Sentences with phrase «basic biblical images»

One of the basic biblical images, particularly with respect to the symbolization of divine power, is the figure of the king.

But if the basic biblical images of baptism and the Lord's Supper are carefully studied, it will be seen how much more faithfully the newer rites echo them then did those services to which we have been accustomed.

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Surely, however, the basic affirmation of Christian theism, founded (once we have got behind the images in which often it was phrased) on the biblical witness to the faithfulness and consistency of God and to his unfailing maintenance of the creation in being, is that all things at all times and in all places are present to God, that he is always at work in them, that he constantly energizes through them, that he never ceases to move in the creation towards the accomplishment of his holy will and the revelation of his holy purpose.

In other words, the basic point of the biblical images of God as the living, active, loving, personalizing agent is guaranteed.