Sentences with phrase «eros toward»

We have an eros toward them.

When the divine love meets the human eros toward God the only appropriate response is with zest, with all one's heart and soul and mind and strength.

There is within life an Eros toward the realization of greater, rather than lesser, values.

In theological terms, this community is the concrete content of the «kingdom of God,» conceived as the totality of settled fact with an eros toward the future.

Or it may happen that the self not only refuses the possibilities present to it, but even more violently frustrates the eros toward value and actively distorts the harmony of process.

Not exact matches

In the Odyssey there is a marvelous moment where Odysseus is pulled toward eros, tempted by a beautiful young princess who wants him.

I would say that our common socioeconimic life in the Post - Enlightenment / Industrial West is more tilted toward thanatos than eros.

Eros is the power in the universe urging toward the realization of ideals, and as such it plays a major role in Adventures of Ideas.

The entire passage reads, «In spite of the many kinds of love, which in Greek are designated as philia (friendship), eros (aspiration toward value), and epithymia (desire), in addition to agape, which is the creation of the Spirit, there is one point of identity in all these qualities of love, which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,» which is the inner dynamics of life.

But love as eros is not directed toward strife; it is directed away from strife.

As already suggested, eros requires a dynamic thrust from incompleteness toward completeness, and the basis of this thrust is the end or attraction of the perfection which is desired and sought after.

Traditionally, eros was construed as a unity, driving linearly toward a goal.

The creative agent is directed in eros away from its initial state toward a perfection.

The eros of the universe expressed in evolution has been toward more intense experiences.

He shows clearly how the motif of an eros love which seeks its own fulfilment enters into Augustine's description of the pilgrimage of the soul toward God.

In the plot of the local church the story of Christ weaves itself throughout the erotic narrative, sometimes accepting and affirming the church's story as it stands (thus linking Christ and Eros), sometimes teasing (or unfolding) the congregational narrative toward the promise of the kingdom, sometimes prophetically contradicting the erotic story by disputing (thus thickening) its development, and sometimes actually transforming congregational culture by twisting its plot.