Sentences with phrase «decisive act of»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

However, if one said, for example, that the question of Jesus» own intentions were a matter of total indifference, so that he possibly was deliberately deceptive in everything he did and said, could one still say in any meaningful sense that he was the decisive act of God?

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

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.

«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.

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.

I should wish, on the contrary, to say that the objective efficacy of the death of Christ lies in it being an act of God Incarnate directed towards man, placing him in a new relation to himself by a decisive act of acceptance.

Not exact matches

«The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) applauds the U.S. Senate for their decisive vote today to pass the 21st Century Cures Act and authorize funding for the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot and NIH Innovation Projects,» wrote the organization in a statement.

Earlier this year, the House of Representatives took decisive action and passed bipartisan reforms to the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA), an outdated law that currently requires sexual assault survivors to endure an antiquated and often expensive dispute resolution process.

This set of considerations led Yegor Gaidar, the acting Prime Minister and head of the economic team, to adopt a decisive end to price controls at the start of 1992.

This final reaction completes the self - creative act by putting the decisive stamp of creative emphasis upon the determinations of efficient cause.

The decisive and constantly repeated act of man is to separate this word from the one who speaks it and to try to make it his own.

It is indeed the focal point where that eternal attitude of love comes to a decisive and unique expression in the act of the Incarnate Son.

There certainly are for those who regard all language about an act of God or of a decisive, eschatological event as mythological.

But none of these ideas are essential to the nature of the expectation as an eschatological expectation; what is essential to that is the idea of a last, decisive, all - transforming act of God on behalf of 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.

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

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.

It follows by the same reasoning that his explanation of Jesus as the «decisive» act of God is not adequate.

it is in the message of the prophets that we first meet this conception, for it is in their message that we find the idea of a future act of God which will be decisive for the salvation of the people in a way in which his past acts on their behalf were not.

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.

But Jesus is special in that his words and deeds (e.g. his preaching and acts of healing, his fellowship with sinners and his death31) represent God's being and action in a decisive or normative fashion.

Thus, by making a formal - material distinction, one can combine a certain particularity and avoid the kind of conception of «decisive act» which Ogden would have to judge mythological.

Finally, if the foregoing is granted, there is no problem as to a «decisive» act of God.

A military attack that is not decisive opens the possibility that the US will have committed an act of war against the Syrian regime without actually securing victory.

This act of acceptance was the decisive turning - point for Zacchaeus.

In christological context, fulfillment terminology is used to assert that in Jesus of Nazareth, God acted in an ultimately decisive way in history; used in this way, fulfillment language reflects the fait accompli aspects of the Christian faith.

Alyosha, in the «conversion» scene after the death of Zossima, kisses the earth in an act that Dostoevsky intends to have decisive meaning for the youngest brother.

To return to the primitive kerygma, we recall that in it the expectation of the Lord's return was held in close association with a definite valuation of His ministry, death, and resurrection as constituting in themselves an eschatological process, that is, as a decisive manifestation of the mighty acts of God for the salvation of man.

Here is Bultmann's own answer: «There certainly are for those who regard all language about an act of God or of a decisive eschatological act as mythological.»

We may never be able to point to an act of self - sacrifice as the decisive moment in which the self is controlled by agape.

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.

He is freed to dream of God's decisive, unambiguous act to eradicate all evil, as the ambiguities of divine action in the historical process recede into the background.

To be genuine, however, freedom requires that, at least in some crucial instances of decision, the movement of the act of will be the decisive factor.

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).

«Contrary to your suggestion that I have acted prematurely, I am even more convinced of the need for very decisive and urgent action on the part of the Trust to comply with all your obligations and remedy the serious failings at the school.»

If the Acting President is not courageous and decisive enough to put everyone in their place, or he is so gentlemanly as to avoid direct confrontation, then he will be consigned to the bin of history.

He told the workers to adopt new work ethics to regain public confidence and warned of swift and decisive action against acts of indiscipline.

I am afraid that Howard Flight was not even a household name in his own household, and Michael Howard's decisive action in his case was one of many acts for which the Party must be grateful.

Zinc acts as an antioxidant and is involved in some of the biochemically decisive reactions in the body, including protein synthesis, enzymatic function, and carbohydrate metabolism.

In the formative period of Islam, madrasas acted as supporters of the Islamdom and played decisive role in aiding the administrative machinery.

«Contrary to your suggestion that I have acted prematurely, I am even more convinced of the need for very decisive and urgent action on the part of the trust to comply with all your obligations and remedy the serious failings at the school.»

On December 22, 2008, Drs. Horovitz and Chahine issued a letter to stockholders underscoring the Board's and management's commitment to act in the best interests of Avigen's stockholders and emphasizing the swift and decisive actions already taken to preserve cash since the AV650 announcement.

An opportunity to finally make some noise and drum up some real excitement beyond existing fans... and a company infamous for being sluggish and slow - to - act suddenly galvanised into a flurry of decisive action.

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.