Sentences with phrase «redemption of the world»

This radical separation of the sacred and the secular has made the on - going redemption of the world through the lives of faithful individuals and communities as a transformational process impossible.

That can only be appropriated through revelation and consummated by salvation: the ultimate redemption of the world by its creator God.

The Christian Yes to Jesus» messiahship, which is based on believed and experienced reconciliation, will therefore accept the Jewish No, which is based on the experienced and suffered unredeemedness of the world; and the Yes will insofar adopt the No as to talk about the total and universal redemption of the world only in the dimensions of a future hope and a present contradiction of this unredeemed world.

According to Christian faith, God in his creation and redemption of the world accepted the limitations of finitude upon his own person.

An anticipation of any single part of the completed redemption of the world — for example the redemption beforehand of the soul — is something we can not grasp, although even for us in our mortal hours redeeming and redemption are heralded.

So can there be an anticipation or «advance payment» of redemption in some particular sectors, before the final, total and universal redemption of the world?

Only in loving partnership can they fulfill their conjoint destinies as God's strategies for the redemption of the world.

This union of history and the moment involves a tension and a contradiction, for although redemption takes place at every moment, there is no definite moment in the present or the future in which the redemption of the world could be pronounced as having taken place once for all.

«It is only by way of true intercourse with things and beings that man achieves true life, but also it is by this way only that he can take an active part in the redemption of the world.»

The corollary of this demand for the redemption of the world and not just of the individual soul is the refusal to accept the Gnostic rejection of creation — the division between the kingdom of this world and the kingdom of God which leaves the evil of the world forever unredeemable.

And of all our race He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the redemption of the world.

As a result of God's joining the redemption of the world to Israel's election, difficult roles have fallen to Jew and to gentile.

«Just as the presence of the Holy One among the Israelites was to permeate every aspect of their lives, so now,» after Christ's redemption of the world, «this is how it is to be throughout the creation, as groups of followers live the life of the kingdom in their particular places,» writes Bartholomew.

The transfiguration looks backward to God's presence in creation and the history of Israel and forward to the redemption of the world and its final, glorious consummation in Christ.

The renewal of the world is the Christian hope, and even though, because of our mortal limited lives, like Moses we do not live to witness the consummation, but see it only in embryo, it is sufficient reward to have been used by God in this mighty process of the redemption of the world from the evil, suffering and misery to which man himself has contributed.

Their attitude corresponds to the basic Biblical view that man is set in real freedom in order that he may enter the dialogue with God and through this dialogue take part in the redemption of the world.

Although Christ's suffering was sufficient for the redemption of the world, Christians can grow in the life of grace by uniting their own sufferings with his.

The act of decision, of breakthrough... that is the act through which man time and again participates in the redemption of the world.

To say the time is fulfilled is to say that the ministry of Jesus Christ is part of a divine plan, part of God's whole purpose for the redemption of the world.

The two most basic ideas in this hope of the «parousia» are that the redemption of the world does not require the destruction of creation since creation is not itself evil, and secondly that redemption must come from God since every human action remains with the contradictions of sin.30

But the act of reconciliation does not mean that redemption of the world is now a reality.

Did he not only foresee his death but also see it connected to God's redemption of the world?

Instead, I suggest that our task is to seize this privilege with both hands, and use it to the glory of God and the redemption of the world.

For more than one hundred years, we've arguably been at the forefront of the emphasis on the Holy Spirit and those gifts in operation for the growth of the Church and the redemption of the world.

Christ called the apostles to share with Him His mission for the redemption of the world.

Can the Redeemer himself have come into the world before the redemption of the world has become a real happening?

The redemption of the world is for us indivisibly one with the perfecting of creation, with the establishment of the unity which nothing more prevents, the unity which is no longer controverted, and which is realized in all the protean variety of the world.

What has not yet come is the redemption of the world, the overcoming of all enmity, the resurrection of the dead, and the new creation...

It is in that direction, and toward the coming in splendor of the Son of Man, that the eyes of the judges ought to be turned; for the redemption of the world is something more than any Messianic activity (Mark 14:61 f.).

We are there to thank God for the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ.

For, in reciting these brachot, we are making a bold and dramatic claim — that this wedding is a moment that matters in an ultimate way, that it has a crucial role to play in the redemption of the world.