Sentences with phrase «truth of the affirmations»

In this fearless, funny, and refreshingly relatable chronicle of her own metamorphosis from the insecurity that once held her captive, author Kayla Aimee unfolds the blueprint for women to identify the deep - seated sources of our assumed inadequacy and replace them with steadfast truths of affirmation and replace our need for approval with the promise of an enduring acceptance.

If the Christian message had been a series of intellectual claims or affirmations, supported by the miracles of Jesus, let us say, as the complete evidence of the truth of these affirmations, then assent to the truth of Christianity would have been simply an act of the rational intellect, satisfied with the evidence thus adduced and subscribing without reserve to the various formulae of affirmation.

Because there is an Author of this Book who works in, with, and under the authors of these books, neither source nor substance comes home until the truth of the affirmations met here convicts and converts....

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We take the CCCU's missional affirmation of Christ - centeredness and service to biblical truth very seriously.

Among the many blessings resulting from this cooperative effort, we note especially our common affirmation of the most central truths of Christian faith, including justification by faith, in the 1997 statement, «The Gift of Salvation.»

Am I being overly simplistic in finding here the affirmation that the «dogma» is «the very Person of the redeemer» in whom truth and charity form, indeed, a seamless garment?

The council also led to a renewal of the liturgy, an affirmation of religious freedom and the primacy of conscience, a rejection of church - state unions, an openness to the truth of other religions (especially Judaism) and a renewed sense that the church's teaching authority resides in all of the faithful, not exclusively in the hierarchy.

Beyond a desire for personal affirmation of her suffering, Yvonne's story indicates a need to be recognized as a bearer of truth.

But in truth the Reformation's sola scriptura principle was always nestled in the catholic tradition and came to expression in the uninterrupted affirmation of ancient dogma and a long coherent tradition of ethical interpretation.

Such are the foundational and indispensable truths upon which any credible affirmation of universal rights must be based.

Both are modes of the pursuit of truth about one world, God's world, and therefore to the degree that their affirmations are true, they can not contradict each other.

Both total affirmation and total negation repudiate any discrimination between degrees or levels of truth and falsity or of good and evil.

On the contrary, affirmation of the other is based on truth claims: love of God and of neighbor, for example, is not just a polite suggestion, but the exacting absolute injunction of God who created us «in the image and resemblance of God.»

Complaints about aging contain an implicit affirmation of the body, rooted in the truth that our bodies are us.

Whatever truth there may be in the assertion that man makes God in his own image, the affirmation of faith carries with it a clear distinction between the concept of God (which indeed is man - made, just as all human concepts are man - made) and God himself.

Second, while many people may desire a religious option that offers concrete answers to life's problems, there will be a minority of well - educated people who will find new - paradigm Christianity to be simplistic in its affirmation of Jesus as the exclusive path to truth.

This affirmation, which Commonweal offers as representative of its editorial posture, calls for a tentative, timorous search for truth in the understanding that truth — truth for sure — is not to be found.

The declaration's negation, following immediately upon its affirmation, makes this clear: «We reject the false doctrine, as though the Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation, apart from and beside the one Word of God, still other events and powers, figures and truths, as God's revelation.»

Many of them are reluctant to conclude» as in fact many traditionalists have concluded» that any continued affirmation of Christian truth claims must require an essentially wholesale rejection of the experience of modernity.

But the discussion so far suggests the possibility that a new Christian perspective on history may be emerging which will hold together the truth in the liberal doctrine of progress and the truth in the neo-orthodox affirmation of the judgment of God upon all existing things.

In truth, the 1,200 souls at All SoulsUnitarian Church were validating one another in their communal affirmation of their very singular selves.

It is difficult to minister to the need for affirmations with «truth is relative,» especially when relativism becomes one of those analytic monsters like absolutism.

Since God is for Jesus not an object of intellectual investigation, his affirmations of faith about God have not the character of universal truths, which are intellectually valid without being grounded in the actual life experience of the believer.

That is, such self - evident truths are not understood as the discovery of free - standing reason but as affirmations entailed and made morally obliging by a prior understanding of Nature and Nature's God.

His cartoon characters are mortal beings who need truth in the face of death and eternity, not just affirmation and self - actualization on their way to their «best life now.»

At the outset, it recognizes as fundamental the Protestant idea that reason, starting from outside the circle of faith, can not work its way to an affirmation of the central Christian truths.

Rather, the great affirmation attributed to Jesus in the Fourth Gospel, «God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth,» (John 4:24, R.S.V.) is presupposed throughout the greater part of the Bible.

It's just a small incarnational moment, hardly worth noticing for most of the world, but for me, this was a metaphor moment of life in the Kingdom, life in the glorious truth of worship in spirit and truth, Jesus - shaped leadership as servanthood, and so our family's lighting of another candle within community, with their affirmation and prayers and participation, pushed back just a bit more of the darkness, and then we scattered back out again.

A dipolar conception of God seems to promise a genuine theological understanding and affirmation of creativity, and even of a forward - moving creativity, but, rather, the truth would seem to be that the God of process theology forecloses even the possibility of a new humanity.

Hymns and credal affirmations used through the centuries are the bearers not only of spiritual power but, rightly understood, of Christian truth.

But there can be no avoiding the truth that in our historical situation an affirmation of the past is at the very least in grave danger of negating and opposing an actual and real future.

Accordingly, Hartshorne defines metaphysics as «the search for necessary and categorial truth» and describes metaphysical truths as those which no experience can contradict and which any experience must illustrate.4 In a helpful article on this subject, Hartshorne elaborates: «Metaphysics, in an old phrase, explores «being qua being,» or reality qua reality, meaning by this, the strictly universal features of existential possibility, those which can not be unexemplified»; and he gives as an example of such a necessary truth the affirmation that «experience as creative process occurs.

In Chapter 5, Rollins writes that «the Truth in Christianity is not described but experienced... This is not then the affirmation of some objective description concerning Truth but rather describes a relation with the Truth.

That document issued an unequivocal affirmation of moral truth as an objective reality.

The affirmations of the latter are certainly meant to be timeless truths, and in so far as they are adequate, they may pass as such.

To what is thus specifically preserved in memory from Moses, faith adds the affirmation that this is the same God who spoke the same Word to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in pursuit of the same purpose, indicating that what now is wonderfully taking place was in truth purposed from long ago.

Whether you are at the crossroads considering home education, a few years into it deciding whether to stay the course, or a veteran in need of affirmation, the truth found in God's Word will set you free.

Unfortunately, we do not have a trusted «oracle» that can validate the truth of a given statement, so there is no way to control mass media affirmations without (at the very, very, bery least) cause suspicion of partisanship.

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The masterful processing of the formal elements in her work, whether it is painting or lithograph print, provides and affirmation of life and reveals the truth about enjoyment and appreciation of the «small» things that makes our world.

Some Tribunals, such as the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, have made affirmation the default approach and ask witnesses to promise to tell the truth and to acknowledge that intentionally breaking that promise would be a breach of the law.

An oath is defined as «an affirmation or any other method authorized by law to affirm the truth of a statement.»