Sentences with phrase «of biblical conviction»

Dr. Mohler: «Osteen's statements, verbally cushioned in every way he could imagine, fell far short of the full wealth of biblical conviction.

verbally cushioned in every way he could imagine, fell far short of the full wealth of biblical conviction.

This, I think, is what the g.ay lobby most fears: that loving, biblical Christians will continue to grow in «loving their neighbors» without abandoning the rest of their biblical convictions — that what the Bible clearly defines as a sin can only be called that.

Not exact matches

For Gilkey, the «neo» of his orthodoxy is precisely where he remained most liberal» not just his penchant for talking about biblical symbols and myths but also his conviction that the problem of historical consciousness is the context for all modern theology.

It is one thing for Christians to understand and appreciate Jewish convictions about the Messianic Age, and hence of the restoration of the Land of Israel, and therefore to acknowledge that one strand of biblical religion did not «spiritualize» the biblical promises.

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

R.R. Reno, general editor of the Brazos Theological Commentary, writes: «This series of biblical commentaries was born out of the conviction that dogma clarifies rather than obscures.

Many of the earliest and most effective advocates of women's rights and dignity were women of faith whose convictions were rooted in biblical truth.

Today's evangelicals rightly identify the loss of conviction about Biblical authority as a major source of the decline of evangelical fervor in the United Methodist Church.

For myself, certain early formative influences in the early «60s (biblical criticism, Bernard Lonergan's reflections on method and historical consciousness, and the splendid ambience of student days in Rome during the Second Vatican Council) solidified my own sharing in the common conviction that there can be no return to a pre-ecumenical, prepluralistic, ahistorical theology.

It is also evident that they will be, in one way or another, parables of democratic faith, carrying forward the prophetic convictions of our biblical and religious heritage through the story of our shared secular struggle toward «liberty and justice for all.»

Accordingly, although at some points it will be necessary to state wherein contemporary theologians differ in their interpretations of the Bible and of biblical faith, we shall for the most part keep to the main stream of Christian conviction.

Though the most Deistic of the Founding Fathers, even Jefferson was not a full - fledged Deist if we accept that philosophy as having had two fundamental tenets: a rejection of biblical revelation and a conviction that God, having created the laws of the universe, had receded from day - to - day control....

Third conviction: biblical teaching, like the law of the land, must be applied to the living of our lives.

It is fashionable these days for Scripture scholars to look for substantive differences of conviction between biblical writers, but this is in my view an inquiry as shallow and stultifying as it is unfruitful.

They believed the Law was given to them, and they dramatized this conviction through the biblical narrative about Moses receiving the tablets from the very hand of God on Mount Sinai.

And even though I continued to search for a more traditionally orthodox basis for my political commitments, I drew much inspiration and solace from the witness of Christian people of more liberal theological convictions who modeled for me a courageous commitment to the biblical vision of justice and peace.

(In my Understanding the Christian Faith, which is intended primarily for laymen, I have given a survey of the basic convictions of Christian faith, with a chapter on principles of biblical interpretation.

In The Spirit and the Forms of Love Williams analyzes the meaning of love and indicates what this implies about the nature of God.104 The classical conviction that the immutable is the superior is shown to devalue human love and to conflict with the biblical conception of God's love.

Decisions about biblical meanings are not made on the spot, but result from the growth of habits and convictions.

The clearest example of how little biblical criticism has been value - free is provided by Morton Smith in a statement which is exceptional only for its candor, not its convictions.

There were frequent comparisons of the best in «evangelicalism» with what seems to them the worst in «ecumenism»... The most frequent charges against us were theological liberalism, loss of evangelical conviction, universalism in theology, substitution of social action for evangelism, and the search for unity at the expense of biblical truth.

Historical arguments between their faiths have rarely if ever been over what to call Abraham's God or who was invoked by that call, and Islamic salvation history is rooted in the conviction that there is a lasting continuity between the dispensations of Muhammad, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and the biblical and extrabiblical prophets.

What we shall attempt in this chapter is to discover the biblical basis for our Christian faith in God, and then suggest the bearing of this faith on certain other great convictions of our Christian heritage.

When a Lutheran and a Catholic each talk of faith, does each define the word by some comprehensive abstract system, or by the complex associations the word has in a great range of shared biblical texts, such as Romans 1 with its talk of faith as that by which we live, I Corinthians 13 with its association of faith with hope and love, and Hebrews 11 with its definition of faith as assurance and conviction?

Applying the biblical truth will never be easy; trade - offs may even be necessary, but at least all parties involved should become aware of the pitfalls and rationalizing processes that dilute our commitments and convictions as believers.

Is a fully developed contextualization the opportunity to hear Scripture speak again with clarity and conviction, or is it the abdication of a commitment to biblical authority?

One takes historical stands (J is a woman; she is of the royal house and not a scribe of Rehoboam; she makes this or that wordplay) but then describes these as personal fictions and states with conviction, «I am not a biblical scholar.»

The literalism was dictated by their firm conviction as Christians that every word of the biblical text was literally inspired by God.

Biblical monotheism is not speculation about the numerical character of God but the conviction that only he is God.

Because of the liberal agenda of the writers and our own spiritual convictions to biblical Scripture, we are no longer watching the show.