Sentences with phrase «meaning of agape»

Know you are not alone and if you have the interest take a moment to study the definition and meaning of Agape love.

Before we see how this analysis of love leads to a new consideration of the meaning of agape there is a complementary side of the ethical problem to be faced.

It is not that we discover the meaning of agape by going into the depths of the self; but that we discover in the depths of the self a hunger born of the self's own loves which only agape can satisfy.

The question is whether the meaning of agape is adequately represented in Nygren's formulation.

Many of our brethren need to find a teacher that understands the true meaning of agape.

The problem of defining the ultimate good in Christian theology thus becomes that of interpreting as explicitly as possible the meaning of the agape disclosed in Christ.

Being a new creation, they come to know the meaning of agape.

Jesus gave so clear a picture of what a life centered in the love of God and expressing itself in love for others would be that, when the New Testament was written in Greek, the meaning of agape was transformed.

The question is whether this distorted or compromised the meaning of agape, and that question remains one of the central issues for Christian thought and life.

Not exact matches

It is not possible simply to collate hesed and agape into a single understanding, even though they are closely interrelated — and even though the New Testament language of agape clearly owes more to the meanings of love in the Old Testament than to the ordinary meanings of the word in the Hellenistic environment.

Moreover, Paul seems to be quite capable of taking certain words from the culture of the time, and packing new meaning into the word (such as agape, mysteries, and theopnuestos, to name a few).

Following Jesus means subverting every claim to truth, authority, and consolation that could interfere with a life of self - emptying agape.

What I mean is this: In every person there is something which claims my concern, reverence, personal involvement and acknowledgment of value — my «agape.»

Love is constantly suggesting means to raise justice to higher levels of purity by the inspiration of agape.

Now, do yourself a favor, go and reread what I wrote about the context and meaning of the word agape as the Lord uses it in Matthew 5 and then check the text for yourself.

The Church is not the only group in which man is moved by agape and seeks its leading; but it is the one community which in accepting agape as the meaning of its existence places itself squarely under the judgment of the love which seeks one redeemed humanity in the Kingdom of God.

It means that those who recognize the agape of God in the historical revelation can be thankful that it has come to them there, while they remember that it does not give them an exclusive possession of the truth.

(which is the same meaning of self - esteem only redirected) It is to show agape love, don't do anything that would make a weaker brother stumble, be mindful if they are of weaker faith.

The crux is the meaning of self - renunciation in agape.

In fact, as somebody has pointed out, Nygren's God of sheer agape, in the meaning he gives that word, is a moral reflection of the untouched, unmoved, self - sufficient deity as ens realissimum — note the neuter gender — which Christian theologians have tried to join with the living, loving, caring God of the Hebrew - Christian scriptures — and have failed.

As you will recall, Nygren insists that in God there is no eros (the Greek word, by the way, for what I have been calling «desire», which significantly also in Greek means «love»); in God there is only agape, which Nygren interprets to mean the love which gives without regard either to the value of the recipient or the urgency on the part of the giver to receive a returning love.

Niebuhr was concerned that agape not be reduced simply to achievable good acts that liberals suggest as the meaning of love.