Sentences with phrase «shaped by faith»

My opinion of cohabitation was partially shaped by my faith, which teaches that sex — a seemingly natural component of cohabitation — belongs in marriage.

To what extent, if at all, would these so - called Christians be shaped by the faith which they now professed?

For Christians who come from cultures shaped by another faith, an even more intimate interior dialogue takes place as they seek to establish the connection in their lives between their cultural heritage and the deep convictions of their Christian faith.

Because awareness of revelation is always mediated to a people by way of individual experience, in the case of Christianity by Jesus» intimate experience of God as «abba,» a study of it must examine in some detail what happens to the self as it is shaped by faith in revelation.

We shall propose that when our consciousness is shaped by faith in the divine promise, as well as by a trust in the gift of God's self - limiting love, we will be able to see in the cosmos a depth and breadth otherwise obscured.

And if the characterization is in part shaped by faith, what is its message back to the community of faith out of which it grew and in which it was cherished?

Like the primeval history, like the Abraham cycle, the Jacob narratives are shaped by faith.

The practice of infant baptism is the visible acknowledgement that from birth the child is being shaped by his faith environment; and the practice of confirmation of baptism is the recognition that on reaching years of discretion a person must decide for himself between commitment and rejection.

Not exact matches

Islam's beginnings were heavily shaped by Judaism and Christianity, there are strong parallels between the Qur» an and the Bible, and the three monotheistic faiths all see Abraham as a leading patriarch.

Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.

The openhearted observer of Islam in the West can discern the shape of hope in the increasing willingness of people of the two faiths to come together for dialogue and consultation on the mutual problems they face; in the reevaluation of Islam forced upon Muslims by their minority status in many places; and in the development of the concept of international law and universal human rights.

Whether or not Obama has been spiritually «reborn» in the evangelical sense, his spiritual counselors say the president's faith has helped shape his first term in ways that haven't been appreciated by voters or the news media.

The Institute was founded in 1989 by Richard John Neuhaus and his colleagues to confront the ideology of secularism, which insists that the public square must be «naked,» and that faith has no place in shaping the public conversation or in shaping public policy.

Its unique character, however, was shaped neither by seer nor by Canaanite prophet, but by the nature of Yahwism and the Yahweh faith.

It is this shift in how truth is perceived and appropriated that is one of the factors creating resistance to electronic culture by theologians and clergy, whose understanding of faith has been strongly shaped by the characteristics and requirements of print culture in which they were educated and by virtue of which they hold status and power.

It is important to recognize that traditional beliefs about the Trinity and about the status of Jesus Christ, which are often called Christology, were shaped by opposition to views which the majority of Christians felt were untrue to scripture and to their experience of faith.

If the Abraham stories are shaped by the first phase of Israel's history, that phase in which Israel became Israel, and if they are read and interpreted in Israel as a personalized account of her formative faith in her formative event, we may well wonder whether there is not a corresponding relationship between the Jacob stories and the middle phase of her history, the era of her autonomous existence in her own land, on her own soil.

If, as we suspect, the myths and legends of Genesis are shaped by Israel's faith, what does this mean?

Whatever the original intent of Old Testament myth and legend, it is shaped, preserved and understood in Israel by faith.

As Ineson says: «For all this we are going to need leaders whose characters have been shaped and formed by their faith in Jesus.

My Lutheran friend is pleased that Catholics and Lutherans can approve a common statement on justification by faith, but «doctrinal agreement turns out to be sheer abstraction apart from a concrete vision of the shape of the Life we are saved to live.»

However, as writers in this group tend to suggest, that type of argument overlooks the fact that characterizations of the «essence» of Christian faith are themselves deeply shaped by the social and cultural locations of the people who make them.

Thus it is tempting, especially in the light of revelation by which we view the cosmos with the eyes of faith as well as science, to hold that the material dimension of our cosmos was shaped by the promise of life, consciousness, and faith from the time of its earliest formation.

They are impressed by the ways in which gender, race, and class differences shape both different understandings of Christian faith and different social worlds in which it is lived out.

And those of us who are Christians (and I believe the same is true of Jewish natural - law thinkers, such as Rabbi David Novak) acknowledge that the faith we affirm has itself been enriched» and in certain dimensions even partly shaped» by taking onboard their insights and integrating them into theological reflection.

But even these texts still fall within the general horizon of a faith shaped by trust in God's fidelity.

The Church's doctrinal boundaries began to take on a more definite shape when, in response to the need to determine what falls within and what without the pale of authentic faith, it authorized a canon of Holy Books which it holds to be inspired by the Spirit of Jesus and his God.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

The dominant culture, that of the Occident, has especially been shaped by the Christian faith.

But if, for the reasons outlined earlier in this chapter, the Easter message was already beginning to take shape in the minds of the disciples, of Peter in particular, the experience of seeing Jesus in his glorified state would have the effect of authenticating the Easter message and of causing the Easter faith to take possession of whoever heard it, and of those, in turn, who were convinced by the apostolic testimony.

Of her earliest faith we can not safely say more than that it was inherited and uncritically accepted from ancestors who had come, by the ways that have shaped the mind of primitive man, to a relatively high polytheism.

I'm shaped by this place, as Luci Shaw wrote about poets, the slender antennae of awareness is always combing the world, and I am shaped by the people here, by their stories, by our becoming - shared histories, what I pick up here matters for my work, my voice, my faith, my family, perhaps it's not so prideful in this context, to say that it matters for the world.

Each particular culture fosters and shapes the faith of those within it by the way it provides a world - view and helps them to understand life.

But we will in faith continue to shape new ways of speaking about the things of God informed by events that spill out of our own histories and self - consciousness.

In the surrender of faith we allow ourselves and our consciousness to be shaped by a set of revelatory images and stories.

He must decide what is the kernel of the gospel, and what is merely the outward husk which has been shaped by human imagination, by traditional interpretation, by the tendency to produce credal formulae, by the subsequent historical consolidation of the truths of faith.

Theirs is a faith shaped by «aloha,» a word drawn from two roots, meaning «in the presence of wind, breath or spirit.»

«The CDF must continue to fulfil the role that was shaped so well by Cardinal Ratzinger: not only to defend the Faith but to promote it, to carry it forward.

5 Islamic societies were certainly not so hierarchical as feudal Europe but, just as the laws of Christendom were shaped by the Christian faith, so Shari'a law is based on the teachings of the Qur» an.

It isn't that I'm against Romney explaining how he was shaped by his personal faith and his institutional church.

Trust that you serve them best by living a strong example of what it means to know strong, heart - centred faith, uncompromised by external pressures to shape the True, infinitely loving leader within.

The curriculum they suggest, along with participation in the community of faith, is designed to shape Christian identity by an intense study of how groups and individuals created themselves as Christians as they responded to felt needs and wrestled with issues of ultimate significance in their age just as we do in ours.

My faith was - in part - shaped by this blog, no kidding.

Since contemporary practices profoundly shape both historical retrievals and systematic articulations of Christian faith, studies in these branches of theology properly proceed by way of a prior movement of description.

Dwelling within a community of faith shaped by the significant events in the life of Israel and the Church orients our perception and consciousness so as to be able to read in the larger context of history a pattern of promise and fulfillment.

The work of many Biblical scholars, for example, is shaped much more by the state of their discipline and the sense of what its new methods can learn than by the Christian faith of the scholars.

It wasn't the individuals with their nationalistic forms of faith that gave rise to the holocaust — it was how this was shaped by ideologues who were undeniably influenced by the Masters of Suspicion.

When faith is not shaped by community, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks points out, religion becomes politicized and politics become religionized.

The Christian knows that the dichotomy between «truth» as a linear narrative and «truth» as shaped by images and the «pictures inside our heads» must be bridged — and that it is bridged in the faith that God creates and redeems reality and that God is the source of all that we are and will be.

Third, we need to begin to educate ministers and people within our churches on how our lives and our children's lives are being shaped by media values and where Christian faith stands in relation to them.