Sentences with phrase «redemptive work of»

To deny the suffering of God is to deny the redemptive work of God.»

The activity of the Son of man in Enoch has been derived largely from the concept of his taking the throne of God, while that of «my Son» in IV Ezra comes from the description of the redemptive work of the Son of David in Ps.

We appropriate the redemptive work of Jesus Christ «through faith» because it comes about not by our own doing, «but is a gift of God.»

It could also be broadened to include events outside Yahwistic Judaism, for the creative and redemptive work of God can be discerned everywhere (29).

It is no accident that the early church used the Lenten period to prepare catechumens for baptism, in which those who are baptized appropriate for themselves the redemptive work of Christ's death and resurrection.

Root feminine identity in the curse rather than the redemptive work of Christ and then make the argument that because the ancient Near Eastern woman of Proverbs 31 is not described as consulting with the elders, then all women everywhere for all of time are restricted to the realm of the home and therefore responsible for the laundry.

Mary is united to the redemptive work of her Son.

The church's unity and apostolicity rest upon the whole redemptive work of Christ - past, present and future; upon His finished work on the cross, His continuing work as the risen Lord, and upon His promise that He will come again.

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

The significance of the kerygma, which proclaims the redemptive work of God in Christ, lies in its opening up in a universally relevant fashion the manner of God's dealing with the whole created order in carrying out his saving purpose.

When we say there is a creative and a redemptive work of God going on in human history what is the content of our words?

Liberal theology has always tended to obscure the nature of sin; hence it has never adequately expressed the depth of our dependence on the redemptive work of God.

The community is more than the state.48 The creative and redemptive work of God we may readily admit depends perhaps more basically upon the voluntary associations, the communities of artists, the scientists, and the schools than upon the political order.

Specifically then we have every right to regard the political order as having the potentiality of serving both the creative and the redemptive work of God.

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.

As reiterated in the 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio and the 2000 instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus, the teaching is that everyone who is saved is saved through the redemptive work of Christ, whether or not they have ever heard of Christ.

This does mean, I admit, that Dillon — through the redemptive work of COACH — might have a marginal place for Riggins nobility.)

I point to his use of the word «come» with the sense of «willfully take action» by placing our faith and trust in the redemptive work of Christ.

We have said that the Hebrew faith does not come to a clear resolution of the question of how the suffering either of God or the Servant enters into the redemptive work of love.

If it is primarily applied to the first element, it is a positive, but not an exclusive statement, since the saving power and importance of the redemptive work of Christ (as the worship of God and the sanctification of man) affect man not only through their cultic presentation in the liturgy.

I believe that the redemptive work of Jesus was so powerful that when He died on the cross and rose again from the dead, everything in heaven and on earth was swept up in His wake, was drawn after His lead, and was pulled onward and inward toward Him.

Part of the purpose of this blog is to reveal and unfold the universal redemptive work of God

Since the covenant between God and man culminates in the redemptive work of Christ, sacramentally re-presented in the Eucharist, there is a close reciprocity between marriage and theEucharist.

While it's important for all of us to be engaged in the difficult, redemptive work of racial reconciliation, some people have made it their day job.

Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

He pointed to a crucifix on his lap, explaining that forgiveness is a participation in the redemptive work of Christ.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

If you are not talking to the dying about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and His redemptive work on the cross, if you can not confess that you are a sinner and that you NEED Jesus, you WILL BE CAST INTO THE OUTER DARKNESS loved ones.

It has taken years of counseling, communication, and redemptive healing to work through those issues.

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.

On the other hand, because we are — in ways often hidden from our eyes — «preparing the way of the Lord,» the routine, often exhausting, seemingly mundane donkey - fetching details of our service are gathered into the great arc of Jesus» redemptive work in the world.

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.

Through the work primarily of feminist christians, I have been led to Sophia / Wisdom, to «Christa / community,» to Hagar the slave woman, to Jephthah's daughter and those who fight back on her behalf: images that are redemptive because they are dark, images of black or marginalized women, vilified, trivialized, rejected, silenced — and resisting their oppression and that of their sisters.

Here is a basic timetable of God's major redemptive works in history, counting from the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden.

This chapter is not written with the view that Christianity answers every question raised in Judaism, or to prove that the Christian way of understanding God's redemptive work is superior to that of Judaism.

Mormon theology's emphasis on the family as the redemptive unit, its system of patriarchal blessing in which each individual's membership in the household of Ephraim or Mannaseh or Judah is solemnly intoned; and its «restored» priesthood all worked to strengthen the Hebraic connection.

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.

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 result is a spiritually arid isolation, which is far different from the joyful work of contemplative priests and nuns, who value the world, as God's creation, and believe that quiet, redemptive prayer is the best way to improve it.

Nothing less than the whole is the field of God's redemptive work.

This response is indeed already the work of grace, but this is the grace achieved and communicated to the Church by the Lord's redemptive work.

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.

God's grace is manifested not only in the forgiveness of our sins but is also creatively redemptive, the power that works in us to make us perfect in love.

We keep our vision of God most nearly steady if we do not say that either His creative or His redemptive working is prior to the other in the disclosure He makes of Himself to us.

What vision of God's creative and redemptive work in history emerges from this analysis?

He quotes W. D. Davies to the effect that Paul's understanding of God's redemptive work in Jesus Christ is «a-territorial.»

The interaction between these broad grounds for hope that we find in the creation itself and the redemptive forces that have been released as the result of the, work of God in Christ is the heart of the matter.