But, if God's luring of the world into reciprocity with Godself through the Logos proceeds until this reciprocity reaches the sort of perfection — the divine -
human unanimity — which Cobb postulates in the case of Jesus Christ, then the God - World relationship is thenceforth qualitatively different, is fully self - conscious from both directions.
In the meantime, the presence of the spirit of Christ and the «Christian phylum» (Teilhard) in this history make history, as such, always influenced by the partial realization of atonement, and the vision of fully realized divine -
human unanimity which history approaches as a limit.
Not exact matches
I want rather to emphasize that if we are going to work for the renewal of our polity and local communities, we need to grapple with the fact that real
human community requires more
unanimity of thought and practice than we have realized.
Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total
unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of
human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all
human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»
There will never be
unanimity on all these judgments, precisely because it is so difficult to balance the competing parts of the convention on
human rights and the competing interests involved.
They also agree, if with less
unanimity, that the most common genetic variants found in contemporary
human beings are ancient in origin — at least 50,000 years old.
Diebenkorn often said how much he owed to European painting and the debt is acknowledged here, in the second room of the show, in big works depicting
human figures framed in landscape — on a terrace, at a window — or secluded in shady interiors, in placid
unanimity with their surroundings, sunken - eyed, reading, or lost in contemplation.
Many might be tempted to dismiss such evidence as fanciful because of its source; let them reflect that such works are the products of the
human brain and, where there is pancultural
unanimity on some aspect or other of
human behaviour, the evidence should be taken seriously.
Despite virtual
unanimity among scientists that climate change is real, and that it is caused by
human activities, people who cast doubt on climate science continue to dominate the debate.
Dr. Peiser's research demonstrated that several of the abstracts confounded Oreskes» assertion of
unanimity by explicitly rejecting or casting doubt upon the notion that
human activities are the main drivers of the observed warming over the last 50 years.