Sentences with word «expiation»

In this case it is reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned person of the enjoyment of life in expiation of his crime when, by his crime, he has already dispossessed himself of his right to life.

O'Connor regarded both her life and her art as sacrifices offered not only in gratitude for her own salvation but also in expiation for the sins of a world that remains dead to the presence of God.

This interpretation of the scriptures and understanding of Christian anthropology gave Christian spirituality a view of God as a harsh judge who wanted the sacrifice of the life of Jesus as expiation and atonement for the sins of humanity.

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Coincidentally, over the same period, many American evangelical groups have adopted a near myopic emphasis on expiation in their discussions (and presentations) of the gospel message.

Hebrews continues, Christ «had to be made like His brethren in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make expiation for the sins of the people.»

An Evil God on the other hand, would use threats — like eternal suffering in a Lake of Fire in an effort to intimidate people into believing, and try to bribe people with an offer to allow expiation of all sins, even including murder, if you will only believe without evidence, coupled with the vast bribe of eternal life.

The passage you're referring to, when read in context, seems to be forbidding the marking of one's body in ceremonial expiation for the dead.

Another theory, especially associated with Archbishop Anselm (c.1033 - 1109) is that Christ, who is spoken of as «the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world», is the sinless offering who makes a universal expiation (or compensation) for the sins of all people.

Expiation puts the focus on what happens with us in a legal context.

«The refusal to regard the dispersion of the Jews as a divinely decreed expiation or a form of divine discipline»; and 3.

I prefer to conceptualize Christianity in this exemplary resurrectional fashion, as did many of the Greek Fathers, rather than in the crude Roman legalistic sense of sin - punishment - vicarious expiation, so popular with the African Fathers and particularly with Tertullian, the proto - canon lawyer, God help him.

Christ as both priest and victim (as in the letter to the Hebrews) provides expiation for man's sin.

After which he will be given the choice of either being reincarnated into another body for a second go, or he can choose to descend into hell again for the full expiation of his sins.

This is where the line between expiation and new game get blurred.

In 1959, Rothko, who was of Russian Jewish descent, invited to participate in the Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany, proposed the creation of a chapel of expiation offering to paint works for it for free, but an agreement with the organizers was never achieved.

«The fact is, almost all cases settle before trial,» says Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola with the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. «That means judges» and magistrate judges» rulings on discovery never get expiation on appeal.

The old Roman Rite, which emerged from a long tradition, was understood as the sacramental offering by the priest, acting in the Person of Christ, which He offered on the Cross to his Father in expiation for the sins of the world.

Pope Pius XII, in an important allocution to medical experts, declared that it was reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life in expiation of their crimes.

What do you, modern Orthodox reader, make of this scene of remorse and expiation?

Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith Martin Luther believed that the theology of this text was...

In his comment on these words, Chrysostom affirms this and adds that the apostles are thereby made the equivalents of Jesus» governors and ambassadors, declaring that Jesus Christ is «the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.»

While some modern theologians would prefer to set aside all notions of expiation, he appeals to the mystery of the Cross in the lives of the saints and concludes that» [t] he mystery of atonement is not to be sacrificed on the altar of overweening rationalism» (p. 240).

''... People today no longer have an immediate intuitive grasp of the fact that Christ's blood on the Cross is expiation for their sins.

St. Paul is endeavoring to express this when he speaks of the expiation of sin, or of «righteousness» created as a gift of God rather than as a human achievement.

Even for one who has been brought up «in the faith» a bit of reflection makes one admit that the shades of difference between propitiation and expiation or between redemption and ransom are rather vague in one's mind.

Through this expiation, we are justified and freed from the condemnation of the Law, and redeemed from evil ways.

I labelled it forgiveness, some type of expiation, maybe I would use my life to rectify those mistakes, sort of make up for their misgivings by leading a life seeking to change those faults laid upon me.

How does one do that — if not via some avenue of expiation?

According to the strict law of karma, there is no scope for expiation or repentance, as everyone has to experience the consequences of their sinful actions for the sin to be destroyed.

Had Augustine or Aquinas considered his philosophical description to be a sufficient response to evil, he would not have needed to invoke the cross or, more broadly, the expiation of sin.

The King James Translation uses «propitiation», and the Revised Standard Version uses «expiation.»