Sentences with phrase «renounces omnipotence»

The image of a God who renounces omnipotence enters into our consciousness with such unexpectedness that we can not help but see it as a revelation.

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We now behold more clearly in the passion and crucifixion of Jesus the illuminating and healing image of a vulnerable, suffering God who, out of love for the world, renounces any claims to coercive omnipotence and gives the divine self - hood over to the world in an act of absolute self - abandonment.
On the other hand, the hypothesis of the self - emptying God who lovingly renounces any claims to domineering omnipotence has enormous explanatory potential in our attempts to interpret things.
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