Sentences with phrase «divine election»

This was defended not only by political and economic power but also by theological claims of divine election.

Success in business was taken as a mark of divine election.

According to the apostolic witness, the call to holiness begins with divine election: God's summons to Israel, and later to the Church, to be a holy nation, a people set apart as God's own treasured possession, called to worship, witness, and good works (see Ephesians 1:4, 1 Peter 2:9).

Perhaps, these two lessons in fact are the same: Ethnocentric perversion of the concept of divine election destroyed both the Jewish communities of Europe and the influence of the Church.

It is because Christian claims begin withthe divine election of the Jews that the Jews are so important in world history.

Since many Calvinists equate divine election with God's sovereign choice of whom He will regenerate, it is sometimes thought that everyone whom God «chooses» will also be sovereignly regenerated by God.

In my journey to Calvinism (which was not at all easy) and in numerous conversations with those struggling with the Bible's teaching on divine election and absolute sovereignty, it doesn't take long to encounter two fundamental questions: (1) If this is true, then how is God just?

Traditional Western theology treats particularity as a problem in divine providence, or even as an issue in divine election: why should God's knowledge and mission be restricted to particular segments of human history?

Its true center, he saw, lay in obedience to God's law, not in feasts, solemn assemblies, and burnt offerings, and divine election meant election to moral responsibility.

Quite the contrary, what is more general is lower on that scale of value, a point that Jews who affirm the divine election of Israel and Christians who affirm the Incarnation can readily understand.

The divine election of Abraham stands as a constant reminder of her own election.

Israel also understands that Abraham's response is her own appropriate response to divine election.

Yet in spite of the fact that the Jewish people have struggled endlessly against their election, with the most disastrous consequences for themselves and for the rest of humankind, the divine election remains unaffected because it is an unconditional one, based solely on God's love.

Perhaps Roman Catholics might be expected to understand this more readily than Protestants, since Catholicism is likewise a system of piety; but at the same time Roman Catholicism has also a rigid system of theology and a rigid canon law, while Judaism was almost totally lacking in theology, at least beyond the main and fundamental tenets of monotheism, revelation, the spirituality and the sovereignty of God, and the divine election of Israel.

The phrases «your Father» and «your brother» were often on his lips.4 Paul by stressing the acquisition of sonship by acceptance of Christ, and circumscribing this still further by a doctrine of divine election (Rom.

Though Gellman's partiality in his selection of sources and his consequent lack of interest in engaging the full range of Jewish tradition and its interpreters keep him from leading us deeper into the mystery of Jewish particularity, this concise, sincere book does much to advance our confrontation of its source: divine election.

That the center of our own religious history is also the sole hope of salvation for the rest of humanity could be a miracle of divine election, but to the rest of the world it looks like another example of the Western will to dominate.

Glory is unequal, hierarchically distributed as in a Fra Angelico painting, for the relationship between God and humankind is not a generic condition but a person - specific one, composed of divine election and our free response.