Sentences with phrase «of images of god»

I vividly recall the heat, especially of the sandy earth on which one had to walk barefoot, the various smells, the dirt, and above all the number and variety of images of God.

For the state without due process to repress that right is a grave offense against human rights, a disfigurement of the image of God in humans, and a serious step in social retardation.

Male and female God made them; and the closer they are, the more they live in mutual understanding, the more they reflect something of the image of God.

But what of the image of God?

To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.

It means valuing the dignity of the image of God in man, woman and child.

John Calvin also wrote in various places of the image of God as having been destroyed by sin, obliterated by the Fall, and utterly defaced by unrighteousness.

It may be asserted, for example, that rationality is a part of the image of God.

Regardless of the condition and situation in which we find any person, we choose (as Jesus himself advised) to love them, and look for whatever we may find of the image of God in them.

At its worst, this notion takes the form of the image of God as divine lawgiver and judge, who has proclaimed an arbitrary set of moral rules, who keeps records of offences, and who will punish offenders.

Jesus Christ is fully human and such is the perfect expression of the image of God.

Here is the meaning of the image of God: relationship, co-humanity.

If, along with the theme of promise, we interpret natural evolution in the light of the image of God's loving self - renunciation, then its long and arduous struggle takes on considerable significance.

The Nature and Destiny of Man used the theological categories of image of God, original sin, original righteousness, grace, the Kingdom of God, and the last judgment.

No matter what you call it, theosis, sanctification, divinization — the full recovery of the image of God in which we were created is our destination.

Furthermore, this theology rests on a conception of the image of God in the Creation that makes of it a concrete resemblance: «the image of God» is the materiality of visible humanity.

When we don't belong to each other, we participate not only in the devastation of the world, but a desecration of the image of God.

Perhaps this is one of the meanings of the image of God: one who responds and is responsible; a counterpart who will dialogue, who is both at a certain distance and has the ability to communicate.

We might reply, yes, shattering of our image of God is one of the marks of Her presence.

Such attention would indeed be a fitting way to mark the birth of the Image of God.

Man constantly makes false gods, but by virtue of the image of God he can judge them.28 This ability to judge false gods does not give man a vision of the true God, but it opens the door for a true revelation.

Idolatry is the worship of images instead of that which they image; it is the worship of man, the image of God, or of man's works, images of the image of God.

As in Lycaonia and at Athens, the Christian missionary has first of all to convince his hearers of the meaninglessness and futility of idolatry, idolatry which meant not only the actual worship of images of the gods but also the whole range of pagan religion.

As she said, «it is not in one's own name one can love sacrificially, but only in the name of Christ, in the name of the image of God which reveals itself to me in human beings».

The colonists who massacred native peoples in the name of God, claiming that their victims were savage subhumans devoid of the image of God, were wrong.

The process theology which informs our interpretation of Christian faith agrees wholeheartedly with this view of the image of God in man; but it proposes a distinctive addition to the doctrine, for process theology sees love disclosed in a history in which the spirit of God creates new forms.

To some degree I am of the image of God....

Following a suggestion made by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Barth says that the connection in Genesis between the imago dei and the creation «male and female» is not incidental, but that this primary form of human community indicates the meaning of the image of God in man.

It suggests an interpretation of sin in relation to the doctrine of the image of God as man's creation for freedom in communion.

In other words, Eve is not Adam with a female anatomy: «Man and woman constitute two different ways of the human «being in a body» in the unity of the image of God.»

Barth now is willing to speak of the image of God in man as God's call to man.

Therefore, however important the truth involved in the defining of the image of God in man as creative self - transcendence, it can not constitute the main make - up of the image.

To this crucial topic for understanding man, namely the infilling of the image of God in conscience, we now turn.

Christ as the image, therefore, is the reconciliation of the image of God with conscience.

It is connected with God's whole use of law, of guilt, and of grace, but Brunner's interpretation does not arrive at the determinative nature of the image of God in man.

On this important question of the image of God in man, is there a clear word from God?

As a Christian, I believe it results in us displaying the deepest aspect of the image of God within us.

Without assuming that every thinker associated with this movement presents an identical position, we may make some general observations concerning the possible psychological impact of the image of God which most of them somehow silently project.

Through contemplation one arrives not only at personal wholeness, but also, through the activation of the image of God within, at transcultural maturity, so that one can take humankind as the community in which one's membership matters most.

It turns from selves in their concrete personal and communal existence to ideas of the image of God in man, of the soul, of mankind, the people of God, of sin and blessedness.

Even if this meaning undergoes and will undergo many distortions, it will always remain, at the deepest level... as a sign of the image of God.»

A religion in which that is forgotten, no matter how ecstatic or active or reasonable, replaces God by its own creation of an image of God....

Instead, I am beginning to see the truth of the image of God in man, dirtied as it is by sin, and the teaching of Scripture that all creation sings the glory of God.

They knew they were going to lose control of the image of God, and of their infallibility in their absolute pronouncements regarding our relationship with God.

Not exact matches

Every image in this review was captured on my personal PlayStation 4 Pro from a retail version of «God of War.»

For example, I've seen a lot of «man was created in God's image» interpretations to help you think you've validated your position, but I can clear that one up for you right now.

In the beautiful expression of St. Ignatius of Antioch, the bishop is typos tou Patros: he is like the living image of God the Father.»

In spite of the Ten Commandment's ban on «graven images» (and the worship of them), many Christians have become so used to visual representations of Christ that we often don't give them a second thought, nor consider what they say about our mental picture of the Son of God.

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones of laws protecting against false copies (Irrelevent.