Sentences with phrase «precisely as a believer»

Precisely as believers, there are goods we must defend and good we must do.

While sharing many common moral concerns in what were then called the «culture wars,» the framers of ECT determined to address these issues precisely as believers in Jesus Christ.

Not exact matches

As Bishop Rawlinson finely says, echoing Johannes Weiss, «Jesus is, for St. Mark, the Messiah, not in spite of His sufferings — as the earliest believers of all may for a time have been disposed to express it — but precisely because of His sufferings.&raquAs Bishop Rawlinson finely says, echoing Johannes Weiss, «Jesus is, for St. Mark, the Messiah, not in spite of His sufferings — as the earliest believers of all may for a time have been disposed to express it — but precisely because of His sufferings.&raquas the earliest believers of all may for a time have been disposed to express it — but precisely because of His sufferings.»

They were not just Christians, but Christians of a particular kind: Bible - believers or, more precisely, believers in the Inerrant - Word - of - God (preferably pronounced as one word).

These earliest believers solved the problem of the relation of the human and divine in Jesus in precisely the way one would expect — by resort to a view which, in a later form, came to be known as «adoptionism.»