Sentences with phrase «redemptive force»

Michael Piazza's death in 2006 robbed Chicago of one of its most persistent cultural and social activists, an artist and teacher who believed that creativity could be a corrective and redemptive force with the potential to ameliorate the conditions...

Stone was never great at domestic scenes to begin with, but lately his films have been hobbled by a weirdly grandfatherly indulgence of young people in love as some kind of redemptive force.

Perhaps their suffering, endured with trust in God, will be the expiatory gift, joined with the supreme loving sacrifice of Christ, that will be a redemptive force even for the guilty lying alongside.

The interaction between these broad grounds for hope that we find in the creation itself and the redemptive forces that have been released as the result of the, work of God in Christ is the heart of the matter.

Not exact matches

Christianity is most redemptive as a force in the world when Christian churches focus their energies on building formative Christian communities that are rooted in the idioms and practices of biblical faith.

In the one case the problems of society are given up entirely; in the other individual perfection is regarded as the force which will release the redemptive powers of God for society.

Between them the Christian understanding of human being and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was made irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were left to be interpreted solely within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at best had a Deistic faith coupled with a mechanical view of the world and a self - redemptive idea of history making for an optimistic doctrine of inevitable progress.

«Courageous and redemptive, Show Me All Your Scars displays the most poignant and stabilizing force in psychiatry and life in general: hope.

There, four friends encounter telepathic aliens, renegade military forces and the redemptive power of their own childhoods while on a hunting trip in the Derry woods.

White Oleander is an unforgettable story of mothers and daughters, burgeoning sexuality, the redemptive powers of art, and the unstoppable force of the emergent self.