Sentences with phrase «decisive act»

The second issue is whether God's decisive acts interfere with human freedom.

Admittedly the final decisive act is the creature's, but if God has circumscribed the possibilities down to the next to last decision, the creatures can do hardly more than ratify God's set up.

For if God is the future with its own existential decisive acts and if creature's existential acts, being present, are different, how do the possibilities get from God to the creatures?

God is righteous and loving Will, a doer of mighty deeds; history is a process, under his sovereign control, in which he performs decisive acts; the church is the chosen vehicle of his purpose — such is the New Testament's world view.

Born in Brussels in 1924, Marcel Broodthaers was 40 when he added art to his career as a writer, art critic and poet, by performing a very decisive act: he dipped his collection of poetry Le Pense - Bête into plaster.

Thus he is the normative or decisive act of God.

The Exodus from Egypt is for them a decisive act of the living God in past history, and makes a kind of fixed point of reference for all discussions of His ways with His people.

On the basis of this insight Ogden means to explain how all historical events are acts of God, how some of these can be called «special» acts of God, and how one of these can in turn be called God's decisive act.

I refer only to the formal description of what an event would have to be in order to be, in fact, God's decisive act.

Now I propose to show in what way Ogden's explanation of how Jesus can be called God's decisive act is not adequate.

This would be an event which not only represented God's being and action appropriately, but also normatively.30 In this way Ogden believes one can assert that Jesus is the decisive act of God without implying that God acted in any way differently in relation to him.

18 The second part of this essay is explicitly directed toward answering «the question of the sense, if any, in which one can still say with the historic Christian community that the event of Jesus Christ is the decisive act of God.

Therefore, although implications for the soteriological issue will be briefly mentioned, the task of this essay is to determine whether Ogden's employment of process philosophy has enabled him adequately to explicate the objective intention of Christian faith in regard to Jesus, i.e., to explain how one can speak of Jesus as God's decisive act.

58 I am suggesting that if the implications of this side of his thought were developed along with the aspect of process philosophy that he has not yet employed, Ogden would have a way of stating more adequately that Jesus was «objectively» the decisive act of God, without making this event different in principle from other acts of God.

«16 If God acts the same way in relation to the event of Jesus as he acts in relation to every other event, and if theology can only make statements about God which apply to his relation to every event, it would seem that Ogden had made it doubly impossible to assert that Jesus is the decisive act of God.

My verdict in the previous section was that Ogden's use of process philosophy in order to give an adequate account of Jesus as the decisive act of God has not been successful.

However, I believe that there is a notion in process philosophy by which one could, using the same self - body analogy, more adequately explain what would constitute a «special» act of God, and thereby better explain how Jesus could be God's decisive act.

The first part of the essay will give a brief analysis of Ogden's Christology, centering on the question of how we are to understand the affirmation that Jesus is God's decisive act.

He became the decisive act of God in that he did this and has been received as having decisive revelatory power.

Men who would only pound the table, announce God's revelation as they understood it, and demand that by faith I accept it with a decisive act of will, would have made Christianity impossible for me.

It needs only a slight acquaintance with the traditional Jewish eschatology to recognize that these writers are all using language which implies that the eschaton, the final and decisive act of God, has already entered human experience.

Unfortunately this means that the kerygma has ceased to be kerygma: it is no longer the proclamation of the decisive act of God in Christ.

Like the liberals, they are silent about a decisive act of God in Christ proclaimed as the event of redemption.

The kingdom of God would come, to be sure, as a consequence of a decisive act of God, for only God could defeat the supernatural powers of evil which opposed his rule and only God could release the tides of spiritual power which would give the new age its character; but the kingdom of God was to be a kingdom within men's hearts and within men's world.

The more radical and on the whole more competent critics took the position that Jesus expected momentarily the decisive act of God which would suddenly inaugurate the new age of righteousness and peace.

It sees the event, the decisive act of deliverance, in the death of Jesus, or in his death and resurrection.

This time the fundamental point of departure is the life - death - resurrection of Jesus understood as God's decisive act.

In effect only the «ideal meaning» of the text, its nonphysical and nonpsychological meaning, can be the vehicle of the coming of the word toward us, or, in Bultmann's own language, of «the decisive act of God in Jesus Christ.»

The decisive act in the enthronement of a Hebrew king was anointing his head with oil: therefore «the Lord's anointed» was a traditional title of the kings from the beginning of the Hebrew monarchy (I Sam 16:6 and often).

Even before the decisive act, one of his co-conspirators tells him he's getting paranoid, but adds: «It's healthier that way in the long run.»

High Dive not only takes us inside this audacious assassination attempt - a decisive act of violence on the world stage - but also imagines its way into a group of unforgettable characters.