Sentences with phrase «most redemptive»

Christianity is most redemptive as a force in the world when Christian churches focus their energies on building formative Christian communities that are rooted in the idioms and practices of biblical faith.

It is most productive and most redemptive when we wrestle with it together, in community — listening to one another, learning from one another, and loving one another through both the good and bad days.

This mode of being is the fundamental ground of what has been most dynamic, most creative, and most redemptive in Western history and, more recently, in the Westernized history of the entire planet.

Cameron Mackintosh, the producer of the Broadway musical Les Miserables — easily one of pop culture's most redemptive storylines, with...

But here we are trying to do one of the most redemptive things in the world, and bring clean water to every man, woman and child.

Not exact matches

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

Most of us have experienced some hurt or doubt of our own, and these scars, too, can serve a redemptive purpose in shaping our listening response to leavers.

that the task of the proletariat corresponds to the world - historical mission of the chosen people, that the redemptive and universal function of the most degraded class is conceived on the religious pattern of Cross and Resurrection, that the ultimate transformation of the realm of freedom corresponds to the transformation of the civitas Terrena into a civitas Dei, and that the whole process of history as outlined in the Communist Manifesto corresponds to the general scheme of the Jewish - Christian interpretation of history as providential advance toward a final goal.

In fact, Powell suggests, most contemporary thinkers have dethroned Luther's distinction between the Deus absconditus and the Deus revelatus (God hidden and revealed) by stressing how God's redemptive acts in history reveal nothing new about God's intra-divine life, but act to confirm what is eternally true.

Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity in history: it is precisely the self - alienation of God from his original redemptive form that has liberated humanity from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of human experience.

What I love most about the Word series is that it manages to capture some of the most beautiful, compelling, bizarre, troubling, violent, and redemptive images from the Bible in a way that, as we talked about on Monday, honors the Bible for what it is, not simply what we want it to be.

We have already noted the conflict which runs through most of Christian thought between the biblical vision of God as the creative and redemptive actor in the history of his creation, and the metaphysical doctrine inherited from the synthesis of the Christian faith with neo-platonic philosophy which conceives God as the impassible, non-temporal absolute.

Surely, the act of the Godhead in bringing to birth the destined savior and ruler of the world in such humble fashion is the single most winsome moment in redemptive history.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

I'd say that the most defining part of my faith — the center of what I believe — is the love of people & redemptive community.

Defining the «redemptive quest» and the «maturation» of a community of faith can really be done only in conversation with the tradition, a conversation that tests our assumptions and challenges even our most cherished and deeply held convictions.

We keep our vision of God most nearly steady if we do not say that either His creative or His redemptive working is prior to the other in the disclosure He makes of Himself to us.

George Eldon Ladd of Fuller Seminary, an exponent of this view, writes,»... the New Testament for the most part does not foresee a millennial kingdom»; and again, «The New Testament nowhere expounds the theology of the millennium, that is, its purpose in God's redemptive plan» (in The Meaning of the Millennium, op.

[29] In this he was following the order of St Paul's thinking, who sees the redemptive office of Christ as the most fitting crowning of his already predestined Incarnational primacy.

All of my other children had a beautiful and redemptive birth story: by contrast, Maggie's birth had been one of the most traumatic days of my life and I felt that it was my fault.

I understand yr position Steve, but at some time the cycle of «redemptive violence» needs to be challenged if we really want to move toward peace, and isn't that where the words of Jesus will be most effective.

1 -11,26-32); or what is surely one of the Old Testament's most sensitive creations, the oracle against the shepherds in chapter 34; or in chapter 47, the moving description of the stream flowing from the Temple, increasing in breadth and volume and majesty as it flows, bringing life, healing, and fruitfulness all along its redemptive course.

As for the distinction between the sovereignty and powers of the (earthly) Messiah and those of the (pre-existent, heavenly) Son of man, it should be noted that although IV Ezra 13.26 has the Man from the sea being kept «many ages» by the Most High, the description of the redemptive activity of this figure in vv.

The denouement is particularly interesting and although Schrader himself has stated that the closing «could be spliced to the first frame, and the movie started all over again» suggesting that what we've witnessed falls more into the damnation element of Travis, there also exists a sequence that could arguably be claimed as redemptive which would leave Travis Bickle as on of cinema's most intriguing (and contradictory) anti-hero's.

And while some scenes do portray a gratuitous amount of almost Tarantino - level violence that comes out of nowhere, most of Gangster Squad's violence feels justified, and redemptive, echoing a theme of the film that makes it more fun than your average action fare: heroism.

Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is both a showcase for its maker's artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance.

THE HITMAN»S BODYGUARD is violent and bloody romp that dares to consider the hazards of moral relativity in a milieu where life is cheap, and the redemptive power of true love for even the souls most lost.

But what is certain about Three Billboards is that if this many people saw Dixon's arc as redemptive — and if we take the most charitable view, that it wasn't intended to trivialize the experiences of abused and tortured black characters in order to humanize a white character — then the problem is in the film itself, which allowed room for a reading that was counter to its intentions.

By far Reitman's most accomplished film to date, both in terms of craft and its stealth avoidance of typical Hollywood flight patterns, Up in the Air is not (early indicators to the contrary) a redemptive fable about a soulless corporate shill who gets his comeuppance by seeing how the other half lives, or by falling into the arms of a good woman.

All starring Fox's eternal young lovers, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, they are among the most lush silent films ever made and the most entrancing celebrations of the redemptive power of love in all of cinema.

«Courageous and redemptive, Show Me All Your Scars displays the most poignant and stabilizing force in psychiatry and life in general: hope.

And yet, as novelist David Treuer wryly observes in his sobering yet quietly redemptive book, Rez Life, in spite of how involved Indians have been in America's business, most people will go a lifetime without ever knowing an Indian or spending time on an...

The iPad has its redemptive moments — most notably a sobering and engrossing timeline of surveillance that ranges from spies in ancient Egypt to the surveillance architecture of the panopticon to fingerprinting, and on and on.

Not what it means for most painters, nor for those seeking the redemptive light.

Michael Piazza's death in 2006 robbed Chicago of one of its most persistent cultural and social activists, an artist and teacher who believed that creativity could be a corrective and redemptive force with the potential to ameliorate the conditions...

Aug. 9, 8:55 a.m. Updated In a column in The Times Sunday magazine, Judith Warner cautions against celebrating downsizing, asserting that the Great Recession has been far more wretched than redemptive for most people, with the rich just getting slightly less rich while the poor got poorer and the middle class lost a big slice of its hard - won wealth.

One of his appearances won Oprah an Emmy award for the «most socially redemptive» daytime talk show and earned a spot on her Unforgettable!

One of his appearances won him an Emmy award for the «most socially redemptive» daytime talk shows, and was included by Ms. Winfrey in her top 20 shows.