Fundamentalists treat Holy Scripture as
the starting point of their faith tradition when in fact it is the product: it gathered its authority only after the tradition had started.
The grand equalizer was the universal experience of unbelief, which O'Connor considered the necessary
starting point of faith.
When the evangelists of the New Testament and their successors pointed to history as
the starting point of their faith and of their understanding of the world it was internal history that they indicated.
Not exact matches
Using «The 77 Branches
of Islamic «
faith» a collection compiled by Imam Bayhaqi as a
starting point.
Again, both take as their
starting point the eschatological «scandal»
of the Christian
faith, which as we have seen is a parallel way
of formulating Nietzsche's condemnation
of the No - saying
of Christianity.
However, the relation between theology and philosophy is markedly altered once we fully recognize that the
starting point of philosophy, that is, the fundamental vision with which the thinker begins, is historically conditioned and that Christian
faith has played a major role in the formation
of the Western vision.
At every
point and turn, then, he adopts the
starting -
point of every attitude
of faith.
She was homeschooled and the homeschooling community was proud... until the slut - shaming began and some
started to criticize her because she wore a bikini, even to the
point of questioning the genuineness
of her Christian
faith.
By contrast, revealed theology takes as its
starting point the whole richness
of the existing
faith of the church.
Theology understood as a practical discipline should not» be confused with those theologies that make the question
of «
faith» the
starting point of theological reflection.
The way in which members
of each
faith can help members
of the other find a truer balance takes us back to the
starting point of this chapter.
As Paul Pfeutze has
pointed out, both the dialogical philosophy and pragmatism emphasize the concrete and the dynamic, both reject
starting with metaphysical abstractions in favour
of starting with human experience, both insist upon «the unity
of theory and practice, inner idea and outer deed,» and both insist on the element
of faith and venture.
There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian
faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone
of our bone and flesh
of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one
of us faces — thus Christology, statement
of the significance
of Jesus, must
start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word
of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness
of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the
point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life
of God and effective among humankind.
So while the Bible
starts at this
point, it goes on to show that hope takes on a new and unexpected quality as man finds himself addressed by the Word
of God and called to the life
of faith.
A useful
starting point for theological educators is a personal one: in what ways do one's own sub-cultural media preferences shape and proscribe one's perception and teaching
of the
faith?
If you're using what Jesus said as a
starting point (not a bad one, regardless
of your
faith), there is still much to discuss and hash out to interpret that philosophy in our modern lives.
Some Christians acknowledge the distinction between the Gospel stories and the history behind them and argue that the
starting point for Christian theology is not the
faith of the New Testament but the teaching and ministry
of Jesus.
Starting with an aspect
of love In terms
of Cardinal Bertone's helpful summary
of the Open Letter, the theological ground upon which we are being invited to build includes: «belief in the one God, the provident Creator... (and that) we are all called to commit ourselves totally to him...» From the
point of view
of the Catholic
faith the latter is an aspect
of love for God, an aspect even
of communion.
Begun in 1997 by Louie and Shelley Giglio, Passion has not only been a touch
point in the
faith lives
of thousands
of college students (including megachurch pastor Matt Chandler), it is credited with helping to
start the modern worship music movement.
The
starting point of Kurzweil's thinking is the assumption, as Diamond puts it, that the «only absolute in human life, human history, and human culture is
faith in the living transcendent God.»
I've only begun to walk this path and Buddhism was one
of the key
starting points but I think any
faith that
starts us on a path to self - discovery will work.
Even before we
started examining our candidates we
pointed out that any authority that makes for sight instead
of faith is wrong by the very nature
of the Christian kind
of authority.
Such a
starting point places us also in a position
of openness and dialogue with our neighbors
of other
faiths.
o Using «The 77 Branches
of Islamic «
faith» a collection compiled by Imam Bayhaqi as a
starting point.
Nonetheless, from the
starting point of these principles (received by
faith) further conclusions can be drawn, and this is done by philosophical reasoning.
The human struggle and search is the same, even if we have different
starting points, and even while we are loyal to that which we have been granted the gift
of having
faith in.
From this
starting point, Anselm is said to have shown that if believers understand their
faith, they «are the only ones who do understand it» (p. 22), from which it would follow that it is only lack
of understanding which leads a person to reject theistic belief.
Some
of the essays in this volume take as their
starting point the Enlightenment
faith in a common morality accessible to all rational persons» affirming, modifying, or rejecting the Enlightenment model in various ways.
«Recognizing our shared values
of awe at the universe and desiring the good
of society helped provide me with a
starting point for conversations concerning
faith and science.»
The aim
of the site is to provide information that can be used as a
starting point for those seeking to explore alternative paths and
faiths and particularly for those new to witchcraft.
The aim
of the site is to provide information that can be used as a
starting point for those seeking to explore alternative paths and
faiths and particularly for those new to witchcraft.
Let's
start with you fixing the faulty reasoning in both
of the sentences in your first paragraph, and then maybe, if you accomplish that goal in good
faith, we'd have a
starting point for discussing the rest
of your comment.
I'm willing to go as far as
starting out with an open mind, but, at this
point, not a presumption
of good
faith.
Pursuing
Faith - Based and
Faith - Affirming Learning: Trinity Western's
starting point for learning is that God calls humans to be stewards
of His creation, doers
of good toward all people, and agents
of His reconciliation.
The aim
of the site is to provide information that can be used as a
starting point for those seeking to explore alternative paths and
faiths and particularly for those new to witchcraft.