Sentences with phrase «final epiphany»

Like a law of physics, the principle of negation is absolute, extending to Charles's ultimate fate: a suicide that is also a murder, with the grim anti — punch line of a final epiphany that goes unexpressed — he's shot in the back of the head, midsentence.

In its curiosity about people, families, and communities, it affirms the unassailable truth of Chris's final epiphany, which Penn has the grace and decency to allow him before his untimely passing.

Yet Christianity has now at least implicitly evolved to an absolute form wherein it can realize the final epiphany of Spirit as immediately present and actualized for us.

Therefore spiritual Christianity, as Hegel conceives it, understands the atoning death of Christ as the manifestation of the transition of Spirit from its alienated epiphany as transcendent Being to its final epiphany as incarnate Spirit, or what Hegel termed «total self - consciousness.»

This ecstatic union of Satan and Jerusalem is in process of fulfillment even as Albion (Blake's symbolic figure representing a universal but fallen humanity) experiences the final epiphany of Jesus.

Not exact matches

The Creator is on the left and is moving downward toward Jerusalem in his final manifestation as Satan, while Jerusalem, or the apocalyptic epiphany of Christ, appears as a naked female form moving upward toward Satan.

Satan must become totally and comprehensively present in his apocalyptic form as the lifeless residue of the self - negation of God before the atonement will have become wholly actualized in history; and then, the radical apocalyptic seer assures us, Satan must undergo a final metamorphosis into an eschatological epiphany of Christ.

However, the traditional apocalyptic symbol of the Son of Man is a symbol of a heavenly and divine Being; and his epiphany — which marks the advent of the final Eschaton — occurs in the heavens, where he appears with legions of angels.

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and more fully toward an eschatological consummation.

Totally committed as he is to the full epiphany of faith in the concrete moment before him, the contemporary Christian must accept the death of God as a final and irrevocable event.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and fully toward an eschatological consummation.17

Thus Hegel, even as Blake, correlates and integrates the death of God and apocalypse, for the French Revolution is the historical advent and embodiment of the death of God, yet this is the death of a wholly abstract and alien form or manifestation of God, an epiphany or realization of God which does not occur or become real until and the full and final birth of the modern world.

Once we accept the death of God as a final and irrevocable event, then we can open ourselves to the full actuality of our history, as an epiphany of the Word of faith.»

When the path of eternity is bent or curved, then the way down is the way up, and the final or eschatological epiphany of Christ will occur kenotically in the immediate moment: «Being begins in every Now.»

There's a crowning, final state or product or epiphany (otherwise, what's the point) 5.

The climax is a crazy epiphany of cleansing sin: Toller donning a vest of barbed - wire thorns, strapping on his bomb, all set to the rapturous hymn «Leaning on the Everlasting Arms,» and then a cut to black that echoes the final moment of «The Sopranos.»

He points out a few emotional landmarks along the way (on your right is a dying father, up ahead are failed dreams), and hopes that at the end we'll all arrive at the same final cathartic epiphany.

The process of delight and epiphany is so similar the the only difference at the end of the day is how you will utilize the final product.