Nor do they attack the gate as if getting through it is the
total means of their existence... getting through and attacking the horrid strange unfriendly other human entering THEIR home!
Covenant is the promise of Yahweh, and his own irrevocable act of commitment to that promise to take Israel for a people, and through her to restore to the world the lost blessing of creation, to mend the now
fractured meaning of existence, and to heal history's tragically disordered order.
He found the true
meaning of existence in spirituality and visited India and abroad for many spiritual discourses and spread the divine light.
First, he would impel people to transcend the «esthetic,» the world of immediacy and finitude, to turn inward, and in their inwardness to come in touch with the infinite, the eternal, the
true meaning of existence.
Unlike other groups, a church fellowship participates in a century - spanning heritage which finds the
ultimate meaning of existence in man's relationship with God.
It is after 17 years clean and sober, many different therapies, intently searching for the
deeper meaning of my existence and healing that I find myself a follower of Christ.
I think we would be extremely naiive to «absolutely» accept or reject any theories about the origin and
meaning of our existence.
There are still individuals whom the clamor of the world, the powerful forces of the temporal, the external, and the immediate have not swayed completely, people who are still capable of that inwardness in which the religious and the true
meaning of existence can be found.
That is to say, the Christian gospel, the kerygma or proclamation, indeed remains and must remain fixed as the message of the Church, the heart of its life and
the meaning of its existence; but at the same time we must find ways in which we can both understand and declare that kerygma which will not smother it in an unimaginative biblicism, but which will be appropriate for our own day.
But if the inspiration of Scripture is to be found not in exact wording or factual details, but in profound spiritual insights concerning the source and
meaning of existence and the true ends of life, then the differences between one account and another present an interesting problem for investigation but no difficulty for faith.
And the question of the meaning of «my» existence leads surely to the question of
the meaning of all existence.
Wherever we begin with human problems we recognize that what we see and feel here and now may break open for us at any time questions concerning
the meaning of our existence.
There is a reality which stands between the persons, and that reality, to keep our terms neutral for the moment, is
the meaning of existence as it really is.
The religious essence of every religion, writes Buber, «is the certainty that
the meaning of existence is open and accessible in the actual lived concreteness.»
But man is finite and can not understand
the meaning of his existence or the meaning (reasoning) of God's action (and interaction) with man.
The Old Testament was created to give expression to a people's self - understanding, to convey
the meaning of their existence.
«Where do I go to find
the meaning of existence and the meaning of life?
With our finest and most powerful instruments we may search in vain for
the meaning of existence.
This revelation is the key to
the meaning of existence: God wants to redeem man and the world, and even himself, through a creation that is so charged with love that it proves stronger than death.
The Christian ideas of God as loving father and the oneness of all men under him have an effect on one's life only if they become essential ingredients in one's convictions, at the nucleus of one's being, about
the meaning of existence.
Furthermore, Ely's statement that «the very notion of «redemption through suffering» implies a divorce between suffering as a means and as an end» and his contention that the individuality of finite things does not count are both denied in Whitehead's system by the notion that
the meaning of existence is «now — for God and man.
The reign of Christ, then, is that period in human history which is interpreted by Christians through what God has done in the life of Jesus to disclose the ultimate
meaning of our existence.
Just as the animal requires its environment to provide it with
the means of existence and, in that environment, finds its intelligibility, so too man must be given his spiritual sustenance by God.
The meaning of our existence as unfinished creatures in a life which has its times of planting and its times of reaping becomes an insoluble riddle.
It is re-assuring for the small minded, but is a lazy and embarrassingly deluded way to find
the meaning of your existence.
For Niebuhr the first business of the church was to raise and answer the religious question about
the meaning of existence.
Christ is the restoration of the true image of man, because he is the incarnation of the love which is
the meaning of our existence.
The significance of Dr. Hocking's remark, «What the man sees becomes the working part of the man,» has been abundantly confirmed in the psychological clinic.23 The process of healing the disordered personality involves the reinterpretation of the past and the achievement of a new interpretation of
the meaning of existence.
Therefore, the final word describing the true
meaning of existence is not (in Dostoevsky) a problematic word....
This question they rightly leave for the individual to answer for himself, and they do so just because they are concerned with
the meaning of existence in the abstract.
Is it impossible to analyze
the meaning of existence in the abstract?
The first task of authentic Christian communication is to help people face the reality of these self - doubts and to enable them to ask serious questions about
the meaning of their existence.
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.
Schubert Ogden insists that people today no longer express their understandings of
the meaning of existence in the mythological language of the classical theological tradition.
There you see the way in which a life which may have been disorganized, self - centered, thoughtless, and indifferent to others finds a center in which it can discover
the meaning of existence, presented in the object of affection.
We make our present state of selfhood
the meaning of existence, and thus refuse the deeper meaning which lies within and beyond this present.