Sentences with phrase «god as the unity»

It was in the attempt to state these profound truths that thinkers within the Christian fellowship, building upon what has been called «the Palestinian experience of God,» came to develop the distinctively Christian conception of God: God as «triune,» God as the unity of three interpenetrating modes of activity.

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They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the church.

When we give in to this need for self exaltation, and organize others around our cause, then we recognize it as the warped type of social engineering you describe, where the goal is uniformity, not unity — promoting our own agenda, rather than participating in God's mission.

It is as if Benedict is bringing back into play the long - neglected lessons of St. Augustine to Catholic Social Thought — re-presenting, as it were, The City of God — that is, the City of that caritas which the Divine Persons gratuitously pour into the human heart, that it might cast the burning desire for human unity into the kindling of hundreds of millions of parched hearts.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to death in this world as we war against others (Eph 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Eph 2:11 - 22).

Holloway argues «The aspiration of human knowledge is to attain as closely as possible to the unity of the wisdom of God.»

Holloway considerably enhances and develops the patristic perspective about the flesh as the «hinge of salvation» with his vision of the evolution of matter poised and framed from its beginning as a unity which culminates in the Incarnation of God.

We should not try to downplay or deny this, especially since the very unity of the laws of Nature can point the modern mind so powerfully towards recognition of God as Creator, the Supreme Mind that frames the vast Unity of Meaning and Finality that is the material universe.

The Bible is a unity of diverse writings which together are set forth by the Church as a revelation of God in history.

Science does not «find» God as such, because it is always and only investigating these secondary causes, their interrelation and unity.

Since John distinguished the Logos from God as well as saying the Logos is God, they affirmed a distinction within the unity of God, between the Logos and the Father.»

Against the Hegelian tendency to identify God with man and to see the doctrine of Incarnation as expressing this unity, Barth stressed with new force the transcendent otherness of God.

Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.»

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

The husband - wife relationship illustrates the complimentary and unity - in - diversity that characterizes God's own nature as One Being who exists eternally in three Persons.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

«When taking vows as elders at Coral Ridge, each individual commits before God to strive for the purity, peace, and unity of the church,» Coral Ridge stated to CT. «We are saddened that these two elders failed in their vows by withholding this information regarding our former senior pastor, which has since caused many families and churches much harm.»

He will not require not merely that the new knowledge be used as the foundation of the proof, but that the very spirit and atmosphere of the new knowledge enter in such a way into thedemonstration of God's existence, that the complexities and confusions of human thought engendered by the new knowledge shall be resolved in harmonious unity in the postulate of God's existence, nature, and relation to created being.

For their part, AHA inserted «a brief description of the history of the Pledge of Allegiance, including the information that «under God» was only added as recently as 1954 in response to the Cold War and that some Americans feel that the Pledge should focus on unity rather than religion.»

The complex substance is a unity of being because a «thing» is what God knows it to be -LSB-... T] he Being of God -LSB-...] as Pure Act is the only sufficient reason for the unity and entity of every form of being, and the overall unity... of Nature.»

God created the whole universe as a support system for human beings, beings he has destined for eternal unity with him.

I felt the Shalom of God, his unity on earth as it is in heaven, slip away as believers took sides, rallied together in disgust, and used «rights» and «amendments» as justification for ignoring the suffering of their African - American sisters and brothers in Christ.

For us evolution is one thread of the purposeful unity of the space - time fabric of the cosmos which, as a holistically layered unity from top to bottom, is theobject of God's one knowing and loving through the one Logos.

Barth paired these perfections according to a distinction between God as He is in Himself and God as He is for us, 18 such as righteousness and mercy, or unity and omnipresence.

At the peak of that unfolding equation, matter is gathered into ontological unity with directly created spirit to form human nature, which exists in direct and personal relationship to God who is the Living Environment of grace and providence for every human being and for mankind as a whole.

Bonhoeffer answers Berdyaev's question by declaring ethics» goal for man as being restored to unity with God.

Jesus says in the gospel of John, «I and the Father are one,» and «before Abraham was, I am,» appealing to notions of being and unity in order to articulate his own identity as God.

Modern ecclesiology, sanctioned by Vatican II, does not start its description of the nature of the Church, like Bellarmin, with its social organization, but with the people of God, the mystical Body of Christ, primarily constituted by the unity of the justified in the Holy Spirit, the community of the redeemed, as distinct from their organization in a «society».

The gifts poed out on the church by the ascended Christ have as their final goal that «we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ» (vs. 13, NIV).

The unity of God is preserved in principle in the same way as that of a human person, but here, as always, the difference is between a partial and a maximum realization of the principle.

Polk's notion of God emphasizes features drawn from Whitehead's consequent nature of God, whereas Pannenberg appeals to the unity of the immanent and economic Trinity as grounds for denying that there is ultimately development in God.

In perceiving theology as a science, Pannenberg suggests that if God is ultimate truth, then the God hypothesis — the claim that God is the unity of all reality — must include within itself the current debate over God's existence.

It shows, that is, that certain (and perhaps all) attempts to attain metaphysical understanding of reality presuppose a final unity and meaningfulness of reality and that this presupposition may only make sense in terms of God as an ontologically, valuatively, and rationally ultimate and unifying reality.

Any way until now there is no old or new things are as it is but rather divided among it self... but I pray to God they would keep the unity in their hearts, minds and souls for the sake of God and Yemen.

For example, Pannenberg insists that we take as our starting point the three persons who are implicated in Christian revelation and expounded in the early creeds, rather than beginning with a single essence or any theory of the unity of God.

In general, any God (as creative will) must confront within the total unity of his consciousness a twofold Given, consisting of Form (logic, mathematics, Platonic ideas) and Matter (brute fact content, a «receptacle»).

As the climax of the narrative it demonstrates how the consubstantial principles of unity and equality are betrayed when one chooses to base one's actions on the desire to please humans rather than God.

If the Trinity is not organized democratically, it will be a quaternity, i.e., three personally ordered subordinate societies which correspond to the three persons of the Trinity, plus a fourth society, whether personally ordered or not, constituting their unity as one God.

Paul also experienced an internal unity in Christ; he was more than a Pharisaic Jew, more than a Hellenistic Jew; from his conception he had been «in Christ» and as an adult he realized that being «in Christ» meant having the power of God, the power of Being itself.

This emphasis upon the unity of God as agent is very much in line with Whitehead's emphasis upon the unity of an actual entity.

The result tends to undermine the unity of God as an actual entity and, especially, the unity of God's functioning.

As we noted, two functions are attributed to the consequent nature: in it God prehends every component of the satisfaction of every actual occasion and all these feelings of the actual world are woven into one unity of feeling.

It is in accord with Whitehead's emphasis upon the subjective unity of an actual entity, that an entity acts as a whole, and with the indivisible unity of polar opposites, particularly God and the world.

When God is no longer viewed as solitary and stark unity, or absolute unrelated personality, we are able to live with — not just fall down before — our God.

We should emphasize the unity of God and see the «natures» as abstractions, descriptions from particular viewpoints of how God as a whole functions in relation to the world and to the eternal objects.

All external signs of identity, all structures, associations, and programs, valuable or even essential as they may be, ultimately exist only to support and foster the deeper unity which is, in Christ, God's indefectible gift to his Church.»

God is: • Supernatural in nature (as He exists outside of His creation) • Incredibly powerful (to have created all that is known) • Eternal (self - existent, as He exists outside of time and space) • Omnipresent (He created space and is not limited by it) • Timeless and changeless (He created time) • Immaterial (because He transcends space) • Personal (the impersonal can't create personality) • Necessary (as everything else depends on Him) • Infinite and singular (as you can not have two infinites) • Diverse yet has unity (as nature exhibits diversity) • Intelligent (supremely, to create everything) • Purposeful (as He deliberately created everything) • Moral (no moral law can exist without a lawgiver) • Caring (or no moral laws would have been given)

Just as in all other actual entities, God's concrescence is a process by which he brings a diversity of prehensions into one fully determinate unity.