Sentences with phrase «strong covenantal»

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Many experts both within and outside of the church think that there is much we can do to help couples and modern societies learn to hold together genuine covenantal love (a much stronger concept than that of romantic love) with the economic, kinship, networking and child - rearing aspects of marriage.

To this basic covenantal relationship the prophets constantly appealed; into its mutual obligations they poured ever new meanings; and at the center of its tradition they had the solid virtues of nomadic life where human ties are close, interdependent and cooperative, where men exist as brothers on a fairly equalitarian level and with a strong democratic sense of personal right.

Here, however, Job faces a contradiction between the friends» argument that a covenantal relationship is «defined by humility and passive acceptance of the misfortunes God may use to discipline him,» and God's approbation of Job for his other covenantal virtues, «including strong words and fierce resistance.»