Sentences with phrase «validity of christian»

And it is quite unrealistic to judge the validity of the Christian Faith by assuming that such European countries as Britain, France or Germany are «Christian.»

At the same time, Newbigin said, the notion of a unique validity of some Christian doctrine or of Christianity itself as a religion must be rejected as arrogant.

This possibility, he held, «establishes the validity of the Christian doctrine of life through death for the collective, as well as for the individual, organism.

The student is helped to acquire the aptitudes needed in order to do history or philosophy or a social science as aptitudes needed to inquire critically into the validity of Christian witness.

The defining interest in systematic theology is the unity of the three dimensions of critical inquiry into the validity of Christian witness.

Theology, he says, is «critical inquiry into the validity of Christian witness» (21).

Critical inquiry into the validity of Christian witness is not a simple activity.

Because theology is critical inquiry into the validity of Christian witness in every respect (faithfulness to itself, truth, fittingness), historical, philosophical, and practical theology are necessarily «in reciprocal relationship to each other» (67).

The leading question in every course dealing with any subject matter must be this: How does this subject matter (be it «logic, or Mexican - American history, or the sociology of religion») contribute to assessing the validity of Christian witness?

The aim of Walker Percy's work as a whole is to re-establish the validity of a Christian humanism that has been displaced by a vapid secular substitute.

The principal critics of practical theology therefore advocate a radical rejection of modern questions about reason and practice in favor of a discussion in which the most important questions about the meaning and validity of the Christian message are assumed, precisely so that the details can be intelligently debated.

Not exact matches

Jean is an example of the sort of «christian'that makes people question the validity of that religion.

It is no proof of the validity of the wild claims of the Christian supersti - tion.

I would do this because I would realize that the claims of the Christian faith stand or fall on the validity of that revealed propositional truth we call the bible.

Fortunately for us, the argument ought not to be about our personal validity, but to the objective claims we make about the truths of scripture and the essential elements that genuine Christian faith has and does contribute to society.

What began as an advocacy for the Church to become family for the homosexual community soon became a discussion of the validity of Gonnerman's matter of fact description of himself as «a Christian who is committed to chastity and who is also gay.»

Shocking the number of people who think Christians argue the Bible's validity already on the assumption that what the Bible says is true.

He believes that it requires that Christians «must first clearly affirm the continued validity of the Jewish covenant apart from what Christians may believe about the coming of Christ.»

As Richard Rohr said, «the evangelical support of Trump will be an indictment against its validity as a Christian movement for generations to come.»

Therefore Williams explicitly repudiated the validity of the inherited tradition of classic Christian theism.

I don't think the metaphysical Jesus that Paul claims to have encountered (in a vision) was real, or that he was the same Jesus known as Yeshua the Nazorean, and I don't think that there is any validity to the theology that Christians believe about Jesus, because those beliefs start with Paul and smack of the Gentile theology of that era.

And no one should say beforehand that future change of this kind (the validity of existing Catholic dogma remaining unaltered) would not be sufficient to restore unity of belief among all Christians.

In each dimension we «will draw upon whatever resources seem most promising for discovering and explicating its content [i.e., the content of Christian witness] so as to provide an answer to the complex question of its validity» (69).

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

With regards to creation / evolution, that isn't something that determines the validity of the Bible as many Christians, (even pastors / priests) believe in millions of years old earth.

This involves no assertions one way or another about the value or validity of other cultural - linguistic systems or about the relation of Christian faith to any nonlinguistic reality.

But the concern for this claim rather than some other is determined by a Christian perspective, and the persuasiveness of the arguments which convince me that it has some measure of validity depends in part on that perspective.

Christians should not negate these symbols by allowing women to represent God's Word in the pulpit and sacrament or by proclaiming the validity of egalitarian relationships.

For those in the Reformed tradition, it is not a literalistic imitatio Christi, but a recognition of the ongoing validity of a doctrine of creation that provides the basis for a Christian social ethic.

It can be argued that the truth and validity of ideas are in no way measured by their results, but few of us would remain Christian today if we were convinced that the consequences of Christian belief were consistently destructive of personality and society.

Professor Negy sent a sharply worded email to some 500 students, complaining about the «bigotry» demonstrated by Christians who had «argued the validity of Christianity» in his classroom.

Even if one does grant the validity of both reasons for thinking that the Eucharist is nonessential to Christian existence, one need not grant the conclusion.

And many of his writings mean little outside the context of a pre-defined version of Christianity — else are so general as to be applicable under a mult.itude on non-Christian philosophies and therefore take no additional validity from their Christian origins.

While many mainline and some evangelical leaders criticized the validity of this interpretation of the Christian faith, the paid - time broadcasters intuited accurately that television had become the «real world» for millions of people, one to which the Christian faith must be communicated in terms common to that world.

After all, they had sufficient conviction in their myths to die for them, an act by some early christians that some use to argue for the validity of the jesus death cult.

These concerns suggest the counter question and its ecclesial overtones in Protestant theology today: Have we so allowed the world, with its question of suffering and its plea for hope, to set the church's agenda that the very identity of Christian faith and validity of the church are imperiled?

In a derivative sense it means the whole great body of Christian truth which gives validity as well as vitality to what is heard and told.

The magicians, sorcerers, and exorcists of the region were so frightened by Paul's powers, and yet convinced of the validity of his message, that they collected their books of magic and burned them publicly as they embraced the Christian faith.

You just proved the validity of my argument, that Christians lack a coherent sense of morality and are ideologically driven.

There is much that is of permanent validity, not only in the words of Jesus but in the rest of the New Testament, as to how a Christian should act in relation to other men.

To men who live under the authority of the historic Christian tradition their validity is self - evident.

To be sure, the church succeeded in making the necessary adjustments, but it was difficult to ban a spirit of enlightenment which spread under the influence of foreign cultures upon the Christian civilization and which furthered the growth of skeptical attitudes toward the absolute validity of the ecclesiastical institution of redemption.

Christians have again and again tried to maintain this view but the fruits of such a doctrine of «entire sanctification» have not been such as to convince others of its validity.

For if our faith in the resurrection has any vitality or validity, it is nothing less than the conviction that there is even now present and knowable within the Christian fellowship through «the Holy Spirit, which is given unto us,» the full concrete personal meaning of «Jesus Christ and him crucified.»

For as learned and committed Christians are all too aware, the Holocaust raised agonizing questions about the validity of Christianity.

The exultation of Science is still evident in modern society and it has been fuelled by the condemnation of the validity of miracles and Christian teaching especially by philosophers such as David Hume, who argued: «No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle...», and Richard Dawkins, the atheist evolutionist who promulgates the belief that: «The true utility function of life, that which is being maximised in the natural world, is DNA survival.»

By what Whitehead styled «the appeal to the direct intuition of special occasions --» he was referring to the primitive days of the Church in which Jesus» impact was known as a reality — we may possess, and Christian conviction affirms that we do possess, a key or clue «of universal validity, to be applied by faith to the ordering of all experience.»

So far, no Christian here has been able to present any, of any degree of validity.

One criterion of the integrity of evangelical political leaders should be a willingness regularly to test the biblical validity of their views with other biblically committed Christian leaders.

Let us now try to draw together what Jesus took from the Old Testament and what, therefore, Christians may hold to be of permanent validity.