Sentences with phrase «vital element of the faith»

At the same time, I have felt a certain sympathy with more traditional Christians who have argued that many liberals have undersold one» vital element of the faith an actual, loving God.

Not exact matches

On the other hand the effort to translate Christian faith into a socially useful force entails the suppression and transformation of some vital elements in it, just as the effort to make it serviceable to individualistic success in the era of early capitalism entailed the deformation of the Reformation into the sort of thing that Tawney has described for us.

This is such an interesting passage because, in responding specifically to the threat of Gnosticism, John's rebuttal carries both confessional / belief elements and love / action elements — and both are described as vital to Christian faith.