Sentences with phrase «statement of the faith which»

They do not give us so much in the way of personal inspiration — not even much positive statement of the faith which, Jude says, «was once for all delivered to the saints.»

Not exact matches

«Confidence» was the theme of Poloz's opening statement before the House of Commons Finance Committee, which identified a need to restore the faith of Canadians in pursuing business opportunities following the shake - up of the global financial crisis.

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

Evangelii gaudium, which followed a 2012 Synod of Bishops meeting on «The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith,» has long been seen as a sweeping statement of Francis's agenda.

It seems to me, as I wrote, that confessing the Church's faith as explicitly one's own increases both the drama of the statement and the investment with which one makes it» and that such submission to the whole Church's creed offers a symbolic movement away from, not toward, individualism.

It would be strange if, after all the recent discussion as to how much Christianity is a «historical faith,» Christian theologians would adopt an understanding of theological language which ruled out all historical statements.

Like The Gift of Salvation statement issued by Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 1997, the Joint Declaration represents a measure of convergence between Catholic and Reformational understandings of that article of faith by which the Church either stands or falls, to quote a favorite Lutheran saying.

Colin... Very nice «statement of faith» (back on page 98) unless you personally did all the «objective research» yourself, which, in part, you would have had to trust in one or two «man - made» instruments for your so called «objective» testing.

Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:

A disembodied Word expressed in creedal statements, which were constructed to defend orthodoxy against heresy rather than proclaim the faith, will not communicate the joy and redemptive power of the gospel.

The German - American thinker Paul Tillich, who died only a few years ago, believed that the Christian faith could only be rightly understood when it was recognized as providing the «answer» — not of course in words or propositions but in the reality which is behind such statements — to the «problems» which are posed by human existence as such.

(See W. Jaeger's statement in his Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers, p. 177: «The concept of auctoritas which is later to be of such decisive importance for the attitude of the Church in questions of faith, is entirely missing in Greek thought»).

«Our purpose is not to denigrate any religion or faith, which would be repugnant to our educational purposes,» the Harvard student group had said in a statement, «but instead to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices.»

Rev Dr Jeremiah M Gado, president of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), to which Leah and her parents belong, issued a statement saluting her «courage, doggedness and faith» and condemning «in strong terms any attempt to forcefully convert anyone from one religion to another.»

If such a teaching on faith or morals appears to anyone to conflict with earlier teachings, the problem is not with the truth of the Council's statement but with our understanding of the Church's full teaching of which the Council's statement is inescapably a part.

In that statement we together affirmed the way in which we understand justification by faith alone as a gift received by God's grace alone because of Christ alone.

His statement that the brain is just a computer is quite frankly, a great leap of faith in which there is absolutely no evidence.

«Without question, Day of Truth is a loving and redemptive way students of faith can express their views positively in response to GLSEN's Day of Silence which only presents one point of view,» Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family, said in a statement.

Imperfect as the statement of the man of faith may be, the reality about which his statement is made remains entirely independent of that imperfection.

From the packed and intense inwardness of that statement, which locates the dynamics of the faith - full life of the Christian within the enacted morphology of the Incarnation and resurrection he passes, after sundry personal and admonitory asides, to the blithe and humane: «Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely...

These considerations add up to the judgment that while it is possible to make undialectical single statements about general idealism, for instance, it is quite another and a more imaginative task to expose the inner core of faith which looks like and works like idealism but is compounded of utterly different stuff.

I would say that this book is more of a thesis on faith, which can easily be disproven, than a firm statement on what faith is (and is not).

The Faith and Order statement then went on to point out how every social order is limited by the «continuing sinfulness of man» which are meant to protect human beings in society.

«To carry on with the life which I have chosen and which I love» — as an apology for a confession of faith, such a statement reduces religious belief to a form of therapy.

The faith which arises in encounter with the self - revealing God feels the need to formulate true statements of faith both within the community of those who share this experience and also for outsiders.

He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic faith.

Finally, the nonmythological core is constituted by the statement of the justification of faith which appears consequently as the Gospel in the Gospel.

In the Athanasian Creed, that ancient canticle of Christian faith still found in the service books of many Christian communions, there is a fine statement which gives the proper setting for any discussion of Christian worship and, a fortiori, for a discussion of the central act of Christian worship, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist, the Holy Communion, the Divine Mysteries, the Liturgy, the Mass — call it what you will.

Is the question no longer raised, is the question still under the sway of an objectifying thinking, which looks for the security of the Was in «general statements» and puts off surrendering to the insecurity of the Dass, of the decision of faith?

Three of the high - water marks of 20th - century ecumenism reflect this dominance: the WCC's New Delhi statement on «the unity we seek» (1961), Vatican II's Unitatis redintegratio (Decree on Ecumenism, 1964) and the WCC's Faith and Order document Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry, which, though not given its finishing touches until just before its publication in 1982, reflects in its substance agreements that had been reached a decade or more earlier.

Berkouwer rightly sees that the challenge of the nouvelle théologie was taken up by John XXIII in his opening address to the Second Vatican Council in a much - discussed statement: «The deposit or the truths of faith, contained in our sacred teaching, are one thing, while the mode in which they are enunciated, keeping the same meaning and the same judgment, is another.»

To be sure, they argue their views in the Hope way, which is to say in a middle way: they want neither a statement of faith for all faculty to sign (like Wheaton) nor a Protestants - only hiring policy (like Calvin).

Cobb (1982b p. 21) draws attention to a statement from a World Council of Churches consultation on dialogue with people of living faiths in 1971 which said «Dialogue thus involves the risk of one partner being changed by the other.

Now I wish to make three statements which seem to me to be plainly true, either from a serious acceptance of the conceptuality which I have been assuming or from the deliverances of the Christian faith itself.

I mean, their belief system is generally based on faith that there is no god, even though there is no proof for an absolute materialist universe, which is as much a statement of faith as a religious persons» Note I am agnostic and find both extremes goofy.

The USCCB website invites us a little coyly to «Dive in deep into the Church's teachings»: this can be done by going to one of the site's most valuable pages, which gives links to statements on marriage by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Second Vatican Council, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

In a statement, the bishops said: «We are deeply honoured that Pope Francis will come to our country to participate in this universal church celebration of faith and joy, as well as of the contemporary challenges which face families.

Your belief in «evidence, logic and reason» is itself an act of faith which leads you to accept some statements and reject others.

Melancthon always realised that Luther's rumbustious concern with the dynamic of faith, with preaching the Gospel, with a lived and announced theology must arouse opposition, and gladly as he accepted Luther's sincerity and indeed the importance of a Gospel enunciated without compromise, yet he considered it was necessary also to have a conceptual summary of what was believed, which could enable the different viewpoints to come together in what we call today Agreed Statements.

By theology in the broadest sense I mean any coherent statement about matters of ultimate concern that recognizes that the perspective by which it is governed is received from a community of faith.

«We believe there is nothing in Dr. Hawkins» public statements that goes against the belief in the power and nature of God, Christ, or the Holy Spirit that the Statement of Faith deems as a necessary requirement for affiliation with Wheaton College,» states the letter, which also praised Hawkins, the only African American woman with tenure on the Wheaton faculty.

' [I] n today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me,» he continued in his statement.

The statement read in part, «The killing of any Nigerian in circumstance such as this is bad enough, but the killing of two reverend fathers in one fell swoop inside a church during Mass is most sacrilegious, provocative, a deliberate assault on the Christian Faith and an open invitation to a religious war from which we pray merciful God to deliver Nigeria.

According to Concordia's mission statement, the school is committed to providing a challenging, supportive, and faith - based learning environment, which emphasizes justice, compassion, and moral integrity; and while the school maintains a Christian focus, students of any background are welcome, and diversity is encouraged.

The information on this website is presented in good faith and on the basis that the Saint Lucia Tourist Board, nor their agents or employees, are liable (whether by reason of error, omission, negligence, lack of care or otherwise) to any person for any damage or loss whatsoever which has occurred or may occur in relation to that person taking or not taking (as the case may be) action in respect of any statement, information or advice given in this website.

The information on this website is presented in good faith and on the basis that Best On Travel Network, Inc., nor their agents or employees, are liable (whether by reason of error, omission, negligence, lack of care or otherwise) to any person for any damage or loss whatsoever which has occurred or may occur in relation to that person taking or not taking (as the case may be) action in respect of any statement, information or advice given in this website.

(a) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on your behalf; (b) a description of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and where the material was located online before it was removed or access to it was disabled; (c) a written statement by you that under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and (d) your address, telephone number, and email address; and (e) a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of federal district court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if your address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under DMCA 512 subsection (c)(1)(c) or an agent of such person.

He summed up his attitude in the 1965 statement «Faith, Hope, and Impossibility,» in which he describes his studio situation in terms that sound like they were taken right out of Being and Nothingness: «You begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self - judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible.»

I don't think we should be scared of admitting that we just don't know, if indeed we just don't know (which I believe is a fair reflection of the state of the science)... I do not believe that Fu et al. weightings is some panacea nor that the «cancellation» works on all space and timescales (the statement needs to be * proved * it can not be accepted as an article of faith — that is not the way science works).