Sentences with phrase «in eternal communion»

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In the saints, whose lives aim at eternal communion with God and with fellow human beings, Taylor identifies practical reasoners par excellence.

The most holy, the noblest, the best, the most godlike things about us is our human capacity to learn personhood in responsible self - government (taking up personal responsibility for our own eternal fate) and to share in communion with other persons, and most of all with the unseen God.

While an admonition such as «Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return» sounds like the solemn - admonitory, the point of the memento mori is to contemplate worldly death in order to fit oneself for otherworldly life in communion with other eternal souls, not somehow to find comfort in the commonality of our mortal lot.

This is the crowning glory of God's overarching plan in order to bring about the perfect union of heaven and earth and the final communion of all creatures in eternal bliss.

Therefore, it is only in so far as we are, as Paul expresses it, «in Christ», united with him by faith which responds to God's grace reaching out to us in him, that we may hope to be raised to a share in his risen life of communion with the eternal God.

that the monads will pour into that place whither they are irrevocably destined by the total maturing of all things and the implacable irreversibility of the whole history of the World — some of them spiritualized matter in the limitless fulfillment of an eternal communion, and others materialized spirit in the conscious agonies of an interminable decomposition.

In Scotus» theology God is the Trinity in a communion of love — an eternal movement of the lover (the Father), the beloved (the Son) and the sharing of love (the SpiritIn Scotus» theology God is the Trinity in a communion of love — an eternal movement of the lover (the Father), the beloved (the Son) and the sharing of love (the Spiritin a communion of love — an eternal movement of the lover (the Father), the beloved (the Son) and the sharing of love (the Spirit).

In Jenson's presentation, the difference between the «immanent» Trinity» the eternal communion of Father, Son, and Spirit» and the «economic» Trinity almost vanishes.

But there is also a necessary distinction that maintains the priority of the eternal communion of the triune God over that communion's explication in the history of salvation.

If Christ lives in His Church, then love shown to the brethren is a part of that communion with Christ which is life eternal.

Indeed the Church's whole mission and life is one of leading humanity to communion with the Trinity, a communion that indeed reaches into our subjectivity, but which at the same time heals us and enlightens us and leads us to receive that which we could never attain by ourselves - a share in God's own life, in the immense glory of eternal life in the resurrected body of Jesus Christ.

We hope that there remains no quarrel with the orthodoxy of our central affirmations that «The fathers maintained the sacredness of matter and its share in God's saving plans ``; that the flesh is central to the plan of salvation; that the Incarnation takes place in order to bring about eternal communion between the Godhead and humanity, and thereby the whole of the physical creation which is summed up in Christ.

Working in light of the redemption and the revelation of Trinitarian communion, a biblical theologian can affirm both a natural created and graced participation in what Thomas called the eternal law.

As the Christian Church makes memorial of Christ's life and work, bringing these from the past into the present; as through that memorial, it pleads before God the wonder of the self - offering which Christ made on Calvary; as the communicants know the presence of Christ brought from heavenly places into their heart of hearts — so they are in communion with Him, and with God and man through Him, the communion which is Life Eternal.

To believe that «everyman is the brother for whom Christ died», requires an identification with the neighbour which is deeper than any humanitarian sentiment, for now the neighbour is seen as one who is created to share in communion with God and his fellows in eternal life.

What we priests need to live our celibacy faithfully and joyfully is a moral perspective that sees ourselves as made in God's image and called to eternal communion with Him, rather than one based on casuist haggling over the sixth and ninth commandments,» says Fr.

The document praises the power of Holy Communion «to assist a person in growing in their union with Christ,» and especially Viaticum or final communion, which «has a power of particular significance and importance as the seed of eternal life and the power of resurrection.»

Where intimations of eternal life do appear in the Hebrew Bible, they are driven by the same passion for monotheism and longing for communion with God that, at an earlier stage, had to exert itself against preoccupation (especially of a cultic sort) with the dead.

I've never thought of believing in my soul merely as a way to eternal life and I wasn't taught as a child about my soul or the Bible - for as long as I can remember I felt communion with the earth and nature, and was fully aware of my soul and spirit, years before I ever learned of such things in the Bible.

In so doing, Christ establishes the New Covenant and a level of worship which is in effect the blessing of eternal communion with GoIn so doing, Christ establishes the New Covenant and a level of worship which is in effect the blessing of eternal communion with Goin effect the blessing of eternal communion with God.

He has entered into the very presence of God in eternal and definitive communion.

«Painting is not merely illustration, but real - time communion with ancestors,» reads a wall text in Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia a show at the Harvard Art...