Sentences with phrase «sanctification theology»

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God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Books by Jeremy Myers, Calvinism, eternal life, glorification, justification, sanctification, Theology of Salvation

Hauerwas, who teaches theology at Duke, holds these seemingly eclectic commitments together with a Reformed (via Barth) emphasis on the priority of God's Word over any human attempt to think of or live well before God, and a Wesleyan insistence on God's call to complete sanctification in this life.

TL; DR: 1) A born again believer doesn't sin 100 % willfully because their Spirit is of God who hates sin 2) The indwelling of the Holy Spirit causes sanctification 3) The indwelling of the Holy Spirit can not be replaced by a try - hard theology; it has to be the real thing 4) Whoever has the Holy Spirit can not be snatched out of our Father's hand 5) We sometimes get into argument over misunderstanding, let us pray before replying and seek the Lord before judging; let us be righteous in our judgement

Other Christian theology teaches that Christian perfection is attainable and progressive sanctification, but I've never seen that.

David Lull responds initially by arguing from Cobb that the idea of creative transformation is a material norm for theology, and that the word «transformation» is a rational statement of the more symbolic terms «creation, redemption, justification, emancipation, or sanctification» (WPH 194).

More than all this, we must remember that these two major contributors to our very theology of sanctification — Jesus and Paul — were unmarried during their earthly lifetime.

Thus Niebuhr looked upon his theology as a synthesis of justification and sanctification, but a more adequate synthesis than that of medieval Catholicism.

[4] Besides the devastating error this injected into the theology of justification and sanctification, it also had the effect of breaking the classical Catholic synthesis offides et ratio.

The grace that is an unmerited gift, and transforms the mere human to a child of God by a process of sanctification, has no place in such a theology.

Even those who have remained most faithful to the doctrine have modified some of the cruder forms of the «second blessing» theology by reaffirmation of the more subtle classical Wesleyanism, with its themes of growth and process in sanctification.