Sentences with phrase «divine human connection»

Not exact matches

No doubt more than one sermon drew comparisons between divine fatherhood and human fatherhood, even though doing so is fraught with challenges for the American Christian given the historical connection to....

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.»

Appraisal, he tells us, involves discerning (1) the ontological features of the human, especially in its relation to the divine, (2) what is «enduring, true and real» about the tradition, (3) what this truth implies for concrete «choices, styles, patterns and obligations» of life, and (4) the connection between these different levels of truth in the tradition and concrete situations that we confront in our everyday life.

This relationship becomes luminous and unquestionable only when the word is spoken by a witness — that is, by one who explicitly makes the connection between the divine and the human word.

In this case we will use the simile of divine relations to human connections.

One priest asked Pope Benedict if he felt that reason and aesthetics should not go together given that «in your address in Regensburg, you emphasised the substantial connection between the divine Spirit and human reason.

Under such a theology, sexuality will be understood as intrinsic to the divine - human connection, as one of the great arenas for celebrating the Source of Life.

To this end, the editors have included essays dealing with the historical connections between Wesleyan and process theology, the God - human relationship, the doctrine of the Trinity, concepts of divine power, epistemology, aesthetics, and the appropriate human responses to divine grace.

Sure there are always the religious types that like to remind you that they have «connections» with the divine, but for the most part I think someone who is truly at their lowest and most humble state simply becomes an unpretentious human capable of reaching out to others in support.