Sentences with phrase «rather than revelation»

But it feels like just another story beat, rather than a revelation that should open the film up dramatically for dissection.

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Rather than avoid speculation or pray it doesn't turn one group against another, some people actually appear to thirst for a specific motive — to yearn for the revelation that the accused in question does in fact belong to a particular group, Emma Teitel writes.

But he found his medically imposed silence to be a revelation, rather than an ordeal.

Read Revelations and look this up * Spirit to be poured out on all flesh (Joel 2:28) * Universal apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:1 - 4) * The watering down of the gospel, teaching the doctrines of man rather than those of God.

You will run into trouble whenever you parcel out God's Word, rather than understanding the Bible as a progression of revelations and solution to the human condition, with the common thread and purpose of Jesus Christ running throughout from beginning to end, to further the glory of God.

In Revelations, when the sun and moon fail to give their light, it far more likely to mean that prayer and meditation cease to provide a link to God anymore, rather than that the actual sun and moon are darkened.

But, all things being equal, I'll take a process that helps to screen out the subjective as much as possible rather than one that believes that personal revelation is a valid method for defining the objective world.

That fight was resolved in favor of the modernists who maintained that God's revelation is ongoing, that religion and science are not inherently irreconcilable, and that the tension between the two ought to elicit discussion and reflection rather than the abandonment of one subject or the other.

Yes, when we begin to see the crucifixion of Jesus as a supreme act of love and revelation, rather than a punishment from God, this has a domino effect on everything else we think about God and Scripture and ourselves.

And even if there is generally an improved understanding of God, to say that this is because of a progressive divine revelation rather than because of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame human ignorance on a divine coyness, or to picture God rationing out carefully increased doses of self - revelation.

In this sense, «the diversity of Scripture — and the tensions that this diversity introduces — bears witness to God's revelation rather than detracts from it.»

We can't achieve that goal, because we are constantly trying to find a way to evolve with the times rather than live by God's revelation.

Any one, therefore, holding a religious rather than a materialistic philosophy, will think of the process of Biblical development as dual — seen from one side, a human achievement; seen from the other, a divine self - revelation.

Christians often argue that, as in human life the most adequate form of communication is by personal meeting rather than the written word, so God's fullest revelation also needed to be a human life.

For some theologians this has meant that our knowledge of the one God who created heaven and earth comes to us through revelation rather than philosophy.

Why would God give such authority to a man to supplement and correct His revelation, rather than providentially preserve it in fullness from the time of its divinely inspired origin?

Such a proposal in no way invalidates the search for doctrinal forms that are consistent with the substance of the biblical revelation; it merely means that their discovery will constitute but a halfway house rather than the journey's destination itself These doctrinal forms will then have to be adapted to and translated in terms of the assumptions and norms of the American situation in such a way that the Word of God is preserved in its integrity but affirmed in its contemporaneity.

For example, Pannenberg insists that we take as our starting point the three persons who are implicated in Christian revelation and expounded in the early creeds, rather than beginning with a single essence or any theory of the unity of God.

It may be increasingly necessary, however, to allow the concrete situation, rather than the biblical revelation, to propose the «doctrinal» loci or the organizing forms in terms of which biblical faith needs to speak, because the secularism of our time has so transformed the way people think that Christian faith is now in a cross-cultural situation.

The revelation of the sacred name in Exodus 3:15 has been misconstrued, for instance, as God's refusal to be named, an indication of the ultimate unnameability of God, rather than God's act of naming himself.

Rather than theological progress, this signifies an acceptance of the first revelation.

Also thank you for the revelation about Romans 10:9 which talks about the salvation over the power of sin rather than eternal life.

Markos argues that this Christian humanist vision that God's revelation answers our highest aspirations has suffered since the Puritans portrayed heaven as an escape from earth rather than as the redemption of creation.

It implies a new view of religious «revelation» that is «future directed» rather than entirely «past - directed.»

Evangelicals will continue to be pressured to accept a worldview rooted in cultural acceptance rather than biblical revelation.

The core of process thought: Rather than a «substance theology» based on static, spatial models, process thought «switches gears» to a concern with spatial - temporal models such as change in God, Christ becoming divine and the on - going process of revelation.

Pressure will continue to mount to accept a worldview rooted in cultural acceptance rather than biblical revelation.

Belonging to the historic Church also means participating in and witnessing to God's continuing activity and revelation rather than locating the time of God in the distant past or future.

If that were the method of his revelation, we should have to charge God with arbitrary favoritism in revealing himself to one particular community rather than to another.

It was through this event as a whole, rather than through anything outside of it or any element or combination of elements within it, that the revelation which is the source of what is most distinctive and precious in our own spiritual life took place.

Process philosophers complain that the dominant philosophical models used in Christian theology employ static metaphysical categories like «being,» «substance» and «attribute» rather than a more dynamic conceptual structure that captures the dynamic character of the Bible's revelation of God.

By liberal Protestantism we mean those churches which stress the historical approach to the Bible and hence its spiritual rather than literal inspiration, and find the source of Christian authority not in any creedal statement but in God's total and progressive revelation of himself in nature, history, human experience, and supremely in Jesus Christ.

clearly signals Catholic theology's exposure to Protestant views of revelation in which the theme of God's Word, rather than Church magisterium and tradition, is given primacy.

No need to set our faces sternly against the massive cultural power of the academic and media establishment if we qualify any peculiar practices we retain by the qualification: We're open to change, that is, you progressives may be right» in fact it seems you are, so please excuse our very temporary clinging to old ways here, we're just waiting for the right (that is left) revelation to come along, let's hope sooner rather than later...

Let us first ask why it was that the revelation of God employed the contemporary symbol of the Logos and its associated world view rather than any of our modern «isms»?

And even after the Council of Trent in the mid-sixteenth century, the theme of revelation entered into the realm of theological discussion through the doorway of apologetics rather than as a fully developed theological notion.

Barth's basic position was that the «theme of theology» is «God's revelation», rather than any given concepts in the history of ideas.

I think James Cone is right when he says: «Theologians of the Christian Church have not interpreted Christian ethics as an act for the liberation of the oppressed because their views of divine revelation were defined by philosophy and other cultural values rather than by the biblical theme of God as the liberator of the oppressed.»

The biblical theology to which he refers emerged after World War II as a consensus with certain characteristics: (1) the Bible is assumed to be relevant for modern men and women; (2) biblical criticism is to be accepted; (3) the message of the Bible is a unity, if a unity in diversity; (4) revelation is historical encounter rather than right doctrine; (5) the biblical (Hebraic) mentality is distinctive.

He reportedly replied that there was no longer much of anything in it for him.7 He certainly entertained unorthodox views about the Bible, once suggesting that it should have ended with the Funeral Speech of Pericles rather than with Revelations.8

The thinkers of the Enlightenment attempted to find the meaning of religion in terms of «reason,» rather than depending solely on the authority of «revelation.»

The idea of natural theology presupposes a Christian revelation that essentially confirms and supplements reason, rather than either displacing it or functioning as its ground.

«the revelation of God on the cross, together with a wealth of confirming scriptural evidence, makes it clear that to bring a judgment on people, God need only withdraw his merciful protecting hand to allow people to experience the self - destructive consequences of their own wickedness, including the wickedness of trusting in violence rather than in God.»

We hear it from our family members, our schools, our pediatricians, our politicians, parenting books that continue to be published influenced by this old - fashioned thinking despite the mountains of research to the contrary — ideas of how children should be raised, based on personal opinion rather than research - backed fact, subtle revelation of how our society is still scared of giving «too much» nurturing to our children.

Brendan Barber, secretary general of the TUC, said the «revelations of the mounting cost of paying for GPs to sit on committees rather than look after their patients, even before the bill becomes law, provide even more reasons why parliament should vote it down».

«The latest revelations scream out for more reform,» said Presiding Officer William Lindsay (D - Holbrook), who met with Kennedy and said he he'll support the GOP lawmaker's proposal rather than file his own measure.

But further revelations yesterday continued to pile on the pressure on the prime minister, suggesting that Mr Blair misled Labour's governing body over who decided wealthy backers should give loans rather than donations to the party.

It is a fundamental requirement of scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world, rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

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Although the stakes are high in Ritchie's movie — election to the US Senate — the details are low - key and the political seduction of Bill McKay depicted mostly as a series of arbitrary incidents rather than major revelations.