What we mean by event is these historical data elevated to cosmic dimensions by the acquisition of an understanding of human life which those data produce. (religion-online.org)
The modernists have become conscious of sin as the spirit of destructivity present in all human creativity so that even secular evolutionary and revolutionary ideologies of reshaping the world have now come to recognize that all human creativity and creations need deliverance from the spirit of perversity working within them; and Christian theology of modernity today emphasizes the social and cosmic dimensions of sin and atonement. (religion-online.org)
The historical event of the cross acquires cosmic dimensions. (religion-online.org)