Sentences with phrase «through rebellion against»

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Furthermore, it is necessary to qualify the idea of the orders of creation by the recognition that the original creation has been distorted by the fall into a universal condition of rebellion against God's design for the world, and that the Christian faith longs for the restoration and fulfillment of creation through the history of God's redemption in Jesus Christ.

The ersatz undergraduate rebellion against parents through sex is, in reality, a sure sign that the morality of the old folks has triumphed.

Israel answers the unresolved questions of the primeval story with a perfectly astounding affirmation: the problems of man's rebellion against God will be answered — and are in fact now being answered — by God's own initiative and action in human history in and through Abraham and the nation Israel — in whom all the families of the earth must ultimately be blessed.

Our will to transcend nature through projects of mastery mounts a rebellion against the natural constraints of the organic human body, harnessing the power of technological innovations to render it the instrument of our arbitrary will.

For five hundred years we have lived, through all the cultural triumphs and glories of mankind, in an age of the increasing evolution of the Mystery of Iniquity - the military rebellion, so to speak, against the Lordship of Christ.

Time and time again, I talk to Christians whose experiences, like mine, go something like this: «I used to think that homosexuality was a sinful, promiscuous lifestyle that people chose in rebellion to God, and that Christians need to rally against the «gay agenda» through legislative action.

The revolt against the church is in part the rebellion of those who have found in Christianity only the pure traditionalism of doctrine and symbol which have become meaningless through constant repetition without rethinking and through the consequent substitution of symbol for reality.

No other institution or society in the Western world seems to be so shot through with the spirit of rebellion against the secular system with its abuses, as is the church.

The entrance of the Egyptian army into the path through the Red Sea demonstrates that if a group of people persists in rebelling against God, there comes a time when not even God can hold back the consequences of such rebellion.

Although the people of Israel have almost always been in a state of rebellion against God, God reminds them here through Mary that He will never forsake them, but will always remember them and will always fulfill His promises to them.

Dr. Benjamin Spock, the last word in child rearing for many American families through much of the 20th century, recommended against any training in the first year, believing that it could lead to rebellion later through bedwetting.

Even with a big majority, there were times when backbench rebellions meant their plans for England were pushed through Parliament against the wishes of English MPs, and only Scottish votes secured a majority for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Bitter Harvest, in theaters on February 24, is a powerful story of love, honor, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin's genocidal policies against Ukraine in the 1930s.

It's been a long road for Katniss Everdeen, who shot her arrows through two Hunger Games events and started a rebellion against the dictatorship in the first four films of the Hunger Games franchise.

There's the sweet and charming side of Ferdinand, the story of a kindhearted bull that refuses to participate in the violence for which it was born and raised, and there's the movie's less charming aspects, which congregate a bunch of kooky characters to accompany the eponymous bull through his passive rebellion against violence.

YA / General Interest: Sharply etched, poignant episodes coalesce smoothly into a novel that evokes a young girl's rebellion against her mother and at times painful, at times joy - filled, passage through childhood and adolescence.

Over time their relationship is tested through Zorya's rebellion against love and Phoenix's hold on his guilt.

The story revolves around a rebellion against Neon Corp who house anywhere from hundreds of thousands through to a million people in giant megastructures known as arcologies.