Sentences with phrase «prophetic voices in»

Such curia seem to have no freedom from the society around them, even though they claim to be prophetic voices in the church.

Cornel West is one of the most prophetic voices in American culture today, and Race Matters is his most significant work.

The prophetic voices in every tradition have not hesitated to denounce the attitudes and behaviour of their own religious community.

You need to have prophetic voices in your life to speak truth that you likely don't want to hear.

The prophetic voice in the music of Steve Taylor provided me with a foundation during the developmental years of my education.

If congregations continue to reflect the racial and sexual prejudices of American culture in the way they define membership, authority, and power, the church will have very little credibility as a prophetic voice in God's world.

In contrast St. Francis's age had an ecstatic hopefulness which found its prophetic voice in the strange mystic and biblical interpreter, the monk Joachim of Flora (1154 - 1202).

God grant us a new prophetic voice in our time, perhaps rising up in protest from the pews, or sounding forth, as did Karl Barth, from an obscure and seemingly unimportant pulpit, a prophetic voice that proclaims justice and equality for women, but on the sure basis of the authority of the Bible and the equalizing nature of the apostolic Christian faith.

This is why I think such voices such as Berry's, who is often called a prophetic voice in America today, are needed in this world.

Not exact matches

But the more time marches on, the more Humanae Vitae appears prophetic, for Paul VI voiced four concerns regarding artificial contraception that have largely become realities: a general lowering of moral standards; increased marital infidelity; the reduction of women to instruments for the fulfillment of male desire; and public authorities engaging in coercive population planning programs.

I'd love to hear the prophetic voice of women in our church.

By the twentieth century, nothing remained in the European Lutheran churches of the ancient prophetic voice preaching repentance to rulers.

So, open air evangelism has a place in reaching the masses as a prophetic voice, but as I think you believe, nothing can take the place of relationship evangelism as the solid ground game of the Church.

If you ever doubt that C. S. Lewis was gifted with a prophetic voice, you need look no further for correction than Prince Caspian.In the story, you may remember, Narnia is in a desperate situation.

He is the co-founder and director of Ohio Prophetic Voices, a movement of faith leaders and clergy engaged in a biblically rooted struggle for economic and racial justice.

I noticed it also shifted how I expected to hear God — I started looking for God's voice in a lot more places than the «prophetic» world I had been used to.

He had been an important figure in Sanctuary's early days, and even a kind of prophetic voice from the streets.

But I now see more clearly — thanks to the voices of the new theologies allied with the welcome recovery of spirituality within theology — that in practice and thereby in theory this pervasive religious dialectic of manifestation and proclamation is best construed theologically as mystical - prophetic.

Even with the passing of midday, they continued in prophetic ecstasy; but there was no voice, there 30.

(If anything, it builds one in the courage to give prophetic voice.)»

Most important is Coakley's reminder that such prayer «builds one in the courage to give prophetic voice.»

Whereas the Church should be a prophetic voice for justice and peace and the integrity of creation, this globalization invites the Church to neglect the core message of the Gospel, to legitimize this social order based on greed and injustice to the majority of humanity and is racist in defending the present European - made world order.

If you do this, you may come to realize that maybe, just maybe, atheist are more in tune to the Holy Spirit than Christians are, and that maybe, just maybe, God is calling Christians to follow Him more closely through the prophetic voice of the atheist.

Another goal is «a strong prophetic voice of the Christian community in America.»

Prophetic voices like that of Hosea protested strongly against the trend which could have allowed the Israelite faith in YHWH to have been swallowed up in the Baal nature cult.

In his vision Ezekiel found himself performing his prophetic mission by being the voice at whose command the bones came together, then to be refleshed, and finally to be revived with the living spirit or breath which comes from God.

In truth, if he could speak to us today as clearly as he did to earlier generations, it would not be in the amiable tones of someone familiar to us but in a distant, almost prophetic voice, full of ironic moral reproacIn truth, if he could speak to us today as clearly as he did to earlier generations, it would not be in the amiable tones of someone familiar to us but in a distant, almost prophetic voice, full of ironic moral reproacin the amiable tones of someone familiar to us but in a distant, almost prophetic voice, full of ironic moral reproacin a distant, almost prophetic voice, full of ironic moral reproach.

In a unique way, his prophetic voice transcends his own time to reach each individual Christian in Advent, calling us all to repenIn a unique way, his prophetic voice transcends his own time to reach each individual Christian in Advent, calling us all to repenin Advent, calling us all to repent.

So, deep in the sixth century, on the very eve of the second exodus, the voice of prophetism, summoning into a single moment of time the act of creation and the first exodus, proclaims the now old prophetic faith in the redemptive purpose of Yahweh's judgment:

May Our Lord who is Wisdom, and who renews the Church in every age, help this prophetic voice to be heard.

As the years go on, and the Church continues to flounder in the West and to be split over fundamental questions of morality, Fr Holloway can be seen as a prophetic voice, whose message is becoming more and more urgent if we are not to lose the battle with atheism completely.

His is a prophetic voice whose Calvinist heritage has shaped his attitudes toward the behavior of people in power.

This post is part of the November Synchroblog in which we write about how we are being challenged by some kind of prophetic voice.

It becomes clear, however, that in saying this he has primarily in mind the structure of Buddhist existence and that the structure of existence to which Christianity gives voice is better than the structure of prophetic existence.

Only in this way can they have a perceptible impact on such pastoral - prophetic local issues as how sick people can get better care, how the homeless can find decent housing, and how the voice of the church can be heard in the din of competing voices at city hall.

If Christian churches are ever to become a prophetic voice they must give serious attention to the fundamental issues Ellul raises in this book as well as in his previous works on propaganda in technological societies.

The prophetic voice of recent popes can provide those gathering in Rome with a consistent, clear and coherent vision of marriage and the family.

The account of his call, chapter 6, no doubt now colored by his post-call career, is unquestionably the most intimately revealing single chapter in Isaiah, embracing explicitly or implicitly all the persistently sounded notes of his prophetic voice.

What the church desperately needs now is a prophetic voice reminding us to value both men and women as equally and wholly made in the imago dei.

In both books Richard, though dead, still speaks, and the highest tribute we can pay him will be our ongoing attention to his prophetic voice.

I grew up in the black church tradition, and in the black church tradition, we talk about speaking truth to power in a prophetic voice.

Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures on an epic journey through the environmentally barren remains of America where it encounters strange creatures, brief love in the sky, a colony of prophetic torn bags on a fence and more as it searches for its maker.

Following a group of rabbits convinced that the timid Fiver (voiced by Richard Briers) has had a prophetic vision of doom for their warren, Watership Down is essentially about the search for refuge in the midst of a cruel world.

Published in Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words on Revolution.

Truly, it was in Northern California that Duncan began to develope his unique, prophetic voice as a poet in the 1940s.