Sentences with phrase «total act of faith»

Just as the apocalyptic New Aeon of primitive Christianity appears only in the context of the seeming triumph of the Old Aeon of darkness, a total act of faith in Christ demands a dialectical movement occasioned by the presence of the radical profane.

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Bedtime prayer with its commitment to God of one's total self and one's loved ones is good religion, and ought to be engaged in as an act of religious faith.

Such a faith revolves about a response to the advent of the final Eschaton; it must be a total response to reflect the all - encompassing finality of the Eschaton, for it knows God's acts as being already present.

It is not a bit of a stretch but an act of total blind faith to believe in Evolution Dan, in fact it take more faith to believe in that than in an all knowing, all powerful creator God who said I created all things.

This is simply another way of phrasing the Christian faith itself — the faith which declares that God is love and that we are assured of this because he acts lovingly, above all has acted lovingly in the total event of Jesus Christ.

The Protestant Reformation was divided be tween Calvinists, rationalists deducing predestinarianism from God's perfection, and Lutherans, insisting on salvation by faith (act of will) because created imperfection («total depravity») made sufficient rational assent impossible.