Not exact matches
There is no direct conceptual approach to God, or from God to
human reality, but God's
presence is hidden in the particulars
of history.
That meant that there is no direct conceptual approach to God, nor from God to
human reality, by analogical reasoning, but God's
presence is hidden in the particulars
of history.
So by stating that there must be a Christian
presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into,
of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years
of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era
of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood
of the innocent.
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.
, Newman saw these assorted proto - revelations as themselves signs, not just
of the
presence of God's logoi spermatikoi in all
of human society but also as pathmarkers for the Church's evangelizing pilgrimage through salvation
history, a journey he describes in one
of the most magnificent passages in his Essay on Development:
By «God» I mean the pervasive personal
presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support
of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name
of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows
of his relationship to
human beings in
history, and especially in the recorded utterances
of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue
of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.
He promises them his
presence, until the very end
of human history itself, when all people will inherit the kingdom
of God and see him face to face.
Idealism recognizes the
presence of evil in
history, but it makes a distinction between nature and reason and attributes evil to the body.16 Idealism is complacent about the perils
of the freedom
of the
human spirit, convinced that spirit and rationality are identical and that rationality controls freedom.
To that extent a theology which regards as already present in the first
human being at his first beginnings what he is only to become in the course
of his
history, is not false, but correct, and corresponds to the characteristic nature
of man, providing it distinguishes the pre-existence
of the
history in the potential beginning, from the
presence of this ground
of his nature in the
history actually accomplished.
In the meantime, the
presence of the spirit
of Christ and the «Christian phylum» (Teilhard) in this
history make
history, as such, always influenced by the partial realization
of atonement, and the vision
of fully realized divine -
human unanimity which
history approaches as a limit.
In the loose interface between physical data and vivid personal experience — that «space» identified as mind (Gordon Rattrey Taylor, The Natural
History of the Mind [Dutton, 19791)-- we find clues to the
human meaning
of human presence.
This dominant theological paradigm
of British Christianity weaved together at least the following three themes, which impacted the objectives and dynamics
of British imperialism in India: first, the immanental
presence of God, through the incarnation
of Christ, into
human history pervades all realms
of life; thus the cosmic Christ unites all
human beings in an invisible whole.
Of course, God's Christ is the authority, for he is God's
presence and power in
human history.
Jesus stated that during our time period (that is called his invisible «
presence» at Matthew 24:3, the KJV and other Bibles inaccurately reads «coming»), pseudo Christians or false Christians would be busy (along with the rest
of the «world») with the mundane affairs
of life, getting married, having children, eating and drinking, in which Jesus compared to the «days
of Noah», and with the exception
of Noah and his family, pseudo Christians would «take no note» that they were living during a critical juncture in
human history.
@s theology would be committed to the centrality
of Jesus Christ as the saving and transforming
presence of God in
human history.
It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly
of the World Council
of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign
of the unity
of all humanity, and also speaks
of the
presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution
of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment
of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny
of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate
human destiny) in world
history which is shaped not only by the forces
of goodness and life, but also by the forces
of evil and death.
«We recognise that just as all truth rests in the Word
of God, through whom all things were made and through Whom all thing will come to their completion, so too the construction
of a true
human ecology can only be achieved in relationship to the Word -LSB-...] we can see and sense the echoing
of that eternally spoken Word in so much
of the created world around us -LSB-... which Word is] expressed in all those actions and events which make up the
history of salvation -LSB-...] we recognise most centrally that this eternal Word
of God, in whom all things makes sense, finds flesh in the person
of Jesus
of Nazareth who then becomes its fullest expression and true
presence in the world -LSB-...] the centre
of true
human ecology is the person
of Christ.»
«The new species is the most conclusive evidence for the contemporaneous
presence of more than one closely related early
human ancestor species prior to 3 million years ago,» the Cleveland Museum
of Natural
History said in a statement released Wednesday.
In confronting an extraterrestrial
presence through the gaze
of a
human female, emphasizing her intelligence and composure while sneakily teasing out her emotional
history, «Annihilation» at times suggests a more ferocious companion piece to Denis Villeneuve's 2016 thriller, «Arrival.»
Nicolson owns the tiny Shiant Islands between the Outer Hebrides and the Isle
of Skye; in this literary and ecological masterpiece, he recounts their
human and natural
history so vividly, sensually, and lovingly that they attain an immense spiritual
presence.
Sao Vicente — Just a little bit
of history The first
human presence in São Vicente (and Ponta Delgada) dates back to the middle
of the 15th century.
Kiefer's monumental archive
of human memory gives overt material
presence to a broad range
of cultural myths and metaphors — from the Old and New Testaments, the Kabbalah, and ancient Roman
history to the poetry
of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan.
The artist explores language and the
human perception
of the image — and
presence within it — creating seemingly ghostly temporal after - images
of the ground that many have walked before him, embedded with a
history that helped form the very compositions themselves.