Sentences with phrase «redemptive act»

There is a tendency in some quarters today to put the stress so completely on God's redemptive act in Christ as to underestimate the ethical teachings of Jesus.

It is then certain that Jesus did not speak of his death and resurrection as redemptive acts.

The narratives of Christ's redemptive acts touch Murdoch because they reveal a God who, in the Apostle Paul's formulation, came to save us while we were yet sinners, before we had loved him.

Robert Jewett and John S. Lawrence have made an analysis and theological critique of television's super hero whose redemptive acts destroy stereotyped evil and impart «the relaxed feeling that society can actually be redeemed by anti-democratic means.»

In fact, Powell suggests, most contemporary thinkers have dethroned Luther's distinction between the Deus absconditus and the Deus revelatus (God hidden and revealed) by stressing how God's redemptive acts in history reveal nothing new about God's intra-divine life, but act to confirm what is eternally true.

If the death and resurrection of Jesus are asserted as redemptive acts, in the sense of cosmic events which affect mankind in general so that the individual can rely upon them, this is not the meaning of Jesus — neither sin nor forgiveness is really taken seriously.

To that end, God disclosed Himself and His loving intention by a sequence of revelatory and redemptive acts that involved the uttering of verbal messages and the producing of written records (Hebrews 1:1).

The narrow view of some Protestants that the world is the devil's is to insult God's grace and redemptive act.

There is no natural human life that exists without this call and no ability of man to follow through on it without the intervention of grace, won through the redemptive act of Christ.

The kerygma of the early Christians did not know of a redemptive act of God which was not directed to the whole world.

So, considered simply according to the omnipotence of God, not even one drop of blood nor any redemptive act would appear to be necessary.

Toomer's narrative brings to life O'Connor's claim that the reader who looks for a redemptive act in a story has «forgotten the cost of it.

«The kerygma of the early Christians did not know of a redemptive act of God which was not directed towards the whole world».

completely misses the point when he charges me with reducing the Biblical understanding of human existence to man's understanding of himself, and therefore secularizing the Christian proclamation, and with reducing the redemptive act of God in Christ to the immanence of human existence and its realization in our life in time [ibid., p. 60]-RRB-.

However, if Stone has screen charisma in spades she lacks a hard - edge and is not given any clear motivation for her dalliance with the villainous Cohen, while her redemptive act doesn't ring entirely true (probably because it isn't).