Sentences with phrase «radical christian»

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The increased visibility of radical Christian fundamentalism would seem to shine a new light on John Doe, and the omnipresence of themes of vigilantism could have done the same for all involved (before his identity is revealed, Doe's costume even looks a lot like Rorschach's).

Mojola Agbebi, a radical Christian cleric, in Victorian Lagos.

At the risk of oversimplification, we might characterize Altizer's theology as an attempt to bring man to a radical Christian humanism that will involve the denial of all past forms of God and Christianity.

Also, even radical Christian Fundamentalist won't resort to violence as the Jihadists do.

Radical Christian communities like the Sojourners Fellowship draw his admiration as a form of witness, but he disagrees with leaders who claim such fellowships are «very much on the way up.»

He appealed to Scripture, to ancient rituals, and to the teachings of the Church of England to argue for his radical Christian ideas.

By following the way of the radical Christian, we can rejoice in the death of God, and be assured that the historical realization of the death of God is a full unfolding of the forward movement of the Incarnation.

Thus, ultimately the wager of the radical Christian is simply a wager upon the full and actual presence of the Christ who is a totally incarnate love.

As I mentioned on Monday, the Christians in the churches at Ephesus, Colossea, and Asia Minor who first heard these letters read aloud would instantly recognize Peter and Paul's version of the household codes as a sort of radical Christian remix of familiar Greco - Roman philosophy regarding household structure.

The radical Christian who chooses a fully contemporary Christ not only must be willing to abandon the Christ of our Christian past but he must accept the fact that no clear path lies present to the Christ whom he has chosen, and no final authority exists to direct him upon his quest.

While the religious or the ecclesiastical Christian has increasingly become incapable of speaking about damnation, the radical Christian, who has been willing to confront the totally alien form of God which has been manifest in our time, has known the horror of Satan and Hell, and can all too readily speak the language of guilt and damnation.

Only by recognizing the antithetical relationship that radical faith posits between the primordial and transcendent reality of God and the kenotic and immediate reality of Christ, can we understand the violent attack which the radical Christian launches upon the Christian God.

I don't think that you have a modern Islam and radical Islam, or modern Christian and radical Christian.

It is by faith alone that we become aware of the true meaning and the overwhelming power of guilt and repression: thus we need have little hesitation in assigning Nietzsche to a tradition of a radical Christian understanding of sin, a tradition going back to Paul by way of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Pascal, Luther, and Augustine.

The radical Christian calls us into the center of the world, into the heart of the profane, with the announcement that Christ is present here and he is present nowhere else.

But the radical Christian wagers upon the Christ who is totally profane.

Consequently, the radical Christian maintains that it is the Church's regressive religious belief in God which impels it to betray the present and the kenotic reality of Christ.

Daily meditation became essential; he saw that dogmatic theology needs never to be viewed in isolation from the moral and spiritual; radical Christian life and witness is the interpenetration of ex opere operato and ex opere operantis; effective expressions of faith and liturgical rites call for fervent inner spiritual life.

The picture is bleak from a radical Christian viewpoint, but there are glimmers of hope.

The radical Christian must find «futurity» in the present moment.

Altizer, The New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake (Michigan State University Press, 1967), p. 75.

In fact, as Leroy T. Howe has observed, the modern (fallen) sensibility is prone to affirm everything that has empirical substantiality as being self - grounded.42 Such an affirmation, according to either Altizer or Barth, can not be held by the man of radical Christian faith.

Don't you realize that you are no better than a radical Christian when you spread hate and criticism against those who believe in God?

He simply represents the most harmful, dangerous kind of radical Christian there is — fork tongued — ready at an instant to wage war or give love — even on the same damn side of an argument if it is «politically» advantageous for his to do so.

The Society of Friends offered a congenial environment for both women's equality and nonviolence through a common understanding of a radical Christian ethic of love.

A radical christian fundamentalist zealot nut - job, who can't wait to bring on the «rapture»... and then, enjoy seeing everyone that is a non-believer go to some place of «eternal torment»..

They believed that conversion to radical Christian ideals entailed repudiation of all unjust structures of government, including those which subjugated women or which countenanced the enslavement of Negroes.

I must confess that it had never even occurred to me that Zen could be understood as a way of negating Buddhist transcendentalism so that its negation fully parallels the radical Christian negation of transcendence.

At first it took the form of wanting to understand radical Christian life styles.

So if you are a radical Christian, following Jesus in the way of voluntary poverty, what are you to think of the biblical boob - tube fan?

You conservatives imagine all sorts of things: «he's a muslim», «he's in league with a radical Christian minister».

«The radical Christian,» Altizer wrote in his 1966 manifesto The Gospel of Christian Atheism, «proclaims that God has actually died in Christ, that this death is both a historical and cosmic event.»

It is a theology purporting to be the expression of a radical Christian tradition — a tradition unknown to the world of Christian theology, because that world is irredeemably satanic insofar as it is bound to the dead body of that God negated and left behind by the forward and apocalyptic movement of the incarnation.

«God is dead» are words that may only truly be spoken by the Christian, not by the religious Christian who is bound to an eternal and unmoving Word, but by the radical Christian who speaks in response to an Incarnate Word that empties itself of Spirit so as to appear and exist as flesh.

And consonantly with this, one looks in vain on the pages of Altizer for any moral - social direction the radical Christian should take, beyond that of plunging with all one has in him into contemporary «historical» action.

Being persuaded that Barth abandoned the Bible by surrendering to the authority of the church, he is determined to realize the meaning of the Bible apart from the church and its tradition, and under the impact of what he would like to identify as the radical Christian tradition.

Back in the «70s, when evangelicals were debating Reformed - versus - Anabaptist perspectives on faith and politics, I participated in a forum in which a self - proclaimed «radical Christian» urged all of us to «stand over against everything this American political system stands for.»

For Dear, a peace activist, any genuine spiritual ascent must be accompanied by a commitment to contemplative nonviolence, social justice and radical Christian discipleship.

You are a radical christian fundamentalist zealot... I am thanking your God, that most people don't agree nor act like you.

What else can a «radical Christian» expect in this fallen age?

If they do not have a specific «charism» of radical Christian discipleship, what's the point?

It can be said, however, that the radical Christian invariably attempts by one means or another to return to the original message and person of Jesus with the conviction that such a return demands both an assault upon the established Church and a quest for a total or apocalyptic redemption.

Despite its great relevance to our situation, the faith of the radical Christian continues to remain largely unknown, and this is so both because that faith has never been able to speak in the established categories of Western thought and theology and because it has so seldom been given a visionary expression (or, at least, the theologian has not been able to understand the radical vision, or even perhaps to identify its presence).

(That is very like what radical Christian theologians like Don Cupitt are saying about God today.)

Indeed, the radical Christian has taken this original ground of the Christian faith to its inevitable fulfillment: if all eternity must pass through «Self - Annihilation,» then God himself must die to make possible the redemptive triumph of the apocalypse, for his death reverses that «Self - hood» which is the source of the fall.

Blake's «atheism» was not simply a prophetic reaction to the appearance in his time of a non-redemptive God of power and judgment, but more deeply was a radical Christian response to a divine sovereignty that stands apart from the kenotic movement of the Incarnation.

This is because Jesus» name has an historical actuality for the Christian — even for so radical a Christian as Blake — that is matched by no other.

Blake and every radical Christian seer have not only issued a violent protest against the «Christian God,» but they have likewise condemned the mystery and repression of religion as a fundamental obstacle to the realization of a union with the life and Word of Jesus.

To the spiritual or radical Christian, the very name of Jesus not only symbolizes but also makes actually present the total union of God and man, and for that reason it likewise gives witness to a concrete reversal of history, and a dawning apocalyptic transfiguration of the cosmos.