Sentences with phrase «decisive human events»
Nevertheless, it is a fascinating history of the life and thought of a great people over a period of twelve hundred years of decisive human events.
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Biblical prophets all across the land are indeed making «minute predictions about events in world history,» that God's climactic and decisive intervention in human affairs is about to occur.
They welcome emergent events, whether predicted or not, as confirmation that God's climactic and decisive intervention in human affairs is about to occur.
The final decisive event of human history had occurred.
The cross is certainly a many - sided event and symbol, and contexts alter meanings; but in our context at least, I believe, it should be seen primarily, not as a divinely managed human sacrifice to a righteously wrathful God but as God's own solidarity with the creature and the decisive statement of One who would be «with us» unreservedly.
It has been necessary to see what may be made of the «resurrection» about which the New Testament speaks, both in respect to Jesus Christ as the decisive event in the story of that divine - human relationship and also in respect to the human side of the matter, where you and I may fit in and have our part and place.
Rather, it has been to point to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the decisive revelation of human violence as the generating event behind all human culture, including those human cultures that consider themselves «Christian.»
In this meeting of two human beings, decisive events occurred which changed the direction of a man's existence — turning him toward life, opening his eyes to the world around him, and beginning his relationship with «Someone greater than myself.»
If God did in fact make a unique and supreme revelation of himself in that event; if God was actually in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; if something of decisive importance for humanity really happened in connection with the life and death of Jesus, however different may be the theological terms in which we attempt to express that meaning — if this is our faith, the church becomes immeasurably the most significant of human communities, for it was within its experience that the revealing event first occurred and it is in its experience that the meaning of that event has been conveyed from one generation to another.
Where this sense of the interrelatedness of history and deity is present and where its role is decisive to the utterance or the person, or to the understanding of historical event or human relationship there is prophetism.