Sentences with phrase «kind of god complex»

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In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

The fact that he wanted the Catholic church to worship him and have a holiday after him is reflective of MY POINT that he is motivated by a god - complex, and not any kind of «christianity».

God is a kind of dimension or complex of dimensions made manifest in all our experience.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

One of the kinds of consequences that follows from God's being a natural complex is ontological.

To say that God is a natural complex is to say a number of things, or a number of different kinds of things.

The possibility of creation must be understood as a complex, located in certain orders, and as obtaining along with, and in relation of some kind to, God.

This X-outing's big bad causes all kinds of mayhem for Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and his band of merry mutants due to possessing a God complex larger than the pyramids of his ancient Egyptian home.