Sentences with phrase «understanding of sin»

For a deeper understanding of sin we must turn to Kierkegaard.

Even though the two scholars represent opposite ends of the evangelical spectrum on salvation, both made essentially the same allegation: the wording seems, at best, theologically careless and, at worst, represents a heretical understanding of sin, human nature, and the human will.

In order to push toward a comprehensive understanding of sin that undergirds and expands insights from Schleiermacher, Rauschenbusch, Ruether, and West, process thought must focus on the intersubjectivity that is uniquely characteristic of institutions.

Rauschenbusch focused almost entirely on an economic understanding of sin, and did not see the psychic structures of racism and sexism that accompany and undergird the classism of economic systems.

I quickly realized that an anemic understanding of sin leads to anemic confessions, robbing them of the power to transform the confessor and those hearing the confession.

United Methodists disagree about who can be a disciple because we have different understandings of sin and salvation, We must quit using vague and clichéd theological language to patch over our differences.

Although feminists obviously have to reject certain understandings of sin, fallenness, transcendence and future hope found in patriarchal theology, these concepts themselves need to be appropriated and reinterpreted in feminist terms.

It is by faith alone that we become aware of the true meaning and the overwhelming power of guilt and repression: thus we need have little hesitation in assigning Nietzsche to a tradition of a radical Christian understanding of sin, a tradition going back to Paul by way of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Pascal, Luther, and Augustine.

This belief is somewhat complicated by the church's understanding of sin.

In our own day, the two most important studies of Paul, those of Schweitzer and Rudolf Bultmann, interpret his theology as being either a consistent expression of eschatological mysticism, that is to say as being wholly antithetical to philosophical thinking, or as an understanding of sin and grace that can become fully meaningful only by means of modern existentialism, a philosophy that has set itself against the Western philosophic tradition.

First, I was consistently uncomfortable with Boyd's understanding of sin.

Obviously, our understanding of sin and guilt is deeply conditioned by our cultural assumptions.

David, I agree that an understanding of sin might be one of the factors that leads a person to believe in Jesus.

Make no mistake about it, the Prozac revolution has implications for our understanding of sin — implications that people may or may not find disturbing.

My supposition is that the individualization of sin is the trivialization of sin, and given the systematic connection between our understanding of sin and our understanding of God as the one who addresses us in our human plight, the trivialization of sin has an inexorable affect upon two areas: the doctrine of God, and the sense of individual and corporate responsibility for social ills.

My understanding of sin has been shaped by the experiences of my generation.

This understanding of sin does not go so deep as does the interpretation of sin as lack of faith through a refusal to accept the Love that is offered.

From then on, there is New Testament depth in the understanding of sin.

Maybe you would not be attracted to Christ without an understanding of sin, but we are all different.