Sentences with phrase «reconcile christian»

How does Jack reconcile his Christian upbringing with the fantastic things he's seen and done on his adventure?

The former Business Secretary is the first MP to put his hat in the ring to succeed Tim Farron, who resigned last week after saying he could not reconcile his Christian beliefs with being party leader.

The leadership contest was triggered after Mr Farron's surprise post-election resignation, in which he said he could not reconcile his Christian beliefs with leading the party.

3 Many books were written by theologians on the problem of how to reconcile Christian thought with evolution.

How do we reconcile the Christian theology of a reign of grace with the practical need to hold a higher standard for our leaders?

To H. Richard, Reinhold's attempt to reconcile Christian love with assertions of self - interest only «makes Christian love an ambulance driver in the wars of interested and clashing parties.»

Reasons given by Unitarian Universalists there for leaving other churches were along the line of «couldn't believe dogma, but wanted community» (ex-Methodist), «could not accept Jesus myth» (nominal Episcopalian), «my wife and I could not reconcile the Christian theology with a rational approach to life» (nominal Presbyterian).

He was then dispatched to Corinth, Greece, where he successfully reconciled the Christian community there with Paul, its founder.

Reconciling Christian claims about God, creation and humanity with the findings of Darwin and his successors is an important and daunting task, one that mainline theology has still not satisfactorily accomplished.

Not exact matches

And perhaps in listening to a compassionate atheist, the Christian will be forced to heal themselves before they can ever hope to reconcile the athiest with God...

It seems that Ham realized the futility of such an endeavour and instead of trying to reconcile YEC tenets with science, he began a campaign to present the scientific community as a cabal of elitist, politically motivated secularists conspiring with the assistance of Satan to undermine the traditional values of American Christians.

3/9 A Jesus Christ that does not, will not and can not reconcile divided Christians is an outdated Jesus Christ.

It is Christ's gift to the Christian that he should be reconciled with the world as it is, but now this reconciliation is accounted a betrayal and denial of Christ.

Gay Marriage and Evangelical Christian can not be reconciled.

Here's the Mormon logic behind baptisms for the dead: (1) Bible says you have to be baptised to get into heaven, (2) lots of people died without any chance to get baptised, (3) the Bible mentions baptism for the dead, which was practiced by early christians but isn't practised by anybody now (other than Mormons), and (4) God lvoes everybody but he is also truthful, so baptism for the dead reconciles the statement that everybody must be baptised with the unfair situation of not everyone being able to do so.

But he is also reconciled to everyone else who is reconciled to God (other Christians).

The Church relishes in the liturgy as the «high point» of Christian worship, but does not the Christ remind us, «if our brother has something against us, we are to leave our gift at the altar and go be reconciled first and then return?»

I haven't forgotten how guilty that boy felt, stuck in his trash - filled old humanity — unsure how to reconcile what seemed to him the ethereality of Christian living with a body that seemed always to run hot when it was supposed to run cold or cool when it was supposed to run warm.

Since Theo is conflating crime with a secular world view, how do you reconcile the fact that prisons are filled with overwhelmingly Christian inmates?

Read it especially if you wonder how feminism can be reconciled with the Bible, or if you suspect that those of us who call ourselves Christian Feminists are just picking and choosing the bits of Scripture that we like best.

In fact, however, reconciliation is stressed only in order to justify the Christian's intervention in politics: since the world is reconciled (and under the Lordship of Jesus Christ), all its undertakings — political, technological, scientific, economic — are legitimate and claim everyone's participation.

In the Middle Ages Catholic scholars developed Scholasticism, the reconciling of Greek thought (Aristotle) with Christian thought.

Although there are many schools, a view of economic behaviour that can be reconciled with the Christian understanding is found in hardly any of them.

Only God can resolve this sin - guilt - suffering - death complex, and Christians believe, however their interpretations may vary, that «God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself» But quite apart from this act of reconciliation it is most important to realize that Jesus declared categorically that reconciliation with God is an impossibility without reconciliation with man.

The audacity of Christian hope is that Jesus Christ came into the world, and is reconciling all things to himself.

An attempt to reconcile the two traditions was made at the Synod of Whitby in 664, but it was Theodore of Tarsus, who came to England as Archbishop in 668, who united the Christians in England and who was the first bishop whom all English Christians were willing to obey.

Believing Jews and Christians can not escape the perennial dilemma of reconciling the existence of evil with belief in an all - good and all - powerful God.

And instead of viewing the crucifixion as reconciling God to humanity — for the Christian view is that God is always seeking us, reaching out to us — we need to view it as reconciling humanity to God.

And it's difficult, to say the least, to reconcile that consumption and the support it gives to the adult entertainment industry with the Christian commitments of justice and love.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

While some denominational leaders will continue to present a hyper - literal interpretation of Genesis 1 as non-negotiable Christian truth, organizations like The Biologos Forum will pick up steam as thoughtful, earnest Christians try to reconcile their faith with Darwin's theory of evolution.

But I will tirelessly and unequivocally advocate on behalf of those Christians struggling to reconcile their faith with their intellectual integrity because someone like Al Mohler told them that they have to choose between Christianity and scientific consensus.

The entire Christian story — from the calling of Abraham to the birth of Christ to the sending of the Apostles and into the present — is the story of how God's desire that all people be reconciled to himself (1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9) operates through the concrete particulars of human history.

As late as the second century of the Christian era some Jews were still not reconciled to the canon.

As G. E. Bentley Jr.'s critical study of Vala demonstrates, Blake's frequent and disorderly revisions of this manuscript epic reveal his own movement into a Christian and redemptive understanding of history, an understanding that could not be reconciled with the initial direction of the poem.

McCabe was convinced that the longstanding attempt to reconcile absolute prescience with freedom and contingency had prevented Christian theology from developing an adequate doctrine of God, one rooted in the facts of religious experience and scriptural testimony.

What you and the author miss is that justifying the first graph of Genesis with this science, does not reconcile the rest of the christian book of mythology.

It was, moreover, a Christian humanist vision which enabled him to reconcile his old science with his new faith and to reappropriate his Uncle Will's humanism in a religious framework.

I think it can actually be reconciled with the Christian faith.

Many Christians have long been reconciling their political beliefs with their moral compass by voting for pro-life politicians.

As a fundamentalist Christian, you have to reconcile thousands of years of scripture that teach that a just and loving God happily condemns innocents to death and judgment for all eternity.

Striving to reconcile these diverse convictions, Christian scholars just might make what Christian ethicist Sondra Wheeler dubs the «festival of mutual recrimination» in the marriage debate a bit more constructive, even if more demanding.

I understand that there are strong arguments on both sides concerning Christians in the service so it is something I may not ever be able to fully understand or reconcile with.

It is therefore at its best more inclusively Biblical rather than evangelical only; it is directed indeed to sinful men who need to be reconciled to God but also to men who need in all things to grow up into mature manhood in the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ and who are to interpret to others the meaning of Christian faith.

You can trash the WWJD mantra if you wish, but that doesn't change the fact that you will never reconcile military service with Christian discipleship.

As opposed to this backward movement of the religious expressions of mysticism, a Christian repetition must move forward beyond the death of a primordial or original sacred to an eschatological coincidentia oppositorum that reconciles and unites the sacred and the profane.

We have no indigenous Christian image of the ministry as reconciling.

He tried to reconcile an «apparently» mutually exclusive absolute Christian ethic (agape) with a relative social ethic (justice).

In «Reconciling East and West» (December 2008) Richard John Neuhaus rightfully laments the remaining division» so close and yet so far away» that separates Christians East and West.

How is it possible to reconcile the respect that you have for other religions and cultures with the necessity, for a Christian like yourself, of «inculturating» the gospel?