Sentences with phrase «biblical images of»

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

But if Christ and his community of «creative transformation» (Cobb) are an embodiment of God's love in the world, and therefore exert causal efficacy within it, they will tend to produce the kinds of changes in the world expressed in some biblical images of the eschaton.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Christ becomes progressively, expansively re-embodied in the world, and the biblical image of the body of Christ (1 Cor.

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.

Such a limitless breadth of vision is sacramentalized in the biblical image of shalom.

If America once borrowed the Biblical image of a city on a hill, this is a small hill indeed.

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For Christians however, biblical religion provides a fuller vision of what such participation and stewardship entail and the substance of human flourishing, for which the dominant teleological and eschatological images are a Garden and a City, a New Eden and a New Jerusalem.

Still another alternative, the biblical and classical theological image «the Kingdom of God,» seems to be a possibility for creative theological development, both politically and ecologically, but it brings problems of its own.

Mimi Haddad of Christians for Biblical Equality does a really fine job unpacking these images in her article on the topic, «Is God Male?»

Because the Bible is the most effective force in history for lifting women to higher levels of respect, dignity, and freedom, we join an historic succession of women whose Christian faith is forged from biblical truth and whose lives are shaped into Christ's image on the anvil of obedience.

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.

We believe «pro-life» is more than a bumper - sticker slogan; it's an ethic rooted in the biblical idea that all human beings are created in the image of God, and are, therefore, of immeasurable and equal worth in the eyes of their Creator.

To speak specifically on this point, the fact that form and relationship have been restored to the current image of man, both in the new metaphysics and in the sciences of man, enables us to be more understanding in our anthropology of what is being conveyed in such historically biblical notions as the Covenant and the Imago Dei.

To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.

- «The scholarly community will need to see the full report and images of the artifacts to make a judgment in regard to the interpretation of these objects as coins,» Steven Ortiz, associate professor of archaeology and biblical backgrounds at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, said.

For instance, there are the hermeneutical questions of whether the image of Christ emerging through the glasses of Islamic mysticism is what the Bible or Biblical authors «intended»; If the purpose of the crystallization of the supposed authorial intention or purpose is to connect the ancient and the present «viewpoints» or the worldviews, one may ask if such a possibility of a pure state of intention possible to extract at all, or is it not that the reader often always creates» at least some elements of the supposed «intentions».

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One image he used was that of Elijah, conceived of by Israel as the father of the prophetic movement, and whose life in the biblical accounts was surrounded by enormous miraculous power.

A significant strand of feminism has used literary methods, exploring the ways in which biblical texts construct and represent an image of women that may function in the service of particular ideologies.

This special relationship of human beings to God is indeed the point of the biblical affirmation that they are created «in the image of God.»

-- Two evangelical archeologists have expressed caution in evaluating reports that ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph have been discovered among unsorted artifacts at the Museum of Egypt.

In tracing the roots of this image of administering, it is clear that the biblical conception of servanthood would come first.

The problem I've seen in the church, is this politically correct washing of Christ's image to present, not a biblical picture, but an image that is politically correct, with anything offensive and unpopular removed.

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.

For all the new European inhabitants of America the Christian and biblical tradition provided images and symbols with which to interpret the enormous hopes and fears aroused in them by their new situation, as I have already suggested in using the terms «paradise» and «wilderness.»

cit., «Biblical Leadership,» p. 119 f.; Images of Good and Evil, op.

The myths that Buber interprets in Images of Good and Evil are the Biblical and the Zoroastrian, for, in his opinion, «these correspond with two fundamentally different kinds and stages of evil.»

The biblical faith, on the other hand, emphasizes both man's creaturehood and man as being made in the image of God.

Niebuhr developed his biblical view of man under the idea that man is both in the image of God, and a self - venerating sinner.

(Goux, in Les Iconoclastes, needs of course to find a psychoanalytical basis for the biblical prohibition against representing God and adoring images.

The Biblical source of this image is Paul's word in the eschatological passage of I Corinthians 15.

Biblical language might free us from some of these limitations if we were capable of thinking in such images, but we have become too literal in our thinking.

At the same time, it opens the way for theologians more decisively guided by the distinctive character of biblical faith and of Christian symbols and images to appropriate the achievements of process thinkers into their own understanding.

Is it just me, or is there more than a little bit of tension in the way we deal with biblical and ecclesial images of sheep and shepherds, pastors and flocks?

The continuity between the image of the Bible in the painting and the image of the French novel thus lies in its emphasis on the Christ - figure — even more apparent when one considers the subject of the biblical passage depicted in the painting.

Biblical visions and images of the rule of Christ such as a heavenly city, the household of God, a new heaven and earth, a marriage feast, and an unending day culminate in the image of the kingdom.

Obviously our cultural situation has already been shaped by images and ideas flowing from what Christians would call revelation, and our concrete questions arise out of a context that has been deeply influenced by biblical motifs.