Sentences with word «bestowal»

Here, there is a still greater bestowal of grace, greater holiness which requires greater fidelity to the covenant expressed concretely in a promise of obedience to God (Ex.

This would require a retroactive bestowal of secondary being from the superject.

Rather, love involves some mysterious alloy of objective appraisal and the lover's subjective bestowal of value.

In this truth as encounter, in which we understand our personal being as being in the love of the Creator and Redeemer — and not only understand it but have it as a new bestowal of our original being — to have and to be are one.

We need to understand very precisely the nature of the original bestowal of the Petrine office.

The otherness, the contradiction and the undreamed of implications of revelation are nowhere more obvious than in the shocking disclosure by Jesus of a love whose bestowal does not depend upon moral, spiritual or any other type of achievement on our part.

(The most recent bestowal of this Ensemble award was to the cast of 2010's «The Myth of the American Sleepover,» the debut feature from David Robert Mitchell of «It Follows.»)

Each armor is equipped with a different Ougi set that can grant special effects like attribute bestowal.

In one essay he pointed out how often the Gospels speak of unexpected «bestowals of grace,» as in such phrases as «and suddenly... and on the way he met... now it happened that there stood before him a man.»

The original plans of the McKinley administration and the Republican congressional leadership for Puerto Rico seemed to call for the island's «incorporation» into the United States — that is, annexation of Puerto Rico as an integral part of the United States and the bestowal of a constitutional and political status comparable to other American territories destined for statehood.

Shenk considers how Jesus's birth by the Virgin Mary helps to reveal his «full humanity» and «full divinity»; how it counteracts inclinations toward full - blown naturalism; how it provides one solution to the puzzle of the bestowal of the Kingdom upon Jesus in light of Jeremiah's pronouncement against Jehoiachin's seed ever sitting on David's throne; and how it heralds a new creation.

The effects upon England of Original Sin, the 16th century Reformation's denial of Christ's bestowal of authority upon the Pope, and the 1960's reduction of the meaning of sex, have been cultural «atomic explosions» with massive fall out.

What we are supposing and implying is that in our heart of hearts we ask for what seems beyond possibility of bestowal, a judgement that neither spares our capacity for self - deceit in respect of our selves and our relationships, nor annihilates the springs of our tenderness towards our neighbors and indeed towards ourselves.

Divine truth must not be discounted because the channel of its bestowal is apparently human.

Without honest reciprocity, the bestowal of statehood will be little more than a pretext for maintaining the «matrix of control.»

Hence in its response to the overflowing self - bestowal of a promising God, the cosmos would be subject to an incremental intensification of its own being in order to partake ever more fully of the divine life given over to it.

Evolution, when interpreted by the revelatory images of God's love, is both the expression of God's gift of self to the world and at the same time the world's response to the non-coercive, defenseless divine self - bestowal.

She exacts rigorous conditions for the bestowal of her benefits.

This Word finally must be given by God alone and not until this bestowal of divine grace can we really hear or know.

This is why Peirce says that agapastic evolution consists in a bestowal by parents on offspring of spontaneous energy.

Here are buildings constructed by the faithful and the finest artists and architects throughout the centuries, more beautiful than ever but not really serving their highest purpose: the praise of God and the bestowal of grace on men.

With respect to the first, there are always difficulties if we try to separate, even in thought, God's bestowal of the new life from our reception of it.

In the three lectures intended for Alpha's weekend retreat, Gumbel focuses on the power of the Holy Spirit and its bestowal of spiritual gifts.

«Rather, grace is the free and benevolent favor of God as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.»

As a minority group living in a hostile culture, members of the early Christian churches were in no position to identify the bestowal of God's grace and blessing with national peace and prosperity.

The sacrament therefore is not just a convenientinstrument, a kind of rite that better signifies the giving of grace, where the matter is not directly involved in the bestowal of grace but merely through its meaning and use in a rite occasions the giving or even just expresses what is there already.

Or the bestowal of the life - giving gift of Torah on a chosen people.

The antithesis here seems to be between not faith and works but, by implication, grace and works; that is, the ground upon which God freely bestows his grace and gifts to men and what is apparently the (failing) attempts by men to earn that bestowal and ground the divine bestowal on merit.

God knows, and my conscience also knows, to what extent I am worthy and grateful for such a bestowal of glory and honour.

There were moments therefore when optimism was justifiably high, when the bestowal of benefits was to be rearranged and the status quo altered in the name of America's noblest ideals.

Man's fulfilment in God will be the bestowal of life according to the full charity and wisdom of God.

Here however we have an important leap: this bestowal as planned from the beginning is much more than just the fulfilment of man's structural potential, but

The salient features of this covenant are: 15 (1) it is unilateral in character, (2) it is universal in scope, (3) it is unconditional and everlasting, (4) no formal or particular commandment is required as in later covenants as a condition for the bestowal of grace, and (5) there is no formal response or ritual required of man to be in the covenant.

When Archbishop Athenagoras Kokkinakis of Thyateira and Great Britain asked Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios of Constantinople whether the Patriarch of Alexandria's bestowal of the honor upon a non-Orthodox churchman was proper, the Ecumenical Patriarch supported this act of ecclesiastical economy as a sign of things to come.

After a lifetime of perceived let - downs, disappointments, betrayals, trauma, abandonment and false hopes, it's my right to withhold trust and guard its bestowal with fiery jealousy.

With the bestowal of its award on Cilene Lino de Oliveira, the BDS is delighted to see this distinction go to a committed scientist and teacher with strong communication skills.

This change marked an evolution in the cuisine of elBulli, leading to the bestowal of three Michelin stars in 1997, and the title of «Best Restaurant in the World» by Restaurant Magazine in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Assemble's work with the residents is thankfully bereft of any of the pretensions that the bestowal of such a gong implies.