Sentences with phrase «of abandoning faith»

Most of my atheist friends aren't «apostates» (a term I've never really liked any way), so I'm curious about the experience of abandoning faith.

Not exact matches

Eventually, the final refuge of speculation is to abandon historically reliable measures wholesale, resting faith instead on the advent of some new era in which the old rules simply don't apply.

Abandoning the culture of «no debt» that they created has undoubtably been difficult for the PCs as they embraced a new faith in capital financing.

I can see all too clearly why some abandon the faith and why there would be a sense of a burden being lifted.

Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people can not but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times «by the sword» to get them to abandon their faith.

I appreciate it may be difficult to reconcile your religious faith with the available evidence, but despite the claims of fundamentalists, one doesn't need to abandon their religious faith in accepting what the physical evidence indicates.

Moreover, B'nai B'rith seems not to understand that, in asking the SBC to «repeal» its resolution, it is asking Southern Baptists to abandon what is for them an article of faith, namely, that it is the obligation of Christians to try to bring absolutely everybody, including Jews, to a «saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.»

When my husband was shot to death in a robbery in front of my building, leaving me very much alone with a 5 year old son, this tragic event actually caused me to abandon my delusions of faith.

At the same time, encounters with people of faith throughout the world led him to question and then, in The Desecularization of the World, to abandon a central tenet of secularization theory» that the future of religion is extinction» he had advanced in The Sacred Canopy.

Reasoning with people of faith is more tricky than the happiness one finds by abandoning their own faith in religious delusion.

When the Hellenistic Church once again bestowed upon the world the biblical name of «creation,» it thereby abandoned a truly eschatological form of faith.

I think rather that what he is saying is this: Revolutionary violence is to such a degree the only possible expression of the Christian faith that, if I suspect that my faith is leading me to become less violent, I am mistaken about the content of the faith and must abandon it; because, having decided for violence, I am sure that I am in the true Christian succession.

Although biographically Kierkegaard's choice of a negative dialectic was hardened by his second conversion or «metamorphosis,» a conversion which led to his resolve to attack the established church, and hence to abandon philosophy, it is also true that he could limit faith to a negative dialectical movement because he could identify faith and «subjectivity.»

That is, many contemporary theologies tend to believe that we can derive the normative content of faith, truth and justice directly from the immediate contexts of our social, economic and political situations; at the same time, other contemporary theologies have abandoned even trying to argue that theological claims are in any sense normative.

Inevitably, the orthodox expressions of Christianity abandoned an eschatological ground, and no doubt the radical Christian's recovery of an apocalyptic faith and vision was in part occasioned by his own estrangement from the dominant and established forms of the Christian tradition.

Only by abandoning its original faith in the dawning Kingdom of God that is in actual process of realizing itself could orthodox Christianity arrive at its belief in the transcendent and solitary God who is the Wholly Other.

They seem to think that people like me, who no longer make «church» attendance as part of their weekly routine, have fallen away from God, abandoned the faith, or have given up on following Jesus.

It is true, one must concede, that Hamann eschewed systematic expositions of theory to the end; he never abandoned pseudonymy or indirection, never attempted to bring the passion of faith within the securer enclosure of any sort of psychological science or speculative regimen, and never condescended to the soberer disciplines of «direct communication.»

For Brown, if the United States could commit itself to refusing to imitate the «evil deeds» of the terrorists, if the U.S. would eschew the violence that has marked its post-World War II foreign policy, if the U.S. could abandon its «faith in redemptive violence,» if the U.S. could spend as much money on a peace academy as it does on the service academies... well, there would be some hope for a peaceful future.

However, societies which have abandoned the Christian faith and where the Christian Church has nearly ceased to exist, will surely become victims of wicked seducers, democratically elected or having seized rule by usurpation.

Knowledge of the cross is a matter of spirituality and faith, and does not require one to abandon logic and reason about matters of material fact.

Imagine, however, that the Internal Revenue Service had been after Bob Jones to abandon faith in Jesus Christ as Son of God and Savior, the bedrock on which Christianity rests.

Agony now is the way of achieving that reconciliation, that breaking down of the barrier of enmity — which the madness of men prevented love from accomplishing, and the frustration of which is the most refined torment in the sufferings of the Messiah — a universal agony in the likeness of that of the Savior, both the agony of the racked, abandoned Jews and of the racked, abandoned Christians who live by faith.

His is the early - nineteenth - century's liberalism of Friedrich Schleiermacher, an «enormously courageous move» that, «focusing on religious experience rather than religious ideation as the object of theological reflection,... combined faith in one's own experience with faith in the God who will not abandon those who trust in Him.»

Ignorance Overload... If his stated goal is pulling people from the «closet» of faith, that would be asking others to abandon a mythology which gives them comfort.

It seems rather smarmy to abandon a core practice of your faith just because it's shedding light on what most consider to be a bizarre and cult - like practice.

Christians will always plug their ears to the voice of reason, to do otherwise would be to abandon faith.

This pamphlet explains how the discoveries of modern science lead us to abandon the popular notion that faith and science do not agree.

From this last experience emerged what was to be his life's work — a new form of evangelisation, living with the shanty - dwellers, caring for disabled people abandoned by others, teaching, and sharing the faith.

Those who maintain that the idiom of resurrection is to be understood only in the traditional (or Lucan) sense2 would, if correct, leave us with no alternative but to abandon the idiom as a valid way of professing our Christian faith, if we are among the growing number of Christians for whom that tradition is neither historically founded nor even very meaningful.

And yet, in 1816, when the edict went out from the Prussian government that no one of the Jewish faith could serve as a lawyer or an apothecary within the kingdom, Hirschel Marx abandoned his Jewish faith and embraced Protestantism.

He is one of the founders of The Simple Way, a «new monastic» Christian community in Philadelphia, USA, that promotes radical faith in Christ and radical engagement with the global poor through principles of peacemaking, communal living and hospitality in «the abandoned places of empire».

They were wed in St. Edwards church, the formerly abandoned cathedral into which homeless families relocated in 1995, launching the beginning of the Simple Way community and a new phase of faith - based justice making.

At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or where it is bitterly persecuted.

Often putting words and beliefs into Michael's mouth that simply aren't true, accusing him of everything from heresy to abandoning his faith to pride.

Everything turns upon how precisely we abandon natural causation in favor of supernatural explanations — i.e. whether by the «nevertheless» of faith (cf. Glauben und Verstehen, pp. 214ff.)

Freddie has written a post that forces me into the odd position of defending Sam Harris; the crux of which is the claim that once we accept the human mind as being a contingent accident of evolution, we necessarily must abandon any faith in the intellectual edifices constructed by such minds:

In A Common Faith Dewey suggests that organized religion once provided a useful sense of the whole, but that now it has abandoned that task and, instead, attempts to fob off on newly emergent societies the basically irrelevant sense of the whole generated by an earlier society in a different history If this last judgment is harsh, it was harsh because «the religious» was so important to Dewey and because he still hoped for a religiousness capable of setting forth a functional sense of the whole.

When my new acquaintance discovered that I was a theologian and that I was particularly interested in studying how Romanesque art and architecture illustrated the Augustinian - Anselmian character of the faith of the early Middle Ages — with its profound pessimism about the human condition apart from grace — the conversation sent him into a mood of self - reproach and even to consideration of abandoning his dissertation topic.

The Christian Faith is an attempt to find a rational basis for the affirmations of Christianity, and it leads him progressively to abandon the mythological form of the Addresses.

The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more, not timidly, not doubtingly, not proud of her good fortune, not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.

By our faith in the God who identifies with Jesus, the God who is inseparable from the man forsaken and abandoned on the cross, we announce not only a revolution in our fundamental image of mystery, but also a drastic revision of our self - understanding.

Christian faith has deciphered in this man's exceptional outpouring of empathy for the poor, the captives, the abandoned, and the sick, the consummate entrance of an ultimate love and mercy into our world.

The biblically based portrait of an all - powerful yet self - abandoning divine mystery is now emerging more decisively than ever out of our present - day theological reflection on the roots of Christian faith.

From another angle, I personally do not want to abandon the term because it shows a greater sense of responsibility for the sins of evangelical Christian faith.

Should add that this series of posts is great and not questioning your faith, but at the end of all the searching, the questions may not have an answer, or answers that satisfy, but going forward the only choices are not to give answers that are not answers or to abandon things.

Could the financial support of atheists mean Bell feels obliged to return the favour by eventually abandoning his faith altogether?

Could it not be as easily said that certain «believers» abandon their faith when misfortune strikes and the God of their imagination has betrayed them?

in particular, should abandon fundamental articles of faith on pursuit of the earthly notion of marriage equality.

I will use «secular humanism» as a label for the post-Enlightenment, nontheistic faith of the large and growing number of Westerners who have abandoned Judaism or Christianity without adopting another species of organized religion.