Not exact matches
In other words, an enduring creature would be confronted willynilly with the fact
of its past
redemption and compelled to
accept it, to integrate it as part
of its present determinateness in the same way as it must appropriate any other fact in its actual
world....
The election by this holy God to this Covenant status is, rather, a call
of this people to share God's work
of redemption, to bear up under the righteous demands
of God, and to
accept the abuse
of the
world.
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.
These words are symbolic
of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for
of all
of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for
redemption with external means and who has refused to
accept a division
of the
world between God and the devil or a
redemption that is anything less than the
redemption of all evil and the recognition
of God as the only power in the universe.
Horizon Zero Dawn succeeds largely because it uses the fine - tuned yet formulaic trappings
of the Ubisoft open
world model to tell a story about how our hubris and stubborn, oppositional relationship with nature will be our downfall and how our empathy and refusal to
accept life as it is will be our
redemption.