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Christian Loyalty. A Sermon ...
Author | : Newell Connop Thirlwall (Bishop of St. David's.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1872 |
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Christian Loyalty
Author | : John Marshall Lowrie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Church and state |
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The Loyalty of a Christian
Author | : Dan L. Coyle |
Publisher | : WestBow Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-06-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1512741388 |
When you really love Jesus and this love becomes more than just words, you start to love people and do what it takes to help them, in spite of what it may cost you. When you really love others with Christ Jesuss love, you are forced to conquer whatever your personal problems are in order to forgive and be forgiven. The more you love Jesus, the greater your loving concern for everyone will be. The more you love Jesus, the more you will feel real pain for others. The more you love Jesus, the more you will want to obey Jesus; allowing the power of the Holy Spirit to work in and through you to produce more spiritual fruit in you. The more spiritual growth you receive, the more fleshly wars and the more spiritual wars you will become involved in with yourself and with Satan. Beware, Satan will quite often hassle you in the secrets of your own mind over your past sins or even the sins of your loved ones. There may be spiritual wars that you will have to fight. At times you may feel these battles are not your responsibility, so you dont deserve them because they were not your fault. However, you are still forced to fight them secretly, because Satans plan is to bind up and destroy all Christians. Remember, Satan cannot win over you if you stay true to Jesus and keep your mind fixed on HIM.
Loyalty to the Kingdom of Christ
Author | : Sven Pearl Johanson |
Publisher | : The Hermit Kingdom Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780972386494 |
The strength of this book lies in the fact that Johanson concretely discusses issues involving conflict of loyalty facing Christians today in society and in politics.
The Pretenses of Loyalty
Author | : John Perry |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2011-07-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199877165 |
In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state? In this wide-ranging study, John Perry examines the roots of our thinking on religion and politics, placing the early-modern founders of liberalism in conversation with today's theologians and political philosophers. From the story of Antigone to debates about homosexuality and bans on religious attire, it is clear that liberalism's promise to solve all theo-political conflict is a false hope. The philosophy connecting John Locke to John Rawls seeks a world free of tragic dilemmas, where there can be no Antigones. Perry rejects this as an illusion. Disputes like the culture wars cannot be adequately comprehended as border encroachments presided over by an impartial judge. Instead, theo-political conflict must be considered a contest of loyalties within each citizen and believer. Drawing on critics of Rawls ranging from Michael Sandel to Stanley Hauerwas, Perry identifies what he calls a 'turn to loyalty' by those who recognize the inadequacy of our usual thinking on the public place of religion. The Pretenses of Loyalty offers groundbreaking analysis of the overlooked early work of Locke, where liberalism's founder himself opposed toleration. Perry discovers that Locke made a turn to loyalty analogous to that of today's communitarian critics. Liberal toleration is thus more sophisticated, more theologically subtle, and ultimately more problematic than has been supposed. It demands not only governmental neutrality (as Rawls believed) but also a reworked political theology. Yet this must remain under suspicion for Christians because it places religion in the service of the state. Perry concludes by suggesting where we might turn next, looking beyond our usual boundaries to possibilities obscured by the liberalism we have inherited.
Loyalty
Author | : George P. Fletcher |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1995-07-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198023499 |
At a time when age-old political structures are crumbling, civil strife abounds, and economic uncertainty permeates the air, loyalty offers us security in our relationships with associates, friends, and family. Yet loyalty is a suspect virtue. It is not impartial. It is not blind. It violates the principles of morality that have dominated Western thought for the last two hundred years. Loyalties are also thought to be irrational and contrary to the spirit of Capitalism. In a free market society, we are encouraged to move to the competition when we are not happy. This way of thinking has invaded our personal relationships and undermined our capacities for friendship and loyalty to those who do not serve our immediate interests. As George P. Fletcher writes, it is time for loyal bonds, born of history and experience, to prevail both over impartial morality and the self-interested thinking of the market trader. In this extended essay, George P. Fletcher offers an account of loyalty that illuminates its role in our relationships with family and friends, our ties to country, and the commitment of the religious to God and their community. Fletcher opposes the traditional view of the moral self as detached from context and history. He argues instead that loyalty, not impartial detachment, should be the central feature of our moral and political lives. Writing as a political "liberal," he claims that a commitment to country is necessary to improve the lot of the poor and disadvantaged. This commitment to country may well require greater reliance on patriotic rituals in education and a reconsideration of the Supreme Court's extending the First Amendment to protect flag burning. Given the worldwide currents of parochialism and political decentralization, the task for us, Fletcher argues, is to renew our commitment to a single nation united in its diversity. Bringing to bear his expertise as a law professor, Fletcher reasons that the legal systems should defer to existing relationships of loyalty. Familial, professional, and religious loyalties should be respected as relationships beyond the limits of the law. Thus surrogate mothers should not be forced to surrender and betray their children, spouses should not be required to testify against each other in court, parents should not be prevented from willing their property to their children, and the religiously committed should not be forced to act contrary to conscience. Yet the question remains: Aren't loyalty, and particularly patriotism, dangerously one-sided? Indeed, they are, but no more than are love and friendship. The challenge, Fletcher maintains, is to overcome the distorting effects of impartial morality and to develop a morality of loyalty properly suited to our emotional and spiritual lives. Justice has its sphere, as do loyalties. In this book, Fletcher provides the first step toward a new way of thinking that recognizes the complexity of our moral and political lives.