Sentences with phrase «covenantal love»

David's love towards Jonathan was a type of covenantal love, not a contractual love.

Thomas - «David's love towards Jonathan was a type of covenantal love, not a contractual love.»

It is modelled on and grounded in the covenantal love that God has for us, which means it is a «God kind of love».

This is not an individualistic, self - protective morality, but a life - giving, covenantal love that produces holy fruit.

Many experts both within and outside of the church think that there is much we can do to help couples and modern societies learn to hold together genuine covenantal love (a much stronger concept than that of romantic love) with the economic, kinship, networking and child - rearing aspects of marriage.

Sacramental or covenantal love was central to marriage, but mutual helpfulness (the economic aspect of marriage), children, sexual exchange and the values of kinship were emphasized as well.

You are loved with delight and abundance, with choice and desire, with covenantal love.

«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.

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The faith of the West too easily devolves into philosophical rationalization about divine Justice, rather than faith in the covenantal relationship with a just and loving God.

Joseph Allen's Love and Conflict: A Covenantal Model of Christian Ethics (Abingdon, 1984) connects God's general covenant with humanity to the specific covenant Christians know in Jesus Christ, and to the particular obligations, duties and rights that have to be worked out in political, economic, personal and ecumenical life.

It is the conjoining of power and hesed once again, but now in the form of an invitation to participate in God's reign of love by saying «yes» to it and being empowered to live «as if» that [30] reign were all - in - all even though it is not.10 Love is what is expected of the recipients of God's offer: loving one another as a new covenantal commandment (Jn 13:34), love that is so embracing that it even includes one's enemies (Mt 5:43 — 44love by saying «yes» to it and being empowered to live «as if» that [30] reign were all - in - all even though it is not.10 Love is what is expected of the recipients of God's offer: loving one another as a new covenantal commandment (Jn 13:34), love that is so embracing that it even includes one's enemies (Mt 5:43 — 44Love is what is expected of the recipients of God's offer: loving one another as a new covenantal commandment (Jn 13:34), love that is so embracing that it even includes one's enemies (Mt 5:43 — 44love that is so embracing that it even includes one's enemies (Mt 5:43 — 44).11

One must recognize, however, that in moving beyond the intention of the Song, in moving from creation theology to covenantal theology, in speaking of God's love for his people, one is assuming a prior and definitive understanding of God.

According to the teaching of Jesus, what is asked of those who belong to his circle is a complete trust in God's love and fidelity to the covenantal promise, now renewed in the coming reign of God.

It is the flip side of God's love, the result of the recipients of that love failing abysmally to live up to their part of the covenantal bargain.

While the group «affirm that God has designed marriage to be a covenantal, sexual, procreative, lifelong union of one man and one woman, as husband and wife, and is meant to signify the covenant love between Christ and his bride the church», they «deny that God has designed marriage to be a homosexual, polygamous, or polyamorous relationship».

She does not know what a «covenantal» love is.