God is, as Job found, irascible in freedom and pathos - filled in sovereignty, one who traffics
in hiddenness and violence.
In hiddenness the fugitive Christ «hails» a retriever to trace his fugitive path and prepare for a new epiphany brought about by the renewal of language.
We can only know of it insofar as it is expressed in the primordial nature, for in itself it is God
in his hiddenness, in the inexhaustible mystery of his being.
Not exact matches
In Turin, Benedict observed that «humanity has become particularly sensitive to the mystery of Holy Saturday,» because the «hiddenness of God» has become so much a part of our contemporary experience of Christ that it functions existentially, almost subconsciously, in our spiritualit
In Turin, Benedict observed that «humanity has become particularly sensitive to the mystery of Holy Saturday,» because the «
hiddenness of God» has become so much a part of our contemporary experience of Christ that it functions existentially, almost subconsciously,
in our spiritualit
in our spirituality.
If this is true, then the complexity,
hiddenness, and skepticism inherent
in human experience of anything can not be denied, and they can be denied least when the experience
in question is that of coming to belief.
It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus,
in the sense that like the
hiddenness of God
in that human life, the image of human life
in the Western novel is one
in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.
But parabolic
hiddenness is what predominates, I believe,
in the stories of the fathers and sons, and because Paton has shown the reader through dramatic personal growth the pattern of disintegration and restoration, he has created an extended metaphor of the experience of coming to belief
in the workings of the gracious transcendent
in both personal and social realities.
Man is not to be «seen through» but «to be perceived ever more completely
in his openness and his
hiddenness and
in the relation of the two to each other.»
Similarly, for God to come precisely as Omega
in our present order would mean the removal of contradiction
in the present, the maturation of time, and the removal of all concealment,
hiddenness and all darkness.
I will put Cobb back on the defensive by saying that I fail to see how the model of an all - encompassing, regionally inclusive experience is compatible with the
hiddenness of competing drives, aspirations and fears which psychoanalysis reveals
in the» «depth» dimension of the psyche,» by which term I mean something broader than the unified experience of the analogue to the «soul,» namely, the restless depths of the complex societies which support the regnant nexus and which have a «life» of their own, which is
in some instances incorporated into, melded into the conscious experience of the occasions
in the regnant society, and sometimes is not.
This situation is nowhere more clearly described
in modern literature than
in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the
hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.
It is this nearness to God, following His apparent
hiddenness, which is God's answer to the suffering Job as to why he suffers — an answer which is understandable only
in terms of the relationship itself.
And, oh, to my thinking this is one expression the more of the dreadfulness of this most dreadful sickness and misery, namely, its
hiddenness — not only that he who suffers from it may wish to hide it and may be able to do so, to the effect that it can so dwell
in a man that no one, no one whatever discovers it; no, rather that it can be so hidden
in a man that he himself does not know it!
This
hiddenness is precisely something spiritual and is one of the safety - devices for assuring oneself of having as it were behind reality an enclosure, a world for itself locking all else out, a world where the despairing self is employed as tirelessly as Tantalus
in willing to be itself.
Nobody's reading is final or inerrant, precisely because the key Character
in the book who creates, redeems and consummates is always beyond us
in holy
hiddenness.
So we talked a lot about Bonhoeffer that year, especially about the musings he set down during the last months of his life about the
hiddenness of God and the coming of a «postreligious» age
in human history.
For Barth, the triune God is revealed
in his essential
hiddenness, and hidden
in his self - revelation.
And more: this sign of
hiddenness points to the fact that the reality of truth and love, the reality of God himself, is not found
in the world of things but beyond it,
in the sphere of a new order that this tiny baby was ushering
in.
The evangelist implements this purpose by drawing attention to the ambiguity, the offence, the
hiddenness, which characterized the revelation even
in Jesus» life, as if to say: Today it is the same.
Therefore we describe this presence
in terms of transcendence: depth, invisibility, obscurity, inwardness,
hiddenness.
It's a story about God's preservation and providence to a scattered people, God's presence
in God's
hiddenness.
An object such as, for instance, a silver votive vessel comes into being not only by the interplay between the dark
hiddenness of the earth and the radiant openness of the heavens — hidden ores brought up to shine
in the light of day — but by the reverently poetic approach of mortals toward the gods and by the lordly approach of the gods toward mortals, out of the hidden realm of the divine, announcing themselves
in the powers of nature.
«
In the proper religious sense of the term,» writes Orthodox bishop Kallistos Ware, ««mystery» signifies not only
hiddenness but disclosure....
But Christian discrimination ought to operate on another level here; it ought to applaud the metaphorical adroitness
in giving a new context for the passion story, a context which provides for disbelieving contemporary human beings a genuinely «secular» experience of the narrative, and one which is
in continuity with the parabolic way of
hiddenness and mystery.
But it has helped to entrench an expectation of transparency
in a sector where murky
hiddenness was the norm.
A Course
in Miracles teaches, «The hidden can terrify not for what it is, but for its
hiddenness.»