Sentences with phrase «redemptive work which»

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.

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Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

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.

Such views, however, not only invariably devalue the terrestrial, but what's worse is that in their very devaluation they fail to apprehend the magnitude and universal scope of God's redemptive and re-creative work in the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a truly cosmic work to which Scripture bears testimony.

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.

Christian hope which gathers up all particular human hopes and yet is deeper than they is founded upon the fact of the present creative and redemptive working of God in human life.

We shall then be ready to consider the positive implications of this theological perspective in which the creative and the redemptive work of God are affirmed together, for Christian ethics, for Christian politics, and for the life of the spirit when the Christian commitment becomes a way of meeting both life and death.

God's love is that creative and redemptive power which works unceasingly in all times and places to bring to fulfillment a universal community of free and loving beings.

Christian hope which gathers up all particular human hopes and yet is deeper than any is founded upon the fact of the present creative and redemptive working of God in human life.

The significance of the kerygma, which proclaims the redemptive work of God in Christ, lies in its opening up in a universally relevant fashion the manner of God's dealing with the whole created order in carrying out his saving purpose.

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.

In the biblical view, by contrast, the natural world is no mere setting but part of the drama which is a single unified creative - redemptive work.

It is no accident that the early church used the Lenten period to prepare catechumens for baptism, in which those who are baptized appropriate for themselves the redemptive work of Christ's death and resurrection.

Christianity is that movement within human history in which the efficacy of Israel's witness to God's creative and redemptive work has been mediated through Jesus and the apostolic witness to God's activity in him.

Largely absent from The Thanatos Syndrome is the redemptive humor of Percy's early work, in which he discerns that his own satirists need satirizing, that the gospel is not a divine stone flung angrily at the world, and that faith is God's comic gift rather than our own stern decision.

Toni Collette, Russell Crowe and Ben Mendelsohn, name stars now, all contribute freshman efforts here, which is one reason to see this, but the overall redemptive tone of the work is satisfactory all on its own.

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