Sentences with phrase «divine vindication»

When Judas left, Jesus spoke of his impending glorifica tion, associating thereby the shame of the cross with divine vindication.

The death of the martyrs, in other words, was believed already to contain, in their act of self - denial and sacrifice, the certainty of divine vindication.

If they were trying to understand the ultimate destiny of the crucified Jesus, then such passages as lent themselves to relevant reinterpretation might have led to a conviction in the divine vindication and heavenly exaltation of the crucified Jesus.

Not exact matches

Thus, Soulen argues, «Reverence for the divine name, expressed by its nonpronunciation, is the very wellspring of Jesus» speech, a token of his longing for the eschatological vindication of God's name [and] the silent source from which all his audible speech flows.»

Furthermore, this plain truth that we are organic psychosomatic «becomings» provides a natural reason for the use of sacramental means of worship and Christian nurture, as well as a vindication of the traditional emphasis on the eucharist or Holy Communion as central in our relationship, as Christian people, with the divine reality in whom alone we can find genuine fulfillment of our creaturely potentiality.

The 62nd chapter of Isaiah begins with a wedding metaphor; the vindication of the divine will mean that Judah is no longer forsaken or desolate, for Judah will be the bride of none other than the Holy One.