Sentences with phrase «divine graciousness»

Consider the following example of how divine graciousness may be linked with historical concreteness.

Historicity signals limits within the economy of salvation, and an increase in the status of the monastic institution: divine graciousness calls for the transcendence of history and dependence upon social institutions.

Not exact matches

The point is not human accomplishment or failure but God's compassion and graciousness, the divine generosity which opens the story up when human rejection and anger would close it down.

The divine drama of graciousness, focused in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, is unintelligible apart from its background in Israel and its continual unfolding in the life of those gathered, built up and sent forth in God's name.