Sentences with phrase «with sanctification»

There are careful debates within confessional Christianity about the relationship of self - conception with sanctification, of sexual orientation with obedience to Christ.

Not exact matches

«Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth» are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: «the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements.

But they also had a responsibility to strive with him toward the messy, difficult, and often long process of sanctification / recovery.

With regard to salvation, sanctification and redemption the Bible is very clear and specific as to process as that is the way the truth and the life.

Bloom's own review of Wieseltier's book, in the New York Times, is revealing in this connection: «One parts from Wieseltier with gratitude, but confirmed in a conviction he does not share, which is that the God of Akiba [ben Joseph], and of all the orthodoxies, always exacts too steep a price for the Sanctification of His name.»

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

It blurs the sanctification process (our part of that process at least) with salvation or at worst brings them into union.

The Lordship controvery, the lack of understanding of the true Gospel and myriad other theological issues, along with a sin busting vs. a grace enhancing view of sanctification (not toleration of sin but a proper motivation for serving Christ).

Thus writers usually begin with an extended analysis of sanctification as death to a world that is passing.

Although R. H. Tawney in his book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (Magnolia, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1978) is somewhat critical of the methodology and implications of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978), Tawney does agree with Weber that the Calvinist - Puritan ethic gave impetus and sanction (sanctification?)

The early evangelicals, like Katharine Bushnell, understood that for too long the church associated women with Eve's sin and men with Christ's victories over sin — a view that wreaks havoc on the Christian view of sanctification.

The sanctification of the profane has nothing to do with pantheism, writes Buber.

He suggests, in a theory straight from St Therese of Lisieux's «The Little Way», that to battle with these vices daily is the road to sanctification.

I recall, for instance, not only the instruction I received from his chapter on sanctification and the «mortification» of sin in his book Keep in Step with the Spirit when I read it as an undergraduate, but also the way it salved my conscience.

Hauerwas, who teaches theology at Duke, holds these seemingly eclectic commitments together with a Reformed (via Barth) emphasis on the priority of God's Word over any human attempt to think of or live well before God, and a Wesleyan insistence on God's call to complete sanctification in this life.

This Church, constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure.

Internal Pentecostal relationships are more complex — with splits along racial lines, according to commitment to the Holiness doctrine of sanctification, and even more deeply over the issues of the «Jesus only» doctrines of the Trinity.

It is obvious that some bishops have failed to teach and govern, with dire consequences also for sanctification.

The lines are also blurred by large segments of Pentecostalism (especially in the south and among blacks) that are also «Holiness» in that they teach «three works of grace» — conversion, entire sanctification and a «baptism in the Spirit» with speaking in tongues.

It was not an example of «justification by faith», theological jargon, which both Catholic and Lutheran understand differently with the former confused as sanctification.

Sanctification is what you are describing and your right but what you are saying does not deal with the scripture commands to 1.

If God's scandalous relationship with the 12 thugs means anything, then we should expect a variegated spectrum of righteousness and be patient — or repentant — when such sanctification doesn't meet out expectations.

We walk as human and even as believers who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit we are people with a continuing sin nature who are positionally sanctified and otherwise in process as to experiencial sanctification.

This sanctification is achieved by union with the risen Christ in the faith - trust in God as Father which Christ showed as he offered himself on the cross.

Sermons, podcasts, interviews, conferences and even believer - to - believer conversations regarding sanctification are filled with this message, from the lay and the leader alike.

Isn't it necessary to integrate within process metaphysics the notion that the transforming power of God which comes as the result of salvation, regeneration, and sanctification is essential for humanity to deal effectively with the problems of suffering?

Although there is a fairly common pattern that unites these various views, we are concerned in this chapter only with the doctrine of holiness or sanctification.

Many devoted Christians still equate sanctification with a stuffy and inhibiting legalism — a matter of avoiding this or eschewing that, whether drinking or card - playing, wearing make - up or going to the movies.

In this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctification.

His teachings on the subject combined the spiritual athleticism of William Law's Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, the Moravian emphasis on felt assurance of salvation (which Wesley extended to include sanctification), and the Puritan insistence onminute examination of conscience coupled with sanctified action in all spheres of life.

It's about a relationship with our Creator, a God who allows us to struggle because he cares more about our sanctification, our being made into our real selves.

For all the talk of sanctification, being filled with the Holy Spirit, being in the «river» of God and all that, there really is no difference.

Bonhoeffer treats sanctification in three aspects of the saints» lives: (1) holy living will be achieved only by not being conformed to the world; (2) Christian living will be a result of walking with Christ; (3) «their sanctification will be hidden, and they must wait for the day of Jesus Christ.

Studies of 19th - century topics (with concern for contemporary relevance) have been undertaken by Gayle Carlton Felton, who examined Methodist baptismal teaching and practices in the previous century (Duke, 1987), and by Carol Marie Norén, who studied the doctrine of Christian perfection as expressed in the preaching of a Swedish - American Methodist preacher of sanctification, Nels O. Westergreen (Princeton University, 1986) A dissertation on 19th - century Methodist services for marriage and burial is currently under way at Notre Dame by Karen Westerfield Tucker.

7 — Each individual potentially understands their need for a Savior and decides whether to accept His grace (through their sincere FAITH in Christ; being born again)» 8 — Individual with sincere faith experiences relationship / communion with God, thereby growing in faith and love in their Creator and Savior, and growing more holy as God works within the person (sanctification).

Abstinence in this view often seemed to be presented as the ideal, or at least as the main, means to union with God and the sanctification of one's life.

Taken seriously, the sanctification of such laborious or tedious work with the language of vocation would suggest that we should struggle to find more time for it, not plot ways to escape it.

A little later, discussing the identification of secularity with the «sanctification of ordinary life,» he wonders whether the latter perhaps had more benefits (even if it was «the camel's nose in the tent of enchantment») than Taylor acknowledges — and whether Taylor underestimates how much it might owe to Smith's own Reformed tradition.

Even those who have remained most faithful to the doctrine have modified some of the cruder forms of the «second blessing» theology by reaffirmation of the more subtle classical Wesleyanism, with its themes of growth and process in sanctification.

Suffice for now is to say this: it is my opinion that 1) Scripture is clear that God's wrath and holiness demanded a sin payment, 2) as I read your articles you seem to be trying to use every logical, illustrative, and theological trick to convince yourself it's not true, but it's like you're losing the argument with yourself, 3) I really enjoyed that you broadened the truth of salvation through Jesus past justification (which many fundamentals focus on) to include redemption, sanctification, covenant marriage, adoption, etc..

I have encountered persons undergoing that process of sanctification in my travels throughout the church, and they are in fact lights in the darkness of our world, savory salt and leaven in the loaf — persons who have become so saturated with the will of God that one could entrust anything to them.

The «Pentecostal experience» is at the same time an unconditional acceptance by the forgiving God (justification), the beginning of a new and transformed life (sanctification), the receiving of the strength to sustain new life in an adverse social and cultural medium, and the sharing of testimony with others (baptism of the Holy Spirit).

The law adds that «just prior to her marriage ceremony she removes the nidah status, in accordance with Jewish law, by immersing herself in the waters of a mikveh (a body of water used only for spiritual sanctification), and may then be approached by her husband.»

Nonetheless, that era is more than twenty years in the past, and the edginess and discomfort associated with these artists has largely given way to sanctification.