Sentences with phrase «embodiment of divine»

«In the mind of the theologian of the Prologue the creative word of God, the word of the Lord that came to the prophets, has become personal in Jesus who is the embodiment of divine revelation.

In another closely related picture, Christ is the Word of God, God's address to man, the communication of God's thought, the mode of God's approach to his world, and, in accordance with the language of contemporary philosophy, the embodiment of that divine reason which permeates the cosmos, or the intermediary divine link between God and his creatures, the mode in which the transcendent God becomes immanent in the rational creation.

Here «incarnation» does not refer so much to the actualization as to the embodiment of divine aims in the lives of people, whereby the very abstract aims conceptually entertained in God's primordial experience are transformed into concrete possibilities or effective lures for our action and self - understanding.

To affirm that Jesus is the Christ is to confess that in Jesus of Nazareth we behold the embodiment of the divine intent addressed to mankind.

The notion of a cumulative achievement of good in history which brings about in the world a more complete embodiment of the divine order was an integral part of the liberal Christian theology.

And the everlasting love that God has for God's covenant people, articulated throughout the Old Testament, comes to fruition for Christians in the embodiment of divine love manifest in Jesus Christ.

The eternal embodiment of the divine is metaphysically audacious, and it explains why Mormonism is so inventive.

When the holiness of the land (a divine proclamation) becomes the holiness of the state (a human creation) we all too easily move in the direction of theocracy veiled as statism (in which the state is the embodiment of divine will).

Not exact matches

In this way, women would first be given an empowering script about divine grace that secures their personal identity, affirms the goodness of their embodiment and sends them forth into the world with renewed agency and purpose.

It, too, is a kenotic process, for it is the embodiment in history and experience of the divine process, and it effects a self - negation or self - annihilation of every power confining life and energy.

To such writers as C. G. Jung and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy the myth is an embodiment in different forms and cultures of a perennial reality, the spiritual process whereby the one becomes the many and the many returns unto the one or the psychological process whereby integration of the personality is achieved and the divine Self realized within the unconscious.

The idea of divine embodiment is not entirely foreign to traditional ways of thinking.

It was also interesting on a recent visit to the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University at Mount Abu to see that the founder Dada Lekh Raj, whose spiritual name is Prajapita Brahma, who died in 1969, is treated almost as divine and as an embodiment of the god Siva.

It is a divine fact because it portrayed the supreme and selfless love offered by Jesus Christ who was an embodiment of God's love.

But to those who did, who believed what it represented, it gave the potential of a fully personal relationship to God... And this divine personal principle found embodiment in a man and took habitation in our midst.

The integration and harmonizing of contrasts is what gives his life a beauty that is compelling and healing to the believer, and that leads the Christian to understand him as the embodiment of ultimate beauty, as somehow divine.

But we may still conclude that in the case of God's self - embodiment in the world there is a risk of tragedy because of the precariousness of the web of human relationships that would constitute at least one of the subsidiary levels of the divine indwelling.

In addition, thinkers associated with the Tokugawa House refurbished the somewhat tarnished image of the imperial line and derived the legitimacy of the Tokugawa regime from an emperor who was himself an embodiment of heaven and even, in Shintõ terms, a divine king.

Lest there be confusion about the usage of the word «avatar» in an internet - happy era of sci - fi movies and video games, Oxford Dictionaries defines it as a Hindu term meaning «a manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher; an incarnation, embodiment, or manifestation of a person or idea.»