Sentences with phrase «divine purpose of creation»

The Christian approach would ideally include the desire to uncover and probe the goodness, beauty and divine purpose of creation, as well as an emphasis upon the pre-eminence of love among men and the dire effects of sin on creation in general (see Romans 8.22) and on men in particular.

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Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in human existence, and the assurance that our human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.

His purposes for institutions are in this sense akin to his purposes; for other inanimate or nonhuman portions of the creation, They are: necessary conditions instrumental for the fulfillment of human aims and of the divine aims for human beings.

In fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realized.

This destiny is seen as the consummation of the creation and as the realization of the divine purpose for the world.

It was perhaps already in contact with speculations regarding the divine purpose in the creation of the world, the angelic powers, the figures of Adam, Death, Satan or Antichrist, the Heavenly Man, the coming salvation, the relation of spirit and flesh, soul and body — speculations which were at least tinged, no doubt, with Gnosticism.

And in accomplishing the divine purpose, there is complete respect for, and a valuing and employment of, the creation's own dignity and freedom, its responsibility for decisions, and its capacity to act as a genuine cause in the total advance.

To have faith that love is at the heart of the universe, that the whole scheme of things is conceived in wisdom and goodwill, that a divine purpose underlies creation and makes the ultimate victory of good over evil a foregone conclusion — that, you say, is obviously a most comforting and enheartening philosophy.

All of creation works and functions together toward a common divine purpose and goal, and yet it does this with incredible diversity.

The divine purpose and the divine management can not be violated or even momentarily frustrated by the behavior, intentional or unwitting, of any part of creation» («Creation and Providence» in Christian Theology, edited by Peter C. Hodgson and Robert H. King [Fortress, 19821, creation» («Creation and Providence» in Christian Theology, edited by Peter C. Hodgson and Robert H. King [Fortress, 19821, Creation and Providence» in Christian Theology, edited by Peter C. Hodgson and Robert H. King [Fortress, 19821, p. 120).

As Hartshorne has insisted, God is not made more divine by that satisfaction, but his deity is given a real enhancement and a genuine delight by what happens in creation; furthermore, the implementation of his purposes is made fuller by these happenings.

In so doing, these agents will not only fulfil their own possibility; they will also bring enrichment to the divine life — not that God will become any more God than before, but that by virtue of the divine receptivity of what is accomplished in the creation there will be further opportunities for more adequate and complete expression of the divine intention or purpose which is at work in the whole enterprise.