Sentences with phrase «divine form of love»

What's more, the emotional bond between kids and parents is a divine form of love.

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(n. 29) «Therefore, the priest's life ought to radiate this spousal character which demands that he be a witness to Christ's spousal love, and thus be capable of loving people with a heart which is new, generous and pure, with genuine self - detachment, with full, constant and faithful dedication and at the same time with a kind of «divine jealousy» (cf. 2 Cor 11:2)-- and even with a kind of maternal tenderness, capable of bearing the «pangs of birth» until «Christ be formed» in thefaithful (cf. Gal 4:19).

be a witness to Christ's spousal love, and thus be capable of loving people with a heart which is new, generous and pure, with genuine self - detachment, with full, constant and faithful dedication and at the same time with a kind of «divine jealousy» (cf. 2 Cor 11:2)-- and even with a kind of maternal tenderness, capable of bearing the «pangs of birth» until «Christ be formed» in the faithful (cf. Gal 4:19).

Every other form of revelation would be a deception from the standpoint of the divine love.

One can still find this emphasis on divine immanence in writers formed by Pentecostalism like James Baldwin, who equated it with the outworking of love in human life.

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Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»

We can counter by asking why political transactions, or forms of religious sacrifice, or ransom payments are more able to bear the freight of the divine meaning than are the personal relationships of love, betrayal and forgiveness.

Otto himself correlated this polarity with the tension between divine wrath and divine love, which is undoubtedly a characteristic form of interpretation in the West.

According to the writer, divine love may take the form of a zornige Liebe, a «wrathful love.»

It places pleasure above love, health and well - being above the sacredness of life, the participation of special interests groups in governance above democratic representation, women's rights above motherhood, the empowerment of the selfish individual above any form of legitimate authority, ethics above morality, the right to choose above the eternal law written in the human heart, democracy and humanism above divine revelation — in a nutshell, immanence above transcendence, man above God, the «world» above «heaven».

The tendency there has been in Christian thought, from quite near the beginning, to depreciate the true humanity of Jesus and to turn him into a divine being, appearing temporarily in the form of man, fails to do justice to the magnificence, indeed the perfection, of that portrayal of love in the human scene.

Alex has vague notions of his inadequacies as a man and as a father to his sons, but God knows what the root causes of these failings are and seeks to form him in love - divine love, a Father's love which will do anything for the sake of the well - being of his children.

Where that intention is present in any form we will speak of the presence of love.4 In the divine life, that intention is always present, for God is spirit.