Sentences with phrase «questioning of their faith»

David, you ask one of the most important questions of faith: «What do we actually give up and empty ourselves of?»

It is a question of faith — faith that the truth of Christ, for which he gave his life, points beyond the narcissism of plausibility to the one thing necessary for our fulfillment as cognitive and loving human beings.

I mean to to address here at all questions of faith versus skepticism.

This most recent theology no longer addresses the doubts and questions of faith raised by the community of faith but the doubts and questions of the contemporary cultured ignorers of faith.

Acutely sensitive to all of the technological and philosophical challenges of our day, Wytsma wrestles with questions of faith and doubt, justice and happiness, love and vocation.

He just stated a theory that he could be gay which led to his divorce and question of faith.

In recent years there has been a renewed desire for doctrinal formation from younger Catholics and perhaps this little volume would be helpful as a starter - kit for those considering the basic questions of the Faith.

Talking over the deep questions of faith and values with a theologically trained counselor (your minister, priest, or rabbi) can help to stimulate this growth in the vertical dimension of your family and personal life.

Further, the foundational role that physics plays for metaphysics is, in the final analysis, what allows theologians coherently to defend questions of faith and morals.

These theories witness to the power of the human intellect, but few would claim that they bear on questions of faith and morals.»

In the final version a further statement is added: «By reason we ask questions of faith.»

Finally, apart from being a matter of justice, it is also of course a question of faith and trust in God - always tests of the Christian life.

I do not think questions of faith are ones that are ultimately decided by empirical and objective proof — that is for the realm of science.

Santorum has grabbed headlines in recent weeks by calling President Obama a purveyor of a «phony theology» and otherwise keeping questions of faith not just on the front burner, but at a rolling boil.

Well, I guess that's a question of faith.

«CNN)-- When tragedies happen like the shooting at Newtown, Connecticut, the question of faith often comes up.

«CNN)-- When tragedies happen like the shooting at Newtown, Connecticut, the question of faith...» The kid had severe mental problems and wasn't taking the divorce very well.

Much of my early research and writing were preoccupied with epistemological questions of faith.

The question of faith in this situation is the classic question of «Why does god let bad things happen?»

Faith would presumably be influenced by evidence to the contrary, as now the fact is no longer a question of faith, but one of evidence.

Recently Rustom Bharucha's The Question of Faith (published as no: 3 of the Tracts for the Times by Oriental Longman 1993) raises the question of the relation of Indian Secularism to religion as Faith.

Caring groups can meet regularly to share, to create community with one another, to discuss how members are doing in their own struggles to be faithful, to make sure that each one takes the questions of faith seriously.

George Bernard Shaw Peter L. Berger, the most eminent sociologist of religion in the world today, many of whose sociological works as Berger says «read like a treatise on atheism,» has written a mature and skeptical affirmation of Christianity in his new book Questions of Faith: A...

(See W. Jaeger's statement in his Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers, p. 177: «The concept of auctoritas which is later to be of such decisive importance for the attitude of the Church in questions of faith, is entirely missing in Greek thought»).

Questions of Faith is a commentary structured around the Christian Apostle's Creed as its scaffold.

Thank you for helping to create an environment that feels safe... for me, for those working through tough questions of faith, and even for the «unreal» Rob Bell.

Bishop Steven believes the Church needs to come up with answers: «In the 19th century and for much of the 20th century, science asked hard questions of faith.

The bishop told them that they should not worry about this — they did not need these words» (Questions of Faith, page 113).

Questions of Faith won't likely be attractive to what Berger calls «Golden Rule» Christians who embrace the images of «gentle Jesus,» the exemplar and teacher contained in so much Protestant Christian literature.

An interpretation of some negative and affirmative theologies of religion from a reading of Peter L. Berger's Questions of Faith: A Skeptical Affirmation of Christianity (Blackwell Publishing, 2004).

the question here isn't whether we find something inspiring and uplifting — beauty, art, the natural world, the cosmos, or religious beliefs, but rather it is purely a question of faith.

The question of faith is answered not at the level of feelings but in regard to the way we relate to our feelings.

At the time, there were so few places who were willing to «go there» into the wounds and hurts and deeper questions of our faith, so few who were listening to those of us outside of the usual shiny - happy - Jesus - people narratives.

You can not respond to them using that kind of reasoning any more than they can coherently use these tools, which are not designed to address questions of faith, to make arguments that would shake the faith of someone who has faith.

But as questions of faith, commitment and value became increasingly alien to «objective» critical studies, the internal connection between theology and practice was severed.

Questions of faith and order, however, while they can be distinguished from questions of faith and life, can not be separated from faith and life, meaning the faith lived faithfully.

Whether metaphysical forces have any causal relationship to this anthropological hypothesis, and subsequent developments, is a question of faith rather than probabilities.

Even as young teenagers, even as preteens, they're attuned in many ways to paradox, to suffering, to the deep questions of faith.

It seemed to me, as a child of divorce who was struggling with questions of faith, that there is a huge connection between one's family experience and one's approach to questions of faith, including the images and stories of the Christian faith.

We must now examine more closely the perspective in which Ricoeur carries on his project of opening the way for the text of Scripture to restore the «interval of interrogation» in which the question of faith can be heard.

Thanks to the political theologies and theologies of liberation the question of faith and justice has now become a, if not the, central question of Christian theology.

But if this familiar polarization in theology continues right up to the present, it is not the only reason for doubting that the question of faith and justice has been adequately answered.

Translation and inculturation of the liturgy does not normally involve grave questions of faith (though some nuts have tried to claim that the English liturgy has been infiltrated with Pelagianism and Modernism since 1973).

But Lutherans and Anglicans have also urged that the questions of faith and sacramental unity be kept central.

I was approached a number of years ago to see if I was interested in doing a film on Freud and C. S. Lewis, having as its main theme the question of faith.

There is no definable boundary between the pure questions of faith and questions of estimation (Glaubensfragen and Ermessensfragen).

It is Good to ask questions of faith, sometimes great to have a faith crisis because it most often brings us closer to God if we keep listening to his voice.

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

Alongside his 50 years of research into evolution, Professor Ayala has long been a champion of the interdisciplinary questions of faith and science, arguing repeatedly against both creationist / intelligent design and atheist approaches to the origins of life.

I have to laugh at the Lutheran from the Family Council who says it is a question of faith in God vs faith in government, and then says that he has more faith in the market than in government.