Sentences with phrase «redemptive power»

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

It is not the nature of the act but the kavanah which determines whether or not it is good or evil, holy or profane, strong or weak in redemptive power.

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.

So here it goes: In contemporary usage I hear «kingdom» used for two primary dimensions — for public sector social justice activism (I call this «skinny jeans» because a pastor told me a story about his social justice associates who wore skinny jeans) and for seeing kingdom as God's redemptive power unleashed wherever that power is unleashed (again, I call this pleated pants kingdom because of the same story).

God's love is that creative and redemptive power which works unceasingly in all times and places to bring to fulfillment a universal community of free and loving beings.

Now I make these points about social justice kingdom and redemptive power kingdom only because of where I stand on what the Bible says about «kingdom.»

Others were impatient because they believed themselves allied with redemptive powers and possibilities whose adequacy was threatened by this identification of hope with so scandalous a historical particularity.

I see both ideas — justice and redemptive power unleashed — as vital to any good biblical theology of kingdom but they both reduce kingdom.

It is difficult to overstate the extent to which most managers and the people who advise them believe in the redemptive power of rewards.

Dickens» exquisite appreciation of the redemptive power of violence, seen also with the death of Nancy, shows clearly here.

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 Altizer, however, a nondialectical affirmation of the profane ends in despair and Godlessness, for the profane alone has no sacral or redemptive power.

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

Does this mesh with the Redemptive Power of Jesus Christ on the Cross and God's Nature and Teaching of «Love your Enemies, Bless those who curse you» etc etc?

However, they challenge the human responses which block our perception of God's redemptive power.

The redemptive power of his novels derives less, therefore, from a proposal of concrete remedies than from an admission of our illness.

Or, if they do, it is because through some special gift of providence some penultimate value is raised to a higher level of redemptive power.

The ultimate job and purpose of the Church must be to equip its members to be co-creators with this ongoing Generative and Redemptive Power of the Universe seeking to transform the world into a place of peace, justice and compassion — a world sustainable for all of its inhabitants.

A disembodied Word expressed in creedal statements, which were constructed to defend orthodoxy against heresy rather than proclaim the faith, will not communicate the joy and redemptive power of the gospel.

Brian and Tony argue that many of us Christians approach these topics in the wrong way, and are therefore neutering the gospel of much of it's redemptive power.

The redemptive power of love is known in human life.

Creative and redemptive power has been released in it which was not wholly released before.

The interaction of the redemptive powers of the kingdom with the factors that are favorable to social good in creation becomes relevant to our social hope when we see it in the context of an indefinitely prolonged future.

That is simply not true; so it can not be true that Jesus» passion is an example of the redemptive power of suffering as such.

This: that time is the category of the historical; that because the redemptive power of God has become time, faith - engendering witness can not be borne to that power save in a kind of preaching which is a rhetorical address to men in their time - determined and time - imprisoned existence.

The first truth accepts the redemptive power of suffering in our own lives; the second truth commands a loving response to alleviate the suffering of others.

God has given his son to die for us, and through him the grace of forgiveness has become the redemptive power in life.

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

But in the light of an understanding of acceptance, we can see that Campbell grasped something about the redemptive power of the Gospel which older theories overlooked.

In order to go up in the rapture, one must be saved or born again through the redemptive power of the blood of Christ upon the cross.

Once more they asserted the judgment and redemptive powers of God's Word against all forms of modern idolatry in the political, economic, and social realms.

Moral codes and power - politics are necessary to check evil and promote legal and social justice that protects human rights of the weak; and redemptive power of Divine forgiveness helps to create a community of mutual love that transcends historical divisions of society.

The second group reduces kingdom to redemptive power and therefore it becomes a spirituality or personal salvation or healing or a charismatic moment or a social act that breaks through with God's will or a cultural good that evokes God's will now done on earth — and like the former view — out goes Israel and the church and we lose the dynamic of the kingdom.

It is precisely because the movement of the Incarnation has now become manifest in every human hand and face, dissolving even the memory of God's original transcendent life and redemptive power, that there can no longer be either a truly contemporary movement to transcendence or an active and living faith in the transcendent God.

We are not to give up cooperating with God's redemptive power.