Sentences with phrase «of a loved one as»

He was the perfect measure of love as an example for us.

In the sufferings and death that Jesus willingly and humbly accepts we see the greatest act of love as he offers himself in atonement for the selfish sins of mankind.

It is also striking to note how similar the works of wisdom are to the characteristics of love as Paul lays them out in 1 Corinthians James are marked by practices that restore and deepen relationships between believers.

The real test of love as seen in the deeper moral traditions of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29

Many moralists speak of love as the one fundamental and universal moral principle, the golden rule honored in all traditions.

Accepting the biblical understanding of love as central to any human concept of the divine is at the heart of Williams» enterprise, directly challenging the Augustinian formulation as a corruption of this.23 Love is «spirit taking form in history.»

Paul speaks of the new life in the freedom of love as being itself the «rule» (canon).

Paul makes some qualifications concerning the adequacy of human judgment, even his own, in specific cases; but we see that commitment to the spirit of love as an alternative to legal obedience requires responsible living and the honouring of authentic forms of behaviour appropriate to the new life.

We can sum up by saying that the ethical impulse in the spirit of love as released in the Gospel takes new forms and fulfils old demands because the spirit has become incarnate in the form of the Servant.

In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several films about the assassinated prelate; for example, director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) reportedly has a Romero project under way (tentative title: The Devil's Bishop) But however many such films are made, none is likely to be as much a labor of love as Romero was.

Hartshorne's understanding of love as relation is the foundation for his conception of divine relativity.

But I am a «slave» of His love as He «bought» me with His sacrificial death by paying the price for the redemption of my soul.

In the same chapter, Hartshorne rejects dogmatic pacifism by arguing that the religious ideal of love as action from social awareness «seems clearly to include the refusal to provide the unsocial with a monopoly upon the use of coercion (MVG 173).

The church can help the rest of society recapture a more muscular view of love as well.

Because we do so, we can only experience the transformation of our loves as painful.

The trouble is, Scott, there are sooooo many that believe that the «fundamentalist mindset» is not capable of loving as Christ calls us all to.

All in all, his provocative notion of love as a power of attraction, engendering in that which emanates from God (or is created by God) a desire for reunification — the mystic's goal — is intriguing but insufficiently fulfilling.

Hildegard represents but a beginning in a retrieval of the theme of love as central to the being of God.

Negroes and Indians were part of the great human race and should, therefore, be objects of love as much as any other being.

The goodness of love as created by God is taken up again by the prophet Hosea, who uses the continuing infatuation and affection he has for his wife, Gomer, as an image of the love Yahweh has for his people Israel.

The limerent person regards the object of love as embodying all earthly virtues and as the one person who can give meaning to life.

But the whole Gospel is not here, and we must not expect any one parable to contain that; what is not here is what no parable can portray what only the cross can show — the cost of this love as shown the death of the Son.

On the basis of this understanding of love as positive valuation of an object, we can distinguish four types of love among the Greeks.

Unfortunately, many people in our culture, including many Christians, have adopted Hollywood's definition of love as feelings.

Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it because it does.»

In addition to these topics, participants will also consider how friendship — as a type of love — stands in relation to other forms of love as well as how friendship can animate the best human life or corrupt it.

That he has not stressed this point is of apiece with his tendency to assimilate the meaning of Christ to the more generalized interpretation of the love of God one finds in metaphysics, particularly that of Charles Hartshorne, wherein neither revelation nor Christ is finally necessary since what is conveyed through them is available through the metaphysical analysis of the meaning of love as it is understood in a fully explicated view of God.

The all - determinative importance of love as taught by both Jesus and Paul is largely lost.

However, in supporting his position he emphasizes only rationality's contribution to God, ignoring other important contributors, particularly his own vision of love as the highest of values, and our most God - like attribute.

Hartshorne's neglect of the synergistic effects of love as it applies to fetuses and infants is a signature of this compartmentalized thinking.

A thorough philosopher looking to modify Hartshorne's position might also wish to examine the consequences of using Hartshorne's conception of love as the sole determining factor in the abortion issue, to probe Hartshorne's views on potentiality and to consider the criticisms of those who see Hartshorne's position as too utilitarian in nature.

Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of justice that the major impact of his thought is a dichotomy in which again justice, and not love, is the determining principle of social ethics.

Actually the two have been brought together in the history of Christian thought which Professor Nygren traces so superbly in his study, but all attempts at synthesis, including that of St. Augustine with his doctrine of love as caritas, and that of the medieval theologians and mystics who saw the problem and tried to make a place for unselfish love within the Christian doctrine, really obscured and corrupted the fundamental Christian truth which was recovered by Luther in the Protestant Reformation.

And yet... and yet... when I sit at the bedside of those I love as they lie there dying, the question still lingers in the minds of many of them.

Nygren regards the medieval doctrine of love as friendship (amor amicitiae) as a curious and invalid attempt to allow for the unselfish element in love.

There is no genuine conflict between law and love for those who see the true nature of love as holy and the law as an instrument for facilitating love.

He describes the demand of love as a pure ideal standing against all coercion and conflict.

We in the church need a spirit like that of John Wesley who, in a sermon on the Beatitudes described the man of love as a «citizen of the world.»

In it, Justin makes the case for a hermeneutic of love as well as anyone I've read, and his Christocentric approach to Scripture is one that can benefit all Christians, regardless of how they interpret the passages discussed above and regardless of where they stand on same - sex relationships.

In this respect, Nietzsche seemed to take no interest in Feuerbach's elevation of love as the most important aspect of our projection of ultimate perfection.

It is coherent with the call of Jesus to the way of love as he states it in the two great commandments which lie at the base of our moral and spiritual obligation (Matt.

Based on the characteristics of love as found in 1 Corinthians 13, Darin Hufford takes the reader on a journey to rediscover the love of God in a way you will rarely (if ever) hear it explained in your church.

The martial language of armor, breastplates, shields, and helmets disrupts the language of love as if to convey the fierceness of the temptation to fall back into the attitudes and habits associated with the old way of life (6:6 - 18).

Christian love is born not simply of love itself as expanded, sensitized, or even cauterized by suffering, but out of the love wherewith we are beloved, wherewith we are made «acceptable in the Beloved.»

This knowledge of love as grace is the real meaning of I Corinthians 13, which ought to be studied more often for the ethics of social action.

She points out that while an older generation might have been enamoured of sex without consequences, their younger counterparts often associate such an outlook with dysfunctional relationships, broken families and personal unhappiness and by extension see the Christian vision of love as fulfilling and ultimately liberating.

Many secular critics attack this view of love as self - sacrifice in all its Christian forms.

In this and the two succeeding chapters we examine these major assertions of Christian faith in the light of our interpretation of love as spirit at work in history.

(I.e., the law of love as the pinnacle of truth.)

Bushnell recognized the importance of love as a key aspect of God's reality and affirmed that «love is a principle essentially vicarious [125] in nature.»