Sentences with phrase «expressions of agape»

Agape takes many forms in history, and although we can not infallibly judge any human action or intention as the expression of agape, the Gospel love of neighbour and concern for the neighbour is surely present here.

From this vantage point we get a new perspective on self - sacrifice as the ultimate expression of agape.

The decisive expression of agape has been given in the history of Jesus, and what God has begun in him is not finished (I Corinthians 15).

Not exact matches

... While the Principle of Redemptive Withdrawal is focused on the abandonment Jesus experienced as he experienced the Father's judgment on the sin of the world, it is nevertheless grounded in the truth that the cross is the definitive expression of the self - giving, mutual indwelling agape - love that defines the triune God throughout eternity (p. 778).

I have already mentioned the proposal of the Freudian, Herbert Marcuse, for a panerotic philosophy of life in which eros, agape, and thanatos (death) will all be integrated in the one self - expression of the human spirit.

Those who offer a contextual Christian ethic in our own day seem to be so far in accord with the biblical view that justice is to be sought as the expression of the life of the covenant community as it undertakes in the spirit of agape to bring reconciliation among men.

John joins a class with two other misfit boys, Chic (Bobby Cannavale) and Vern (Omar Miller), and starts spending his Wednesday evenings learning to waltz, promenade, and rumba (this lesson is especially thrilling, as the men stand with jaws agape before Paulina's demonstration: «The rumba is a vertical expression of a horizontal wish,» she says, tossing Bobbie to the floor as she breathes, «Then finish!

Had the audience no gotten just the random glimpse of Dafoe's eyes and mouth and a fuller view of his expressive face, the costumed character probably would've been more menacing, for the fixed mouth - agape expression on his metal mask certainly isn't.

One appears to be only an infant, and the other is wound into a thin blanket fast asleep, shadows encircling her eyes and mouth agape in an expression of utter exhaustion.