Sentences with phrase «for hiddenness»

A Course in Miracles teaches, «The hidden can terrify not for what it is, but for its hiddenness.»

Not exact matches

Similarly, for God to come precisely as Omega in our present order would mean the removal of contradiction in the present, the maturation of time, and the removal of all concealment, hiddenness and all darkness.

This hiddenness is precisely something spiritual and is one of the safety - devices for assuring oneself of having as it were behind reality an enclosure, a world for itself locking all else out, a world where the despairing self is employed as tirelessly as Tantalus in willing to be itself.

When we push boldly through the hiddenness, wanting to know more clearly, what we thought was holy ground turns out to be a playground for idolatry.

For Barth it was axiomatic that true knowledge of God begins not with an act of imagination or creativity but with the knowledge of God's hiddenness.

For Barth, the triune God is revealed in his essential hiddenness, and hidden in his self - revelation.

We can only know of it insofar as it is expressed in the primordial nature, for in itself it is God in his hiddenness, in the inexhaustible mystery of his being.

In hiddenness the fugitive Christ «hails» a retriever to trace his fugitive path and prepare for a new epiphany brought about by the renewal of language.

An object such as, for instance, a silver votive vessel comes into being not only by the interplay between the dark hiddenness of the earth and the radiant openness of the heavens — hidden ores brought up to shine in the light of day — but by the reverently poetic approach of mortals toward the gods and by the lordly approach of the gods toward mortals, out of the hidden realm of the divine, announcing themselves in the powers of nature.

But Christian discrimination ought to operate on another level here; it ought to applaud the metaphorical adroitness in giving a new context for the passion story, a context which provides for disbelieving contemporary human beings a genuinely «secular» experience of the narrative, and one which is in continuity with the parabolic way of hiddenness and mystery.