Sentences with phrase «on biblical values»

Neither major party in the United States has a monopoly on biblical values, McConnell said.

Jim Wallis of the Sojourners community is no longer a voice crying in the wilderness when it comes to questioning the Republican monopoly on biblical values.

Our country was founded on the biblical values we had christian leaders, we had prayer in our public schools now we have hatred no love.

Not exact matches

Now, today's example comes from the leader of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, which I (and many others) consider to be a mainstream expression of complementarian values.

It is fascinating in itself; it throws light on every portion of the Bible; it clears up obscurities, explaining what is else inexplicable; it distinguishes the minor detours from the major highways of Biblical thought; it gives their true value to primitive concepts, the early, blazed trails leading out to great issues; and, in the end, it makes of the Bible a coherent whole, understood, as everything has to be understood, in terms of its origins and growth.

With this in mind Christians rightly turn to biblical authors who go beyond stewardship to stress a just treatment of animals; to Orthodox traditions with their emphases on a sacramental understanding of nature; and to classical, Western writers such as Irenacus, the later Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and the Rhineland mystics who stress the value of creation as a whole.

The accent in appropriation should perhaps fall much more on the fundamental values in biblical ethics than on the specific moral norms and directives that we meet on the surface level of the text.

Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.

Even so, I found Hartshorne's work to be highly suggestive for unfolding the distinctively Christian vision of God, perhaps because his own value assumptions have been significantly conditioned by the impact of biblical faith on Western thinking about God.

«The foundation of our business has been, and will continue to be strong values, and honoring the Lord in a manner consistent with biblical principles,» a statement on the Hobby Lobby website reads, adding that one outgrowth of that is the store is closed on Sundays to give its employees a day of rest.

On «The Daily Show» recently, Jon Stewart grilled Mike Huckabee about a TV ad in which Huckabee urged voters to support «biblical values» at the voting box.

And there's a big problem, Stewart went on, with reducing «biblical values» to one or two social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, while ignoring issues such as poverty and immigration reform.

I understand this tendency, and I've lived long enough to know there is no value in entering a protracted debate on biblical minutia.

Members want the pastor to take a stand on moral issues as long as the position taken claims to be biblical and conforms to their moral values and commitments.3

This concept is based on the faulty idea that there is an «us» (the moral, conservative Christians who this nation really belongs to) and then there is a «them» (in this case, liberal secularists whose sole objective is to undermine all biblical values).

Until the 1960s, personal identity — a concept unknown to biblical writers — had been highly dependent on family loyalty and conformity to family values.

«Energy decisions must be based... on values concerning the future of the world which human beings wish to inhabit... For Christians, the ultimate objectives of society are based on the biblical witness to creation, redemption, stewardship, justice and hope.»

On the other hand, «emphasis on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned»On the other hand, «emphasis on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned»on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned».

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

«The biblical vision of Shalom functions always on a firm rejection of values and lifestyles that seek security and well - being in manipulative ways at the expense of another part of creation, another part of community, or brother or Sister» (Brueggemann).

Where not a little understanding of the general moral and spiritual Biblical values on the part of students was evidenced, there was still quite often an amazing lack of acquaintance with the Bible from which our culture has largely drawn them.

«It is totally against our Torah values and the Biblical values that this country was based on as articulated by the Founders,» said Rabbi Noson Leiter.

Phil and Al Robertson Focus on Five Biblical Core Values — Faith, Family, Fellowship, Forgiveness, Freedom One of the leaders in Christian publishing, Thomas Nelson, is teaming with two high - profile television personalities who are known for their faith, Phil and Al Robertson.

«Counseling for individuals, couples and families with an emphasis on healing and strengthening interpersonal relationships using Biblical values and Cognitive Behavioral, Family Systems, and Communication theoretical strategies.»