His book weaves biblical passages and faith-based reflections with advice on leadership and determination on the football field.
This, he said, was as much a matter of faith as a reflection of his tastes.
It isn't Probyn's feelings, or some quaint article of faith, or a reflection of secret communism.
Depending on how soldiers score, they are prompted to complete online training in any of the program's five key areas: physical, emotional, social, family and spiritual (which could mean either religious faith or personal reflection).
Taking this stance does not make him hostile or dismissive of faith and theological reflection; on the contrary, he grants that "indispensable potentials for meaning are preserved in religious language"—potentials that, at least so far, have not been fully reduced to philosophical and secular reasons (2002, 77, 162).
Therefore, these passages prompt us to let the dimensions of our "longed-for future" be creatively informed by our "present religious experience and faith and theological reflection" (page 98).
I fell in love with the intersection of faith and academic reflection because I'm a messy person with multiple identities made up of multiple relationships, because theology is the calling of my lived faith, and because, at any given time, either occasionally restores my hope in what the other can be.
You'd expect that in Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, by Terry Eagleton.
Whether he is writing about passion, courage or faith, Bell's reflections read as though he believed that something akin to gumption was the cardinal virtue.
Indeed, it seems the more religious students become, the less willing they are to engage in critical reflection about faith.
