Sentences with phrase «spiritual conversion experienced»

The spiritual conversion experienced by alcoholics and charismatics is intended to carry the individual along in a «new» way of life, and it does for those who stay with it.

The spiritual conversion experienced by both of these groups is intended to carry the individual along in a «new» way of life, and it does for those...

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Paul came along and had his spiritual experience and conversion 20 years after Jesus died.

The long struggle over whether a conversion experience was essential for church membership was an argument over whether the unconverted could share in the covenant relation with the converted and attain at least some of the worldly and spiritual advantages of church membership.

Paul is, one might say, predestined for his mission to the pagans — not only because of his learning and his spiritual gifts, but because of the path of faith he followed and his conversion experience.

• No focus by Akron Pioneers on Dr. Carl Jung's «conversion» prescription; no focus on Dr. Frank Buchman's much - discussed «spiritual experience» usages; and no special focus on the classic Oxford Group practice of «sharing for witness.»

In the biographies of J. Alfred Smith and David Bartlett, we find both spiritual formation and the development of social consciousness (Hunter), which may be termed conversion and consciousness - raising experiences.

While Christians rightly believe that all truth necessary for such a spiritual experience is mediated only through the revelation in Christ, they must guard against the assumption that only those who know Christ «after the flesh», that is, in the actual historical revelation, are capable of such a conversion, A «hidden Christ» operates in history.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

So with the conversion experience: that it should for even a short time show a human being what the highwater mark of his spiritual capacity is, this is what constitutes its importance — an importance which backsliding can not diminish, although persistence might increase it.

Ms. Cornett argues that the love affair between Almasy and Katherine «is of the very same emotional and spiritual and factual material that dramatic religious conversions are made of»» namely, a certain sequence of strong feelings, including the experience of being led to do something against your will.

Over against revivals and the conversion experience, High - churchmen upheld catechism, confirmation by the bishop, and a close direction of the spiritual life by the parish priest.

A spiritual conversion is an interior experience, a decision for Christ, a change of heart, a turning of the mind away from vice and toward virtue, a relinquishing of the past and an embrace of the future.

A series of images of types of religious experience (answered prayer, miracle, conversion, numinous, spiritual) that need to be discussed and identified.