Sentences with phrase «historical revelation»

Although they are quite willing to agree that all people are always touched by the mystery that surrounds our existence, they see no need to posit a special and decisive historical revelation of this mystery.

Wolfhart Pannenberg evidences more concern for the problem of the particularity of his theological subject by basing his theology in historical revelation as universal.

The idea of a special historical revelation is also problematic to many who dwell within the broad «religious context» of human experience.

Or does Jesus transcend both religion and historical revelation by abolishing all images of God?

Particular historical revelations can not be the final arbiter, because who then will decide among the conflicting claims?

Can the truly enlightened person concerned with a critical, objective grasp of truth honestly accept a unique historical revelation?

While Christians rightly believe that all truth necessary for such a spiritual experience is mediated only through the revelation in Christ, they must guard against the assumption that only those who know Christ «after the flesh», that is, in the actual historical revelation, are capable of such a conversion, A «hidden Christ» operates in history.

And in doing so, it challenges us to bring the theme of historical revelation into deeper synthesis with cosmology.

The team behind Assassin's Creed Origins definitely did their research, cluing observant players in on a major historical revelation a week before it became public knowledge.

But there is nothing in the scientific picture of the cosmos that forbids our envisaging the story of the universe, in its modern scientifically established character, as simultaneously a story shaped by the same promise that becomes explicit in historical revelation.

God, we say, has given a public, historical revelation of Himself in the Bible.

What is the relation, if any, between the human sense of mystery and the Christian's belief in a special historical revelation?

Moreover, the Northern European Jewish thinkers who advocated this view (unlike their contemporary counterparts in Spain) were in no wise adherents of Aristotelian philosophy and its natural theology, which argued that God's existence could be demonstrated outside of historical revelation.

In the image of the crucified man, Jesus the Christ, the Christian may see the historical revelation of this self - sacrificing God out of whose absolute generosity the world is allowed to be.

It was through the historical revelation starting from Adam, Noah, Abraham... and in the fullness of time, His revelation to man was made complete in the bible.

If we are to be faithful to nature and our continuity with it, we may now accept the universe s own inherent instability as the precondition of the biblical, historical revelation.

It is difficult to imagine how belief in historical revelation can be abandoned without destroying the very foundations of biblical religion, but every effort must be made to remove from the idea any shadow of arrogance.

However, biblical faith has influenced theologians to speak also of «revelation in history,» «historical revelation,» or «special revelation» in addition to God's universal or «general» self - revelation.

In each of the following six chapters I shall attempt, in a very sketchy way, to present the significance of the Christian notion of an historical revelation in terms of the issues that emerge from our reflecting on the six circles that constitute our situation.

If we still continue to speak of a historical revelation we do not mean that it is special in the sense that the people to whom it is communicated are thereby superior to other human beings.

Would an historical revelation assist me in any way in this very personal quest?

The decisive ground of our faith that that purpose exists is the historical revelation, which began with the calling of Israel and culminated in the great event — the life and death and rising again of Jesus and the coming into being of the community of Christ the Lord.

We have grown so accustomed to thinking in purely naturalistic terms that even the conception of a special historical revelation is hard to entertain.

Have we not, in fact, already affirmed our faith in an historical revelation?

It means that those who recognize the agape of God in the historical revelation can be thankful that it has come to them there, while they remember that it does not give them an exclusive possession of the truth.

while it is impossible to discuss this controversy here, it is at least worth noting that it is not irrelevant to the question whether one historical revelation may be taken as an advance over others.)

Such an outlook really leaves no room for an historical revelation in time, at least not in the sense of an intervention on the plane of reality, including reality external to man, and an intervention which changes that reality, as in miracle.

What lies behind it — an emotion, an existential experience, or an historical revelation?

In this way the historical revelation — signified by the names of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — leans on the secret of the name, to the very extent that the hidden God proclaims himself the meaning of the founding events.

Although religious knowledge is different from scientific knowledge in character, it is distinguished not by any appeal to historical revelation, but rather only by the greater immediacy of that reality which it empirically apprehends and describes.

But all must interpret the interpretation; and all must acknowledge and respond to the role of interpretation in the Bible's claim to be a historical revelation of God.

It is important to add that in the tradition of biblical faith, historical revelation, which is the self - disclosure of God in history, is never deemed to inhere simply in the event as event, but also in the interpretation of the event.

But this reduction would leave aside entirely the matter which is in question, not how to know the truth of God as the ultimate basis of all truth, but the fact of a historical revelation and of the devotion that the human spirit can offer it.

This point is particularly important when we are placing our own religion's sense of life's meaning, allegedly given to us by a special historical revelation, into an encounter with other traditions» sense of life's meaning, given to them by their own symbolic traditions.

In terms of the long human search for adequate representations of the universally intuited dimension of mystery we may now gain more understanding of what Christian theology means by a «special» historical revelation.

Similarly, although Hasidism believes in the historical revelation of God, it regards the feeling and consciousness of God's nearness as equally as important as the acceptance of tradition.

The word means the Bible as an historical revelation, a source of religious truth.

On the other hand, Muentzer tried to answer the question of how the historical revelation in Christ was related to individual religious experiences and social change.

Religious faith, on the other hand, is founded on intuition, inner experience, and a valuing of historical revelation.