Sentences with phrase «stage than any faith»

Not exact matches

Some don't want to go beyond the first three stages of faith (Hadberg / Geulich) and so leave to find a more religious expression that they are comfortable with and that's fine providing they admit it, rather than rubbishing off what they once loved.

Actually, no one has said it better than James Fowler in his book Stages of Faith.

In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.

I have faith, it's different than it was, in a different stage, but not perfect by any stretch.

Still, in light of God's willingness to have faith in his creature by intending these moral powers for man and limiting his own powers for the sake of giving man «space» in which to be more than a «robot» or a «puppet» in a «stage play,» and most especially in light of God's willingness to enter into the worst of man's human - historical condition via the incarnation for the sake of redeeming the «lifeworld» that man, by his powers, has corrupted through sin, the moral agent can ultimately affirm his or her moral nature in confidence that this «image of God» will not only not be lost but will continue to be affirmed and redeemed to the glory of God.