Sentences with phrase «redemptive significance of the event»

This interpretation of the cross as a permanent fact rather than a mythological event does far more justice to the redemptive significance of the event of the past than any of the traditional interpretations.

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«67 This Christian interpretation rejects the criterion of rational intelligibility as the final court of appeal in both its Greek (historical events have no significance) and modern forms (history itself is redemptive).

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.

The purely literal reading deprives the paradigmatic events of our faith of their enduring redemptive significance today and reduces an historical religion, such as ours is, to a mere memory.

But does not that event of the past possess eschatological and redemptive significance in its own right?