Sentences with phrase «of agape in»

Much has been said in criticism of Luther's doctrine here, and there are many issues concerning the later development of the Christian ethic in relation to war and social justice; but our immediate concern is to understand Luther's faith that it is possible for the Christian to live the life of agape in the midst of the world's affairs and conflicts.

However, the introduction of the notion of agape in his speculations about evolution is of particular importance to anyone who has thought seriously about those problems.

Consequently there is a basic difference between this general notion in the tradition and the notion of agape in finite creativity.

His thoughts on the special role of agape in evolution may serve as a point of departure for developing a conceptual scheme that makes room for the origin of what is radically new in a world of regularity and order.

Although he does not introduce the notion of agape in these early writings, he does lay the basis for it.

To be sure, the parables are understood more profoundly in the light of the full disclosure of agape in Christ; but that revelation illumines what is already pressing for recognition in human experiences of love.

This is the justification of Bishop Nygren's interpretation of agape in the New Testament.

is there Christian insight into sexuality through a reflection on the work of agape in the sexual life with its frustrations, idolatries, and creative powers?

Not exact matches

We would be agape with awe, look grimly at our Woolco tube socks and the terrible compromises Canadians make in the name of affordability and dream of the day we could join in all that uncompromised consumerism.

The gospel of God's grace in Jesus Christ frees the Christian from both these erroneous tendencies but only if Christians respectfully strive to follow God's commandments and practice agape love.

These definitions, and Rand's discussion of them, are immensely pertinent to understanding Christian agape as more than simply doing what has to be done in order to get to heaven, which is still the view of many Christians.

Although he does not mention by name Anders Nygren, the Swedish theologian, he clearly disputes Nygren's driving of a sharp wedge between eros and agape: «I remember, for instance, my delight in discovering this recognition that eros opens upon agape in Homer.

And to not see God's love (agape) in all of this, is not going to protect God from who He actually is, it is merely to insulated us from having to deal with a true Sovereign.

But now, I had seen a glimpse of my own heart, and knew that as long as I was in this flesh, I could never love him with agape love.

Recently, in his first Encyclical Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict has beautifully set the goodness and delight of the love of man and women — and indeed wider loves — in the context of the sacrificial love of agape and the ecclesial service of caritas.

The story of Abraham's intercession thus points to the central theme of biblical faith: the steadfast love of God — hesed, agape — that refuses to be frustrated even in the context of a most immoral society.

The doctrine that agape fulfils the human loves has a critical test in interpreting the sexual life, not because of the earthiness of sexual love, but because of its power to drive the spirit in seeming disregard of God or neighbour.

Sensitive readers are advised not to look too closely at what the couple in the foreground of one photograph are doing to celebrate the «yearly moment of release at the Agape Restaurant», which is apparently a secular version of Easter High Mass at Westminster Cathedral.

The loves which are linked with sexuality seem to be the extreme case of the ambiguity in human loves when they are judged in the light of agape.

In an anticipatory way, recognized by faith, the crucified and risen Christ satisfies that hunger in the celebration of agape that is the EucharisIn an anticipatory way, recognized by faith, the crucified and risen Christ satisfies that hunger in the celebration of agape that is the Eucharisin the celebration of agape that is the Eucharist.

The Christians who preach violence in the name of love of the poor are disciples of Eros and no longer know the Agape of Christ.

Agape bids us seek justice here, not the stale justice of combat and compromise, but the justice of a search for a new economic, political, and ecclesiastical order in which sexuality can be fulfilling for each in a life which is a support and not a barrier to the love which binds all together.

The agape which redeems and reconciles does one of its greatest works in the infusing of the sexual life with the spirit of humility and charity.

Nothing «turns into» agape, but love experienced in depth within the context of faith in God's agape becomes an occasion for gratitude, humility and the celebration which expresses the life of God's people in his world.

There is however no sharp difference in the usage of this word for love of the brother, as against the love spoken of as agape.

The agape of God in Christ brought a new wisdom, a new knowledge.

But this does not resolve the tension in the life of agape.

The entire passage reads, «In spite of the many kinds of love, which in Greek are designated as philia (friendship), eros (aspiration toward value), and epithymia (desire), in addition to agape, which is the creation of the Spirit, there is one point of identity in all these qualities of love, which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,» which is the inner dynamics of lifIn spite of the many kinds of love, which in Greek are designated as philia (friendship), eros (aspiration toward value), and epithymia (desire), in addition to agape, which is the creation of the Spirit, there is one point of identity in all these qualities of love, which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,» which is the inner dynamics of lifin Greek are designated as philia (friendship), eros (aspiration toward value), and epithymia (desire), in addition to agape, which is the creation of the Spirit, there is one point of identity in all these qualities of love, which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,» which is the inner dynamics of lifin addition to agape, which is the creation of the Spirit, there is one point of identity in all these qualities of love, which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,» which is the inner dynamics of lifin all these qualities of love, which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,» which is the inner dynamics of life.

... While the Principle of Redemptive Withdrawal is focused on the abandonment Jesus experienced as he experienced the Father's judgment on the sin of the world, it is nevertheless grounded in the truth that the cross is the definitive expression of the self - giving, mutual indwelling agape - love that defines the triune God throughout eternity (p. 778).

Or as Tillich has it, «The appetitus of every being to fulfil itself through union with other beings is universal...» (32) Agape, the love that gives with no thought of return; eros, the love that finds the beloved valuable, and philia, the love that shares and works for the vision of the good - none of these can be reduced to sexual desire, but all of them in different ways attest to the oneness of love, so evident in sexual union, as «that which drives everything that is towards everything else that is.»

For the aim of solitariness is the satisfaction of a religious striving, a completion found in such complex, unified, subjective forms as karuna, agape, and jen.

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.

A personalistic philosophy of life does not offer us absolute knowledge;... we discover divine purpose in so far as our human purposes are ruled by the New Testament principles of logos and agape - reason and love.

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.

He rang the changes on sin more eloquently than anyone of our time, but that dissection, set forth with particularly telling power in the first volume of his Gifford Lectures, was followed by a second volume in which his acknowledgment of the power of the gospel as grace made it possible for him to speak of «the agape of the Kingdom of God [as] a resource for the infinite development towards a more perfect brotherhood in history» (The Nature and Destiny of Man, II [Scribner's, 1943], p. 85)

The togetherness of Agape and Eucharist rests upon the unity of faith and love in Paul and upon the unity of faith and works in James.

Maybe we who want to embody agape as «creative goodwill» are being called back into action, not this time to man the barricades or even to carry picket signs, but rather to initiate fresh forms of dialogue in parent - teacher - student organizations and town councils.

xii - xiv), which results in giving a relatively low place to abnormal phenomena, and exalting moral and intellectual endowments, and, above all, agape, love or charity, to the highest places, is a genuinely scientific estimate of the situation as it was from the beginning.

Lovers of Jesus with $ in pocket are a powerful force of unconditional agape Love... better $ in the pocket of Love than in the pockets of greed and self serving...

vii; M. C. D'Arcy, The Mind and Heart of Love, Lion and Unicorn, A Study in Eros and Agape [New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1947], p. 204, cf. pp. 114 - 123, 218, 318 - 321.)

We Agape You, an outreach started by Randy Simmons, is working to house some of these people in donated properties.

Unquestionably, the pietism which both Luther and Calvin resisted, tended to reinforce an individualistic view of salvation in spite of the fact that pietistic mysticism usually stressed experience of the Holy Spirit in the agape - love which binds the community of the faithful together.

I have already mentioned the proposal of the Freudian, Herbert Marcuse, for a panerotic philosophy of life in which eros, agape, and thanatos (death) will all be integrated in the one self - expression of the human spirit.

The personhood of the Creator is manifested in his radically free relationship to the created world, the radical freedom of agape, the love that gives being.

In this work Niebuhr maintained that the agape of the Cross in its sacrificial heedlessness and universalism is the only final adequate norm of human lifIn this work Niebuhr maintained that the agape of the Cross in its sacrificial heedlessness and universalism is the only final adequate norm of human lifin its sacrificial heedlessness and universalism is the only final adequate norm of human life.

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

Hausman believes that Peirce's insight is restricted in the role of eros and agape in creative evolution, but he also suggests the fruitfulness of his insight.

An example may be seen in the work of the Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City (Los Angeles area), California.

One way in which he limits his insight can be seen in his conception of the connection between discord and agape.

I have tried to emphasize the reason agape is both relevant and essential in an account of creative evolution at the level of both the cosmic and the finite.