By embracing
our full humanity in Jesus Christ, God shows us that nothing human can any more be seen as cast off from God's love.
Forming their own interfaith dialogue groups, and creating their own foundational concepts, Asian theologians are indeed struggling for
a full humanity in their construction of a relevant theology.
There is a burning relevance today in describing the mission of God, in which we participate, as the gift of a new creation which is a radical renewal of the old and the invitation to men to grow up into
their full humanity in the new man, Jesus Christ.24
It is remarkable that despite the pressure of its conceptuality the church refused to sanction any view of Jesus that curtailed
his full humanity in this way.
Not exact matches
Someone who calls a home insurance firm is usually
in a vulnerable place — and sometimes
in full - blown crisis mode — so it was essential that a touch of
humanity was included.
Unfortunately, the PM mining industry is
full of management teams that are (1) neither interested
in helping
humanity by pushing a sound money agenda even though the very product they mine is equivalent to sound money, or (2) cater to the whims and unproductive interests of the banking industry rather than the best interests of the people and the people that invest
in their stocks.
Rather than working toward a shared
humanity in which all people are recognized as worthy of a
full life by the very fact they they exist, this approach strives to use power to divide
humanity into those worthy of a
full life
in the here and now, and those who are not.
Despite the sinfulness of its people, the Church is always the privileged place of encounter with the living God, who continually forms his people into the community
in which the
full truth about
humanity is grasped.
We work toward a shared
humanity in which all people are recognized as worthy of a
full life — including the unborn — by the very fact they they exist.
But I will always work and pray from within the family to see us rise to who we were meant to be all along, God's glorious vision for
humanity in full shalom.
Keen's therapeutic psychology, his theological anthropology, is thus committed to helping an individual shed his limited identity as a «dis - eased» person
in order that he might know his
full and balanced
humanity.
Without the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of
humanity into a relationship of
full communion with God
in one act of joyful recognition and adoration.
To the contrary, precisely because of the idiosyncratic reality of God and God's peculiar way of being present, interests
in liberation from oppression, realization of our
full humanity, and the righting of injustice are mandated as an integral part of interests
in God.
Becoming a
full person
in the electronic age is not playing with a camera; it is being born to the depths of
humanity for which our previous education has not prepared us... we shall have to enter this new universe with the same enormous sympathy that Christ has for this earth.»
The communitarian view reminds us that human beings achieve their
full humanity through social interaction
in specific communities.
«Such a contextual reading is
in fact an incarnational reading of scripture, paying attention to the
full humanity both of the text and its readers.
As the Nine reach their
full potential they will surface through out this world
in the different lands that govern the main religions of thought that all of
humanity govern themselves by.
The divinity of Jesus is often formulated
in a way that denies the
full humanity of Jesus.
One early position, which still continues to be important
in the evangelical community, is to affirm that the Bible, when correctly interpreted, affirms women's
full humanity.
In this sense a process hermeneutic will be more fully «secular» than the new hermeneutic, since it will recognize that all beings, in all times and places, who can in the full sense be named human persons, are — simply by virtue of their humanity — capable of grasping (and being grasped by) the message of the tex
In this sense a process hermeneutic will be more fully «secular» than the new hermeneutic, since it will recognize that all beings,
in all times and places, who can in the full sense be named human persons, are — simply by virtue of their humanity — capable of grasping (and being grasped by) the message of the tex
in all times and places, who can
in the full sense be named human persons, are — simply by virtue of their humanity — capable of grasping (and being grasped by) the message of the tex
in the
full sense be named human persons, are — simply by virtue of their
humanity — capable of grasping (and being grasped by) the message of the text.
In this sense, death must be unnatural for those made for fellowship with the One Who Is, those whose full humanity has been revealed in Jesus of Nazareth — who shrank from death and is now the living On
In this sense, death must be unnatural for those made for fellowship with the One Who Is, those whose
full humanity has been revealed
in Jesus of Nazareth — who shrank from death and is now the living On
in Jesus of Nazareth — who shrank from death and is now the living One.
It is Mankind as a whole, collective
humanity, which is called upon to perform the definitive act whereby the total force of terrestrial evolution will be released and flourish; an act
in which the
full consciousness of each individual man will be sustained by that of every other man, not only the living but the dead.
It is
in the integrity of a
full humanity, and
in every range of it, that God's action is to be found — God energizes
in this man,
in his total and genuine personhood, not
in some special part of that personhood or by replacing with deity some particular area of human nature.
It was
in explaining the way
in which
full divinity and
full humanity are united
in one Person that they accused each other of heresy.
In the light of Buber's clear and consistent emphasis on the independence and
full freedom of the two partners to the I - Thou relationship, it is ironical to find Karl Barth suggesting that the main difference between his I - Thou philosophy and that of Buber is that he (Barth) makes «freedom of the heart between man and man the root and crown of the concept of
humanity.»
That
humanity is
in a bad way is no news to theologians, who know
full well that sin appeared on earth well before 1945.
The image of God is
in Jesus emergent
in full humanity.
«2 - Somehow life is reduced to an either / or — either we work and suffer spiritual and sensual anemia, or we play
in order to realize our
full humanity.
Hoefer 1979) says that the «rite has become a legal condition for the entry into the church which functions as a religious communal group;
in this context it fails to convey its
full meaning and purpose as the expression of or solidarity with the new
humanity in Christ which transcends all communal or caste solidarities»; he also refers to the conclusion of Joseph Belcastro's book A New Testament Doctrine of Baptism for Today, that «the N.T. does not teach that baptism was a condition of salvation or church membership, but baptism was to be available for the disciples of the coming church....
It is important to point out that the belief was used
in the early church as a way of affirming Jesus»
full humanity; «born of a virgin»
in the Apostles» Creed has the force of «really born of a woman,»
in opposition to heretics who denied that Jesus was truly human.
Hence, whereas we are freed by Whitehead to think of God as present
in Jesus without reducing his
full humanity, by itself this does not enable us to see any distinctiveness
in God's presence
in him.
Of course, there is an intrinsic tension
in Christology to begin with, stemming from the claim that
in Jesus
full humanity and
full divinity are united.
The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least
in the first centuries
in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the
humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of
humanity are hammered out
in great Councils, and the concepts are refined
in the fires of contrary heresy against either the
full Divinity or the
full Humanity of
Humanity of Christ.
What is so needed is a manner of living that is deep and
full in it's
humanity and it's faith which thereby «bears the risk» of real freedom.
Helping women and men to get out of their boxes frees them to discover themselves as individuals
in their
full humanity, am then to discover what they really want and need
in a relation ship.
So the Council of Ephesus defined with the
full authority of Christ
in His Church, that he was «born of the Father before the ages according to divinity, but
in the latest days he was born of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, according to the
humanity».
Unless
in his
humanity the God / Man makes satisfaction for sin, the
full import of human involvement is evaded.
Yet if theology
in its anxiety to protect God's innocence denies that the divinity of the God / Man has
in fact made satisfaction to
humanity for the evil inherent
in the structures of existence, we fail to acknowledge the
full passion of God's commitment to and involvement
in his world.
To deny the
full reality of Jesus»
humanity under every aspect of limitation would have seemed to Paul not only to fly
in the face of the clearly remembered and indisputable facts of Jesus» life, but also to deny the
full theological significance of that event.
He defines the Gospel as «a great movement from lower to higher, going through estrangement and crises, but also through atonement and salvation, and so directed towards its ultimate goal, a Glorified
Humanity in full communion with God, of which goal the Risen Christ is the guarantee and first fruits».
He wrote On the Incarnation
in defense of the
full divinity and
full humanity of Christ.
Through this revelation of God's female aspect, woman's
full humanity is affirmed and she is able to take her rightful place
in the church and
in the order of redemption.
The Church can not exemplify «the
full humanity revealed
in Christ,» bear witness to the interdependence of humankind, or achieve unity
in diversity if it continues to acquiesce
in the social isolation of disabled persons and to deny them
full participation
in its life.
The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, who, more than any other New Testament author, emphasizes the
full deity (1:10) but also the
full humanity of Jesus, goes still farther than the reports of the three Synoptists
in his description of Jesus» fear of death.
Those who were more concerned with the biblical story, and those whose theology required Jesus»
full humanity, insisted that Jesus was not lacking
in any human feature.
Altizer would hold that his view leads to an eschatological existence
in which Blake's
full «
humanity divine» is realized.
In many cases, it is only their blindness to others»
full humanity that facilitates their misdeeds.
Isn't
full humanity a state
in which one ceases to talk about God and religion and all ideologies and talks instead only about man, the world, and the secular?
The first rift
in Christianity occurred when the first Christians, being Jewish, continued to affirm the
full humanity of Jesus, while the Gentile Christians led by Paul increasingly affirmed the divinity of Jesus.
The shapes of a future Asian theology were seen
in creative emergence at a recent conference held
in Wennapura, Sri Lanka, the theme of which was «Asia's Struggle for a
Full Humanity: Toward a Relevant Theology.»