A false security prevents us from making real our relationship to God, for the meeting with God takes place in the «lived concrete,» and lived concreteness exists only in so far as the moment retains its true
dialogical character of presentness and uniqueness.
It also prevents us from making real our relationship to God, for the meeting with God takes place in the «lived concrete,» and lived concreteness exists only in so far as the moment retains its true
dialogical character of presentness and uniqueness.
Human life touches on absoluteness in virtue of
its dialogical character, for in spite of his uniqueness man can never find, when he plunges to the depth of his life, a being that is whole in itself and as such touches on the absolute....
Thus these eternal truths aren't without a concrete historical index and they have an inner
dialogical character.
Not exact matches
In this modern vision, as in ancient gnosticism, the decline of real narrative has gone hand in hand with a blurring of the
dialogical or event -
character of man's existence and of the relation between God and Man.
It is only when the symbolical
character of subject - object knowledge is forgotten or remains undiscovered (as is often the case) that this «knowledge» ceases to point back toward the reality of direct
dialogical knowing and becomes instead an obstruction to it.
God's Power is Relational and Persuasive God's Power is Subservient to the healthy and
dialogical relationship God has with creation God's Power works through a Shared Vision God's power is not unilateral or demanding God's power is not definitive of God's
character (Bruce Epperly, «Divine Power — Unilateral or Relational?»