Sentences with phrase «proclamation by proclamation»

Year by year, act by act, proclamation by proclamation, Roosevelt built his natural empire.

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«Confidence is created by hard currency, not proclamations that are often qualified,» one investor said in a question read by the chairman.

Earlier this year, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich announced his commitment to space exploration with a rather unexpected proclamation: «By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American,» he promised.

The law, which was first introduced by Congresswoman Bella Abzug, technically states that the president is «authorized and requested to issue a proclamation in commemoration of that day in 1920 on which the women in American were first guaranteed the right to vote.»

The U.S. Trade Representative's office needs to unveil the list of products by Friday under President Donald Trump's China tariff proclamation signed on March 22.

The optimistic view is hardly universal and there have been premature proclamations of better days before, most famously the «green shoots» spotted by Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, in 2009.

After the speech, I was presented by the city and Mayor a proclamation that they made August 23rd «Gerard Adams Day ``!

The hosts shared recent proclamations by both the Berkeley City Council, and San Francisco's County Board of Supervisors.

It was not hard to tell if the disciples and Jesus were «supported» by God, their works were not that of mere words, smoothness of speak and proclamations of having power that was self - evident.

They then have the power to convert us to an alternative worldview by proclamation, grace, and the sheer attraction of the good, the true, and the beautiful (not by shame, guilt, or fear which are low - level motivations, but which operate more quickly and so churches often resort to them).

This self - examination is brought about by the proclamation that the life and death of Jesus are a revelation of God's righteousness.

The worst harm done by gratuitous, judgmental proclamations that «AIDS is God's damning curse upon homosexuals» is precisely in the tremendous temptation on the part of the AIDS sufferer to believe it, thus raising one more obstacle to faith in God's all - sufficient grace.

I know that the church has many faithful voices, whose week - in, week - out proclamation of Christ continues courageously in spite of the smug apathy generated by the consumeristic wealth of our culture.

It is a sign to be exercised by hard faithfulness, by the proclamation of real grace to real sinners, not the redefinition of sin or any other humanly concocted good work.

And maybe that's enough to keep them moving forward until the background issues (the truly private issues) are themselves resolved, before it becomes public separation and public proclamation (by both sides).

Thanks especially to the critical study of Dr. C. Harold Dodd, as summed up in his notable little book The Apostolic Preaching, we have become familiar with the word kerygma, Greek for «the proclamation»; and taught by Dr. Dodd and those who have followed the line of enquiry which he laid down, we have come to see that this kerygma was the very heart of the earliest Christianity.

Most of us would no doubt say that the gospel is, first of all, Jesus» own proclamation of the Kingdom of God, the terms of admission into it and the conditions of its coming; and then that it is, in the second place, the apostolic proclamation of this message of salvation, with the added emphasis and fresh meaning given to it by the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing work of the holy Spirit in the church.

It matters not whether we be conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist; in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ in his Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.

Rather, it is a proclamation that, in the happening of Jesus the Christ, God discloses himself as the ever - present giver of our lives, and, therefore, we are free to live our lives as they are given moment by moment.

Our estimation of the worth of someone or something is challenged by such proclamations as these.

Furthermore, we shall simply assume the truth of Nietzsche's proclamation of the death of God, a truth which has thus far been ignored or set aside by contemporary theology.

«This does not yet make it clear why the Proclaimer necessarily became the Proclaimed, unless it could be shown that Jesus» preaching of the law was differentiated from every other preaching of the law by being at the same time the proclamation of God's grace, which not only assumes freedom, but also grants it» (253).

It is Jesus» proclamation of the Kingdom of God and the apostolic proclamation of this message of salvation with the added emphasis and fresh meaning given to it by the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing work of the holy Spirit in the church.

But rather than implying by this, according to his original Barthian position, that one can not enquire behind the evangelist's message to that of Jesus, Diem now recognizes that «we must search back to that first phase of the history of the proclamation, the proclamation of the earthly Jesus himself».»

Already in this sense he recognizes that Jesus» teachings were used by the primitive Church as kerygmatic proclamation of the exalted Lord: «One can hardly object that Jesus» preaching was after all not Christian preaching, on the grounds that Christian preaching proclaims him, but was not proclaimed by him.

The nature of the Church is expressed at the deepest level by her threefold ministry of proclamation (kerygma), celebration of the sacraments (leitourgia), and works of charity (diakonia).

By believing in God's promises, the promises which were made to us in our baptism, and which are continually renewed through the proclamation of his Word at Mass..

Following Wilder's altogether persuasive statement of the matter, we might say that the parables impart to their hearers something of Jesus» vision of the power of God at work in the experience of the men confronted by the reality of his proclamation, and this would be true if we are allowed to stress the «in the experience of the men confronted...» It is a remarkable and little noted fact that, pace Jüngel, there is only a very limited number of parables which are concerned to proclaim the Kingdom of God per se.

Once Christians began to reflect on the original proclamation that God raised Jesus and that he was seen alive by many witnesses, they would naturally picture the event of his raising in terms of an empty grave.

Blake was an apostle to the Gentiles, and his message brings forth the same offense in his readers that is always induced by an authentic proclamation of the Gospel.

By so conceiving the underlying meaning of the original Christian proclamation, we can also see that it is the religious vision of early Christianity which reverses the Christian reality of the Kingdom of God.

Jesus taught the same thing both by proclamation and by simile: the decisive activity of God as king is now to be experienced by men confronted by his ministry in word and deed.

Having recognized this, the immediate question is that of determining what Jesus meant by his Kingdom of God proclamation, and this is a question to which New Testament scholarship has directed a major share of its attention in recent times.

For Israel this was first and foremost a demand of fidelity, by which God bound His people to Himself, even if in later years it became also a proclamation to the nations.

When we reflect that the original message of Jesus was an eschatological proclamation of the dawning of the Kingdom of God, that the patristic Church transformed this message by a dissolution and elimination of its apocalyptic ground, that, ever since, the dogmatic and ritual foundations of the orthodox Church have been non-apocalyptic, and that it has only been in the non-verbal arts that Christendom has produced an apocalyptic imagery, then on this ground alone we would be fully justified in pronouncing Blake to be a revolutionary artist and seer.

there could be no particular form or content necessarily implied by a proclamation such as «the Kingdom of God is at hand»; each hearer would supply his own, and would be up to the proclaimer to make clear in what terms he conceived of the eschatological activity of God as king, we shall see, is what Jesus did.

«But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.»

With its introductory pages on the historical Jesus as the proclaimer of the coming Kingdom of God, this work gives a superb analysis of the proclamation of the eternal Christ by Judaists and Hellenists in Christianity's first years, by Paul and John, and by the apostolic fathers.

By theology of religions, I mean critical theological reflections on the interaction and intercourse between different religions through such means as proclamation and sharing of their different creeds and teachings, through dialogue of their adherents, and mutual challenges and partnership for common cause.

He and his function are declared, by the image, to be necessary to the proclamation, communication, reception, and assimilation of the Word.

14: 15 - 18) and the famous proclamation by Paul before the Areopagus in the multi-religious city Athens (Ac.

The Willingen Conference (1952) added «the notion of «witness», martyria, as the overarching concept,» saying «This witness is given by proclamation [kerygma], fellowship [koinonia], and service [diakonia].»

The first agenda of early black American congregations and then of emergent denominations included (1) the proclamation of the gospel, (2) benevolences, (3) education and, by the mid-19th century, (4) foreign missions.

For Bultmann, Jesus died on the cross; but he is «risen in the kerygma» or the preaching of him as the unique «act of God» the one in whom the past is overcome, the future is opened up, and a new life in faith by grace is made available to those who will respond to the proclamation.

We are agreed that the Sunday gathering should be marked by the proclamation of the Word and the celebration of the Lord's Supper.

In this «proclamation», then, we have the shape into which the formative convictions of Christianity were cast by its first exponents.

The proclamation set forth an act of God by which He established a «new covenant».

While there are in the Old Testament prophetic proclamations of a Messianic Age to come, only by the most narrow and literalistic special pleading can the specific foretelling of Jesus be defended.

The job of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given gospel to the given world,» The given gospel — that is to say, the gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.

The final Counselor saying in verses 13 - 15 really sums up the content of the preaching of the church; it is to be a proclamation utterly dependent on God, and it will declare the true meaning of the new age, ushered in completely by the death and resurrection.