Sentences with phrase «divine majesty»

Had not our Lord divested himself of his divine majesty when he entered the world as a poor baby to reveal God to humanity?

Within Christianity, the theme of divine majesty is celebrated most characteristically in the Reformed tradition.

Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, we thy humble servants do celebrate and make here before thy divine majesty, with these thy holy gifts which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make, having in remembrance his blessed Passion and precious Death, his mighty Resurrection and glorious Ascension, rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.

Moreover, every legitimate celebration of the Eucharist is regulated by the bishop, to whom is confided the duty of presenting to the divine majesty the cult of the Christian religion and of ordering it in accordance with the Lord's injunctions and the Church's regulations, as further defined for the diocese by his particular decision (48 - 49; 54 - 55).

The Fathers spoke of the Incarnation as the plenary manifestation of the divine majesty, citing Titus 2:11 and 3:4 [30] and Revelation 3:14 (see also 2 Corinthians 1:20) where Christ is named as the great «Amen».

True, his panentheistic deity does possess a certain degree of divine majesty, but it is attenuated in form.

There are some persons — both theologians and laymen — who object to saying bluntly, «God is a person,» To them, such a statement seems to detract from his divine majesty and to make him too much like ourselves.

There is for them only one God — he is holy, his land is holy, his nation is to be a holy people — and while the indiscriminate mixture of moral and ceremonial elements carries over old ideas even while it ventures into new ones, there is an evident elevation of the idea of holiness into terms of the divine majesty, and of the Most High's exclusive claim on man s devotion.

As Basil the Great put it, the Holy Spirit reaches down from the divine majesty to graft believers into the Holy Trinity by dwelling in them.

Not exact matches

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

Wonder and awe before the majesty of the Creator, answering a high call to service, being transformed by a Power greater than our own, being aware of a Presence in whose fellowship we find our strength, being reinforced by the divine help so that we triumph over trouble, opening our lives to inspired hours when the best seems the most real — all these are responses to revelations of reality above and beyond ourselves, but nowhere is such revelation so compelling as when it comes incarnate in a person.

They brought the majesty and otherness of God down to earth and allowed ordinary men and women to see and touch the divine.

Nevertheless, in the very name of the Incarnation itself, and the majesty of divine wisdom contained within that economy of human salvation, we insist urgently upon the fact that the birth of Christ is the summit not only of theology and philosophy, but of the material sciences as well.

Even the remembrance of the original glory and majesty of God roots the Christian in the past, inducing him to evade the self - emptying negativity of a fully incarnate divine process, and to flee from the Christ who is actual and real in our present.