Sentences with phrase «understanding of faith necessarily»

To recognize this is to understand why the self - understanding of faith necessarily has properly moral implications.

Not exact matches

For Newman there is always the possibility that what may appear innovative doctrines are in fact implicit in the total understanding of the faith, and yet not necessarily subject to some logical deduction.

Although theology must certainly do its own anthropological reflection and can not rely on any of these resources without criticism, all of them are directly relevant to its task if it is both to explicate and to validate the understanding of the structure of the self that faith and justice necessarily imply.

Such faith is genuine only when I understand myself here and now existentially to be the creature of God, though it need not necessarily take the form of knowledge consciously acquired as the result of reflection.

Over the past 25 years or so, we've seen the emergence of a new (or newly restored, some would say) legal and cultural understanding of religion, driven in part by the insight that for many believers, religious faith isn't a private «hobby» that can be relegated to the home and church; rather, religious belief and identity are integral parts of a person, necessarily and appropriately informing public roles and the public sphere.