Sentences with phrase «divine eros»

In the ecological model the persuasive ordering principle that coordinates the creativity of a multitude of creative agents is the divine Eros.

The divine eros attracts, calls, invites.3 The divine agape responds, receives, feels our feelings compassionately.4 How do these two movements helpfully redefine divine power?

McFague goes further with her images and speaks of God as mother, lover and friend, each of which includes divine Eros and divine Passion.

For the divine Eros is the source of these gifts.

The response of the creature to the divine Eros is passionate and transforming.

The proposition of this chapter is that as the cosmos evolves God as divine Eros, transcendent to the universe, becomes immanent within the new creation.

This is Whitehead's doctrine of the divine Eros or the primordial nature of God.

Divine creativity is a consequence of divine Eros finding a response in the world.

They too are what they are by their participation in the divine Eros.

The divine Eros draws the world to greater richness of experience as each individual entity responds to possibilities for itself.

The life force, which is the divine Eros, is calling humanity to a new organization of human societies.

There is the divine eros and the divine passion.

Whitehead has called this transcendent source of the aim at the new the principle of limitation, the organ for novelty, the lure for feeling, the eternal urge of desire, the divine Eros, and God in his Primordial Nature.

From a feminist perspective, why not affirm this mutuality of relationship and re-vision the divine eros?

This is the divine eros flooding into the world.

61 Keller invites the displacing of our love of power with what she has represented as the power of love, combining eros and agape: the divine Eros attracts, calls, invites; the divine Agape responds, receives, feels our feelings compassionately.62

Not exact matches

In his analysis, he found in Whitehead a concept of divine love which lies in contrast to New Testament agape and medieval amicitia and which identifies with Platonic eros.

To begin with the first of these questions, it must be recalled that in the Bible it is agape, not philia or eros, that is a divine demand.

Thus in Adventures of Ideas he contrasts the divine «Eros» with «the Adventure in the Universe as One» (pp. 380 - 81), which in Modes of Thought (New York: Macmillan, 1938) he refers to as «the reservoir of potentiality and the coordination of achievement» (p. 128).

male centred theology has missed the divine feminine, it has enslaved sensuality, feelings, body, trustfulness, creativity, eros and playfulness — and condemned this aspect of self as sin.

When the divine love meets the human eros toward God the only appropriate response is with zest, with all one's heart and soul and mind and strength.

Eros, as Plato finally came to recognize, is indeed divine.

The same notion of divine perfection as excluding all change is functioning in the famous passage in the Symposium in which Socrates, taught by the wise woman of Mantineia, denies the divinity of Eros.

In Platonic philosophy eros meant the yearning of the soul for the realm of the divine.

If God desires human response, is even the divine love free of eros?

I would be inclined to affirm Eros with Altizer, and Thanatos with Rubenstein, without trying to give either of those gods new or divine names.

Eros is acknowledged as the necessary synthesis of divine and human activity that leads, by both revelation and human reason, to a full future salvation.