Sentences with phrase «redemptive work as»

Accordingly, it comes as something of a surprise to find a theologian like Paul describing Christ's redemptive work as a «new creation» (2 Cor 5: 17).

The Letter to the Colossians speaks of Christ's redemptive work as «having canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

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If you are in the midst of suffering, if you find your faith withering, if you are questioning whether God is at work — or even present — as you wait for something in your life to become beautiful, this book will be a welcome reminder that God never stops his redemptive work... and that there is a time for everything under heaven.

If it is primarily applied to the first element, it is a positive, but not an exclusive statement, since the saving power and importance of the redemptive work of Christ (as the worship of God and the sanctification of man) affect man not only through their cultic presentation in the liturgy.

Mormon theology's emphasis on the family as the redemptive unit, its system of patriarchal blessing in which each individual's membership in the household of Ephraim or Mannaseh or Judah is solemnly intoned; and its «restored» priesthood all worked to strengthen the Hebraic connection.

As created beings, we and all humans are called to the work of co-creation with God in an ongoing generative and redemptive process.

The result is a spiritually arid isolation, which is far different from the joyful work of contemplative priests and nuns, who value the world, as God's creation, and believe that quiet, redemptive prayer is the best way to improve it.

As reiterated in the 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio and the 2000 instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus, the teaching is that everyone who is saved is saved through the redemptive work of Christ, whether or not they have ever heard of Christ.

Specifically then we have every right to regard the political order as having the potentiality of serving both the creative and the redemptive work of God.

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.

And to speak in that fashion would be to say, with Dr. Paul Knitter of Xavier University in Cincinnati (one of the brilliant young Roman Catholic process theologians of our time), that we need to «recognize the possibility that other «saviours» have carried out... for other people» the redemptive work which as Christians we know in Jesus Christ.

The church's unity and apostolicity rest upon the whole redemptive work of Christ - past, present and future; upon His finished work on the cross, His continuing work as the risen Lord, and upon His promise that He will come again.

The working out of that redemptive suffering sets the direction for the rest of the novel, especially as it is dramatized in the Russian Monk chapter of the life of Father Zosima and then in the ministry of his disciple Alyosha.

Root feminine identity in the curse rather than the redemptive work of Christ and then make the argument that because the ancient Near Eastern woman of Proverbs 31 is not described as consulting with the elders, then all women everywhere for all of time are restricted to the realm of the home and therefore responsible for the laundry.

Rather, it sees modernity as but one developing moment within a larger struggle of love, the central drama of Christ's redemptive work made real among his people and in the world.

As Christians, conservative, liberal, and everything in between, we all agree that the point of the Bible and the story it is trying to tell us is the story of God's redemptive work in the world in and through the person of Jesus.

What we want is a group so devoted to this purpose and so tightly organized that it can work as effectively for redemptive ends in our time as the first Christians worked for redemptive ends in the first century of our era and as the Nazis have worked for divisive ends in the first century of their would - be era.

Working from material written decades ago by Donald Stewart, Cooper's film follows a redemptive journey north from New Mexico to Montana, as the fiercely bigoted Capt. Joseph Blocker and his men, on orders from President Harrison, escort a long - imprisoned and now dying Cheyenne war chief, played by Wes Studi, to his ancestral homeland.

Though marriages can be challenging at times, I view them as a means of God's redemptive work.