Sentences with phrase «symbol of faith in»

He states: «Christianity's highest symbol is the crucifixion, and sacrifice which God brings for man, whereas the highest symbol of faith in Judaism is the Akedah where all man's values are canceled and cast aside for reverence and love for God.»

Would you look the other way if the muslim community put a symbol of their faith in the museum as well?

Not exact matches

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Do you think it appropriate to put the symbol of one faith above all other in this place where people of many faiths were killed?

Imagine what the christian idiocy would do if they put up a symbol of the Muslim faith in the square.

Why not display other religious symbols alongside this as a sign of respect for the people of other faiths who also died in the towers?

The two beams that were left at ground zero are now a symbol of the christian faith and therefore should not be used to honor everyone that died in the attack.

It may be overstating a significant truth to notice that, in part because of the emphasis on faith, the generations after the Reformation were devoted to the clarification of the faith and they left us the legacy of great creeds and doctrinal symbols.

A faith that is uninformed or uninspired by the images, metaphors, symbols, and stories of God's Word is in danger of becoming unimaginative and unanchored, weakened by an overreliance on reason, adrift on a shallow sea of facts and propositions.

This consists in an ordering of symbols and meanings that constitute the Christian faith.

Following Kierkegaard's existential thesis that truth is «subjectivity,» Barth translated the eschatological symbols of biblical faith into symbols reflecting a crisis in human Existenz.

Christ became flesh to remain flesh, to become a living symbol for the man of radical faith living in the time of the death of God.

It is worth pointing out in response that anyone who thinks Christians have never grappled with the problem of evil can never have noticed that the crucifix is the central symbol of Christian faith.

Eschatological faith is the expression of an immediate participation in the «Kingdom of God» — an apocalyptic symbol that was never assimilated by Christian theology.

Finally, I would suggest that though one can't do everything in a single book, at a certain point the global ethic project must engage more fully and critically the various symbols and tenets of the great faiths.

Medieval art as well dealt in symbols in an era when artists were more concerned with the world of Christian faith than with the world of scientific observation.

To put it another way, in living out of the inherited symbols and narratives of one's faith, one isn't just applying dead truths to a living situation.

In terms of the current use of language, this means that they remain metaphysical, refusing to think of «God» as only a symbol of the community's faith.

If people of faith want to see value in the symbol, let them.

If a non-believer has no faith, then what is the argument for removing religious symbols of other religious practices in the first place?

For the Christian community, the cross is the supreme symbol, for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's existence, universally present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons.32

Well, I'm someone, and I would like this piece of the structure — which «just happens» to be the symbol of my faith and more importantly the symbol of the faith of so many 9/11 victims and their families — to be included in the exhibit as a matter of respect to those victims and victims» families to whom it is meaningful.

This particular group is wrong about the cross, it should be displayed, along with the Star of David, the Crescent and Star, and whatever other symbols of faith the loved ones of those who died that day chose to believe in.

Faith, in the end, rests not on the authority of a pristine set of signs but on a community that offers in its symbols a distinctive identity, an overarching story, a collective self - image.

Whether the family is nuclear or extended, a twosome or a tribe, its propensities for reverence and ritual often express a religious process that relates home - grown myths, honors domestic symbols, and follows devotional sequences that intensify faith in that family and allegiance to its own images of ultimacy.

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote in 1939, «The idea of the resurrection of the body is a Biblical symbol in which modern minds find the greatest offence and which has long since been displaced in most modern versions of the Christian faith by the idea of the immortality of the soul.61

For all we could possibly know, all our psychical concepts apply to God not as analogies, but as symbols, in exactly the same way in which at least some of them clearly must apply if we are to do any justice at all to the faith and witness of theistic religion.

«Toward New Symbols» expands on a call to resymbolize the message of faith in God which he had issued in a CHRISTIAN CENTURY article, «Reformation: Continuing Imperative.»

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

The death of Jesus is portrayed in Christian faith and hope as an act of life, as an affirmation of life in the face of death, and the cross of Jesus are symbols not of death, but of an unquenchable and invincible life that this world can neither give nor take away from us.

On the one hand, this all too modern symbol of Yes - saying unveils the impotent passivity and the inhuman detachment of Christian faith in God, of Christian dependence upon and submission to God, the demonic consequences of which are so passionately portrayed in Ivan Karamazov.

There sat before me a student who, in his own experience of an eroded Christian ethos and understanding and in his equally certain longing to find a faith with a magnitude equal to his problems, was a living symbol of millions in our generation to whom the gospel must be preached.

However, offering slang and fashionable jargon as «renewed» preaching, celebrating the secular embrace of certain Christian symbols (i.e., use of crosses as warnings at highway danger points, putting Christ in Christmas, etc.), or reducing the Gospel to the lowest common denominator of acceptable faith and ethic will hardly be received by a serious world as adequate penance.

These data from the life of the Faith congregation, rich in the people's symbols and values, assure Landry of sermon materials that consistently hit home with his hearers.

That this is so is but another illustration of the extent to which the faith of the church has been confounded with the belief in the ideas, wishes and sentiments of men, and to which the word God has been made the symbol, not of the last reality with which man contends, but of his own aspirations.

They are thus true symbols of the meaning of Christ in the life and faith of the church; and, because they are the symbols historically developed to express that meaning, they can never be replaced.

Almost every department of theological study is involved at this level, and this means not only attention to the symbols and images of the Christian faith; it also means attention to the symbols and images and art forms of the contemporary world, as they are encountered in literature and the fine arts, but also in popular expressions, community rituals, social ideologies, and not least in the mass media of the time.

For those wonderfully naïve little girls, Santa Claus was a symbol not of the commercial debasement of Christmas but of the real meaning of their faith in punishment and reward.

As St. Francis stands with the symbols of death and self - sacrifice in his hands, so stands every life of faith.

Inculturation should not be understood merely as intellectual research; it occurs when Christians express their faith in the symbols and images of their respective culture.

Nor do such symbols play a peripheral role in eschatological faith; they are rather at its center, even if that center was lost in the established form of the Christian tradition and in its nondialectical theologies.

For example, he grants without difficulty that the language of faith can take up myth again in the form of symbol or image.

Avoiding superficiality which skims the surface without dirtying oneself, a fresh look at these questions demands of us a faith commitment to the source of renewal, to that lonely and betrayed person, whose own baptism in the river Jordan, was a symbol of his commitment to being a part of messy human existence.

Thus, in some of his early essays, Ricoeur is already giving this philosophical hope a hermeneutical turn, referring to it as «the Last Day,» which, in its original context in the Hebrew Scriptures, is a symbol of the hope of the community of faith for fulfilled righteousness and justice.

If you don't like the Cross and other Christian symbols of faith, you could go to some other country near the hell's doors... it's only your choice, because the majority of italian people believes in Jesus and his Holy Cross, and also many Russian people incredibly after statal atheism need Christian religion.

In a world where there are agnostics, athesists, satanists, catholics, muslims,... ad nauseum... then to take each of their monies in the form of taxes and then only display one of those religious symbol in a place where all children of all faiths are educated is a slap to face of any fair minded individuaIn a world where there are agnostics, athesists, satanists, catholics, muslims,... ad nauseum... then to take each of their monies in the form of taxes and then only display one of those religious symbol in a place where all children of all faiths are educated is a slap to face of any fair minded individuain the form of taxes and then only display one of those religious symbol in a place where all children of all faiths are educated is a slap to face of any fair minded individuain a place where all children of all faiths are educated is a slap to face of any fair minded individual.

Easter faith as the symbol of hope offends no one, but Easter faith as belief in an empty tomb and in Jesus» bodily resurrection is quite another matter.

If you want live in Arab countries you have to accept many crescents minarets and other symbol of their faith.

OLFRANK: is that why minarates are being banned in most of Europe??? So you want to protect your faith and its symbols but don't mind other symbols being banned??? In actuality its even worse, a minarate is not a symbol that is hung in a class room but its actually part of a mosque, so imagine a whole continent (Europe) saying no more bells attached to any churches!in most of Europe??? So you want to protect your faith and its symbols but don't mind other symbols being banned??? In actuality its even worse, a minarate is not a symbol that is hung in a class room but its actually part of a mosque, so imagine a whole continent (Europe) saying no more bells attached to any churches!In actuality its even worse, a minarate is not a symbol that is hung in a class room but its actually part of a mosque, so imagine a whole continent (Europe) saying no more bells attached to any churches!in a class room but its actually part of a mosque, so imagine a whole continent (Europe) saying no more bells attached to any churches!!!

In the Orient, a fully dialectical form of faith, such as Madhyamika Buddhism, has inevitably dissolved all positive meaning, with the result that it has left behind the world of symbols, myths and dogmas.