Sentences with phrase «on individual believers»

According to the context this is not a dissertation on individual believers.

The Reformers themselves were liberal in their emphasis on the individual believer and individual conscience.

Not exact matches

Moreover, God, who alone sees all things and what is necessary, treats us as the unique individuals He created us to be; not a «one size fits all» approach, and He answers prayers and gives gifts on that basis, not simply on whether or not they are a believer.

Again, our responses to these kinds of media will depend partially on the works themselves and partially on who we are as individual believers — on whether we can separate harmful content from valuable content.

Christian controversies mobilized individual congregations of believers within each city, provoking, on occasion, major riots, and frequent processions and counterprocessions.

Unfortunately, some individuals on the believers side, insist that their position is set and inflexible and misinterpret their user's manual (the bible, Koran, etc.) in order to justify that.

When you get to the 13th century in The Flowering of Mysticism, the mystical encounter seems to take on a decidedly charismatic expression in which the individual is somehow visibly touched by the divine — Francis being perhaps the prime example of the believer who so puts on Christ that he bears Christ's wounds.

A sermon should not only lead individuals into a greater knowledge of God's word, but also instructing believers on how to study God's word for themselves and not always be reliant on others.

Those individuals who put down on parchment the tradition that the community of believers garnered and protected for them, spoke primarily as a part of God's people even when they sounded as if they stood apart from the faithful.

Cobb understands there to have been an identification of the individual «I» of Jesus with Jesus» prehension of God which enabled Jesus to assume God's authority as his own (PPCT 392) and on this basis to have introduced into the world «a final and unsurpassable structure of existence» (PPCT 398) in which all individual believers are able to participate.

Whatever form it takes, the abuse of power by a Christian leader, whether in a local church setting or by someone with an international platform enhanced by TV exposure, can have a deep and corrosive impact on the faith of individual believers.

This democratization of learning neatly fit into Luther's emphasis on the priesthood of all believers, Protestantism's view that individuals should make their own decisions about the future of their immortal souls, and the Renaissance insistence that learning and ideas should be available to all.

Yet, focusing on method may be necessary and important at present, for it may help us to rethink what theology is and how it relates to the life of the church and the lives of individual believers.

The real myth, in other words, may be that there can be religious freedom at all in the modern state without a strong religious tradition acting both as a curb to the state's power on behalf of believers and nonbelievers alike and also as an alternative narrative within which people can work out their individual visions of the good life.

Freedom of religion, they piously intoned, is «an essential part of the identity of believers and one of the foundations of pluralistic, democratic societies... However, where an individual's religious observance impinges on the rights of others, some restrictions can be made.»

A theological tradition which «believes in Jesus» encourages the believer to construct the faith - image of this Jesus, an image made up as a result of many different influences: the preaching and teaching of the Church, the reading of the gospels and of devotional literature, the lives and ideals of influential individuals, and so on.

«With Scripture on iPhones and iPads, believers can bypass constraining religious structures — otherwise known as «church» — in favor of a more individual connection with God.»

I'm a believer that giving that person an individual program based on what they need to be good at that endurance sport.

Clarke's individual stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, Virginia Quarterly Review, One Story, The Believer, Georgia Review, New England Review, Southern Review, and have appeared in the annual Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South anthologies, and on NPR's Selected Shorts.

The post also described six «in - development» programs, including Deadlands, «a genre - bending alternative history of the Weird West» based on Shane Lacy Hensley's pen - and - paper RPG; Extraordinary Believers, a «hybrid stop - motion show» a la Robot Chicken and created with Seth Green; and Fearless, in which Australian Navy bomb clearance diver Paul de Gelder «takes on an adrenaline - fueled quest to aid individuals who risk their lives to make the world a better place.»

Deploying the earnestness of a believer, an avant - garde sense of typography, and a collagist's wit, Sister Corita (1918 - 86) mashed together words and slogans from advertising, the Bible, philosophy, poetry, and lyrics, producing hundreds of confrontational, inspirational prints on themes of individual empowerment and social justice.

«an essential part of the identity of believers and one of the foundations of pluralistic, democratic societies -LSB-...] However, where an individual's religious observance impinges on the rights of others, some restrictions can be made.»

He thinks about enterprise software, social software from a market believer's perspective, but focuses on its impact on the individual.