Sentences with phrase «whose faith traditions»
They claim that those whose faith traditions disapprove of homosexuality will no longer be able to serve as military chaplains if we permit open service.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.
@RUReal, «In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.»
Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.
Those of us whose faith journeys have taken us from one tradition to another often struggle with overcorrecting.
I need more than the resources of Bible, theological tradition, and my own commitments if I am to understand my faith and the world in which it is set; I also need the ethical insights of my secular colleagues, the political and psychological analyses of my friends and foes, and the prophetic jab of nonchurchmen whose degree of commitment so often puts my own to shame.20
[3] The coincidence of a meaningful structure and the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church enhances the plausibility of the interpretation being advanced for those whose faith is guided by the Roman Catholic faith tradition.
However, Rice also notes that there was, and always has been, another side both to Calvin and the Reformed tradition — a side that was less confident in the intellect's ability to answer all questions — a side that could acknowledge ambiguity and be open to mystery at the heart of the faith — and that understood God to be immanent as well as transcendent, and one whose «dependability came not from being unchanging, but from being loving.»
The document, whose main title reads «A Treasure in Earthen Vessels», asks about the tradition of faith through the times and within the koinonia, the fellowship of the churches — a question to be asked again and again facing ever - changing challenges.6 To speak about «earthen vessels» means, in a rather free but not unusual interpretation of II Cor 4:7.
In turn, the confession of faith loses the suppleness of living preaching and is identified with the dogmatic assertions of a tradition and with the theological discourse of one school whose ruling categories are imposed by the magisterium.
Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.
I often feel more spiritually «connected» to people of faith in other Religious Traditions than I do to those whose Christian dogmatic beliefs that I share.
Many of us whose intuitive faith has been theologically informed by the Trinitarian and Christological Mysteries have found that the spiritual practices of other religious Traditions are often a more faithful expression of our theological beliefs than those taught in many of our «Christian» Churches.
Find a partner whose sense of spirituality and tradition matches your own, and whose faith in God is matched by their desire to meet someone to share their life with.
Find a partner whose sense of spirituality and tradition matches your own, and whose faith is matched by their desire to meet someone to share their life with.