Sentences with phrase «redemptive grace»

Despite some excessive enthusiasm over this point by well - meaning Teilhardians of the «60s, no one can deny the central fact of Christianity: God enters into history and into matter in Christ, rendering relative all distinctions between matter and spirit, sacred and secular, before the primal fact of God's redemptive grace in all things.

One, the covenant of redemptive grace with Abraham which ends in the Messianic - Kingdom of Love and the other, the covenant with Noah of protective law of reverence for life and later with Moses of the Ten Commandments for the preservation of realisable justice in society.

Thus in biblical thought, there are two divine covenants with humanity operating in the face of evil created by human self - alienation from God — one, the covenant of redemptive grace with Abraham which ends in the Messianic Kingdom of Love and the other, the covenant with Noah of protective law of reverence for life and later with Moses of the Ten Commandments for the preservation of rough justice in society.

That coupled with what I observed in a lot of Christian believers, being ordinary people, sinners like I am, yet having faith in God and His redemptive Grace, I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior in a moment of clarity over a prayer.

Not exact matches

In a sort of «trusting despair,» fiducial desperatio, the sinner afflicted by grace discerns in his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent opposite.

Such a severe penalty leaves room for God's grace and mercy (totally underserved) for those who believe in Jesus sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary and His redemptive resurrection.

Have been mulling this over quite a bit of late — realizing how deep such feelings continue to run in me, despite my conscious and sincere beliefs in God's grace, goodness, forgiveness, and redemptive power...

For redemptive healing is not essentially different from sanctifying or divinising grace.

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

This response is indeed already the work of grace, but this is the grace achieved and communicated to the Church by the Lord's redemptive work.

God's grace is manifested not only in the forgiveness of our sins but is also creatively redemptive, the power that works in us to make us perfect in love.

A third group says that Niebuhr's doctrine of grace is wholly eschatological and not immediately redemptive.

In our formulation of the Christian life we have to do justice both to the grace and to the growth, for whatever progress in the life of love is possible, it is always progress within the structure of man's relationship to the creative and redemptive working of God.

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.

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

Twenty years earlier, the same university's brochure had spoken of Catholicism, of Pius XI's depiction of the Christian Catholic character, and of endowment «with the redemptive merits of Christ which we call grace or supernatural life.»

Any touch of the redemptive love of grace in an unborn child is indeed an entitative draw, but a draw is not the plenary communication of the gift!

It is not only because creation is seen as a new creation that it belongs to the order of grace, but also because it is a type of baptism (which is obviously a redemptive term):

In fact, without this a priori framework it would be possible to see from the text that for Paul the knowledge of God through creation is a redemptive knowledge, since, if the loss of this knowledge and the failure to accept the law written in the heart result in a loss of grace and condemnation (Rom 1:18; 2:14 - 16), then the converse must be true, namely, that the possession of this knowledge means the possession of grace and therefore salvation.

That Cianfrance shapes something redemptive out of these blasted lives is proof that he is a filmmaker of rare and startling grace.

It's intentionally messy, and I think some parts have been misinterpreted (for example, I don't think there's a redemptive arc for Dixon (Sam Rockwell) or anyone in the movie; it's about the impossibility of justice and the necessity of grace), which can be chalked up to weak screenwriting and clumsy direction.

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