Sentences with phrase «hiddenness of»

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.

One of the themes of Israel's countertestimony is the hiddenness of Yahweh.

The perishing, taken anything like literally, is an illusion occasioned by the hiddenness of deity from us.

What we are saying about the concealment of truth by language is but one aspect of the ultimate truth about the hiddenness of ministry.

We are dealing here with the hiddenness of God himself.

All of us who practice the healing - growthing arts owe a tremendous debt to this brilliant adventurer into the unconscious, this courageous explorer of the hiddenness of the human psyche.

So we talked a lot about Bonhoeffer that year, especially about the musings he set down during the last months of his life about the hiddenness of God and the coming of a «postreligious» age in human history.

The strangeness of life and the hiddenness of its meaning can not be respoded to appropriately by a life - style of linear power.

Ultimately, the dark night teaches us to trust the hiddenness of God, knowing that our theologies, our practices, even our experiences of God can be limiting.

I will put Cobb back on the defensive by saying that I fail to see how the model of an all - encompassing, regionally inclusive experience is compatible with the hiddenness of competing drives, aspirations and fears which psychoanalysis reveals in the» «depth» dimension of the psyche,» by which term I mean something broader than the unified experience of the analogue to the «soul,» namely, the restless depths of the complex societies which support the regnant nexus and which have a «life» of their own, which is in some instances incorporated into, melded into the conscious experience of the occasions in the regnant society, and sometimes is not.

It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness of God in that human life, the image of human life in the Western novel is one in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.

In Turin, Benedict observed that «humanity has become particularly sensitive to the mystery of Holy Saturday,» because the «hiddenness of God» has become so much a part of our contemporary experience of Christ that it functions existentially, almost subconsciously, in our spirituality.

Not exact matches

If this is true, then the complexity, hiddenness, and skepticism inherent in human experience of anything can not be denied, and they can be denied least when the experience in question is that of coming to belief.

But parabolic hiddenness is what predominates, I believe, in the stories of the fathers and sons, and because Paton has shown the reader through dramatic personal growth the pattern of disintegration and restoration, he has created an extended metaphor of the experience of coming to belief in the workings of the gracious transcendent in both personal and social realities.

Man is not to be «seen through» but «to be perceived ever more completely in his openness and his hiddenness and in the relation of the two to each other.»

Let it, then, be hidden from all men, no matter how its hiddenness might be able to support him, yet he could not hide it from that inner companion, before whom he is most of all ashamed.

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.

The Messianic mystery is based on a real hiddenness which penetrates to the innermost existence and is essential to the servant's work of suffering.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

Kafka knows God's hiddenness, and he describes most exactly from inner awareness «the rule of the foul devilry which fills the foreground.»

It is this nearness to God, following His apparent hiddenness, which is God's answer to the suffering Job as to why he suffers — an answer which is understandable only in terms of the relationship itself.

And, oh, to my thinking this is one expression the more of the dreadfulness of this most dreadful sickness and misery, namely, its hiddenness — not only that he who suffers from it may wish to hide it and may be able to do so, to the effect that it can so dwell in a man that no one, no one whatever discovers it; no, rather that it can be so hidden in a man that he himself does not know it!

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.

The dialectic of presence and hiddenness is fundamentally constitutive of Christian existence.

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.

Not, then, by the dissolution of His hiddenness — but apprehensibly.»

And more: this sign of hiddenness points to the fact that the reality of truth and love, the reality of God himself, is not found in the world of things but beyond it, in the sphere of a new order that this tiny baby was ushering in.

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.

Christian preaching, then, is not the denial of God's or Christ's hiddenness but the means by which God functions from his hiddenness to call people into responsible, authentic existence.

Therefore we describe this presence in terms of transcendence: depth, invisibility, obscurity, inwardness, hiddenness.

It is this time of hiddenness, I think, that most captures the depressant's emotional state.

The infinite mystery of the future, notwithstanding its ultimate hiddenness, condescends to dwell within the restrictive arena of our present human imaginings.

«In the proper religious sense of the term,» writes Orthodox bishop Kallistos Ware, ««mystery» signifies not only hiddenness but disclosure....

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.

A popular argument against the existence of God is what some call divine hiddenness: «If God exists, why doesn't he make his existence more obvious, such that it could not be doubted?»

The act of disobedience was followed by a flight into hiddenness.

But it has helped to entrench an expectation of transparency in a sector where murky hiddenness was the norm.