Sentences with phrase «redemptive purpose»

It is in this context, a context decisively shaped by God's redemptive purposes in Christ, that we can join with St. Francis of Assisi in hymns of familial and filial piety toward nature.

People will never take evil seriously nor ever see much need to tap the resources of God until they join in with the costly redemptive purposes of love.

That Israel remains a part of Yahweh's redemptive purpose results, not from any indispensability of Israel to Yahweh, but simply because Yahweh so wills it.

The great innovation of The Star of Redemption is its argument that Christians are ever dependent on the Jews, and that together Jews and Christians form a relation both inimical and yet devoted to the same God and same redemptive purpose.

The artist is also driven to display how the tribally sanctified spaces in which those forms of worship and spirited performance takes place are Black pocket - universes of intense energy, eloquence and illumination — ones that exist in simultaneous alignment and detachment from the poetics of Black political and popular culture but are as well - organized as those realms around the acquisition and consumption of material wealth for culturally redemptive purposes.

This action pluralized while simultaneously relativizing the notion of plausibility structures vis - à - vis the single theme of God's redemptive purpose in history.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

Most of us have experienced some hurt or doubt of our own, and these scars, too, can serve a redemptive purpose in shaping our listening response to leavers.

God calls forth a «countercultural community of discipleship» which is «called to embody an alternative order that stands as a sign of God's redemptive purposes in the world.»

The main difficulty with this view, however, is that it seems that the way of Jesus in setting up a spiritual Kingdom is «Plan B» in God's redemptive purposes.

One reason American history is no longer told in terms of redemptive purpose is that we no longer think of history itself as having a purpose.

Some noted theologians think so on the ground that otherwise the redemptive purpose of the ever - loving God would be unfulfilled.

Both are within the sphere of God's redemptive purpose.

Pre-millennialism holds that the Second Coming of Christ will be followed by Christ's thousand - year reign on earth before the fulfillment of God's redemptive purpose in the new heaven and new earth.

Nature is not the composition of law - like patterns occurring independently of God, and thus, miracles are not cases of when God intervenes, but when He acts differently than usual for His redemptive purposes.

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.

So, deep in the sixth century, on the very eve of the second exodus, the voice of prophetism, summoning into a single moment of time the act of creation and the first exodus, proclaims the now old prophetic faith in the redemptive purpose of Yahweh's judgment:

Only when we grasp the chastisement of divine justice and the guidance of divine will on our work can we hope to participate in redemptive purpose.

Suffering has been viewed as having a redemptive purpose by many different cultures and many different religions, including Christianity, but also Buddhism, certainly, in all of its variations across Asia.

Your counselor will help you apply the gospel to your struggles so that you can understand God's redemptive purposes for your life.