Sentences with phrase «original righteousness»

Arminius argued that, because of Adam's transgression, all persons enter the world with a lack of original righteousness and are corrupt but not actually guilty.

Therefore it is a disorder or failure in man's love which is the heart of the fall from original righteousness.

They saw the image of God as constituted by the «original righteousness» with which God endowed Adam.

Niebuhr said that pre-Reformation Christianity taught that man under grace (defined primarily as power) could realize original righteousness.

Faith, hope, and love were the virtues designated by Niebuhr as filling the content of original righteousness.

The question naturally arises, What is the possibility of fulfilling original righteousness for the acting and sinful self?

Faith, hope, and love are the source of original righteousness; their fulfillment is original righteousness.

They are the basic requirements of freedom, exhausting the definition of original righteousness.

Niebuhr said that when man examines his conduct in the light of original righteousness he discovers that, while he gives assent to it in the transcendent self, he never lives up to it in his acting self.

The Reformation, defining grace primarily as forgiveness, taught that not even the redeemed man could overcome his contradiction and embody original righteousness.

Original righteousness is a vertical relation, and when «the Fall is made an event in history rather than a symbol of an aspect of every historical moment in the life of man, the relation of evil to goodness in that moment is obscured,» he said.31

Niebuhr said that Christian thought had confused the relation of man's original righteousness to his sinful nature in history by assigning the original righteousness to a paradisiacal period before the Fall of Adam.

Original righteousness becomes a demanding law to the sinful man.

Original righteousness is only a possibility, and never a possession of the self in action.

The Nature and Destiny of Man used the theological categories of image of God, original sin, original righteousness, grace, the Kingdom of God, and the last judgment.

The Anglican Church's Thirty - Nine Articles get it right: «Original sin... is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man... whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness....

Not exact matches

OGod's original intent was for Israel to conquer the whole earth and then rule it in righteousness.

God's original intent was for Israel to conquer the whole earth and then rule it in righteousness.

«If the image of God and the law of God were completely obliterated from man's soul by sin, if no «faint outlines» of the original remained, men would have no conception of justice, righteousness, or peace to use as the foundation of the human standards of equity.

Even when the doctrine of original sin has been purged of literalistic errors, Niebuhr's approach has been rejected by the Pelagian temper that the free will can attain righteousness.

First, as we said under «original sin», we are no more inhabited and owned by evil that we are by righteousness.

(If, as the Qumrân fragment most recently published by Allegro seems to confirm, the «teacher of righteousness» of this sect really was put to death and his return was awaited, still what most decisively separates this sect from the original Christian community [apart from the other differences, for which see my article, «The Significance of the Qumrân Texts», J. B.L., 1955.

Thus, in some of his early essays, Ricoeur is already giving this philosophical hope a hermeneutical turn, referring to it as «the Last Day,» which, in its original context in the Hebrew Scriptures, is a symbol of the hope of the community of faith for fulfilled righteousness and justice.

That this prophetic idea of Yahweh's character and of his demand for personal and social righteousness was a development and was not to be found in full flower in the original Sinaitic deity as the later legends pictured him, is clear.