Sentences with phrase «radical faith»

May we take these ancient prophetic words as marking the very essence of radical faith?

He is one of the founders of The Simple Way, a «new monastic» Christian community in Philadelphia, USA, that promotes radical faith in Christ and radical engagement with the global poor through principles of peacemaking, communal living and hospitality in «the abandoned places of empire».

Best Biographical Sketch: Jennifer Fulwiler with «What Mother Angelica Taught Me About Radical Faith»

Christ became flesh to remain flesh, to become a living symbol for the man of radical faith living in the time of the death of God.

We have seen that radical faith knows the transcendent epiphany of Spirit as an alien and repressive form of God, and Hegel would teach us that it is only in the modern world or in an absolute form of faith that consciousness can know that transcendent Spirit is abstract and lifeless, for only by means of a realization of the death of God in human experience can faith be liberated from the authority and the power of the primordial God.

I've grappled with my evangelical hero complex pretty publicly (the entire last chapter of my most recent book Out of Sorts was about that very thing) and over the years, I've learned the hard way that radical faith looks a lot like faithfulness even if to the eyes of the world or even the eyes of the church, it isn't quite enough.

Radical faith supports a radical discernment: human action is response or reply to the prior action of God in the midst of the universal community.

Radical faith conflicts with the other forms.

Shane is the visionary leader of The Simple Way, a faith community in inner city Philadelphia that has helped birth and connect radical faith communities around the world.

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.

Finally, radical faith calls us to give ourselves totally to the world, to affirm the fullness and the immediacy of the present moment as the life and the energy of Christ.

They must not be established as authoritative ends (or idols) in themselves, but must always be judged by their usefulness in pointing the believer back to that moment of radical faith.

He did not know how to go on as a Jew until he met such Christians as Roy Eckhardt and Paul van Buren, who modeled for him both radical faith in God and critical fidelity to tradition.

Christianity is a radical faith, however, and a source of both personal and community transformation.

We find here neither the radical faith of Kierkegaard nor the radical doubt of Nietzsche.

Radical faith is a faith that dares to encounter and affirm the death of God in modern culture, but does not entail an affirmation of culture for its own intrinsic spiritual worth.

That sounds like a radical faith to me, about as left - wing radical as one can get.

Such is the radical faith with which the Christian spirit ought to release us to tackle our social problems.

In The Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry, Niebuhr contended that, in the name of radical faith, Christians need to oppose narrower ecclesiocentric, bibliocentric and even christocentric loyalties.

But is «radical faith» enough?

Yes, radical theology, as I understand it, just like the radical faith that is its source, does embody a quest for total redemption, and it does deny ultimate differentiation.

Previously, Elisa worked on the haunting and controversial film Zoo, Waiting for NESARA, followed a messianic group of excommunicated Mormons, and the radical faith binding them together in the wake of 9/11.