An adequate Christian theology of history and revelation maintains that only by trusting in the promise of history, without either fleeing it or nullifying it, do we find a security proportionate to the incalculability of God's future, as well as to
our deepest human aspirations.
Not exact matches
He is reading St. Augustine in the light of his own phenomenology when he speaks of God entering into the
human heart unbidden and awakening its
deepest aspirations long before we have had any thought about God.
This question arose from Luther's
deep religious or existential insight into the inauthenticity of all
human works before God — an inauthenticity systematically denied by the sacramental rituals, dogmatic faith, and mystical
aspiration of traditional Christianity.
Aspirations that cut
deeper, that speak to
human dignity within a world of others, are stifled.
The alien tongue is literal, but it's also the ineffable vagaries of
human emotions and
aspirations that draws from a three word phrase: «I miss you» (a
deep, bitter draught of personal melancholy and longing).
Aeronautical and astronomical science,
deep - sea exploration, and extreme climatology are but some of the thematic arenas out of which Strachan creates performative allegories that tell of cultural displacement,
human aspiration, and mortal limitation.