message of salvation by making Jesus and Him alone the object of our faith.
Now if we assume that it is as we have supposed (and without this assumption we return to the Socratic order of things), that the Teacher himself contributes the condition to the learner, it will follow that the object of Faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
This contradiction is again the object of Faith, and is the Paradox, the Moment.
He is not only the source of faith; he is also the object of faith.
For all of us, keep in mind that faith itself may be important but far more so the object of that faith.
It is the object of our faith that differs.
And here we are concerned not only with an external system of concepts embracing the object of theological affirmations but with the thing itself, with the nature of the concept as it is appropriate to the object of faith.
The knowledge of faith is not therefore «subjective» in the sense that it happens primarily in the believer, but is «objective» because the believer participates in the eternal activity of the object of faith; the believer's subjective faith is therefore secondary and derivative.
And this task is a legitimate one, as certainly as the object of faith (particularly when it provides the foundations for all possible objects or, in religious language, when it creates them) still remains the object of faith and is the immediate and exclusive object of human activity.
Object of faith and baptism is Christ's death and resurrection.
rather it is the object of that faith that is important.
Is it the faith «in» Jesus Christ — Jesus is the object of our faith?
It is made known to us by revelation and remains in this life an object of faith.
Jesus is seen as a witness to faith or the historical occasion for faith rather than the object of faith.
Moreover, the object of faith is generally said to be a «person», or the «personal God», rather than a proposition.
In these systems, God is no longer the object of faith — faith is the object of faith.
Quite apart from the reality of our philosophic situation, wherein modern skepticism has called into question the very possibility of objective «truth,» there is the overriding theological consideration: objective detachment from the object of faith, which is Jesus Christ, is not one of the gifts of the spirit.
Like God himself, he had become the object of faith.
Juergensmeyer says that «religion does not ordinarily lead to violence» and that «the object of faith has always been peace.»
The faithful, regardless of the object of their faith, do possess this annoying tendency to believe they have all the answers.
Just as for his teacher, Wilhelm Hermann, so too for Bultmann the object of faith and its foundation are one and the same thing: what I believe is that whereby I believe, that which gives me something to believe.
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