Sentences with phrase «radical affirmation»

How can one even begin to take Jesus seriously without Jesus» radical affirmation of God?

You start with the radical denial, negate that, and that negation of course posits the negation of the negation, which is the radical affirmation.

For Tillich's method is only partially dialectical; it employs neither radical affirmation nor radical negation, accordingly it must culminate in a non-dialectical synthesis.

Altizer, on the other hand, has a Dionysian, fully dialectic theology that, by radical affirmation of the profane, goes beyond mere secularism and its Godlessness and discovers the sacred via a nonhubristic apotheosis.

Not exact matches

But Vatican II nonetheless opened the door for a future affirmation of the radical equality of all people in the church and in the world.

Altizer's historico - existentialist period was characterized by a dialectical affirmation of the world of experience, which maximized a radical thrust into the profane only to transfigure its present form.

Remembering the radical Christian affirmation that God has fully and totally become incarnate in Christ, we must note that neither the Incarnation nor the Crucifixion can here be understood as isolated and once - and - for - all events; rather, they must be conceived as primary expressions of a forward - moving and eschatological process of redemption, a process embodying a progressive movement of Spirit into flesh.

But there were others who tried to reconcile the insights coming out of this experience with the monotheistic affirmations of biblical faith» such as Isaac Luria, the principal theorist of the Safad school of the Kabbalah; or Bonaventure, who sought to retain the speculations of radical Franciscanism within the fold of Catholic orthodoxy; or al - Ghazzali, whose intellectual lifework was the intellectual integration of the Sufi experience with orthodox Islam.

Although it has been called perhaps the most radical «nihilism» that has ever existed, Madhyamika does away with both affirmation and negation; when both modes of action have been quieted, the spirit enters into perfect stillness.

Kappen wrote «The essence of Marxian atheism lies not so much in his denunciation of religion as in his affirmation of the radical autonomy and self - sufficiency of man.

Peirce's argument against determinism in «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» published a year earlier than his paper on evolutionary love, clearly lays the basis for the affirmation of radical creativity and the need for the principle of agape (6.36 - 65).

It is my contention that the central affirmation of humanism, the functional ultimacy of the human being — i.e., the radical freedom and autonomy of humankind — is materially a formative category of contemporary theology.

Many have thought in the past that the radical understading of grace came into history only through Jesus and that, hence, the affirmation of the uniqueness of Jesus in this respect was warranted.

In fact, as Leroy T. Howe has observed, the modern (fallen) sensibility is prone to affirm everything that has empirical substantiality as being self - grounded.42 Such an affirmation, according to either Altizer or Barth, can not be held by the man of radical Christian faith.

Perhaps most crucially today, that common affirmation insists on a radical and increasingly countercultural understanding of human dignity.

The responses to these questions could be polarized as a thoroughgoing denial from the radical theologians and an enthusiastic affirmation from the new school of Pannenberg and, as we shall see, the process theologians as well.

Instead of being viewed as threats to societal well - being or as radical departures from past history, such developments are defended as long overdue cultural affirmations which can only benefit America.

Also of significance are the Holiness witness against ostentation in life style, the concern for simplicity, and the affirmation of radical equality expressed in avoiding honorific titles in favor of «Mr.» or «Brother.»

For this last affirmation I was called «just a simple believer at heart» by one critic and a «right - wing radical» by a death - of - God man.

Even the hyper - radical can look online for affirmation of their views of the world.

Following their recent affirmation that President Goodluck Jonathan should quit power and convert to Islam, the presidency has replied the radical Islamist sect otherwise known as...

In all her work, Rosie teaches and practices being guided by RADICAL LOVE every day and connecting to that through yoga, diet, affirmation, self - inquiry, and curiosity.

However, there is a new and radical approach to this subject matter, where irony, acceptance, and affirmation are equally mixed.