Sentences with phrase «of special revelation»

AQA 9 - 1 special revelation - simple lesson where students create a booklet or poster etc. on the 5 types of special revelation (miracles / dreams / prophecy / hearing God's call / vision).

For those who find a cosmic reference impossible, for those who can no longer look to the God of special revelation as the source and giver of personal meaning, then the quotidian becomes the most promising area to be plumbed for spiritual clues.

The Holy Spirit reveals the necessary things of special revelation to God's chosen writers.

Nevertheless, the idea of a special revelation can probably have meaning for us only if we have already experienced an orientation to mystery.

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

A certain triumphalism and sense of superiority has been a strong temptation to biblical religions grounded in the doctrine of special revelation.

The record of this disclosure of a special revelation is found in the biblical account.

Many readers have informed me, and in rather schoolmarmish tones to boot, that I have missed the point by criticizing Phillip Johnson for the vagueness of the identity of the Designer, since it is the job of special revelation to identify the Unknown Designer.

He never claims that general revelation can prove the additional and indispensable truths of special revelation; he only claims that rejection of the former prevents reception of the latter.

Nor can I see that a single test, least of all a simple reference to the Bible as understood by the recipient of the special revelation, is now or ever will be a sufficient safeguard against the vagaries to which intensely sincere minds are sometimes even more liable than those whose convictions are less fiercely one - sided.

As Bernard Ramm put it a generation ago, «propositional revelation» is an unhappy expression because «it fails to do justice to the literary, historical and poetic elements of special revelation.»

True, especially after God begins to instruct Abraham in His chosen way, one can not confirm or affirm on simply philosophical grounds the fact or the content of His special revelations.

Not exact matches

The recent news that Trump attempted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller sometime in June is but the latest in a steady stream of revelations since January of last year that suggest that the president sought to control — and often curtail — the scope and direction of the investigation.

New revelations about the NSA shed light on the extent of its cyber-exploits and the special hacking unit that can gain access to your whole digital life.

These traditions have acknowledged general revelation without overthrowing the unique special revelation of Christian faith.

We tend to have a basic knowledge of history and know that there is nothing magical or special about the supposed history of the Jews, gospels, letters, apocalyptic story (Revelations) and other materials that found their way into the Bible, in that they are largely indistinguishable from the other mythology and religious writings of the Greco - Roman Mediterranean.

For those who are convinced that God «has nowhere left himself without witness,» it is part of the glory of Christianity that it can include, and by including be modified by the wider range of the divine self - revelation, without losing its own distinctive and special quality.

The last alternative could be an affair with one you love, with whom you share many things, an affair discreetly carried out with no threat of revelation, with no demands other than the beauty of those special moments together.

But again, by Mascall's own account, such a vision apart from philosophic sophistication leads to a fundamental understanding of God that was absent apart from the special historical influence of revelation.

The law and commandments of God are revealed through these common created structures of existence and function apart from and in tension with the special revelation of God in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In this case, God decided, as a result of His friendship with Moses, to bless Moses with a special revelation of Himself.

One can say that Whitehead knows of the distinction between a general and a special history of revelation.

«Special revelation» means that God does not make himself known primarily in the general experiences of mankind, but in particular critical historical happenings of unusually great significance.

Whereas the general history of revelation relates to the «subjective aims» of all events (and God's presence in it), the special history of revelation is connected with the universality of certain events.

The particular and circumstantial expression of revelation underlines the truth that God has entered into actual history and has made himself known to particular people at special times and places.

To arrive at the God of Christian Theism, other evidences can be offered in addition to this more basic one (e.g. aspects of natural theology, historical arguments for the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, alleged special revelation, etc.).

Black theology has never been fundamentalist, but there are some theologians who have argued that at least some black theologians tend to be overly Barthian in their exclusive focus upon the «special revelation» of Christ to the neglect of other «general revelations» about God.

(6) And finally, classical theism is marked by an erroneous conception of infallible revelation according to which, «The idea of revelation is the idea of special knowledge of God, or of religious truth, possessed by some people and transmitted by them to others» (OOTM 5).

Yet despite their suspicion of the public and doubts about the government's willingness to defend their religious rights, tribal leaders across North America are increasingly critical of Native and non-Native «medicine teachers» who proclaim themselves the carriers of revelation and special power.

In other words, I take it to be implicit in the notion that Jesus is a decisive revelation of God to us that he was in himself a special self - expression of God.

The purpose of the lectureship, according to Lord Adam Gifford's will, is to treat theology «as a strictly natural science,» that of «Infinite Being, without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so - called miraculous revelation.»

Previously, we mentioned the problems that arise in a situation of religious plurality whenever one religion claims that it is founded by a special revelation withheld from others.

Special revelations — the only sort recognized by this kind of theology — have always needed to be checked by some more general frame of reference: the written Scriptures coolly and historically studied, the tradition and common experience of the church, and the still more general experiences and tested beliefs of mankind.

And our participation in the life of the Church provides a special (though not exclusive) access to revelation.

Goodman argues that human reason, unaided by special revelation, can teach us much about God» including a basic understanding of what He requires of us in our practical conduct.

State the editors, «Those who know and practice... truth must ever stand as guardians of what is essentially the Christian tradition, and call before the bar of human justice and public opinion those who traduce these truths of natural and special revelation.

Since these special events must be received and understood as being revelatory, there is of course a subjective element in revelation.

Among Lutherans there was a drift toward natural theology in which the existence of God and the moral law were treated apart from the special revelation of God in Jesus Christ In Reformed circles, there was both a fascination with natural theology and a concentration on the eternal decrees of God.

If we are clueless as to the identity of the Designer until we get to special revelation, then we do not have a Thomistic argument.

In A Process Christology, David R. Griffin notes the same difficulties we have raised about these proposals: «They have not made use of the notion that the content of God's ideal aims for men varies... If this notion of Whitehead's is not used, the resulting Christology has a somewhat Pelagian quality, suggesting that Jesus» specialness is due solely to human initiative — if Jesus was God's decisive revelation, this did not result even partially from any special activity on God's part in any sense.

However, biblical faith has influenced theologians to speak also of «revelation in history,» «historical revelation,» or «special revelation» in addition to God's universal or «general» self - revelation.

What is the relation, if any, between the human sense of mystery and the Christian's belief in a special historical revelation?

Although these elements are vague in themselves, they provide a point of contact for special - biblical revelation.

If we still continue to speak of a historical revelation we do not mean that it is special in the sense that the people to whom it is communicated are thereby superior to other human beings.

Although they are quite willing to agree that all people are always touched by the mystery that surrounds our existence, they see no need to posit a special and decisive historical revelation of this mystery.

While Christians celebrate the apparently «exceptional» divine self - disclosure in Christ, the notion of a «special» revelation in history is today the source of much controversy.

But although the God of Israel was identified with the one God of all monotheistic religions, divine self - revelation through the history and experience of the Jewish people had given this God, as we have just noted, a special quality.

What people resist in preaching, while courteously calling the sermons «too, deep» or «over their heads», is that movement of thought which asks at the outset the acceptance of a conclusion which the minister reached privately in his study or received by some special revelation.

We have grown so accustomed to thinking in purely naturalistic terms that even the conception of a special historical revelation is hard to entertain.

The basis of the decision is a claim to special enlightenment (we shall not say «revelation») about the meaning and import of liberty — special because the majority claims access to essential truths about marriage, sex and liberty heretofore unavailable to all peoples in the entire history of the world.