Sentences with phrase «starting point of their 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.

The grand equalizer was the universal experience of unbelief, which O'Connor considered the necessary starting point of faith.

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.

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.