Not exact matches
What are the Christian purposes in higher education which can be the mid-20th century equivalent
of those which were effective earlier in contributing to humanization
of culture and cultural preparation for the
gospel of the Christ's
new humanity?
God himself passes through «Self - annihilation» in Jesus» passion, and, as a result
of that passion, and by repeating Jesus» passion in the actuality
of experience, the Christian can discover a
new and joyous
humanity, a
humanity that is born only by means
of the death
of God: «Thou art a Man, God is no more» (The Everlasting
Gospel).
What I have found most relevant is Colossians ch.3 in the light
of which it is legitimate to speak
of the
gospel as the news
of the
New Man Jesus Christ («Put on the new self, the new humanity»); and more especially it is valid to present the new fellowship of mutual forgiveness created by the Divine Forgiveness in Christ and expressed in the Eucharist and the social koinonia of the church as the foretaste of true human community as the essential gospel («Forgiving one another as the Lord forgave you»
New Man Jesus Christ («Put on the
new self, the new humanity»); and more especially it is valid to present the new fellowship of mutual forgiveness created by the Divine Forgiveness in Christ and expressed in the Eucharist and the social koinonia of the church as the foretaste of true human community as the essential gospel («Forgiving one another as the Lord forgave you»
new self, the
new humanity»); and more especially it is valid to present the new fellowship of mutual forgiveness created by the Divine Forgiveness in Christ and expressed in the Eucharist and the social koinonia of the church as the foretaste of true human community as the essential gospel («Forgiving one another as the Lord forgave you»
new humanity»); and more especially it is valid to present the
new fellowship of mutual forgiveness created by the Divine Forgiveness in Christ and expressed in the Eucharist and the social koinonia of the church as the foretaste of true human community as the essential gospel («Forgiving one another as the Lord forgave you»
new fellowship
of mutual forgiveness created by the Divine Forgiveness in Christ and expressed in the Eucharist and the social koinonia
of the church as the foretaste
of true human community as the essential
gospel («Forgiving one another as the Lord forgave you»).
The Eastern Orthodox delegation asked to be excused from voting on the other reports; but they heartily supported this one, which affirmed that the message
of the church to the world must always remain the
gospel of Jesus Christ — the gift
of a
new word from God to this old world
of sin and death, being the prophetic call to sinful men to turn to God as the only way by which
humanity can escape from those class and race hatreds which devastate society, and fulfill
humanity's longing for intellectual sincerity, social justice and spiritual inspiration.
Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations
of evil... The
new thing in the social
gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility
of redeeming the historical life
of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social
gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.
This trend achieves its fullest expression, so far as the
New Testament is concerned, in the Fourth
Gospel, where a divine being is represented as becoming human, but without in any sense ceasing to be divine, and is carried to its extreme limits in the heretical teachings
of the Docetists, who denied the reality
of Jesus»
humanity altogether.
In the book
of Acts, every time the
Gospel is preached to a
new segment
of humanity, it is symbolized through water and spirit baptism.
Today we reject this crusading model on the basis
of new insights into the
gospel of Jesus Christ and our growing awareness
of the revolutionary upsurge
of submerged peoples in Asia to affirm their
humanity.