Sentences with phrase «with communities of faith within»

Yet even on these terms it should remain possible for an interpretive community to make a conscious decision to hear the Bible as scripture, to believe in the coercive and constraining force of the Bible's own unique literary construction, and to regard itself as trying to live out the demands of a word and a God that stand over it, in continuity with communities of faith within the Bible and in the church's ongoing history of interpretation.

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Unlike others before and after him who assimilate church history to secular history, Williams defined his own vocation as that of one standing committedly within the historic community of faith, charged with telling and interpreting the story of that community against the background of ultimate meanings.

He understands theology, which he defines as «the scientific self - examination of the Christian church with respect to its distinctive God - talk,» to be a spiritual discipline within the community of faith.

Let me state them again: faith that peace is possible, provision for peaceful change from within the nations, international organization with the surrender of absolute national sovereignty, economic security for all men, faith in and understanding of and practice of the democratic way of life, and a unifying spiritual world community.

We can include them within our fellowship in hopes that they will grow in faith and therefore in the ability to participate with others in the community of the church.

Christian theologians explore their faith within a particular community and tradition, though «keeping faith with tradition... is not at all being bound by the letter of the law; it is more a matter of the company you keep — or the books you reach for first — when you want to do your best thinking.»

The faith which arises in encounter with the self - revealing God feels the need to formulate true statements of faith both within the community of those who share this experience and also for outsiders.

In a passage just prior to that with which I began this essay, Paul deplores the presence of quarreling parties within the Corinthian community, parties apparently divided by this or that interpretation of the faith.

3) I image the Bible as a dialogue partner which makes possible my personal encounter with God within my community of faith.

There are people of faith, some of us working, celebrating and ministering within «The Church,» and within denominational structures who are struggling with what the community of Jesus» vision might look like and what it might mean to live within and as part of God's creation.

Evangelism in this regard is defined as establishing contact with those outside the Christian faith, bringing them to a realization of the relevance of the Christian faith for their lives, and establishing them in a process of continuing growth in faith and service within a Christian community.

It should be borne in mind, in the second place, that there continued to exist within the Islamic Society churches, monasteries, synagogues, and temples serving Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and others; that all these survived, not as ghost communities or depressed classes, but as communities of living men and women who pursued their callings, professed their faith openly, and entered into polemics in defense of it; who continued to develop their religious, philosophical, and scientific legacies; and who were at all times in communication with their Muslim neighbors.

If God did in fact make a unique and supreme revelation of himself in that event; if God was actually in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; if something of decisive importance for humanity really happened in connection with the life and death of Jesus, however different may be the theological terms in which we attempt to express that meaning — if this is our faith, the church becomes immeasurably the most significant of human communities, for it was within its experience that the revealing event first occurred and it is in its experience that the meaning of that event has been conveyed from one generation to another.

• The report also states that «Some within the Methodist Church have argued to end our involvement with faith - based schools on the grounds that they generate a privileged elite within the national system and take a disproportionate amount of the Church's attention when it should be focusing on the needs of the poorest community schools... we find it hard to understand how promoting Christianity within all schools will be assisted by removing» the privilege» of greater contact with Methodism and therefore with Christianity in 79 schools.»

In an industry where consoles have helped foster an annual release cycle that's robbing most franchises of a developing lasting communities within a single title, some publishers have placed their faith (and investment) in games designed to run for years with annual events and updates.

In an effort to generate public support within the faith community, 350.org partnered with the World Council of Churches to enlist houses of worship in numerous countries to ring their bells 350 times during the U.N. Copenhagen Climate Conference on the weekend of December 11 - 13, 2009.

«I am a culturally sensitive Christian Therapist with 15 years of experience working within the faith community.

He was awarded the 2009 Governor's Council on Faith and Community Service Initiatives Best Practices Award for his work with the Minnesota Department of Veterans Outreach Services, with prison reentry projects and within the African American cCommunity Service Initiatives Best Practices Award for his work with the Minnesota Department of Veterans Outreach Services, with prison reentry projects and within the African American communitycommunity.