Sentences with phrase «biblical images»

The liturgies of this season of promise are filled with biblical images of trust in God's power to bring new hope where there was previously only a sense of utter impossibility.

The early Christians furthermore found that philosophical categories helped them understand Christian revelation even more deeply than had been possible with biblical images.

The yearning for completion, for acceptance, for oneness with some «other» expressed in biblical images, Bible stories, in relational theology, and in hymns can reveal the inner connection between the experience of physical longing for union and the search for intimacy with God.

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.

When Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead this nation through a nonviolent civil war, he drew upon the language of the black church and on biblical images of hope and reconciliation.

The language of Antioch, where biblical images played a larger role than in Alexandria, was of the Word indwelling Jesus.

It was a brilliant metaphor that illustrates in one rich biblical image the nature and task of Evangelical Catholicism.

Adoption in the New Testament is the central biblical image for entrance into the family of faith.

For they are forever being taken into the very life of God where, according to the many biblical images of «resurrection,» they are transformed into a new creation.

But this powerful biblical image misses the point of Bono's significance as a celebrity leader.

One of my favorite biblical images is hiding under the shelter of his wings, and rising on wings as of eagles.

The fact that biblical images attribute such love to God requires that Christians give them serious consideration as actual characteristics of God.

Best Interview: Kristin Tennant with «Asking My Pastor About Hell» From Kristin's Pastor: «To hear many preachers and Christians talk, one would think that «hell» as a fiery pit was the primary biblical image of separation from God.

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

The fabric of the Palace of Westminster is peppered with references to our spiritual heritage, not least in the central lobby where biblical images and verses are proudly on display.

Two biblical images of community hold promise for helping us...

The biblical image of our «heavenly Father and children» does not require us to exclude the legitimacy of adopted children becoming part of a family.

So what is the biblical image» in reality», Jesus The Son of Man, Jesus the Son of God, Jesus the lamb of God, Jesus the gate, Jesus the shepherd, Jesus the light of the world, Jesus the resurrection and the life, Jesus the vine, Jesus the king of Israel, Jesus the humble foot washer, Jesus the bridegroom, Jesus the Word.

Niebuhr, taking the doctrine of original sin seriously but not literally, believed that the biblical image of man conveyed a deeper understanding of the human situation than any alternate scheme.

He expresses it as «the good life», «the life worth living», evoking the biblical images of a tree by streams of water and sheep in green pastures.

He looks on the church, with the help of biblical images, as a community of the Holy Spirit in the world rather than as a withdrawn pietistic communal group.

He expresses it as «the good life», «the life worth living», evoking the biblical images of a tree by streams of water

And at yet another point, we are told that, although evangelicals can not accept all of what process theists mean when they say that the world is «God's body», there is a «striking parallel» between the process concept of «God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world» and «the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ»» (111).

The biblical image associated with Alyosha's conversion is not resurrection, however, but the first Johannine sign, the miracle at Cana — the very passage Father Paissy had been reading over Zossima's body just before Alyosha left the elder's cell.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

Images abound as one lives in close contact with small children, and as I entered into those relationships I began to reflect seriously on the significance of the biblical images of God as parent.

In the remainder of this chapter we shall isolate features that illustrate divine persuasion drawn from the areas of creation, providence, and biblical authority, reserving for the next chapter the difficult theme of the interaction of persuasive and coercive elements within the biblical image of God as king.

The biblical images required from him no demythologizing; he intuitively understood them as Godly powers.

This coming August 3 will mark the golden anniversary of Flannery O'Connor's «Passover,» to adopt the biblical image John Paul II used to describe the Christian journey through death to eternal life.

Biblical images, and indeed most historical religious images, no longer have the power to move, to motivate, to illuminate, to instruct.

Probably because they were intellectually unimpressed with the myths and deities of their own people, Greek thinkers reasoned to a kind of philosophical deity that was much more a God of eternity than a God of history, much more compatible with the biblical image of Yahweh than with the image of Lord.

«13 This is true to the Biblical image of God's vulnerability toward man's waywardness.

Finally, Whitehead's notion of God does seem to be an adequate way of understanding and explaining the biblical images of God, and perhaps it is even more suitable for this task than the God of Plato or Aristotle, Augustine or Thomas.

But we must not forget, as we track Teilhard on this point, that biblical images of the ultimate harmonization of the created order include the non-human elements of that order as well (cf. Isaiah 11:1 - 9, Rom.

But, continuing with the thought of God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world, do we not find a striking parallel with the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ» (I Cor.