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  • If we were more realistic from the outset about the flaws and limitations of our heroes that are a part of the human condition (or what a Christian would call the fallenness of man), we could punish the transgressions of wrongdoers without having our faith in the underlying institutions (whether baseball, or government, or the Church) crushed.

    TEXAS FAITH: Why do we elevate sports stars? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • McGrath pushes back against such prejudice by identifying terms fallenness, guilt, conscience, temptation, etc in Heidegger’s vocabulary that, according to McGrath, find their origin in Luther’s, Eckhart’s, and Dun Scotus’ theology.

    Archive 2009-01-01 enowning 2009

  • McGrath pushes back against such prejudice by identifying terms fallenness, guilt, conscience, temptation, etc in Heidegger’s vocabulary that, according to McGrath, find their origin in Luther’s, Eckhart’s, and Dun Scotus’ theology.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • There is so much in our world that points in the direction of despair: war, hunger, racism, human degradation and abuse, fallenness.

    Books 2009

  • What's more, knowing that people will be a bit embarrassed by such imagery, he proposes that the audience's discomfort owes to our seeing sexuality through our fallenness when we should be recognizing that Christ has redeemed sexuality.

    Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West 2009

  • Nothing exemplifies that ability more than Apple's early logo, which slapped a rainbow on the very archetype of human fallenness and failure—the bitten fruit—and turned it into a sign of promise and progress.

    The Secular Prophet Andy Crouch 2011

  • Other resources in Christian traditions, like the teaching that we are made in the imago dei and the doctrine of the goodness of creation, are regularly undermined by a radical emphasis on the human being as a sinner who stands lost through primordial fallenness that has besmirched and even erased what once was lovely in us.

    John Thatamanil: The Religious Wisdom of Authentic Self-Love 2010

  • Other resources in Christian traditions, like the teaching that we are made in the imago dei and the doctrine of the goodness of creation, are regularly undermined by a radical emphasis on the human being as a sinner who stands lost through primordial fallenness that has besmirched and even erased what once was lovely in us.

    John Thatamanil: The Religious Wisdom of Authentic Self-Love 2010

  • Any Christian who really believes the core claims of his faith -- that God became man, suffered, died, and rose again, thereby opening a path, through grace, for the healing of our fallenness and for reconciliation with Him -- cannot help but want to share this message of incredible joy with others.

    TEXAS FAITH: Brit Hume and Tiger Woods | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • Freedom essay a year earlier, sees as tokens of fallenness (224).

    'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

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