Sentences with phrase «divine kingship»

Thus while process theism can only do partial justice to many of the images of divine kingship in the Bible, and none to some, it may be the model most appropriate to the final image emerging from this tradition.

When we conclude the Lord's Prayer with the words, «For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,» we affirm this divine kingship and our trust in God's ultimate authority and sovereignty.

Amos's «righteousness,» Hosea's hesed, or «lovingkindness,» and Isaiah's «holiness» represent three important developments of the meaning of the divine kingship for the life of the community.

In Jesus» thought the divine kingship is here already, to be acknowledged in the doing of God's will.

Not exact matches

The kings were commissioned by God and responsible to Him, but they tended to sublimate the irresponsibility into a divine right granted without obligation and to regard their anointing as demanding of them a merely cultic acknowledgment of YHVH's kingship.

Whereas the East was interested in Wisdom, the divine Law, and the Kingship of God, the less abstractly minded, more concretely thinking and believing West — it will be said — demanded the adoration of a person, of a divine - human being, a Son of God, as the center of its religious loyalties.

In his significant work Christianity in World History, a prominent theologian Arend Theodor van Leeuwen has argued that the idea of separating out the things of God from the things of people in such a way as to deny the divine nature of kingship was first formulated in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianity.

The exhibition focuses on the splendour of the Egyptian pharaohs, their function in the earthly and divine worlds, and what kingship meant to the Egyptian people.