Sentences with phrase «radical faith living»

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.

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«The chanciness is part of the lasting magic of gay life,» writes Browning, «a sort of radical plot twist that characterizes queer life and sets aside so many conventions of social judgment, class, race, and attitude, supplanting them with a direct and naive faith that bonds of great value can be forged on nothing more than instinct....

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

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.

But in some parts of the world the faith that you and I share is radical and criminal and could land you in jail or worse — cost you your life.

Frans and Annemieke Alting von Geusau - Houben FAITH MAGAZINE September - October 2015 Frans and Annemieke Alting von Geusau - Houben look at the current position of Catholic families, and write from their own experience about the possibilities and practicalities of a radical and joy - filled Catholic family life.

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.

If it does not stay at that point, merely marking time, and if on the other hand there does not occur a radical change in the despairer so that he gets on the right path to faith, then such despair will either potentiate itself to a higher form and continue to be introversion, or it breaks through to the outside and demolishes the outward disguise under which the despairing man has been living in his incognito.

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.

Only as we rethink the radical nature of Christian community and reform our institutions so that they might faithfully strive to transmit their cumulative tradition through ritual and life, to nurture and convert persons to Christian faith through common experience and interaction, and to prepare and motivate persons for individual and corporate action in society can true Christian education emerge.

Needed is a foundation for uniting a radical understanding of God's action in history with radical individual and corporate discipleship in the world — namely, reflection which results from depth experience, the spiritual life, the interiorization of faith through meditation, prayer and corporate worship.

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».

These passages give every evidence of being crafted by thoughtful and deeply experienced writers who are trying to communicate what it means to live by a radical trust in God in the midst of terror, enmity and death — some of the greatest challenges to faith.

Though his fear that his own sinfulness would separate him from God helped lead to then - radical ideas about salvation outside of man's own ability to be righteous, doubts about his faith, thinking and relationship with God would haunt him later in life.

Logically, perhaps, faith could live with the news that there is a radical disharmony between the church's Christ and the real Jesus, or even — the ultimate bad news?

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.

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.

Moltmann feels that the future of the Protestant church in Europe lies not with the large state church, but with small communities of faith, where the charismatic gifts of all can be recognized, and where Christians can live out a radical discipleship.

«Doing» our faith has to be seen as a radical, counter-cultural, defiant way of living.

But few faith - based statements on the environment have demonstrated the moral force — or sweeping vision — of Pope Francis» environmental encyclical, Laudato Si» (or, Praise Be to You) Released in June, Francis» 184 - page message laid out a stinging condemnation of industrial society's reckless destruction of natural systems and articulated a radical ideal of our ethical responsibilities toward the rest of life on Earth... Francis» impassioned message makes clear that the effort to protect our shared planet — and to ensure that all people have the same basic access to clean air, clean water and a livable environment — is among the greatest moral tests of our time.