Sentences with phrase «story of salvation»

The events that became the church's story of salvation happened to a community of believers.

The whole story of our salvation is sandwiched between the marriage of man and woman in Genesis and the marriage of Christ and the Church in Revelation,» he says.

One might call this the soteriological captivity of creation, because it succeeds in emptying the world of its own meaning as a realm of divine governance and human involvement prior to and apart from the biblical story of salvation culminating in Christ.

If the New Evangelization is about «re-proposing» the Gospel to those who have forgotten its essence, Christians can start by telling a story — the harrowing story of salvation, which has captivated readers for over two millennia.

In Romans 9 through 11, for example, it is true that St. Paul does not speak of the Judeo - Christian tradition, but only because it would have been inconceivable to him that Jesus the Christ could be separated from the Jewish story of salvation.

Should we really expect Hollywood to be captivated by or even comprehend the Christian story of salvation?

«This is the way that God frames the story of salvation; this is his story.

He wants to argue that mercy is not just important in the Bible's story of our salvation, where God is sometimes described anthropomorphically or in poetic language, but that in precise theological terms mercy is the highest perfection of God.

It is useful for teaching, morality, and understanding the story of salvation.

It seems possible that, after all these centuries of the Church's reflection on the place of Eve and Mary in the story of salvation, the Sisters of the Mississippi Valley have come up with something quite new, movingly suggestive, and entirely orthodox.

And there begins my second, more theological, Marian discomfort, having to do with the themes of power and consent in this story of our salvation.

Stranger Things reminds us that God's story of salvation is the original template for all of human stories.

The story of our salvation shapes our identity in Christ: soteriology constrains theological anthropology.

The early church was a group of people who gathered to hear the stories of salvation.

We must help them to tell their story, for, whether they know it or not, their story is the story of God's ways with His creatures, the story of salvation.

Jesus» death on the cross is the center of the story of salvation and the theological fulcrum of NT ethics.

The story of salvation, he contends, is not the linear narrative of creation, fall, prophecy, fulfillment.

If his stories might be considered simply a retelling of the story of salvation, as some have suggested, might he be attempting to lead the reader along the path to some sort of «spiritual» experience?

After all does not the Lion simply retell the story of salvation, as some have said?

Resurrection is not an afterthought in the story of our salvation; it is the defining moment of our re-creation.

In an article entitled, «The Ecumenical Movement Inside Out», 68 written as a preparatory paper for Melbourne, C. S. Song, one of the Asian theologians, points out that the notion of the kingdom used in a mission conference, if one is not careful, will make the story of salvation solely a Christian story.

But here the primeval history (Urgeschichte) is merged with the story of salvation (Heilsgeschichte): Abraham is called out of the multitude of peoples, «that in him all the families of the earth may be blessed» Thus at the very outset, Heilsgeschichte replies to the unanswered question of Urgeschichte, the question of God's relationship to all peoples together.

A story of salvation through friendship and two boys against the world.