Sentences with phrase «pure unbounded»

Pure unbounded spirit — pure energies of the highest realm — are not just found in books or critical study.

The fact of evil in the world and in human experience raises serious questions for any Christian discussion, as much about human existence as about the reality and activity of God who in Christian faith is affirmed to be nothing other than «pure unbounded love.»

My strong conviction is that this God is self - disclosed in the total event of Jesus of Nazareth — and is there disclosed as nothing other than «pure unbounded Love», as Love - in - act, as (if you will) the cosmic Lover.

Ogden says of Paul that whenever he talks of God «he unquestionably means the covenant God of Israel, whose significance for man is the promise and demand of pure unbounded love.

I have quoted these passages from Whitehead for two reasons: first, because he is the «founding father» of the Process conceptuality; and second, because what he says in them points to God as «pure unbounded Love» and to our own human existence as intended to be a creaturely love (doubtless imperfect and defective because finite and mortal).

I wish to gather together what so far has been said and relate it to this basic Christian affirmation of God as love, «pure unbounded love», and nothing but that sheer love - in - action.

Once accept the disclosure of God in Christ (and in all that is Christ - like in human experience, for we ought not to be exclusively christo - centric in the narrower sense); once take that disclosure with utmost seriousness — and then God as «pure unbounded love» becomes central in our thinking.

«At the beginning and end of all our ways is One in whose steadfast will and purpose there is indeed no shadow of turning and in whom all our confidences have their unshakable foundation... In his inmost actuality he is «pure unbounded love», pure personal relation to others, who has no other cause than the ever more abundant life of the creatures of his love.

The divine nature, like the divine activity, must then be grasped as nothing other than the «pure unbounded Love» which in Jesus was vividly manifested, as he has been responded to and as through him a vivid and decisive enabling of human life has been made possible.

The models used to point to God have often been in horrible apostasy from the vision of pure unbounded love given in the event of Jesus Christ as it has been received and found significant.

Not exact matches

The hymn is addressed to Jesus, who is named as «pure, unbounded love»; the singer prays, «Breathe, 0 breathe thy loving Spirit into every troubled breast.»

1 So could his brother Charles sing of «love divine, all loves excelling,» and of Jesus, «thou art all compassion; pure, unbounded love [172] thou art.»

For my own part, I believe that the first condition for such a revision of our services of worship as shall make them fully Christian is theological; by this I mean that only when our doctrine of God is soundly Christian will these services be appropriate to the worship of the community that finds its center in Jesus Christ, who revealed God as «pure, unbounded Love» but who also revealed that this Love is not soft or sentimental — the fact of Calvary makes that truth sufficiently plain.

Several times already we have quoted Wesley's fine words about «pure, unbounded love»: never was there a more apt description of the reality of God, although in Wesley's hymn the words are in fact applied to Christ — and appropriately, since in Christ (if Christian faith is right) the «pure, unbounded love» that is seen humanly expressed is the manifestation, reflection, and participation in human terms of the divine Lover whom Jesus called «my Father in heaven.»

As I attempt to demonstrate, prayer is essentially what the old masters of it have said: our conscious and intentional, or attentive, relationship with God — and with God as «pure, unbounded Love,» the «Love that will not let me go,» and the Love that in Jesus Christ is both portrayed and enacted in the midst of our human history and situation.