Sentences with phrase «reality of any new revelation»

Other interpreters, however, both Jewish and non-Jewish, locating «parallels» to all of Jesus» teachings (taken severally) in Hebrew or Jewish literature, have denied his originality and, by implication, the reality of any new revelation in him.

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In his essay, The Gospel and Culture, Voegelin explains that this deculturation doesn't manifest itself as an ideology, or as a «post-Christian» or «postmodern» age proudly positing a «new» system or a unique differentiation of myth, philosophy, or revelation that will «save» man, but rather it is a psychopathology, a disease of the mind, that reveals itself in second realities, egophanic revolt, and a host of similar disorders.

We may recall that Christianity is in the first instance a gospel, a proclamation, in which it is declared that the eternal Reality whom men call God has crowned His endless work of self - revelation to His human children by a uniquely direct and immediate action: He has come to us in one of our own kind, the Man of Nazareth, uniting to Himself the life which, through His purpose, was conceived and born of Mary, and through this life in its wholeness establishing a new relationship to Himself into which the children of men may enter.

The revelation of God in Christ is not the imparting of a new idea of God; it is a fresh unveiling of the Reality to which ideas, new and old, with greater or less adequacy, apply.

Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

It is faith's discernment of a new vision of reality that encourages us to think of revelation as a distinct theological theme, though certainly not unrelated to the other branches of theology.

Chastened by our new awareness of the historicity, relativity, and linguistic constraints that shape all modes of human experience and consciousness, we may nonetheless attempt here to demonstrate that there already exists, even in the consciousness of skeptics and critics of revelation, a natural and ineradicable experience of the fact that reality at its core has the character of consistency and «fidelity» that emerges explicitly in the self - revelation of a promising God.

New lights have been vouchsafed us — the reality, capable of definition, of a Cosmogenesis; the discovery of a genesis of the atom, of the increasingly «molecular» aspect of living organisms pursued to the infinitesimal, and of the persistence of this «molecular» characteristic in the mechanisms of heredity and evolution rising to the highest organic types; the existence of a center of indeterminacy at the very heart of every element of Matter... The cumulative effect of these revelations has been to open our eyes to a very different and quite otherwise alluring possibility.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.