Sentences with phrase «whose idea of god»

Even closely related Christian denominations have fought bloody wars over whose idea of God is the right one.

But to the man whose idea of God is nebulous to the point of negligibility the invocation of «God's Law» is quite meaningless.

Not exact matches

This is how many times the idea of HYPOCRISY rears its ugly head, because to onlookers, even a sincere believer in God whose life does not match his worlds LOOKS like a hypocrite.

Jesus incorporated ideas of «the jubilee» into his vision of the divine commonwealth (often rendered «Kingdom of God») whose coming he proclaimed.

We must begin, though, with a confession that the idea of a designing and controlling deity whose existence is rightly denied by many skeptics is also problematic from the point of view of a kenotic theology.If God is all - powerful in the sense of being able to manipulate things at will, then the facts of evolution do indeed cast doubt on the plausibility of theism.

Kaplan agreed with Whitehead that the combination of the ideas of Aristotle's «unmoved mover» and God as eminently real, in Christian theology, led to the disastrous concept of «an aboriginal, eminently real, transcendent creator, at whose fiat the world came into being, and whose imposed will it obeys» (PR 342).

For his lectures Hauerwas chooses the structural expedient of explicating the ideas of three previous Gifford lecturers: William James (whose lectures were published as The Varieties of Religious Experience), Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nature and Destiny of Man) and Karl Barth (The Knowledge of God and the Service of God according to the Teaching of the Reformation).

Scripture was used to support the idea of a God of absolute power, thereby obscuring the biblical conception of a God of infinite love whose power was manifest in his suffering and humiliation in Jesus Christ.

What is so wrong with these men (no woman has yet become known with this kind of message) that they can preach and rejoice in a God who actively wills the destruction of most of humanity, whose idea of peace is to destroy all contrary voices, and who calls us to be fellow destroyers by sanctioning build - ups of nuclear weapons?

It could be argued that all such ideas were placed in his mouth by those who came later, but there was plenty in Jesus» Hebraic tradition to give him an understanding of himself as a suffering messiah whose death would bring the healing of the world: Isaiah's suffering servant, Maccabean martyr theology, Moses» offer to give his life if God would spare his people.

That's a far cry from religious dictates that often present a god whose idea of justice is eternal torture for those who aren't in the club..

Because he conceives radically the idea of the grace of God, he makes it plain that God's forgiveness must be for man an event in time, that the relation of «I» and «Thou» exists between God and man, that God stands opposite to man as another Person over whom the man can have no sort of control, who meets man with His claim and with His grace, whose forgiveness is pure gift.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

Alfred North Whitehead, the great Anglo - American philosopher whose thinking is behind the «process conceptuality» to which some of us subscribe, rightly called such ideas idolatrous, and spoke of them as apostasy from the «Galilean vision» (as he styled it) in which God is «modeled» after the figure of Jesus Christ.

The correspondence of this idea with what we find in Catholicism seems very close: «In the prologue we are told that all men are made in and through the Word, who is with God and who is God, and whose being is the light of men... he came into his own things, his own inheritance, and his own received him not.

How can an idea be «wrong» if its origin is a being whose might makes him right (he's automatically right because he's the biggest — god) and thus his morality is subjective because he can do anything and it be «right» regardless of if he says that we shouldn't do it because it's wrong?

The pluralism is a consequence of the irreducibly plural ways in which the idea of «understanding God» is itself theologically understood, combined with the irreducibly diverse ways in which the subject matter (the Christian thing), whose study is believed to bring us to a better understanding of God, is construed.

«I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from religious indoctrination received in youth.»

For a book whose title sounds like an affirmation of faith but whose story is about an atheist refuting the existence of God, reading it is a spiritual experience... Many of the positive reviews laud the wit and entertainment Goldstein provides, but honestly, the breadth and depth of ideas covered require close and thoughtful reading... This novel can be read on a few different levels: a romance, a mystery, an intellectual thriller or a philosophical / religious treatise.