Sentences with phrase «between divine purpose»

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For purposes of brevity, let us simply take up the problem of medieval painting and sculpture, and ask if God - images here play a significant role, and, more particularly, ask if we can here discover a significant relation between God - images and Christ - images, a relation reflecting a uniquely Christian apprehension of the evolutionary movement and transformation of the divine process.

But again, and even with the possible implication of divine judgment in the death of Rachel, we see the repeated motif of the Jacob cycle: the tension between sin and divine grace, the expression of faith that Jacob - Israel is saved and redeemed only by the will and purpose of God (35:5), and finally the repetition of the promise and the blessing, and the second account of the changing of Jacob's name to Israel.

It is a tension between human perversity and divine purpose, between human sin and divine grace.

The primacy of practical reason and of the summu bonum or supreme aim or purpose, has some validity, but should not be allowed to belittle theoretical reason, nor should the relations between human and divine values be allowed to reduce God to a mere means for the production of human good.