Sentences with phrase «revelation gives no image»

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Man constantly makes false gods, but by virtue of the image of God he can judge them.28 This ability to judge false gods does not give man a vision of the true God, but it opens the door for a true revelation.

The revelation of God, given in Scripture, is regarded as authoritative only insofar as it provides clarifying images which illuminate experience as it is critically interpreted by reason.Theology within this framework articulates the meaning of the inherited tradition of the Christian community in the light of empirical knowledge supplied by the sciences.

But revelation, with its image of the suffering God, allows us to interpret the void not as absurd, but as the consequence of God's self - giving, self - limiting love.

Niebuhr writes that through the image given in revelation «a pattern of dramatic unity becomes apparent with the aid of which the heart can understand what has happened, is happening and will happen to selves and their community» (80).

Christ as the realization of God's presence in man as fulfilling love, giving man «mature manhood,» is in fact the revelation of the true image, the filling of the image in a concrete man.

Our civilization's moral code was founded on Judaeo - Christian revelation, which in turn gave rise to a rational conviction that every human person is made in the image of God.

Embed from Getty Images The ineptitude of Olivier Giroud during the starting months of the season has given rise to the revelation that is Theo Walcott.

That revelation led to Land Rover starting the tease for the RRS's reveal with Land Rover telling us the Sport would drive through New York on its live debut, and giving us a few blurry images and bits of detail.

And while Warhol's free - wheeling framing of figures and street scenes is hardly a surprise — given his art's voracious appetite for images — the breadth of Burroughs photographs are something of a revelation, especially his collage pieces.