Sentences with phrase «with symbols of their faith»

Whey then don't we see these billboards during the celebrations of other religions with symbols of THEIR faith?

Not exact matches

It is worth pointing out in response that anyone who thinks Christians have never grappled with the problem of evil can never have noticed that the crucifix is the central symbol of Christian faith.

Medieval art as well dealt in symbols in an era when artists were more concerned with the world of Christian faith than with the world of scientific observation.

On the one hand, his symbols are overtly biblical, and carry with them all the implications of Judeo - Christian faith.

A third view is that miracles are faith - symbols, that they are dramatic representations of the inner meaning of events to those who witnessed them with the eye of faith.

This particular group is wrong about the cross, it should be displayed, along with the Star of David, the Crescent and Star, and whatever other symbols of faith the loved ones of those who died that day chose to believe in.

It challenges the misuse of religion by ruling elites to sacralize their privileges, and it enlists the powerful symbols of faith into the conflict with despotism.

If any were not Christian, then the use of a symbol so widely associated with a faith the person it is meant to honor did not practice is not respectful of the deceased.

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

There sat before me a student who, in his own experience of an eroded Christian ethos and understanding and in his equally certain longing to find a faith with a magnitude equal to his problems, was a living symbol of millions in our generation to whom the gospel must be preached.

These data from the life of the Faith congregation, rich in the people's symbols and values, assure Landry of sermon materials that consistently hit home with his hearers.

That this is so is but another illustration of the extent to which the faith of the church has been confounded with the belief in the ideas, wishes and sentiments of men, and to which the word God has been made the symbol, not of the last reality with which man contends, but of his own aspirations.

As St. Francis stands with the symbols of death and self - sacrifice in his hands, so stands every life of faith.

We move out of the church alone as well, carrying with us our own fragments of warmth and insight as we seek to make connections between the great symbols of the faith and the stuff of everyday life.

In the Orient, a fully dialectical form of faith, such as Madhyamika Buddhism, has inevitably dissolved all positive meaning, with the result that it has left behind the world of symbols, myths and dogmas.

(2) And in the hierarchical view symbols «hold together» the level of our human consciousness with the higher level that seeks to comprehend and integrate our consciousness (in its response of faith) into itself.

Rather than finding that most teens are reverential toward the symbols that represent what is most meaningful to them or even the symbols most closely associated with their own tradition, as Fowler asserts in his oft - cited argument of adolescent faith development, I found that teens actually approach all religious symbols more like what Frederic Jameson called bricoleurs.

Having symbols of our faith and heritage removed from government property pales in comparison to such persecution, yet the Church fights them with as much piss and vinegar as Jesus turning over the moneychanger's tables in the temple!

Whether they fed on him by faith in their hearts with thanksgiving by eating the bread and drinking the wine with «him at meal, or whether they gratefully permitted him to wash and dry their feet before the meal in anticipation of being cleansed by his blood on the cross, the meaning of both symbols was the same: We are saved from sin and transformed into new creatures in Christ Jesus only as we freely and gladly receive from him the benefits of his passion and death on the cross for our redemption.

I'm not Jewish but I have no problem with people of other religions displaying or wearing modest symbols of their faith.

«We've seen men and women disciplined for wearing modest symbols of Christian faith at work, and we've seen legal challenges to councils opening their proceedings with prayers, a tradition that goes back generations, brings comfort to many and hurts no one.

The hijab is perhaps the most distinctive garment that someone would associate with Islam, and those who wear it do so as a symbol of their faith.

However, after intense public media and backlash, BA changed their policy to allow employees to wear a symbol of faith «openly» on a lapel pin, «with some flexibility... to wear a symbol of faith on a chain».