Sentences with phrase «divine summons»

This is evidenced in such things as Barth's eschatologically oriented framework of creation, reconciliation and redemption; his focus on promise and hope rather than the present possession of God's reign; the reconfiguration of experience as a determination toward the future; the placing of the divine summons to action — the ethical life — at the summit of each volume of his doctrinal work; and, above all, his refusal to make his theology an apology for Christendom or to give priority to the established church.

For it is only by hearing and answering the divine summons, by participating in my calling, that I can come to know who I am.

Especially for us, devoted as we are to authenticity and autonomy, the divine summons to obedience may seem to have left Aeneas diminished rather than enhanced.

And now, if he is to answer the divine summons, he must turn from image to reality.

More important still, this sanctifying of ordinary work, this sense that it becomes exalted if only approached in the right spirit, may cause us to forget that a divine summons must not only hallow but also transform whatever we do.

When the difference between a carpenter and a Christian carpenter, a historian and a Christian historian, a father and a Christian father, an artist and a Christian artist, a soldier and a Christian soldier — when all these differences are reduced to a matter of the «spirit» in which the work is done, we are well on our way to making the divine summons largely irrelevant.

In their recent book, Heroism and the Christian Life, Brian Hook and Russell Reno have noted how Vergil's poem, certainly one of the formative epics of our culture, compels us to ponder what is the deepest problem in the idea of a vocation — namely, whether obedience to a divine summons diminishes or enhances the one who has been called.

The divine summons — which wounds even as it lures.

The calling, Brunner makes clear, is not only that situation in which we work; but it is that divine summons which comes to us where we are and in obedience to which we find the meaning of life.

If Western Christians observe how our unjust economic structures produce suffering and starvation, they can not fail to hear a divine summons to revolution.

Not exact matches

But sometimes we earthlings can not get much further in our thinking about such things as love, fidelity, commitment and caring than to summon forth the image of some mama somewhere who will always be for us the concrete human experience of such divine ideas.

We are summoned in the Lutheran perspective to divine obedience and neighborly service within the framework of concrete human historical structures, as questionable and ambiguous as they always are.

They are summoned to continue the chain by rearing their children looking up to the sacred and the divine, by initiating them into God's chosen ways.

Reminders of the transcendence of God could be a helpful corrective: We can not bend God's will to serve our visions of the perfect human society, nor can we summon divine favor through incantations of equality.

By the same token the summons of our human existence can not be to overcome the division of being and reality in order to let the divine take seed, grow, and ripen in the perceptible world.

According to the apostolic witness, the call to holiness begins with divine election: God's summons to Israel, and later to the Church, to be a holy nation, a people set apart as God's own treasured possession, called to worship, witness, and good works (see Ephesians 1:4, 1 Peter 2:9).

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.

Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.

Christians for whom the divine purpose requires a political community that fashions and draws out our common humanity are summoned to join in the search for appropriate ways to regulate the role of money in political campaigns.

But it is the same even with historical interpretation of testimonies; the sort of tribunal before which witnesses are summoned and the sort of trial by which testimony gives proof are placed under the same categories of the modality of judgment as the criteriology of the divine.

The prophets summon the nation to fulfil its obligations under the divine justice.

Christ summons us to complete the divine drama.

These same divine attributes support us in the partnership to which our loving God summons us.

Baseball is an instance of what the later Neoplatonists called «theurgy»: a mimetic or prophetic rite that summons (or invites) the divine graciously to descend from eternity and grant a glimpse of itself within time.

Once you are convinced that pleas for divine aid are merely soliloquies that serve to clarify your own motives and perhaps to summon up your resolution to act, prayer as a genuine dialogue, a pleading before God, evaporates.

Henri de Lubac loved the Church: «She summons all men so that as their mother she may bring them forth to divine life and eternal light» (Catholicism: 24, 1950).

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

Set in northern Wales in the 14th century, the series stars Lee Jones as Wilkin Brattle, a former knight who's summoned by a divine messenger to become a journeyman executioner.

Wage divine war by summoning the Gods to a full 3D battlefield.

His earliest works implanted mystical totems such as the tooth fairy and Jesus Christ into banal interiors, summoning divine intervention that acquires humor from its proximity to reality.