Sentences with phrase «of traditional faith»

The history of Christian thought has been a process of continual evaluation of new expressions of traditional faith to determine whether these new expressions adequately preserve the essential aspects of the faith, or whether they have sacrificed essential elements under the pressure and demands of the immediate cultural environment.

A preference for the freshness and immediacy of experience in reaction to the meaninglessness or venality of traditional faith is hardly new, of course.

If it is really to speak to people in their actual lives, it must continually search for new ways of presenting the insights of traditional faith.

While the transition to modernity may be painful, perhaps especially so for practitioners of traditional faiths, the overall gains must be positive.

Not exact matches

If you're thinking of an ICO: You had better think about meeting traditional standards of good faith and fair dealing, because you're going to be held to them one way or another.

The traditional way to do this would be to add exposure to nominal U.S. Treasuries, which are backed by full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

Due in part to a growing lack of faith in traditional financial advising brought about by this trend, more and more investors are switching to low - cost passive online advisors (often called robo - advisors) who exclusively or almost exclusively invest clients» capital into index - tracking funds, the thought being that if they can not beat the market they may as well join it.

The decision to detach coveted and expensive sports programming from the traditional TV system — which remains the financial engine for broadcasters and media companies such as Rogers Media — is a leap of faith for the industry, and carries some risk.

We can also see the value in the use of Bitcoin (and other crypto currencies) as an alternative to traditional currencies, particularly in countries or markets where there is little faith in the stability of the currency or where there are significant transactional restrictions in place.

Directors may find that they face a tension between the desire to consider additional stakeholder interests beyond traditional shareholders as per B Corporation requirements and their legal duty to act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of a «corporation» under both the Canada Business Corporations Act (the «CBCA») and Business Corporations Act (Ontario)(the «OBCA»).

,» an essay I wrote in 2011 for the literary website The Millions, where I offered as a possible explanation for the shortage of contemporary writers of faith the postconciliar fadeout of the traditional Latin Mass..

In place of traditional American liberty based on the principles of limited government, Obamacarians are erecting a bureaucratic state, complete with centralized control, cronyism, ideological impositions, benefits to favored constituencies, ever increasing dependencies, spiced with an anti religion agenda that would force religious non profits and charities to choose between their service missions and following the precepts of their faith (through the Free Birth Control / Sterilization / Abortifacient Rule for now, more later).

Recently, I've come to understand to a greater degree how «a theology» can replace «a faith» and mask itself as the real thing.I'm not anti-theological, in fact, I'm very theological - the difference in my approach now is a realization that if one has some degree of traditional, but contemporary faith in God (as I do), then a theology is inevitable....

This question arose from Luther's deep religious or existential insight into the inauthenticity of all human works before God — an inauthenticity systematically denied by the sacramental rituals, dogmatic faith, and mystical aspiration of traditional Christianity.

I see the liberal media has its traditional attack on Christian truth on a holy day with historical revision and truth distortion to suit the needs of those who wish to kill the moral message of the faith.

In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

Not to mention, for those of you who have a belief and has ur faith in Traditional Christianity (along with any other religion); YOU WILL SUFFER the 7 last plagues of God, due to the mark of the beast that is about to be enforced by a resurrected ROMAN EMPIRE that is arising now in Europe unless you can repent and turn to the ONE and ONLY TRUE GOD!

Ron Dreher calls it the Benedict Option as he believes it is time for Christians to copy the fifth - century monk St Benedict and pursue a «communal withdrawal from the mainstream, for the sake of sheltering one's faith and family from corrosive modernity and cultivating a more traditional way of life».

3) Knowledge of the actual history of the traditional religions 4) Failure of the faith to which they were born and in which they were raised to answer the fundamental questions regarding morality and ethics to the satisfaction of the seeker.

I think all the author was saying was that it isn't «the great apostasy» or even mere self - indulgence (we want an in - church barista type thing) that is turning some people of faith — both young and old — away from corporate «traditional» gathering.

There are still millions of Christians in this country, in many denominations, who cling to the scriptural and traditional faith and the morality that comes with it.

Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent

An outstanding instance was the enormously influential John Dewey, who proposed to Americans that they replace their traditional religion with a «common faith» of socialist struggle.

The traditional gathering and the traditional WAY OF THINKING about how we gather and express our faith is NOT fixed in time and space, or it shouldn't be.

(Mt 16:17) Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.&rFaith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.&rfaith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»

Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

We do not just go to the world; rather, we bring with us beliefs which determine the kind of data we select.2 The traditional distinction between reason and faith in which the scientist uses only the cold light of reason while the theologian uses the light of faith is not strictly true.

The continued use of alternative faith - based social networks does not require me to estrange myself from traditional religion.

All too frequently this turns out to be a substitution for the gospel; it consists of some set of propositions, however traditional and however true they may be, which can in fact obscure the basic affirmations of Christian faith and make the gospel itself of none effect for those who hear.

In traditional terms the concept is expressed as a faith that the God of redemption is the God of creation of the whole world.

While the traditional ontology of a theologian such as Tillich tends to resolve the paradox of Christian faith, Altizer's dialectic intensifies it.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

Unquestionably, it is a different description of God from that proposed by traditional theology, but it is not the same as the pantheism that Christian faith consistently has rejected.

But we can say at least this: the essential meaning of the concept of the miraculous, as this has been used in traditional theology, is grounded in the keen awareness men have of the unexpected and unprecedented experiences and happenings, the novel and hence the unusually stimulating events or circumstances of life, through which men in every age have been aroused to faith in God and have been given a deepening conviction of his love and care.

It is a way never formally considered by the Christian faith, and its ultimate acceptance or rejection will be determined only by whether it can persuade Christians that it is a more suitable explanation of what they believe about God than the traditional explanations.

This traditional form of faith is the product of a divided consciousness: it can only know redemption as a reconciliation with an Other lying beyond itself, and must experience the actuality of the present as a world merely awaiting its transfiguration.

Muslim, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Atheist, etc.... however all are American first One is not comfortable with the other, however each lives with the other based on inter faith and universal values All share the same primary core belief... the belief in freedom of rights and religion This core belief is a reliigion in itself, which all worship before their «traditional religion» It is, as Daniel said... the «god of fortresses»

This secular rejection of the traditional form of religious faith they see as the reason for the rise of both Nazism and communism.

The late Max Stackhouse, a preeminent authority on faith in the age of globalization, pointed out that «one can not imagine trying to understand the politics of China or India without reference to Confucianism or Hinduism, or the systems of government in Southeast Asia or the Middle East without understanding Buddhism or Islam, or what is going on in the EU without reference to the legacy of traditional Christendom.

Once a traditional doctrine ceases to be meaningful, it ceases to stimulate faith, and becomes a means of quelling faith.

We take no particular pleasure in engaging the militant feminists and homosexual activists, the Nietzschean deconstructionists and relativists, the enemies of traditional morality and religious faith; indeed, the ongoing conflict with our various utopians and Gnostics is dirty business from which no one emerges with entirely clean hands or uncoarsened sensibilities.

Hartshorne remarks that while «many theological and philosophical doctrines» of the traditional kind have asserted that «being divine means precisely, and above all, being wholly immune to suffering in any and every sense», yet in his judgement the insight of faith in Jesus as the Christ would rather point logically to the truth that «there must be suffering in God».

It is important to recognize that traditional beliefs about the Trinity and about the status of Jesus Christ, which are often called Christology, were shaped by opposition to views which the majority of Christians felt were untrue to scripture and to their experience of faith.

Your religion shall change from the mere intellectual belief in traditional authority to the actual experience of that living faith which is able to grasp the reality of God and all that relates to the divine spirit of the Father.

I am now convinced that most of American Christianity is a cultural practice, routed mostly in traditional affiliation than a true conversion, a weekly religious exercise, no different than what the Imam demands of the followers of the Muslin faith.

The mentality that Rauschenbusch deployed to seduce his readers — the turn away from troubling debates about doctrine, the shift from personal salvation to social reform, and the reassurance that progressive disdain for traditional religion was in fact a sign of a more authentic and scientific faith — provided a way to remain Christian while setting aside whatever seems incompatible with modern life.

For Latino and African American Voters of faith, the traditional appeal to values voting or litmus tests applied to candidates are not the sole means of vetting candidates.

Yet all the great traditional words of our faith indicate a genuine change of life, goals, and motive power.