Sentences with phrase «prophetic witness»

I had anticipated a powerful prophetic witness and was given a keen lesson in wisdom.

They constitute an important channel of the church's prophetic witness today.

In a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper after recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the violent protests concerning the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue led to the loss of three lives, West reflected, «We are dealing with the life and death of the American democratic experiment, what I mean by that is the spiritual blackout, the eclipse of honesty and integrity; moral meltdown where there's no space for prophetic witness of love and justice.»

You most certainly implied it with the apostolic and prophetic witness comments.

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

Lesbian relationships can make prophetic witness within and to society: a witness not on behalf of homosexuality per se, but rather on behalf of mutuality and friendship in all relations.

Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness By Edward K. Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner Yale University Press.

Churches and people of faith need to rise up together with the oppressed by the state in small ways and in big ways, in policy and in prophetic witness.

Although Rapp states in her introduction that «the intersection of disability rights and reproductive rights [are] paradoxically linked feminist issues,» the potentially prophetic witness of the mothers who care for children with disabilities remains sequestered in this, the penultimate chapter.

If accepted, they risk compromising the vital public, ecumenical, and prophetic witness of Christians to the dignity and rights of unborn children.

This is powerful prophetic witness.

«Winning» an election while losing our prophetic witness as a community shaped by the cross is not «winning» at all.

-- to celebrate the prophetic witness of all people who have refused to let the voice of intolerance and violence speak for Christianity, especially LGBT persons, who have met hatred with love;

But along with the call to prophetic witness we must also consider biblical admonitions to «speak the truth in love,» to «be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,» and to «do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.»

The ministry of the church encompasses a variety of things such as worship, preaching, teaching, administering programs, and prophetic witness.

-- to celebrate - the prophetic witness of all people who have refused to let the voice of intolerance and violence speak for Christianity, especially LGBT persons, who have met hatred with love;

Martyn Percy of Christ's College, Cambridge, worries that Alpha presents a privatized faith and falls to acknowledge the complexity and paradoxes of the Bible, Alpha, he says, offers no «real social mandate, no prophetic witness and no serious appreciation of theology» or ecclesiological breadth and depth» (Financial Times).

I shall explore what It might mean to live as a confessing people in the context of the radical sin of low - intensity conflict and how we can faithfully respond to the present historical moment in which our participation in the structures of oppression call us to be prophetic witnesses and living signs of hope.

There is a world of difference between a private devotional gesture, the action of the specially pious, and the prophetic witness of the whole community — the matter - of - fact witness, repeated week by week, that to be Christian is to stand among the needy.

The vitality of the community might well rest primarily upon the prophetic witness that curried no favor, and upon the educative processes that cemented understanding of the gospel and commitment to it.

We now know not only that none of the Old Testament writings is prophetic witness to Christ in the sense in which the early church assumed them to be, but also that none of the writings of the New Testament is apostolic witness to Christ as the early church itself understood apostolicity.

The focus will be on the the prophetic witness that preceded the first Advent and that still persists today.

The strategy of withdrawal (# 1 above) maintains in a dramatic form the prophetic witness against social evils; under a totalitarian government it may be the only way in which the church can exist at all.

The prophetic witness to the gospel depended for its authentication upon the quality of life of these local communities.

The trouble with this diagnosis is that ever since Reconstruction black middle - class churches have neither intended nor pretended to be anything other than socialization centers, where charitable activities crowded out prophetic witness and community spirit (as the significant exceptions make perfectly clear).