Sentences with phrase «political meaning of the gospel»

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What will it mean for both sides in this debate — at least as it takes place among believers, in and for the church — to move beyond political ideologies and culture wars and stand together under God's word of law and gospel?

It makes the meaning of the gospel concrete in terms of some aspect of the contemporary political situation.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

Jesus of the Gospel accounts was compatible with the classic confession of the true humanity o There my point was that the book's emphasis on the concrete historical - political humanity of the f Christ (i.e., the core meaning of «incarnation»), whereas those who deny that humanity (or its normative exemplarity) in favor of «some more spiritual» message are implicitly Docetic.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

In 1975 there appeared in Germany a book entitled: The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto, on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, edited by Walter Kunneth and Peter Beyerhaus.34 The book attacked not only the World Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncretism.

In Political Theology Sölle similarly hopes to make clear that here is «not an attempt to develop a concrete political program from faith».16 But political interpretation of the gospel does have a positive as well as a criticalPolitical Theology Sölle similarly hopes to make clear that here is «not an attempt to develop a concrete political program from faith».16 But political interpretation of the gospel does have a positive as well as a criticalpolitical program from faith».16 But political interpretation of the gospel does have a positive as well as a criticalpolitical interpretation of the gospel does have a positive as well as a critical meaning.

This means «equipping the saints» to be twenty - first - century apologists who can (pace Pope Francis) offer compassionate aid to the walking wounded of postmodern society, explain the truths about the human person that the Church believes are essential to a truly human political community, and, if necessary, hold fast to Gospel - based Christian moral convictions even if that means professional or economic distress.

Theology provides an imperative, therefore, to expose hidden political meanings and then to evaluate them in terms of gospel values.

All my other point boiled down to was that if democracy is to mean anything we need to be makers not takers of political activity and that means not being mere spectators, and not curtailing inquiries in advance or accepting what we're told as Gospel truth.