Sentences with phrase «radical demands»

They need to navigate the difficult passage between a typically conservative donor and parent constituency and the more radical demands of both students and government agencies.

The problem is the relentless aggression of liberalism, driven by an internal mechanism that causes ever more radical demands for political conformism, particularly targeting the Church.

If it is true that Matthew's legal approach to salvation contains a surrogate of the Pauline concept of grace, then we are faced with a soteriology which in a sense circumvents the christological witness but nevertheless creates an effective union of radical grace and radical demand similar to that which Braun finds in the teachings of Jesus, the epistles of Paul, and the gospel of John.

For Jesus, on the other hand, the whole radical demand of God on men was placed in the context of God's love.

However, The People's Charter did more than merely reassert established radical demands.

As much as I like Barbara Rose's review of Barry Schwabsky's Words for Art (2013), in the BR's June number, I can not understand how she can say, «The idea that there was no conception of depicted space prior to the Renaissance is, however, so far reaching and radical it demands much further and deeper consideration than an essay can possibly supply.»

Brown asks: «How adequate is our hermeneutics, our method of interpretation, if it leaves us complacent with the way things are, or committed only to tepid changes that fall far short of the Bible's radical demand for justice?

John Paul II referred to martyrdom as charity in conformity with the radical demands of the Gospel.

A crucial judgment that the church must make is whether to reject their offerings because of their ambiguous character and radical demands or to seize upon them as an occasion for repentance for that in our history which now appears evil to so many sensitive critics.

He appears as a prophetic figure confronting his hearers with the radical demands of God's service.

In the last chapter, the connection of the radical demand for love with the primacy of grace and the sense of original sin was discussed.

It appears to them and it appears to me that many churches, ministries are more influenced by culture, more influenced by political ideology, more influenced by American nationalism than by the radical demands by Jesus to live as exiles and sojourners and refugees in this alien world called America.

Many possible causes have been suggested, among them a general conservative trend of our times, greater faithfulness by liberals to the radical demands of the gospel, and greater expression by conservatives of warmth, zeal...

The condition for the possibility of any serious Christian evangelization and social commitment is an unequivocal acceptance of the primacy of God the Creator, the radical demands of the law of Christ («love one another as I have loved you»), and the power of the Holy Spirit to equip us to follow it.

Yet he does love them, and opens their eyes to the radical demands of humility (Mk 10, 44).

People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.

Many possible causes have been suggested, among them a general conservative trend of our times, greater faithfulness by liberals to the radical demands of the gospel, and greater expression by conservatives of warmth, zeal or certainty.

The controlling principle of this change is the radical demand of love.

It makes the children of God fear and tremble in the face of God's radical demand for obedience.

If his radical demands for Black liberation and self - defense evoke the Black Panther Party, at the same time his blind rage and destructive impulses recall the profile of terrorists whose vengeful, simplistic desires are only to turn the world upside down («We'll be on top this time,» he says while unraveling his world domination plan, breaking my heart).

In actuality, I have made both outlandish assumptions, with the radical demand reduction being the primary outlandish assumption.