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«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten
by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured
by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a
Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well
provided for and your name respected
by all.»
If the same Bible can
provide a reason for different sects of Christianity where one group can tell another group that they are not «truly
Christian,» then there must be some other evidence besides the Bible that proves sect right eo usness since the same Bible is being interpreted (i.e. influenced
by some other non-Biblical source) differently.
The Vision document has four main elements: equipping children academically and emotionally for the world;
providing places of healing for children who have mental health problems or who've suffered bad experiences;
providing a welcoming place for all rather than just
Christians, and; upholding the dignity and respect of each individual, who is made
by God.
Christian Aid has joined with partners in India to
provide aid for more than 350,000 people displaced
by a huge cyclone in the country.
And I can
provide a number of quotes
by Hitler himself that he was, indeed a
Christian.
Touchstone
provides a forum where
Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of
Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous
by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.
Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional
Christian doctrine
by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity
providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.
And globally, the Red Cross and Salvation Army (founded
by Catholics) and Medicin Sans Frontieres (originally founded
by Christians, but now largely a secular group) have
provided gratis disaster and emergency medical and other aid for decades, regardless of age, gender, religion, ethnicity, etc..
«teachers,» and «apostles»; who managed the staggering influx of widows and women into the
Christian community
by providing guidelines to ensure that Ephesian churches remained distinct from the pagan cults of the day, but who still expected trained women to prophesy, to teach, and to lead.
Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith
by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book
provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around
Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.
The
Christian religion is designed
by God to
provide the spiritual eco-system where we can receive His transforming grace, making it possible for us to reach Heaven.
Old cultural traditions have been obliterated
by communism; Christianity
provides a compelling and compassionate alternative to the hollowness of the regime's materialism; and unlike Europe, which has largely rejected its
Christian heritage in a decades - long spasm of anti-clericalism, «Christianity» in China rings up «modern» and «humane,» rather than «pre-modern» and «inhumane.»
They need what
Christians are supposed to
provide by virtue of their title and job description: living examples that God is and that God loves.
In addition to leading activism efforts in our local communities and
providing pastoral care to those devastated
by the verdict, we also took to Twitter, blogs, pulpits and conference podiums to call upon white
Christians to wake up to the reality of racism in America.
My proposal is that what unifies this set of practices, making them genuinely «theological» practices and
providing criteria of excellence, is that they are all done in service of one end: To understand God more truly
by focusing on study about, against, and for
Christian congregations.
Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed
by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and
provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of
Christian missionaries.
Answering that call,
Christians offer succor to the suffering: Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity care for the dying; the Salvation Army
provides for the destitute; World Vision brings relief to those affected
by natural catastrophes.
Compassion, a notable, United States - based
Christian charity, has been in India for more than 40 years and serves more than 145,000 Indian children
by feeding, tutoring and
providing medical care to those in the most need.
It seems to me that this might
provide a sort of death - and - resurrection moment for
Christians — a death to the old ways of measuring impact
by money, power, numbers, and influence and a resurrection into the ways of Jesus, where the focus is on the hard work of discipleship, healing, fellowship, etc..
While practicing
Christians may be justifiably disappointed in a sterilized «happy holidays» from their grocer, even this greeting extends something beyond the all - too - human midwinter bacchanalia historically
provided by Saturnalia and the Mithraic birth, or today
by New Year's Eve.
Intended to
provide an overview of the state of the academic discipline known as
Christian ethics, this book achieves its purpose with essays
by eighteen veterans of that enterprise.
Much of what the west has long taken for granted is now disappearing: the security
provided by Christendom; the
Christian way of interpreting reality; the confidence that the
Christian path leads to eternal salvation; and the belief that
Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths
by which to live.
Trump wants to give «priority» to non-Muslims, despite the fact that more
Christians than Muslims have been resettled since 9/11: The executive order says it will «prioritize refugee claims made
by individuals on the basis of religious - based persecution,
provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality.»
This was symbolized
by a table - fellowship which celebrated the present joy and anticipated the future consummation; a table - fellowship of such joy and gladness that it survived the crucifixion and
provided the focal point for the community life of the earliest
Christians, and was the most direct link between that community life and the pre-Easter fellowship of Jesus and his disciples.
In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available,
provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary
Christians, who are profoundly troubled
by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).
Missionary translations of the message
provided the primary impetus for this new form of
Christian agency, preserving indigenous cultures
by fixing them in written texts and preserving the traditional names of God in translating the Bible into new cultures.
The complexity of the
Christian past is further exemplified
by theologians «who interpret or even reject the notion of original sin as something children inherit and who
provide alternative perspectives on sin.»
The same is true of many media reform efforts:
by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «
Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is
providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.
For all the new European inhabitants of America the
Christian and biblical tradition
provided images and symbols with which to interpret the enormous hopes and fears aroused in them
by their new situation, as I have already suggested in using the terms «paradise» and «wilderness.»
In what follows I shall speak of each of these affirmations and their meaning for
Christians today, putting them in the setting
provided by the process conception of the divine Activity in the world.
The interview
provided a name for Kurt's foundation, First Things First, which is «dedicated to impacting lives
by promoting
Christian values, sharing experiences and
providing opportunities.»
Perhaps the clarification Neuhaus needs is
provided by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in its declaration, Dominus Iesus (2000): «The lack of unity among
Christians is certainly a wound for the Church; not in the sense that she is deprived of her unity, but «in that it hinders the complete fulfillment of her universality in history.
The
Christian documents of the second and later centuries which contained information about the Apostolic age handed down
by tradition, must also be regarded as
providing a very limited help for the reconstruction of the history of the earliest period.
The German - American thinker Paul Tillich, who died only a few years ago, believed that the
Christian faith could only be rightly understood when it was recognized as
providing the «answer» — not of course in words or propositions but in the reality which is behind such statements — to the «problems» which are posed
by human existence as such.
Many young people in Latin America, who were motivated
by the Gospel to love their neighbor and be concerned for justice and freedom in their society, have often become Marxists simply because their churches did not
provide biblical instruction about
Christian discipleship, or because they [their churches] were blind to clear demands from the Bible and opportunities and challenges
provided by new social situations.80
Anybody who has read other writings
by me will know that for me the so - called «Process» conceptuality
provides the general presuppositions with which the entire
Christian enterprise may most satisfactorily be approached in our own time.
It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it
provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology
by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional»
Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for
Christian theology are The Creative Advance
by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and
Christian Faith
by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian,
provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»
Excellent explanations are
provided by Ford, «Divine Persuasion,» 240 - 248, and Cobb, A
Christian Natural Theology, 98 - 113.
Nevertheless, the view makes mockery of the
Christian conviction of the full humanity of Jesus and it runs counter to the picture of Jesus
provided us
by New Testament scholarship.
Perhaps the Eastern
Christian Tradition can
provide a way to preserve the material blessings of Western technology and scientific insights without losing the intuitive spiritual wisdom gained earlier when Religious Traditions experienced Grace more deeply
by their participation in the natural rhythms of life.
To make a messiah of the poor just because they are poor, and to pit the poor against the rich without the guidance
provided by correct theory is neither Marxist nor
Christian.
I'd guess
Christians by far, but until you
provide that information, this is pure speculation.
In «Myth and Truth» he maintains that the truth of mythical utterances can be shown only
by restating them in nonmythical terms.113 Yet adequately to demythologize
Christian myths will require not just any nonmythological language but one, such as process philosophy
provides, which can do justice to the biblical view of God.
Before considering the significance of these new sources and methods for the future of
Christian communities, allow me to
provide a thumbnail sketch of Jesus as he typically appears in the reconstructions offered
by the Jesus Seminar.