Sentences with phrase «divine transcendence»

Mention of divine responsiveness to the world takes us to a second meaning of divine transcendence.

Often biblical language concerning divine transcendence has implied, not simply that God is partially constituted by subjective feelings of her own, but that God has the power to exercise an effective influence in the world, particularly in times of crisis and particularly by offering new and hopeful possibilities for responding to such crises.

I do affirm divine transcendence as well as emphasize divine immanence.

The first is that it denies divine transcendence, and the second is that it violates traditional intuitions that God is personal.

Classical theism, with its identification of God with infinity, has developed a reputation for emphasizing divine transcendence to the point of making God nearly unknowable.

The text from the Catechism does not mention the Incarnation and focuses on created human nature, stating more carefully andsimply that, given divine transcendence as well as human sin, «man stands in need of being enlightened by God's revelation...»

It is an attack on divine transcendence that shares with his predecessors a veritable celebration of the death of the traditional God of theism.

The Primacy of Christ In our participation in an open, charitable dialogue which responds integrally to A Common Word we need to be prepared to invite the sort of qualification of divine transcendence which the Letter makes to be taken to the ultimate degree.

It tends to answer these questions in terms of complete divine transcendence, a mystical and pre-existent church (Una Sancta) which can do no wrong though its human agents can and do, and a sinful world in which the only absolute duty is to choose the course that is least wrong.

They are at once chastened by the pettiness of their worldly loves — and elevated by a sense of divine transcendence that unites them not just with Christ, but also with the highest achievements of Russian culture.

Traditionally, language concerning divine transcendence has often meant at least two things.

«Science is not wired to pick up any signals of divine transcendence, nor could it express such awareness in a measurable way.»

Judged by the dominant biblical understanding of divine transcendence, Otto's idea of the Holy (which Berger adopts) and Berger's sacred canopy are not transcendent at all!

Those who have abandoned the doctrine of the impassibility of God have generally been those who have lost the sense of the divine transcendence.

This is not to say, however, that a problem does not exist for those who do understand the divine transcendence.

Bonhoeffer, thus, brought to his «non-religious» project a resolutely non-metaphysical notion of divine transcendence.

The chief advantage of panentheism over traditional theism is that it more adequately describes the divine immanence in the world without compromising the divine transcendence.

The divine omnipresence means the divine Love's universal action; the divine omniscience means the divine Love's awareness of the depths and heights of possibility; the divine transcendence means the divine Love's utter inexhaustibility; the divine immanence means the divine Love's unfailing presence.

Such reasoning leads to a strong sense of the divine transcendence and of the Creator's real distinctness from his creation.

It is a prayer of personal address that most often conveys a sense of divine transcendence.

This is the understanding of divine transcendence that is most meaningful for people in oppressed situations.

The word God is a Christian word, and often when Christians use it, we refer, not to a relational Bodhisattva who adapts to each situation, but rather to a changeless and independent Consciousness who saves only Christians and who is cut off from the world by the boundaries of divine transcendence.

For instance, divine transcendence is expressed as spatial distance.

Thus it is not accidental that classical theism insists on a concept of God with no real relation to the world, even when this is interpreted as an affirmation of divine transcendence.

It makes a place for the sort of deism that when taken in separation from other ideas, tended to make God remote but also managed to assert the divine creatorhood and the divine transcendence.

And deliberate theological defense of revelation occurs only in an age that has come to doubt the reality of any divine transcendence at all.

Moltmann seeks to recapture the biblical notion of the future as the realm of divine transcendence.

The other (Order and History [1956 - 1987]-RRB-, which is much longer and generally seen as his major work, is a five - volume study of the rise and development of human awareness of divine transcendence, and of the resulting order in the soul and society; the first three volumes concentrate on ancient Israel and Greece, while the last two reach toward the modern world.

In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence.