Sentences with phrase «heavenly intercession»

This is what makes the doctrines of Christ's dereliction and heavenly intercession not vague abstractions, but the quintessence of the Logos of Jesus, as it was expressed in the Gospel - preaching of the Church, since the days of the oral preaching which lies behind our gospels.

We have seen that the dereliction of Jesus as presented in the New Testament and the doctrine of Christ's heavenly intercession do not contain a trace of mythology, though they will certainly appear entirely mythological in the eyes of the non-Christian.

-- I will not allow that the New Testament language about Christ's dereliction and his heavenly intercession contains no mythology.

Thus you seem to go some distance along the road of demythologizing, but not far enough, and you fail to bring out the scandal of mythology in the New Testament language about Christ's dereliction and his heavenly intercession.