Sentences with phrase «substitute for faith»

It may seem bizarre, both to those who are religiously gifted and to those who deny the existence of God, to suggest that faith in the God of our ancestors can be a substitute for faith of one's own, but if the closest one can come to God is through what was fashioned in His Spirit, it is still sufficiently humbling.

«The assumption that Jewish life could be built on a largely secular lifestyle in which liberal politics would provide a substitute for faith,» he wrote, «was as foolish as the notion that it could persist on identification with the Yiddish language or certain ethnic foods.

Six years before that, Paul Vitz had made a similar point in Psychology as Religion: psychology, he wrote, had become a substitute for faith» a new religion encouraging a cult of self - worship.

Not exact matches

To claim that the Bible is perfect and infallible is to substitute it for God, to engage in idolatry, and to close ourselves off from real faith in God.

«I am lonely because... I am a man of faith for whom to be means to believe, and who substituted «credo» for «cogito» in the time - honored Cartesian maxim.»

All sacramental systems lend themselves to two uses — they can be either supports to a genuinely spiritual faith or substitutes for moral character and conduct in seeking the divine favor.

This, of course, was an account of moral character which saw it as a substitute for Christian faith and community, rather than its outcome.

Faith is not a substitute for thought, and orthodoxy is not a substitute for either.

No doubt part of the reason was to provide a substitute belief system for those whose faiths had been shattered by the forces of Enlightenment.

Faith should not be a substitute for careful thought and patient inquiry, for in the long run nothing less than truth deserves man's final allegiance.

The pragmatism of James and the instrumentalism of Dewey may have turned the American mind away from philosophy, but Royce's theory would have called them to substitute abstract metaphysics for a living faith in revealed truth.

Though today no major faith would regard itself as a substitute for medicine, all of them continue to stress faith's medicinal quality and most have spawned healing sects.

«Health and wealth» theology substitutes the richness of the faith for something called «moralistic therapeutic deism.»

Finally, Mr. White puts his faith in an order of law as the substitute for rule by conflict of powers.

Goetz insists that sentimental notions of divine love will not suffice as substitutes for careful explorations of the Biblical, theological and historical sources of our faith in God's love.

The Christian pastor has no adequate substitutes for the vocabulary which includes such words as «God,» «faith,» and «grace.»

Hence they reject it as an inappropriate term for man's relation to God and substitute «faith» instead.

Technology separates as much as it joins, and no single cultural force has been able to substitute for empire, language, or faith.

For the rigidity of the law it substituted the life of the spirit; it scorned the cautious wisdom of the sage to bless the trusting faith of a child; from the beauty of the flesh it turned to the beauty of holiness; it regarded man as a prodigal son and a lost sheep, lost but for the grace of the Divine Shepherd.&raqFor the rigidity of the law it substituted the life of the spirit; it scorned the cautious wisdom of the sage to bless the trusting faith of a child; from the beauty of the flesh it turned to the beauty of holiness; it regarded man as a prodigal son and a lost sheep, lost but for the grace of the Divine Shepherd.&raqfor the grace of the Divine Shepherd.»

In a similar manner, Ellul has shown earlier that we have preferred the wrong sort of revolution (Autopsy of Revolution, Changer de révolution), given ourselves to the wrong sort of prayer (Prayer and Modern Man), allowed the idolatrous city to dominate our affections (The Meaning of the City), and substituted facile belief for vital faith (Living Fafaith (Living FaithFaith).

Thus, mechanization slowly comes to be the «substitute religion» for society where «the necessity of invention was a dogma, and the ritual of a mechanical routine was the binding element in the faith.»

Barth claimed that such knowledge was impossible and an obstacle to true knowledge by faith (the analogia fidei), because it tempts us to substitute a philosophical construction for authentic revelation of the living God.

There are those who are eager to substitute the formula of magic which, properly executed, guarantees the magic - maker's glory, for the formula of faith which, in the last analysis, guarantees only God's glory and the forgiveness and ultimate healing of all our woe and bitterness.

Because paid - time religious broadcasters refuse to recognize these inherent limitations of the medium and thus refuse to compensate for them in the presentation of their message, they are in constant danger of removing the nonverbal, experiential, and interpersonal dimensions of religious faith and substituting in their place a passive observation of pseudo-religious spectacle.

It seems often a kind of substitute faith for the classical Christian view.

More recently, apparently, the agnostic editors of Time experienced a crisis of faith over the secular substitute for God, and thus presented the....

With Glaube (faith) substituted for Vernunft (reason) this is a viewpoint widely accepted in our current discussion.

BUT, it does make a great substitute for rice if you are low carbing it this month year (< — I totally have faith in you).

Some recipes substitute brown sugar for granulated sugar in the dough too, but, I like my dough recipe so much I have never taken that leap - of - faith.

However, there was one moment where he substituted the goalie for Tim Krul before a penalty shootout, displaying a lack of faith in his compatriot against spot kicks.

Often an unused substitute for Arsenal at the moment, Lukas Podolski looks likely to seek a way out of the Emirates Stadium at the next opportunity, with Arsene Wenger seemingly no longer having faith in the experienced German international.

There is simply no digital substitute for holding a product in your hand and looking a company representative in the eye as you determine whether this is something to put your faith — and money — into.

In the end, however, the manifesto's faith in technological breakthroughs means it substitutes a kind of Californian positivity for the hard reality of climate politics.

In this time of shrinking federal resource allocation for disadvantaged families and public policy that champions faith - based initiatives and volunteerism to address social problems, policy makers might use our findings and conclude that volunteer - based programs may be complementary to but not a substitute for other forms of early intervention and support services for socially and economically disadvantaged childbearing teenagers.

I will also say that the idea of a «fake Bible» hurt my heart a little bit, but I suppose if you were to substitute the word «Quran» for «Bible», that it might make someone devoted to that faith cringe a little as well.