Sentences with phrase «own understanding of faith»

In the course of my own studies of the scriptures I came to a personal understanding of my faith much more in line with the Arminian school of Christian thought.

You, however, run around declaring that YOUR understanding of faith is the ONLY correct one (even though the majority of the Christian faith do not even agree with you on inerrancy) and that those who challenge your offensive grandstanding are apostate and / or damning.

«And that was this student's understanding of faith!

That Lutherans and Catholics have made progress in our mutual understanding of the faith is a gift from God, and we do well to thank him for it.

I was instrumental, years ago, in bringing my siblings to an understanding of faith outside of the Catholicism in which we were raised.

Any other practice breaks the unity of the church, and the lack of water baptism is actually a tradition of omission, thus not showing a greater understanding of faith, but rather a lack of reverence for the will and intention of Jesus himself.

In my experience, and I don't think my experience is unique, laity who are in many ways highly educated have frequently not grown beyond their childhood understanding of the faith.

By pressing the ancient moral criterion of equity while refusing to discuss the economic criterion of growth, the clergy in effect revived a medieval understanding of faith as intellectual sacrifice.

So likewise Kierkegaard's dialectical understanding of faith establishes the subjective truth of faith as a consequence of the negation of objectivity, and the passion and inwardness of faith is established only by virtue of the absurdity of its objective meaning or ground.

Often what churches need is not a better understanding of the faith, but a more adequate knowledge of the society in which they are trying to live it out.

Traditionally, the Bible has been the primary tool for Quaker apologetics and for Quaker understandings of their faith.

Since then Rodgers has begun intensely studying Scripture and has developed his own understanding of faith: «The Bible opens with a poem.

He calls instead for an understanding of faith as memory.

But as an addendum to this — I also think we need to strive for a better understanding of our faith in our respective denominations.

However, parents need a clearer understanding of the faith journey that Christian parenting is designed to serve.

When Kierkegaard finally came to believe that the Christianity of the New Testament no longer exists, that contemporary Christianity is exactly the opposite of New Testament Christianity, he reached a consistent fulfillment of his earlier understanding of faith.

It was precisely because Kierkegaard was so profoundly open to the spiritual emptiness of his time that he was able to reach a radical understanding of faith.

They must realize that her understanding of the faith and the practice of her life must be courageously changed, if she is to remain the pillar of truth and the home of Christian existence.

It is this shift in how truth is perceived and appropriated that is one of the factors creating resistance to electronic culture by theologians and clergy, whose understanding of faith has been strongly shaped by the characteristics and requirements of print culture in which they were educated and by virtue of which they hold status and power.

There continues to be much to learn from Kierkegaard, a man who not only arrived at a radical and dialectical understanding of faith, but who did so in the context of the advent of a world that is totally profane.

He told Premier News Hour that those that commit violence in the name of Islam have a poor understanding of their faith and often deal with identity crises.

The first is «exocentricism» as employed by 20th - century philosophical anthropology — one must ground one's identity outside oneself — but for which Pannenberg finds a foundation in Luther's understanding of faith.

Also one can not look at the majority of the people of any Faith or non faith to get a deep coherent understanding of their Faith or reality.

But it is undeniable that the same kind of spiritual rhetoric and understanding of faith allowed Christians in America to oppress others for hundreds of years on the one hand, while feeling spiritually righteous or justified on the other.

This conviction also allows for the conscious use of social science and contemporary experience to increase our understanding of the faith.

If shinjin is a spiritual state attained through meditiational practice, then this understanding of faith and practice is quite different from my Protestant one.

Karl Barth, who changed the direction of twentieth century theology with his recognition of the bankruptcy of nineteenth century liberalism, nevertheless did not ignore the theological discussion of those whose understanding of the faith he judged to be inadequate.

Perhaps more surprisingly, we have also seen that many of these traditional views are also incompatible with a proper understanding of our faith, with the love of God as preached by Jesus Christ.

These three functions are concerned with aiding Christians in the understanding of their faith.

[2] And Catholic understanding of faith has a further peculiarity.

This renewed understanding of faith has serious implications for our encounter with Marxism.

I think the solution lies in a different understanding of faith.

Suddenly the latter possibility glowed before me, lit up my imagination, transfigured my previous understandings of faith.

It may sound insulting already being a Catholic but I know for myself I grew up with a poor understanding of our faith and this book is a good start at explaining all our beliefs we don't completely understand.

We are forced to recognize that the form of theism which most Western men have taken for granted and have by and large made use of to explicate their understanding of faith in God is now widely held to be anything but reasonable.

My hope is that our whole understanding of Faith and God and sin will shift.

Such an understanding of faith also offers an apparent solution to the great problem of dogmatic development.

First comes the person of Jesus, the encounter with whom gives rise to faith and the search for an understanding of that faith.

«When you've never had that in your background and it's all about building this coherent, consistent system where you actually love your understanding of faith.

Its intention is to affirm and explain the faith, life, and worship of the Catholic Church, and the fact is that - historically and theologically - the disputes with Lutherans, Calvinists, Zwinglians, and others in the sixteenth century is far from being the most formative experience in the Church's understanding of her faith, life, and worship.

Without exposure to practices that help people develop a solid biblical and theological foundation and which encourage them to develop their capacities to think ethically and theologically, the unschooled mind of the child will pull Christian communities and individuals toward simplistic understandings of the faith.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

For Newman there is always the possibility that what may appear innovative doctrines are in fact implicit in the total understanding of the faith, and yet not necessarily subject to some logical deduction.

Expanded and extended attention to matters of Christian faith and life is needed throughout the churches to broaden and deepen the sensus fidei, the individual Christian's understanding of the faith.

I am suggesting that our understanding of faith in God be built on the same principle.

In both cases, the baptized person will have to grow in the understanding of faith.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

Beyond this simple reinterpretation of the old Covenant and the typological correlation between the two Testaments, medieval hermeneutics pursued the coincidence between the understanding of the faith in the lectio divina and the understanding of reality as a whole, divine and human, historical and physical.

But, once the intention is to grasp in its entirety the problem of the understanding of faith and the language appropriate to it, these oppositions prove to be ruinous.

But in making this surrender our critics must not be very far from exemplifying the theological understanding of faith.