Sentences with phrase «many beatific»

Johnson presided with a beatific smile.

The smile is swift and beatific.

* all - knowing, beatific smile * Old Man: «Please shut up and go away.»

Armed with these materials, one could mark out an intelligent path from the earliest materials in the Hebrew Bible to Dante's portrayal of the final end of humanity in the beatific vision.

This is not to say that the blessed enjoy the beatific vision» that idea still waits its time.

There is no straight line toward the beatific vision.

A hallmark of the Catholic tradition is that God's existence (though not His Trinitarian nature), the existence of the incorporeal soul (though not the nature of the after life and the beatific vision), the nature of the human person (though not the full truth about the indwelling of grace), and the natural law are all accessible to us without divine Revelation.

In fact he has given us the highest destiny of all, to become utterly like him and to see him as he really is in what we call «The Beatific Vision».

That the souls of the just enjoy the Beatific Vision while yet awaiting the resurrection of their bodies is also solemnly defined doctrine (Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1000; cf. Lumen Gentium 49).

Redemption means restoring through pain and sorrow the original invitation to perfect love that terminates in beatific communion.

Yet we hope to live with a beatific vision of God and life even if we can not see his blinding glory.

An obediential potentiality is one whose actualization goes beyond the natural, innate limitations of its subject, while not being irreconcilable with those limitations, e.g. the direct intuition of God in the beatific vision.

Faith does not diminish the necessity for the analogia entis, but neither does the beatific vision, which, even though it is the endpoint «intrinsic to the spiritual life,» still functions as «a defining end as far beyond every proportion as God in Himself is beyond the creation.»

Though recent critics applaud Chaucer for being a «nonjudgmental» poet of this world (and thus distinguishable from Dante), Klassen draws attention again to the fact that both Dante and Chaucer are animated by a «poetic of hope» rooted in the beatific vision.

The ITC says we can not say for certain that unbaptised infants enjoy the beatific vision, so unequivocally to assert that they do would seem imprudent.

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In this context the book elaborates that suffering is not to be feared but rather embraced as «a sure pledge of His tenderness... This guarantee, this real testimony of the Beatific Vision, which made the souls of the saints sigh with joy, is not the brilliant successes of this world, or temporal glory or happiness, but trialsand suffering» (p. 294).

The human nature of Christ was predestined by God to that highest glory of the beatific sharing in the inner life of the divine persons.

Grace prompts communion in love that terminates in the gift of perfect union, which we call the Beatific Vision.

His interlocutor defends «a particularly colorless construal of the beatific vision» which has the consequence of preventing any pesky animals from passing through the Pearly Gates.

This Being would be a source of hope and the goal of unmitigated beatific vision toward which all seekers could, through love, direct their wills.

The end of this journey is the beatific vision — to see God and to rest in God — and that vision is granted only to those who are perfected, to the pure in heart.

Knowledge is preeminent also in the final bliss of the elect; the essence of salvation is the beatific vision.

Heaven is life with God, in the enjoyment of «the beatific vision.»

Questions of eschatology in Christian theology quickly become questions of protology, and so we must ask how this picture of a beatific vision absent nonhuman life affects how we are to think of creation in the first place.

If sanctification is not complete here on earth, is it somehow completed between the time of death and the beatific vision?

The beatific vision, the panoramic perspective, or the total picture is never available to finite individuals.

Through the hypostatic union of God the Word with the human nature, men are given the highest possible destiny - beatific transformation as co-sharers of the infinite Godhead.

Sin can play no part in the plan of God, and there can be left no stain of sin in the hearts of any who enjoy the Beatific Vision.

His human soul, as it was hypostatically united to the Eternal Word, enjoyed the Beatific Vision.

Two metaphysical sensibilities seem to be in play here, which perhaps can not be resolved short of the beatific vision.

Since the distinction between natural and supernatural orders tends to dissolve if the desire for the beatific vision is built into every natural judgment, the normativity of Scriptural statements and magisterial pronouncements is undermined.

De Lubac clarifies that man can not know that his desire is for the beatific vision.

Hence every natural act of knowing contains anatural desire for the beatific vision.

They will still be technically in hell, since they will lack the beatific vision, but they will enjoy a kind of natural felicity, like that of infants who die without baptism.

Only in the beatific vision - the end toward which philosophy, the love of wisdom, is oriented - will those limits be overcome.

Perhaps the truth lies elsewhere, as Vatican II seems to indicate: «man is the only creature on earth that God has wanted for its own sake,» (GS 24) since we alone have spiritual souls and are called by God to the supernatural end which is the beatific vision.

He does not invite us into communion with himself, nor is there any possibility of seeing him as he really is in the Beatific Vision.

As the human nature of Christ is the perfect image, in the Son of Man, of our own identity and holiness, our wholeness in body and soul through God, so in the order of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific vision.

Bynum maintains that even the beatific vision of the soul (separated from the body), affirmed by Benedict, occurs only after the soul is endowed with the specificity and particularity that had previously been associated with body.

According to Catholic teaching, as defined at the Councils of Lyons (1274) and Florence (1439), those who die in the grace of God expiate their unforgiven venial or pardonable sins by undergoing due punishment before being admitted to the beatific vision.

The engine that drives Dante's desire for the beatific vision is not simply love for God.

She focuses on the period from 200 to 1336, the year Pope Benedict XII declared that souls experience beatific vision with the resurrection yet to come.

My interlocutor was an adherent to a particularly colorless construal of the beatific vision, one that allows for no real participation of animal creation (except eminently, through us) in the final blessedness of the Kingdom; I, by contrast, hope to see puppies in paradise, and persevere in faith principally for that reason.

Your beatific calm can only be seen as menacing when it comes to my personal rights to live my life beautifully as I see fit.

There is the sheer giving and ecstatic happiness in being possessed by everlasting love, and concomitantly with this and fusing with it is the joy of possessing God as He is by means of the beatific vision.36

That granted, the traditional scheme was right in speaking of «heaven» as it did, with the «beatific vision» and the bliss or happiness which is granted through that vision.

But once a saint has been canonised by the Supreme Pontiff and offered to the universal Church for veneration, we must accept beyond doubt that they are enjoying the Beatific Vision in heaven.

Such a way of living sounds beatific.

Since the presence of God is reserved only for the worthy, imperfections and lesser evils in one's life have to be «worked off» before the beatific vision is possible.