Sentences with phrase «radical faith calls»

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.

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Through my own pastoral experiences I have come to see that neo-orthodoxy — with all its emphasis on realism in theology, on the kerygma of the Bible, on the sinfulness of personal and corporate life, on the radical nature of the new life, and so forth — is hesitant and weak in calling persons to a positive faith.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

German Protestant theology had been dominated since the early 1920s by various theologies that had stressed and interwoven the concepts of revelation as foundational to theology and of the Word of God as a concrete address calling for a radical decision of faith or unfaith, with varying emphasis on whatever the address might actually say.

I am convinced that until and unless the modern theologians who are calling for a «radical» reconstruction of Christianity recognize this, they will fail us utterly in our need to see Christian faith afresh.

I have found the most radical perversion of your faith and judged you for it... even calling you a traitor in the process.

Radical theology's «new forms of faith may be seen to have an apocalyptic form: the new humanity that they proclaim dawns only at the end of all that we have known as history; its triumph is inseparable from the disintegration of the cosmos created by historical man, and it calls for the reversal of all moral law and the collapse of all historical religion.

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.

Archbishop Georg Gänswein has called this book «radical» in the sense of the word's Latin origin — radix meaning «root» — because Cardinal Sarah takes us back to the root of the faith, to the intrinsic radicality of the Gospel.

Kierkegaard would call this a «leap of faith» and Sartre would call it «radical freedom», but in either case it is up to you decide what is important to you and act accordingly.

Interestingly, a recent poll conducted amongst followers of the Muslim faith, right here in Canada, found that 20 % of respondents did not disagree with the extremist acts of their so - called fellow Muslim radicals.