Sentences with phrase «radical faith knows»

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I, and almost every Christian I know and share my faith with, abhor the burning of Q'ur «an's, shooting of abortion doctors, and the comments of these few radicals about the people of Alabama bringing on the tornado or Haiti's earthquake.

I happen to know the answers to these, and I'm just illustrating how Christian belief tends to be a radical departure from the faith of the parent religion.

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.

A radical faith, according to Altizer, «can know no logos of things.»

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Posting a website doesn't make your diatribe anymore truthful... you are an evangelical atheist troll who hangs out on the religion blog and attacks all people of faith... I'm not saying this as an insult but just a statement of fact... it's what you do but it doesn't have to be this way... I think you know enough to know that your way ends in an eternity of anguish... attack me now to save face but please open your hardened heart and take your own journey to find God... ignore the radical wingnuts because this is your own journey.

It's a bit radical, I know, but it is Lutheran theology, and I believe it is an accurate, biblical understanding of the life of faith.

Indeed, a faith in revelation may release our desire to know and reinforce the spirit of criticism in a much more radical fashion than rationalism, scientism, or adherence to other ideologies would by themselves allow.

The three major forms of the interpretation of love in the Christian tradition are: the Augustinian with its neo-platonic roots and existential developments; the Franciscan with its radical nonconformity and nonintellectual approach; and the Lutheran with its insistence that love of God can only be known by grace through faith.

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.

You are no different than any other radical inside or outside of the Faiths.