Sentences with phrase «covenantal history»
In gathering and interpreting their collective ethos, they further participate as Christians in a prophetic ministry that sets forth the story of group in the light of God's covenantal history with all God's people.
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Like the unfinished cathedrals of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth, Williams's projected covenantal history of the people of God was never completed.
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«Jesus is Lord» is a proposition, but a proposition that compels assent only when Jesus» earthly ministry, death, and resurrection are understood as (collectively) the pivotal and definitive moment in the long history of God's covenantal love for His erring people.
Much of this relationship reflection makes one think of covenantal concepts in salvation history.
In this construal, the end of history — meaning, more or less, the globalization of our kind of political and economic order — depended neither upon social contracts nor upon the promise of covenantal purpose.
He instructively shows how human history has constructed a pantheon of nasty gods that contrast sharply with the biblical God of covenantal mercy.
Even though Christians must reject the Modern idea that we human beings are the «makers» of history, the covenantal basis of our faith places upon humankind a participatory responsibility for the unfolding of God's purposes.