Sentences with phrase «opposed kinds of faith»
It is generally agreed that the drama of the present religious conflict lies in the apparent irreconcilability of two opposed kinds of faith — Christian faith, which disdains the primacy of the ultra-human and the Earth, and «natural» faith, which is founded upon it.
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Applied to the description of the Christian life, this means that our standpoint is directly opposed to that neo-orthodox doctrine which stresses the discontinuity of Christian faith with the rest of experience in such a way that it is asserted, for example, by Dr. Daniel T. Jenkins that there is «no kind of continuity between the «old man» and the «new man in Christ.»
«11 A taste for opposing John the mystic to Paul the apostle of justification by faith leads to neglect of this other kind of «juridical» thought, this other problem of justification which derives its coherence from this horizon of the great trial on which all theology of testimony is projected.
Gnosticism is a world - opposing form of faith in quest of a salvation that can be reached not by an eschatological reversal of the world or by a mystical dissolution and transformation of the world but only by the most radical kind of world - negation.