Sentences with phrase «consummation lying»

Because of the problematic character of the idea of progress within world - history, there has arisen the idea of a world of consummation lying «beyond history».

Though we may detect the evidences of its presence now, its consummation lies in the future.

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But because the term towards which the earth is moving lies not merely beyond each individual thing but beyond the totality of things; because the world travails, not to bring forth from within itself some supreme reality, but to find its consummation through a union with a pre-existent Being; it follows that man can never reach the blazing centre of the universe simply by living more and more for himself nor even by spending his life in the service of some earthly cause however great.

In the previous chapter I have already stated that I do not think it lies within human knowledge to say whether God's final victory over evil and the final consummation of his kingdom will come within human history or beyond it.