Sentences with phrase «kenotic image of god»

The refusal of much traditional theology to place the kenotic image of God at its center has led to impossible tangles in its attempts to interpret the world and human experience.

In faith's response to its kenotic image of God there lies a surprising way of bringing new meaning to our normally confused sense of mystery, to our puzzlement about evolution and other recent discoveries about the physical universe, to our perplexity at the broken state of social existence, and finally to our own individual longings and sufferings.

(We will not be able to develop in this book how the kenotic image of God also has potential for illuminating interreligious conversations, especially those taking place between Christianity and Buddhism.

Our reflections will focus especially on the potentially illuminating capacity of this kenotic image of God.

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The image of the crucified, therefore, allows faith to understand the evolving universe as the effect of God's kenotic self - revelation.

Rather, as our best theologians in this century have increasingly confessed, the roots of much serious atheism can be found in long - revered ideas of God that have not yet been shaped either by the promissory aspects of revelation (especially in the case of the kind of atheism associated with Marx) or by the revelatory image of the kenotic God (especially in the case of the atheism associated with existentialism).

Every death of a divine image is a realization of the kenotic movement, an actualization in consciousness and experience of God's death in Christ; thus a fully incarnate Christ will have dissolved or reversed all sacred images by the very finality of his movement into flesh.