Sentences with phrase «of hope of resurrection»

One of the major reasons for the emergence of the hope of resurrection in the Old Testament was its necessity as a fulfillment to the course of thinking we have been tracing.

Freedom in the light of hope of resurrection has a personal expression, certainly, but, even more, a communitarian, historical, and political expression in the dimension of the expectation of universal resurrection.

Not exact matches

«And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.»

Even though we are not trying to reconcile scriptural prophecies with the message of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, the principle outlined in Acts 17 by the Bereans gives us hope that God can lead us through the discernment process in our information - saturated world.

The passage in Corinthians is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the hope that we have as believers in that truth.

Brigitte: to me, the narrative of the death and resurrection of Jesus means that there is hope of eternal life.

«I have experienced true communion, fire - like transformation, unbending faith, white - hot hope, and resurrection of the soul all outside of sterile church walls.»

'» Or as the Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it: «The bodies of the dead must be treated with respect and charity, in faith and hope of the Resurrection.

One of the problems, I suspect, is that contemporary Christians do not take as seriously as we should our human embodiment and our hope for the resurrection of the body.

Christmas trees aren't purely Christian in origin... The resurrection of a savior isn't truly Christian... You see where i'm going, i hope.

But for Christian faith, under every cross and every sad story lies the hope of resurrection.

I choose to place my faith and hope in Jesus Christ and the resurrection of the dead.

I have the hope of all things including a glorious resurrection body through Jesus Christ.

Seventh and finally, the song of redemptive hope, of the resurrection of the body; of our bodies that encompass the stuff of the creation of which we are part; of our bodies that participate in the body of Christ that is the Church, and therefore anticipate, already now, that perfect communion with God for which the whole creation waits with eager longing.

We might ask in turn how sure the course really was, but as to the first question, I know what answer Neuhaus --- a man who lived every day in the hope of the resurrection --- would have offered.

And the final thesis: «It is beyond the limits of Catholic orthodoxy to deny any basis for our hope in the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.»

The only pearl worth casting before a corpse is the sure and certain hope of the resurrection.

Although it tells us that our world is flawed and fallen, it doesn't leave us in despair, with no hope of resurrection.

Others have said that his disciples stole his body, then proclaimed His resurrection in the hope of continuing the new religion.

This way, I hoped, nobody would mistake the resurrection of the dead for a near - death experience or the «zombie apocalypse.»

Precisely at this point, a question forces itself upon us: Will any understanding of the resurrection be an adequate foundation for our hope?

I've been part of the emerging church (and I kind of still am in the truest sense of the word) but sang its swan song while secretly hoping for its resurrection.

But there is breath filling your lungs and there is time, even yet, and there is still light and hope, and why did you get this one breath, let alone another two, and there is rising today, the sun, and all the possibilities, and resurrections everywhere, abundance rising out of ashes, and you can't doubt it.

Hope for our society lies in the possibility of the rebirth of visionary thought, utopian dreaming, the resurrection of the split between present and future that provides the dynamic of change in the direction of projected ideals.

Moltmann, The Theology of Hope, p. 203; Moltmann, «The Revelation of God,» p. 18; Jürgen Moltmann, «The Realism of Hope: The Feast of the Resurrection and the Transformation of the Present Reality,» Concordia Theological Monthly, 40 (March 1969).

To be sure, under the influence of social solidarity, Hebrew hopes of the future were in the beginning centered on an undying nation upon earth, but when hope outgrew this early stage and resurrection from Sheol became a Jewish expectation, it took of necessity the form of an individual return.

The Old Testament reflects not at all Platonic teaching about the soul as imprisoned in the flesh and escaping at death to the realm of pure spirit, but rather Egyptian teaching, with its hope of a physical resurrection.

This is evident from the fact that when the hope of life after death emerged, it took the form of bodily resurrection.

The pontiff said the message of the resurrection offers hope in a world «marked by so many acts of injustice and violence».

The divinizing of our efforts through the value of the intention we put into them infuses into all our actions a soul of great price, but it does not confer on their bodies the hope of resurrection.

You, the pastor, who has shared in their bereavement and shared in their Holy Saturday — they're ready for you to share with them the fellow suffering of Christ in death and the hope of the resurrection.

Unless the resurrection of Jesus is interpreted only as a change of attitude in the disciples from deep gloom to new hope, it seems to me difficult for Christians altogether to discount the possibility of divine intervention.

Yet it will also require a countercultural way of life, a deep faith in the goodness of God and in the intelligibility of creation, and real hope in the transcendent vantage, beyond our immanent success or failure, opened up by the Resurrection.

Alienation and repression must forever rule in history if it is impossible to abolish their ground; so long as the ultimate ground of a fallen history remains wholly isolated and absolutely autonomous, there can be no hope in the resurrection of energy and life.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

The last time I saw Uncle Gary was on Resurrection Sunday, and because of Easter, I have hope of greeting Uncle Gary once again.

The advent hope was that they who through faith were learning with the help of God's Spirit to share in Christ's death and resurrection, would taste fully in that life where God would be «all and in all.»

For it is the Resurrection alone that gives us sure hope of a life to come.

It remains to be seen what kind of plot, in detail, we shall resort to in hope of achieving some kind of resurrection of that once beneficent and lucrative relationship.

More will be said on the Biblical view of man later, but it is sufficient to point out here, that it is just because the Bible hardly anywhere reflects a doctrine of an immortal soul, that the Christian hope took the form of the resurrection of the body.

That would be something believers appear to do - to live only in hopes of the resurrection and of life in heaven.

The church affirmed an increasingly detailed body of authoritative Christian doctrine in which hope for the world to come had been subtly transferred to a distant future, to be reached only after death and resurrection.

Russell Hittinger Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

First, N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, responded (Correspondence, June / July 2008) to Richard John Neuhaus» comments on his new book, Surprised by Hope, which had included a criticism that its «concrete eschatological expectation» of a physical resurrection on a perfected earth was «more suggestive of Joseph Smith than St. Paul»» noting that Mormons were simply taking seriously the relevant passages in the New Testament at the very time that «the Western Protestant church... was eliminating the ancient concrete eschatological expectation.»

If it be so, and it is the hope of every good man that there is a resurrection where there shall be no difference, where the deaf man shall hear, the blind man see, where he that bore a form of misery shall be fair like all the others, then there is indeed on this side of the grave some such resurrection each time a man, by willing to do all or to suffer all, rises up by entering into the commitment, and remains bound to the Good in the commitment.

It is because of Him, because of His life, death and resurrection that we do not mourn as those who have no hope, but in confidence we commend Antonin Scalia to the mercy of God.

A myth of «resurrection» might certainly express the hope that goodness prevails over wickedness in the long run.

His resurrection as the hope of all.

One person commented, «I have come to realize that the meaning of the resurrection, in all of its hope, comes only by giving voice to the brokenness.»

This is also confirmed by Paul's insistence that he was on trial for the one hope, the hope of Israel, concerning the resurrection of the dead, as taught by Moses and the prophets.