Sentences with phrase «apprehending god»

Understanding of God comes indirectly by focus on something else whose study is thought to capacitate us for apprehending God.

Niebuhr's affinities with Edwards are clear in the final lecture, «Toward the Recovery of Feeling,» which points to the importance of religious emotions for apprehending God.

Failure to engage existentially in the central practice of a congregation may well make it more difficult to understand God because participation in the common life of a congregation is a common way to be capacitated, that is, to acquire the requisite concepts, for apprehending God.

The fact that interest in God's idiosyncratic reality and peculiar ways of being present are situated means, in short, that the conceptual growth they guide is always open to the suspicion of being in bad faith, of being more of an interest in using God for our own purposes than an interest in apprehending God for the sake of apprehending God.

For, as we have just seen, the capacities and abilities involved in apprehending God's presence are existentially significant.

The conceptual growth, that is, growth in the relevant capacities, needed to apprehend God must be guided by interests in God rather than interests in God's solving persons» problems or liberating them from their bondage; but that does not exclude such interests.

To understand God is, at best, to have the capacities and abilities needed to apprehend God as (or: «if and when») God is present.

The growth this community seeks is growth in its abilities or capacities to apprehend God's presence.

The general point has been that to understand God involves developing a range of capacities and abilities to apprehend God.

On this second view, insofar as persons have apprehended God through the medium of Christian myths, symbols, and rites, their subjectivity will be shaped by a distinctive dynamic and structure which then dictates the proper movement and structure of theological study.

The capacities needed to apprehend God must be guided by interests in God's peculiar ways of being present and by God's idiosyncratic reality, not by persons» interests in realizing or fulfilling themselves; but the shaping and transforming of persons» identities this involves will in fact also bring with them movement toward fulfillment of their humanity.

This is the believers» failure to apprehend God's pattern of choosing and to fit themselves into that pattern.

First conviction: by entering into the expressed mind of the inspired writers I do in fact apprehend God's own mind.

He apprehended God in terms of his present activity, as presently under - stood, but also accepted without challenge the authoritative witness to divine activity in the past.

He who does not believe that in Jesus God Himself comes to us, does not apprehend the God who reveals Himself to us in the coming of Jesus Christ.

Godard's very obscurities convey the way people often apprehend God's presence.

Through his works in nature, as St. Paul said, it is possible to apprehend God's «eternal power and deity».

What makes this monotheism «radical» is its insistence that God is beyond all the many, including the «many» through whom we apprehend God: Scripture, church, even Jesus Christ himself As the ground of our being and value, God alone is the proper Object of our ultimate loyalty and love.

By contrast this book urges that the overarching end or goal of theological schooling is to understand God; and «to understand» is to come to have certain conceptual capacities, habitus, that is, dispositions and competencies to act, that enable us to apprehend God and refer all things including ourselves to God.

of acquiring capacities to apprehend God Christianly.

After all, we have said in addition to «forming» persons» conceptual capacities to apprehend God Christianly, a theological school may capacitate people specifically for leadership roles in Christian congregations.

Not exact matches

Along these lines, here only briefly sketched, we may better apprehend a creationally situated humanity, and develop an environmental theology and piety that is coherent, comprehensive, compelling, and true to the revelation of God in Christ.

Since god is both, he can not be apprehended through use of the scientific method.

The gospel is nothing other than the proclamation of Jesus Christ himself, in the fullness of his historic human life among us, apprehended and declared as the definitive and focal operation of God in the affairs of men.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

God is apprehended as one who brooks no idolatry, who claims faithfulness to God over faithlessness to our theological traditions and personal theological opinions.

They are interests relevant to understanding God, however, because of how God is present to be apprehended and not because they are morally admirable and compelling interests — although they are certainly that also — that persons bring with them to the effort as a theological school to understand God truly.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

It is surely possible to think that Whitehead's understanding of the consequent nature of God or the kingdom of heaven is implicitly if partially grounded in a genuine eschatology, and is so because it apprehends a transmutation of evil into good by way of a cosmic and universal process.

Only if there was something special about his relation to God is it appropriate to apprehend him as God's decisive revelation.

Such views, however, not only invariably devalue the terrestrial, but what's worse is that in their very devaluation they fail to apprehend the magnitude and universal scope of God's redemptive and re-creative work in the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a truly cosmic work to which Scripture bears testimony.

For Whitehead evidently supposes that it is the value which God apprehends an eternal object as possessing, or its suitability for ingression in a particular context, which makes it a lure for action.

For what you yourself can not apprehend of God no one else can know either.

(Didaché, x. 6) but «to be strengthened by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ that passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fullness of God» (Eph.

The care of souls was a matter of personal admonition and consolation addressed to men who needed to apprehend in penitence and confidence the forgiveness of sin, the great love of God extended toward them, so that in life and death, in sin and sorrow, they knew they were in the hands of a holy, loving God.

This, however, implies a new perspective, whereby we see theological thinking not as reflection on intellectual propositions once and for all revealed by God, but as a never ending quest for a fuller understanding of the Divine Mystery that we never fully apprehend.

It grows instead out of that which is most particular and concrete, not the pseudo-concreteness of the «empirically verifiable» but the actual present concreteness of the unique direction toward God which one apprehends and realizes in the meeting with the everyday.

To believe aright means, then to receive the crucified Christ, to apprehend in his cross the end of all our self - redeeming activity, and the beginning of God's creative redemption.

The secret behind this constant swing of the pendulum — whose mid-point is always the same — is that each successive generation is faced anew with the privilege and responsibility of apprehending and realizing the whole of God's revelation in the whole of its contemporary life and time.

God, as now apprehended by axial man, was seen as radically opposed to all, that.

The fundamental intuition through which the Spirit of the World is apprehended is not a mere emotion, it is a response of the whole person to God.

In regards to the use of force Ben Franklin said, «When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, â $ ˜tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

Because the exaltation of Jesus to be the Lord of men is a conviction which can be apprehended only by faith, it is hard to see how such a conviction could have grown in their minds except in the same way as similar convictions about God had always emerged in the past.

The Christian revelation has always been apprehended as the Word of God, not merely a word about life, but the entry into human history of a new meaning which has become operative in shaping the course of history.

This faith apprehends that God the creator, the power of being, is also the redeemer or the center of value.

In Christ the hidden God is apprehended «not to sight, but to faith.

By contrast, Niebuhr maintained that faith apprehends the actuality of our existence in, with and before God — that theological ideas not only order human life, but also refer to experienced realities.

On the contrary, miracle as such means the activity of God; therefore the understanding of an event as a miracle is not a conclusion from what is perceived, but the perception itself apprehends the miracle.

Love of God and neighbor is the gift given through Jesus Christ by the demonstration in incarnation, words, deeds, death and resurrection that God is love — a demonstration we but poorly apprehend yet sufficiently discern to be moved to a faltering response of reciprocal love.

Although God may not be differently comprehended in the New Testament, he is differently apprehended there.