Sentences with phrase «redemptive processes»

It is doubtful if separate catechetical instructions with their heavy emphasis on redemptive processes can ever supply what is missing.

While he allows that doctrinal debates about Christ and the Trinity are of only antiquarian interest, he comes out for what he calls a «redemptive process» in which good people do not give up on the goal of establishing the kingdom of God on earth.

The absorption of holy words and gestures is a component of the redemptive process.

The quasi-aesthetic absorption in the holy words and gestures is a component in the redemptive process.

As created beings, we and all humans are called to the work of co-creation with God in an ongoing generative and redemptive process.

The Bible records the chosen ones journey over generations in that redemptive process.

«In my 30 - plus years as a minister, I have never asked someone to leave the church because their redemptive process was too messy,» says Bryant.

They symbolize that salvation itself is healing and that all actual healing is part of the redemptive process.

She called for our mutual engagement in the redemptive process «not of escape, but of transformation; not of control or management, but of letting go» of our fears.

God's attributes as such, his holiness, his justice, his mercy, his absoluteness, his infinity, his omniscience, his tri-unity, the various mysteries of the redemptive process, the operation of the sacraments, etc., have proved fertile wells of inspiring meditation for Christian believers.

Understood in this way, the tragic conflict between the Yehudi and the Seer is a part of that redemptive process whereby this very world with all its contradictions is hallowed and the kingdom of man transformed into the kingdom of God.

Yet, not only is Chris Conlee judging his close friend, but he is using this friendship as a reason we are supposed to trust his judgment: «As one of my closest friends and partners in ministry, I can assure you that I have total confidence in the redemptive process Andy went through under his leadership in Texas.»

Assiff asks the viewer if art can be a redemptive process, and the gallery a regenerative space.

Not exact matches

that the task of the proletariat corresponds to the world - historical mission of the chosen people, that the redemptive and universal function of the most degraded class is conceived on the religious pattern of Cross and Resurrection, that the ultimate transformation of the realm of freedom corresponds to the transformation of the civitas Terrena into a civitas Dei, and that the whole process of history as outlined in the Communist Manifesto corresponds to the general scheme of the Jewish - Christian interpretation of history as providential advance toward a final goal.

Finally, in Science, Secularization and God Kenneth Cauthen seeks to show how a version of process theology (drawn from Brightman, Tillich and Teilhard, as well as Whitehead) can positively relate the creative and redemptive God of Christianity to «currents springing from science and secularization.

In Kierkegaard's philosophy there is no redemptive activity of God as a process in history, nor can there be, for there is no real becoming in the realm of freedom.

And to speak in that fashion would be to say, with Dr. Paul Knitter of Xavier University in Cincinnati (one of the brilliant young Roman Catholic process theologians of our time), that we need to «recognize the possibility that other «saviours» have carried out... for other people» the redemptive work which as Christians we know in Jesus Christ.

Process theologians believe that this revolution in our world view must be incorporated in Christian doctrine and that it brings us closer to the biblical view of the creative and redemptive working of God than theology has been since the first century.

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