Sentences with phrase «hope of fulfillment»

However it might be explained, God was known there as holy love, moving to penitence and offering both pardon and a new righteousness, and becoming himself, as thus known, the ground of faith in the ultimate meaning of life and of hope of its fulfillment.

In Chapter 3 we viewed revelation as the gift of a founding promise that brings history into being and that holds out to it the hope of fulfillment.

Moral philosophy engenders the philosophy of religion when the hope of fulfillment is added to the consciousness of obligation:

Not exact matches

Paul enjoys telling his entrepreneurial story in the hopes of convincing other business leaders that collaborative, people focused practices will lead to the greatest business results and the greatest personal fulfillment.

My hope is that this book will enable readers to discover their True North, and to stay on course of their beliefs and values throughout their lifetimes, so they can realize the fulfillment of leading others with a common purpose.

Yet Christians are commanded to be «prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you» (1 Peter 3:15), and unless one is determined to do no more than mutely wave people towards the nearest church, this can only be achieved by giving some account of the coherence (not perfection) and development (not fulfillment) one discerns in one's own life.

As Jürgen Moltmann notes, «Both forms of hopelessness, by anticipating the fulfillment or by giving up hope, cancel the wayfaring character of hope.»

Although the fulfillment of the vision would not come for generations, they did not lose hope.

The question we concluded the previous post with, however, was that if Jesus fulfills the hopes and dreams and ideals of other religious writings as well, why did Jesus come specifically in fulfillment of the Hebrew Scriptures.

The Hebrew Scriptures not only contain prophecy about Jesus, but all the stories, hopes, and longings contained within the Old Testament also find their fulfillment in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

I have already indicated my own belief that ideas and ideals which offer hope of rescue or fulfillment to persons or groups where their vital interests are at stake can be powerful sources of constructive, even revolutionary, change.

He shows us how He is the fulfillment of all hopes and dreams and expectations.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

Our only hope is in his using us, in all our weakness, for the fulfillment of his great purpose, that men may have «life in him.»

The aim of the sermons and liturgies of Advent and Christmastide would be to show Christ as the fulfillment of Israel's and all humankind's hopes for personal salvation and social redemption, for peace of heart and peace on earth.

Only then can we have a hope of finding fulfillment in other stages.

Luther's teaching on forgiveness, when preached apart from the context of 16th century Catholic emphasis on perfection, can easily lead to a retarded spirituality of sin, claim your forgiveness, sin, claim you forgiveness,... and a retarded spirituality where sanctification becomes an eschatological hope and no more than a legalistic fulfillment of the Law.

These serial readings from Acts end with Paul established in Rome (probably in today's Trastevere district), speaking with the Roman Jewish community about the fulfillment of their ancient, covenantal hopes in the Risen Christ.

We can make appeal to experiences of planning, frustration, hope, fulfillment, promise, disappointment, etc..

The remnant or the one, and we find both concepts before as well as after the Fall, is a projection of faith, an assertion of hope in the ultimate fulfillment of the covenant promise.

This erudition enabled him to present the person and message of Jesus as the fulfillment of the historic aspirations of Chinese culture, in much the way that Jesus had been presented by the early fathers as the culmination of the Greco - Roman faith in the Logos and by the New Testament as the fulfillment of the Jewish hope for the Messiah.

Now these are all descriptions of the eschatological fulfillment, for which other men had only wished, or at best only vaguely hoped.

In the light of this belief we better understand how Israel's hope and faith in the ultimate fulfillment of tile divine promise survived her own violation of the terms of the covenant and her destruction as a nation.

The Servant may be one, or, collectively, many, but this entity embodies the ultimate fulfillment of Israel's covenant hope:

Israel's persistent, obstinate hope in the ultimate fulfillment of the promise is itself an act of faith, made defiantly in the face of her own repeated abandonment of faith.

A mystery novel offers us a glimpse of the fulfillment of that hope: in the context of a story we observe the convergence of human and divine justice.

His hope came to a glorious fulfillment, so that Israel, centuries later, recognized this man of vision by saying, «There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom YHWH knew face to face.»

Many of those who heard Him speak of it were accustomed to think of the Kingdom of God as that which would come at long last, when all the highest human hopes would reach fulfillment, and God's purpose for man would be achieved.

In the story of Abraham, Israel recognized that the fulfillment of hope lies far beyond the limits of any one man's mortal life.

Yet it was a hope that could claim his attention and interest to the point where he took the steps of faith and obedience so necessary for the fulfillment.

Through Christian education the fellowship of believers (the church) seeks to help persons become aware of God's seeking love as shown especially in Jesus Christ and to respond in faith and love to the end that they may develop self - understanding, sell - acceptance, and self - fulfillment under God; increasingly identify themselves as sons of God and members of the Christian community; live as Christian disciples in all relations in human society; and abide in the Christian hope.

In different ways, Jesus and Paul are heralding the inbreaking of God's rule on earth, the fulfillment of all our hopes and prayers when we pray — alas, sometimes mindlessly — that God's kingdom come on earth and God's will be done on earth (in Washington, D.C., Afghanistan and Iraq, in affluent suburbs and in blighted inner cities).

In our present state of existence, it is hope for fulfillment and not fulfillment itself that constitutes our life.

They may add details, but they are deeply convinced that what was going on in Jesus Christ was in fact a fulfillment of Old Testament hopes.

Jesus, Luke seems to say, is not only the fulfillment of the messianic hope, he is part of God's plan from the beginning of creation.

If the failure of Judaism to perceive in Christian existence its own transcendence and fulfillment is due to such causes as these, then we may look to the future with interest and hope.

If being baptized means being raised here and now to new life, then this present sharing in Christ's resurrection can not yet mean final fulfillment, but rather a life of hope which is cognizant of the inadequacy of the present state of things to contain the fullness of God's future.

I think that God may have been whispering His truth to other cultures and generations than just the Jewish one, so that when Jesus came, He could be seen as the fulfillment of their hopes, dreams, and myths.

By the same token, evil and hope are more closely connected than we will ever think them; if the evil of evil is born on the way of totalization, it would appear only in a pathology of hope, as the inherent perversion in the problematic of fulfillment and of totalization.

As to this history, it is less the experience of the change of everything than the tension created by the expectation of a fulfillment; history is itself hope of history, for each fulfillment is perceived as confirmation, pledge, and repetition of the promise.

«2 The retention of subjective immediacy within the everlastingness of God's nature is seen then as subjective immortality.3 Some argue that subjective immortality is necessary for the religious need of continuity between present hope and future fulfillment, redemption and fulfillment, and the overcoming of evil.4

Faith, hope, and love are the source of original righteousness; their fulfillment is original righteousness.

Yet in those disturbed days, as in ours today, an other - worldly hope grew into prominence as worldly hopes seemed to have less likelihood of fulfillment.

His story declares that Mary's baby, Joseph's soil, is the fulfillment of Israel's messianic hope.

The Hid Treasure and the Pearl challenge to a recognition of the joy of fulfillment of long - held hopes, these to a recognition that, as the present writer heard T. W. Manson put it, «Salvation may be free, but it is not cheap.»

This process is empowered by hope and results in an enhancement of hope, based on the fulfillments they have already experienced.

As we have seen, the primitive Christians, whatever Jesus» own view, confidently expected within their own generation the fulfillment of the hopes of the prophets and apocalyptists and were sure that Jesus would shortly come again in glorious power to judge the world and to redeem the contrite.

The fulfillment of hopes and fears can not be anticipated.

The incomplete fulfillments spur on God's people to hope all the more; indeed, the Abrahamic promise of blessing for the nations is picked up elsewhere in the Old Testament.

Reverence for the name of Jesus, for His mother Mary and for the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church unites one with the past and the future in the hope of some ultimate fulfillment.