Sentences with phrase «divine persons of»

My own trinitarian conception of the God - world relationship, as expressed in previous publications, lends itself even more dramatically to a field - oriented understanding of the God - world relationship since it makes clear how the three divine persons of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity can be said to possess a field proper to their own divine being which likewise serves as the «matrix» or ontological ground for the field of activity proper to creation (see, for example, The Divine Matrix 52 - 69 and «Panentheism from a Process Perspective»).

Another point about the common tradition that requires note if we are to make progress toward sorting out the relation between authority and office is that, within it, authority is a term that is applied in a proper sense only to persons, either the divine Persons of the Trinity or human persons who act on God's behalf.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

From this creative will comes a human nature taken from Jesus» human mother that is personified by, exists in, is «enhypostatised» by the divine person of the Logos.

The full human nature, his body, his soul and his human will exists in the divine person of the Logos.

In the fullness of time, they will reach their culmination in the divinity and humanity of Christ, united in the divine person of God the Son, which shines out on Mount Tabor.

Perhaps he relies too much on twentieth - century Anglo - American scholarship, but his work will prove helpful for any reader interested in the first two centuries of Christianity, particularly in the question of how unwavering devotion to the divine person of Jesus so rapidly became a sine qua non of the first believers» lives.

Not exact matches

Carefully controlled experiments not only attempted to divine the shape of a demand curve — which shows just how much of a product people will buy as you keep raising the price, allowing retailers to find the optimal, profit - maximizing figure.

God will cause them to suffer in due course, but you know — God just doesn't smite people the way He used to and sometimes one can just get sick and tired of waiting for divine justice.

a) that the bible is an imperfect human representation of gods word b) that the bible is a mixture of mythology and divine inspiration c) that the bible was created in a way that people would understand at the time and intended to be updated d) that a pure message was corrupted intentionally by evil humans or spirits

Just think of their horror of finding out that people just stop when they die, nothing more, and all the divine punishment they so dearly love just does not happen.

Of those, God told one to steal a car and go to Minnesota to receive divine blessings (stopped by police on the way); another was «told» to spend all her money on a plane ticket as there was a grant waiting for her in another state to go to college with (there wasn't, and she had to call relatives to rescue her); another was told to cut himself; another was told to harm people (but only avoided doing this because he called police and was put inpatient).

Maybe Jesus and Muhammad existed as people in ancient cultures but not in any way as divine beings or messengers or sons of someone's God.

I really get a good laugh from people like this who try to discredit the faith of those who CHOOSE to believe in God and in a divine creator.

«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your religious texts were written by human beings without any kind of «divine inspiration» regardless of what you read in them... written by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.

The Catholic Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - style.

Point of fact — Whether you believe Jesus was divine or not, he was a historical person who did exist.

The site promotes «the literal existence of Adam and Eve as the progenitors of all people, the literal fall and resultant divine curse on the creation, the worldwide cataclysmic deluge, and the origin of nations and languages at the tower of Babel.»

hen discussing the possible existence of objective (divine) «truths», people like truthfollower / Theo appeal to their audience with various examples attempting to get the reader to agree to a non-qualifed value of «evil / incorrect / bad / good», as if this will lock in an agreement of an objective «truth» value (without it being explicitly specified).

people really need to study the bible — not for Christianity sake but for theirs - the athiest would like everyone to understand them and used this phrase — But when I explain that atheism is central to my worldview — that I am in awe of the natural world and that I believe it is up to human beings, instead of a divine force, to strive to address our problems — they often better understand my views, even if we don't agree.

You even believe your particular interpretations of your divine book are more correct than other people's.

(Psalm 14), and Paul wrote «For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.»

If someone believes that the only alternatives are that God is a personal super-designer of the cosmos, a kind of cosmic Steve Jobs, or the whole show was put together by evolution over billions of years, how could one possibly convince this person that the natural law is part of the divine providence for the cosmos?

I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

The two sections are obviously related: Since all three persons of the Trinity share the one divine nature, what is true of the divine nature will be true of each of the persons.

If a person thinks that nature is wholly corrupt, that there is no natural morality knowable by human reason, that grace completely supplants nature, that the basis of morality is the divine command and not the essences of things as created by God — and some Protestant theologians can plausibly be read as having said such things — then all bets are off.

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.

Denying the divine origins of the human person, our government has withdrawn the law's protection from unborn children in the womb» the most absolutely innocent and defenseless members of our human family.

Some people need to believe that there is a divine being waiting at the end of your life that will punish or reward you for how you lived.

I think Jesus was some guy who did a lot of good things, but people got carried away and started believing he was divine.

The emphasis has characteristically been on «a theology of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity and existence of divine beings, divine activity in history and nature, the purpose and destiny of human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to others called «persons.»

able to create the universe in his divine ability, but can't stop someone from drinking a six pack of mickey's and plowing into an innocent person killing them.

It is not as if matter has been invested with some divine quality in its own right — that would indeed be a magical understanding — rather it is the dynamic, Spirit filled presence of the Christ in an enfleshed relationship with his People that constitutes the principle of sacramental life - giving empowerment.

Our Lord is the fulfilment of ancient typology, and as a truly divine person.

(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).

The whole divine - human experience of God's taking on human nature in one person is an exemplar of suffering that works itself out in multiple dimensions of obedience.

In a line that John Paul never tired in quoting, we read that there is «certain similarity between the union of the divine persons and union of God's children in truth and love.

Persons are dignified because God's personhood dwells within them, and persons are free because they participate in the gift of divine fPersons are dignified because God's personhood dwells within them, and persons are free because they participate in the gift of divine fpersons are free because they participate in the gift of divine freedom.

A hallmark of the Catholic tradition is that God's existence (though not His Trinitarian nature), the existence of the incorporeal soul (though not the nature of the after life and the beatific vision), the nature of the human person (though not the full truth about the indwelling of grace), and the natural law are all accessible to us without divine Revelation.

When we talk about the actions of Jesus we need to be careful because He has two natures — He is fully divine and fully human — even though He is only one, divine Person — God the Son, the second Person of the Trinity.

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).

There are all sorts of ways even ordinary people can BS a «resurrection» — and besides, Lazarus was raised from the dead, and no one claims he was divine.

It reminds Israel's people of their divine origin, of being created and formed by Yahweh.

It did not require each person to proclaim a reading, hold up a banner or do a dance; active participation in the divine work celebrated at the altar meant something deeper for St Paul, as indeed for the Fathers of the first five centuries of the life of the Church.

[16] It may seem as if we are now relying on divine Revelation, but in speaking of God as the creator of human persons, we remain within the purview of the natural law.

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.

The final transformation of society requires a divine in - breaking in the earthly polis akin to Spirit baptism's dramatic upheaval in the person.

And not just Jesus: A whole gospel in all of its theological details — right down to debates about baptism, the relationship of law to grace, and the problem of divine foreknowledge — is taught to the people of the New World centuries before Jesus was even born.