Sentences with phrase «divine essence»

Just as aches in our stomachs are part of who and what we are, even though they are not emanations of our intentions, so aches in the world are part of who and what God is, even though they are not emanations of divine essence.

He did not substantially advance the Cappadocians» formulation of the doctrine of one divine essence in three «persons» or hypostases, nor was his grasp of the Greek language all that strong, 15 though he did champion emphatically the overarching significance of the unity of the three.

But he states expressly that three distinct Persons dwell in that same single divine essence, namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Divorcing these phrases from their metaphysical and divine essence leaves them frothy and stale.

Thomas Hopko presents an Orthodox perspective, exploring the implications of the Cappadocian distinction between the unknowable divine essence and the three concrete persons of the Trinity.

Therefore there are three distinct Persons, equal in glory and majesty; yet there is only one divine essence....

«The divine essence contains in itself the excellences of all beings, not indeed by way of composition, but by way of perfection.»

In the other passage, St. Thomas does address divine mercy and justice, but he is talking about God's work towards creation, so those passages aren't directly relevant to the question of the divine essence considered in itself.

It is of the divine essence to give itself completely away to the world.

Whitehead's division of the divine essence into a primordial nature that values eternal objects and a consequent nature that prehends the world is different, but it is similar in that there is an element unrelated to the world and one that is related to the world.

Analogously, the idea that the world is God's body need not suggest that the world is an expression of the divine essence.

He attempted to challenge the metaphysical foundations of traditional Christian theology by arguing in favor of the reality of change and development, of temporality and contingency, within the divine essence.

Rather than saying that God loves the world because it expresses the divine essence, the relational panentheist can say that God, like a divine Lover or Friend, loves the world because the world is lovable (McFague, 130 - 36).

Had these theologians said that the attributes were mere intelligible relations qualifying the Essence, or mere names with which God has described Himself, the question as to their identity or nonidentity with the divine Essence and the other question as to their eternity or temporality would not have arisen.

The positive ones are either reduced to negations or denied as separate entities distinct from or added to the divine Essence.

To talk about an eternal attribute which is different from the divine Essence but coexistent with it is to personify it and give it the status of a substance — a position very similar to that of the Christian Trinity.

Further, if «necessary existence» must be part of the divine essence, and Hartshorne says it must, then Hartshorne's concept of God can not be an adequate concept of God.

When LaCugna contends that the economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity and vice versa, or that God's energies express the divine essence, she is saying that God's way of being in relationship with us is God's personhood.

At one and the same time he is the truest of believers and the most arrant atheist; these polar extremes are convincingly portrayed in the characters of his novels, though he himself remained unconvinced and undecided; we are shown, on the one hand, abject humility and the craving to become absorbed into the divine essence, and, on the other, the magnificent pride of being God oneself.

In the history of Israel and in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, Christians believe that God who is present to the world everywhere and at all times manifests the divine essence in a unique and definitive way.

In love man does not gain infinite spiritual value and thereby obtain a share in the divine essence; love is simply the requirement of obedience and shows how this obedience can and ought to be practised in the concrete situation in which man is bound to man.

But at first glance it seems inconceivable that those who profess faith in one God or one divine essence can combine with it a spirit of mutual estrangement and hostility.

Now if it is true that I can not fully express the thoughts of my heart, how many thousand times less will it be possible for me to understand or to express the Word or conversation in which God engages within his divine being... God, too, in his majesty, is pregnant with a Word or a conversation in which he engages with himself in his divine essence and which reflects the thoughts of his heart... It is an invisible and incomprehensible conversation.

As a yogi, ask yourself if you are doing this by rote or are you truly connecting to the higher, divine essence of this greeting?

The mystery of fire, air water, sound, color and light will be uncovered and this knowledge will help humanity to understand our true nature and our divine essence» (1)

The Church of the East was a Persian branch of Christianity that followed the thinking of Nestorius, a 5th century Archbishop of Constantinople who believed that Jesus's human and divine essences were separate not joined and thus challenged the title of Mary as Theotokos (literally, Bearer of God).

The seemingly magical power of herbs endowed them with a divine essence to the mind of early humans.

The ten vessels of the divine essence are in the form of the lead markers attached to the shelf.