Sentences with phrase «divine person through»

By postulating the existence of two natures in this one person, the Doctrine of the Incarnation allowed one to say that the suffering of Jesus as reported in the Gospels was experienced by the one human - and - divine person through his human nature, which avoided a run - in with the prevailing wisdom of the time.

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I gradually began to see that Christianity is not about solitary seekers after truth who just get together once in a while for a chat: other people are very much part of the divine scheme of things — even scripture has come down to us through the agency of other people.

Although I've read about how God has given people divine revelations through their dreams, I honestly didn't believe...

At the end of the day, even a figure like Thomas Carlyle, whom Taylor sees as part of the problem, retains the emphasis on divine immanence and God at work in the people, primarily through the hero who moves history forward.

Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»

Concludes Wright: «It is as though... «the word of the YHWH» is like an enormous reservoir, full of creative divine wisdom and power, into which the prophets and other writers tap by God's call and grace, so that the word may flow through them to do God's work of flooding or irrigating his people.»

This is also the genius of the Reformed Baptist movement, with its stress on divine sovereignty in salvation and the continuity of God's elect people through the ages.

Whether he dealt with women, children, or slaves, whether the persons in need were Jew, Roman, Syro - Phoenician, or Samaritan, whether he associated with «respectable» people or social outcasts, whether he was illustrating true neighborliness by the story of the good Samaritan or declaring the principle of divine judgment on the basis of «as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren» — all persons were of equal and supreme worth to him because he saw them through the eyes of God.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

The history of the Old Testament, as we have traced it, consists of alternating phases of crisis and development, through which Israel is shaped, under the divine providence, into a people of God.

Our destiny is to be in God but whether this is negative or positive will depend upon the openness of the human person to the divine Love and the expression of that Love in and through the affairs of our daily living.

They insisted that God works in history, and works through a community dedicated to his purpose, a «people of God» or divine commonwealth, Israel was intended to be such a people; that was its raison d'étre.

If to Peter was given in the power of the keys, a humble and utterly steadfast courage in keeping and expressing the doctrine of Christ, and to Paul was given the understanding to a supreme degree of the philosophical and theological evolution through time of the Mystery of the divine Economy in Christ, to John was given in an especial degree the intuition in recognition and love of the Divine Person in Himself.

St. Paul's Letter to the Romans gives it classical articulation in the Christian Bible: «For all alike have sinned, and are deprived of the divine glory, and all are justified by God's free grace alone, through God's act of liberation in the person of Christ Jesus» (Rom.

In traditional Western thinking, people derived the virtue to obey the law because God, the Supreme Lawgiver, issued it through the king, who ruled by divine right.

That is, the potential for human transformation that God, the «Father», unilaterally made available through Jesus Christ, the «Son», can not become a reality without the continuous energizing activity of this distinct, equally divine, third person of the Trinity.

But they traced through the tragic life of their people the divine working of judgment, of healing, and of mercy, and they recognized the Lordship of the righteous God over all life.

God is the master of Science, he communicates with people through divine intervention and the Holy Spirit.

While the prophets were announcing these great messages of moral responsibility, of impending doom if these were evaded, and of the hope of divine deliverance of the faithful remnant through the coming Messiah, the political fortunes of the people were anything but such as to nourish this hope.

[2] One canget a glimpse of how far this can go in some of the more extreme interpretations of Maximus the Confessor, in which it is suggested that, without the fall, the Incarnation would not have taken place in the person of Jesus, but in a «universal» incarnation in human nature through man's free co-operation with divine grace.

But although the God of Israel was identified with the one God of all monotheistic religions, divine self - revelation through the history and experience of the Jewish people had given this God, as we have just noted, a special quality.

Paganism, at least, believes in a natural law, and it is an easy jump from there, says C. S. Lewis, to teach people the divine law as recorded in Scripture and revealed through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

First, we must remember that in Scripture, and especially in Pauline theology, Jesus Christ is the ultimate elect one, and individual people become elect, not through an eternal divine decree from God, but by joining with Christ by faith.

Make us to love; move in upon us, work through us, put pressure on our little selfish lives, so that we may love «that which thou dost command» — the things, the places, the times, the persons, the circumstances in which God has sent us, the whole realm of the divine ordering of things.

It is expressed by that symbol of the divine presence, the pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night, which accompanies the people on their way through the desert.

11 In God's covenant with Moses and, through Moses, with the people of the exodus, the being of God acquired «an explicitly personal character» 12 that countered anthropomorphizing tendencies «primarily through the experience of the infinite superiority of the divine nature to all merely human attributes and capacities — an experience which marks every encounter with the divine in the Old Testament.»

The way we can most deeply participate in a divine fullness that literally overflows our finite capacities is through mutual indwelling with other persons.

Whereas in archaic society ordinary people relate to the divine through the mediation of the divine king, once the historic religions arise there can be a direct relation to the divine, unmediated by political authority.

They are to be honored in acknowledgment of God's claim upon every individual life, in acknowledgment that all life is his and therefore sacred; and that the holiness of life can best be affirmed by honoring and respecting those two persons through whose combined life the divine image and animating breath are given.

God summoned the nations to divine blessing mediated through Israel, but also used the nations to punish the chosen people.

Shi`a is based on the belief that to reach truth one must have an infallible teacher in the person of the Imam, the carrier of the divine light - spark transmitted from Adam through Muhammad and his cousin and son - in - law, Ali, and the descendants of Ali.

Luiz Ruscillo FAITH Magazine January - February 2007 Christ the Fulfilment of Wisdom «The Church, as early as apostolic times, and then constantly inher Tradition, has illuminated the unity of the divine plan in the twoTestaments through typology, which discerns in God's works of the OldCovenant prefigurations of what he accomplished in the fullness of timein the person of his incarnate son.»

She feels inspired through the divine spirit and loves working with rural women who have played a key role in helping her impart ethnic healing practices to people from all walks of life.

A sacred relationship is a relationship in which we are inspired to see the divine in another person, to experience oneness through the union of two.

As it is, The Water Diviner rushes the audience through several stories and psychic adventures without letting us get to know a single place or person well enough to emotionally bond with them.

Alloy is aware that the world of the past isn't as divine as the people who surround her think it is, but she rarely questions them or tries to convince them that they're seeing the world through the wrong lens.