Sentences with phrase «human analogy»

I will use human analogies as well as dog to dog examples in order to teach you how to understand your dog.

We also find in the New Testament, beginning with the teaching of Jesus in the synoptic Gospels, the use of human analogies as parables of the divine love.

But the creed rejects this understanding, insisting that «father» can not and must not be exegeted by a ruling human analogy.

Make what allowances you will for the imperfection of so human an analogy, in some such way the New Testament Christians experienced God — the cosmic Creator, our Father, revealed in the Divine Christ, and become their indwelling Friend.

It is not only philosophers who have tried to think of God through human analogies, it is the way of the biblical witness.

(And even human analogy would fail to yield a clear distinction, since «father» implies a female role just as much as «mother» implies a male one.)

Doing so would be letting human analogy rule.

Consider a human analogy: St. Augustine often spoke to his mother Monica in the second person, that is, in the I «Thou manner so highly esteemed by Marion.

Here again the human analogy can be used.

The human analogy of the father and the prodigal son is taken as the key to understanding the atonement.

Hartshorne's God creates on the human analogy; he shapes that which is already given.

I use the human analogy: my relationship with my wife has some areas of great tension, and we can not reconcile our boundaries in those areas.

It may be that all human analogies fail in describing the love of God.

As so often, a human analogy helps; and although some contemporary theologians have been chary of using such analogies, one can be encouraged by the dominical employment of them and continue to find them useful.

No human analogy, Baillie admits, can adequately plumb the mystery of how one comes to faith.

But the human analogy of lover and beloved helps us to see their error.

Indeed, the Nicene Creed was framed against those who wanted to stress the human analogy — the Arians.

If the human analogy is definitive, the Arians were undeniably right: fathers precede children, and it follows that there must necessarily have been a time when the second person of the Trinity «was not.»

To argue that it can not have this meaning because women's role in reproduction implies a previous male role is to fall into the very line of thought that the creed itself ruled out in its connotations of the word «father» — i.e., the dominance of human analogy.

But if you wish some human analogy to help you understand the meaning of the cross, turn not to a criminal court trial but to the family.

Nadeau gave a human analogy.