Sentences with phrase «new covenantal»

Regarding the New Covenantal spiritual Jews, that is, those who endured a painful circumcision of the heart (Rom 2:28 - 29), just in case they forgot what one of their future offices would be, Paul reminded the Corinthians,

It is the conjoining of power and hesed once again, but now in the form of an invitation to participate in God's reign of love by saying «yes» to it and being empowered to live «as if» that [30] reign were all - in - all even though it is not.10 Love is what is expected of the recipients of God's offer: loving one another as a new covenantal commandment (Jn 13:34), love that is so embracing that it even includes one's enemies (Mt 5:43 — 44).11

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We must hold them in mind as background to the main task, which is to explore the interaction of theologians and human scientists as they seek to formulate a new concept of civil society which can draw traditioned communities and other human associations into a larger covenantal bond.

To this basic covenantal relationship the prophets constantly appealed; into its mutual obligations they poured ever new meanings; and at the center of its tradition they had the solid virtues of nomadic life where human ties are close, interdependent and cooperative, where men exist as brothers on a fairly equalitarian level and with a strong democratic sense of personal right.

And that covenantal theme permits a new ecclesiology.

36 Rather than being the New Testament counterpart of the Old Covenantal priest, as, for example, in Clement and the Didache, 13.