Sentences with phrase «redemptive life»

After coldly rejecting her at first, he gradually accepts her in his life and decides to quit his cruel job and seek a decent, redemptive life.

This view assumes that the will is harnessed to reason and that a closely honed system of theology is capable of engendering a redemptive life - style.

In the later 1950s, as I matured within the loving bonds of that society, Africa became for me not one side of a bridge but a whole sphere of redemptive life, sustaining within itself those features which earlier I had felt must come from outside.

Christian faith entails a belief in change, but it is change grounded in the redemptive life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The Christian faith entails a belief in change, but it is change grounded in the redemptive life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Missional living is basically redemptive living... within a community and for the community.

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The only way to endure suffering when earthly life can give us nothing more is the redemptive love of Our Lord.

It wasn't until I lived through the trauma of miscarriage that I experienced my need for God's redemptive love in a way I never had before.

If you are in the midst of suffering, if you find your faith withering, if you are questioning whether God is at work — or even present — as you wait for something in your life to become beautiful, this book will be a welcome reminder that God never stops his redemptive work... and that there is a time for everything under heaven.

When you form your children's imaginations, you are training them to see more than just what is there — to look at the world, nature, people, and even daily life with the same eyes of the heart that God gives us to see His redemptive work in eternity.

I believe that he is healing from his divorce just as I hope Julie is, that I believe he has learned and grown from both his divorce and early leadership days, and that God continues to breathe redemptive love and strength and talent into Tony's life.

Through redeeming Christmas and Easter for Jesus Christ, we can show people the redemptive power of Jesus Christ in our own lives as well.

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.

The example of Jesus and the instructions of Paul reveal the exact opposite: that the righteousness of God in our lives has a redemptive and reconciling effect on the world.

For Bonhoeffer, the perfection of being is achieved through the transformation of human life by the redemptive activity of the transcendent God, who identified himself with human beings in order to effect wholeness.

Monotheistic traditions hold to a few main assertions: that suffering can be redemptive; that people may be called to unexpected and unusual tasks; that a lone human life can have inviolable worth; and that there is something greater than humankind that deserves to be worshiped.

For example, how do we see the creative and redemptive love of God through the perspective of the age - long development of the immense universe, only a speck of which we inhabit, and of the evolution of sentient and rational life on this earth through thousands and millions of years?

Such views, however, not only invariably devalue the terrestrial, but what's worse is that in their very devaluation they fail to apprehend the magnitude and universal scope of God's redemptive and re-creative work in the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a truly cosmic work to which Scripture bears testimony.

The power of the resurrection was the establishment of the faith that in Jesus God's Messiah has appeared with redemptive power, and God's Holy Spirit is present to bring men into the new life for which Jesus has opened the way.

The redemptive power of love is known in human life.

The redemptive message has implications for all of life; a truncated life results from a truncated message.6

While all occurrences disclose God in creative activity and doubtless also to some degree in redemptive activity in providing some guarantee of life's significance and value, this event is especially important.

Christian hope which gathers up all particular human hopes and yet is deeper than they is founded upon the fact of the present creative and redemptive working of God in human life.

Thus the oppressed and the oppressor are seen as one at the deepest level of God - life, and it is that very recognition that creates the possibility of redemptive transformation and reconciliation.

We shall then be ready to consider the positive implications of this theological perspective in which the creative and the redemptive work of God are affirmed together, for Christian ethics, for Christian politics, and for the life of the spirit when the Christian commitment becomes a way of meeting both life and death.

Christian hope which gathers up all particular human hopes and yet is deeper than any is founded upon the fact of the present creative and redemptive working of God in human life.

But there is an illumination and we can know that there is a patient, redemptive reality in and through all of life which transmutes real evil, real loss, real threats to the growth of human good into the deeper, more sensitive and more enduring goods of love and humility?

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.

In our first chapter we said that the new life is made possible through an encounter with the redemptive love of God.

Christian theology should hold the doctrine of the new life created by the redemptive love of God as the center of its interpretation of Christian experience.

The power of godly men is wrought through the redemptive work of Christ in our hearts and lives.

It may seem «formula — orientated», but human life is inherently linked to the work (Creative and Redemptive) work of our Father, and living water derives from our union there.

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.

For what does it mean that the declared redemptive power of human life comes to us in a narrative?

That the community of men and women who share this faith and attempt to live this life Constitutes the unique medium in each age for the continued disclosure of God's creative and redemptive purposes.

Therefore, says Paul, what happened to Christ is the God - given, redemptive pattern of our lives.

The sheer vitalities of culture, once hailed as redemptive, have for a hundred years been unpacking the logos of contradiction that infects all historical life.

The characters sense that somewhere, in the lost past or the unknowable future, live compelling conceptions of a redemptive and glorious good.

Christ's sacrifice on the cross becomes a travesty, because He gave His life for no redemptive purpose.

God is Redeeming Life Bible & Theology Topics: forgiveness, redemptive violence, terrorism, violence, war

The Goldfinch is about many things: the trepidations of life, love, loss and memory, and the redemptive power of art.

Curiosity is the first step in seeing things through new eyes and can lead to a redemptive revision of the story of one's life.

All of my other children had a beautiful and redemptive birth story: by contrast, Maggie's birth had been one of the most traumatic days of my life and I felt that it was my fault.

It means finding God in all the experiences and relationships of our lives; in our «world making»; in creative occasions of giving birth to a child, to a painting, to a poem, to a sermon, in sustaining events of eating a meal, cleaning a house, recycling our refuse, providing jobs, maintaining friendships; in experiences of judgment because of our reliance upon destructive weapons, because of our loss of integrity; and in redemptive relationships wherein we experience forgiveness, renewal, and peace.

The only way to reject the violence of energy production without resorting to still more violence is to present the world with an alternative which witnesses to the redemptive possibility that we don't need to live violently.

What's really difficult is choosing to participate in God's will, and spend our lives joining God in His redemptive work in this world of ours that so desperately needs it.

Knowing, doing and being in God's will begins with looking at our lives and asking, «Are there places where we see ourselves joining with God in his redemptive work in this world?»

The working out of that redemptive suffering sets the direction for the rest of the novel, especially as it is dramatized in the Russian Monk chapter of the life of Father Zosima and then in the ministry of his disciple Alyosha.

It may be that the later alienation of young adults from the redemptive tradition is, in some degree, due to this inability to communicate to the child a spirituality grounded more deeply in creation dynamics in accord with the modem way of experiencing the galactic emergence of the universe, the shaping of the earth, the appearance of life and of human consciousness, and the historical sequence in human development.

Thus I should say that if the story of Jesus» life had been told just as it seemed — and in a sense was — at the time it was occurring, that story would not have been adequately or truly told or that life was a part of a supremely significant, a divine event, the event through which God, the Creator and the Ruler of all nature as well as the Lord of history, was entering into man's life with new redemptive power; but that fact was not grasped clearly, if at all, till the event had reached its culmination in the resurrection, the coming of the Spirit, and the creation of the community.