Sentences with phrase «revelatory event»

Most religious faiths are based on a revelatory event or on a significant content or meanings, either cognitive or experiential, which serve to organise human experience.

The event, this sequence of disastrous episodes, is interpreted as revelatory event, disclosing the nature and intent of Yahweh — his nature as Lord of creation and his intent to make of Israel a people.

So if there is something unsurpassable about him for believers, it is ultimately derived from the mystery that he sacramentally mediates - Whenever a religion speaks of the «unsurpassability» of its central revelatory event, personality, or doctrine, religious wisdom exhorts us to acknowledge that only the unfathomable mystery to which these realities point is indeed unsurpassable.

It is the community of loyalty, devoted memory, and faith, which answer to the life, death, and resurrection of Christ; and therefore it is the community in which alone the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as a revelatory event took place.

The living community which has once made a corporate response to the divine revelation does so with an ideology of its own, and it approaches each new revelatory event with an ideology which is as human in its origin and nature as any body of human thought can be.

And if the language indigenous to the congregation's life seems unworthy of such a lofty task, it should be recalled that «Jesus... particularly in his parables, exalted everyday life as the «stuff» of the revelatory event».15

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and fully toward an eschatological consummation.17

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and more fully toward an eschatological consummation.

He believes there is some point to the criticisms that Bultmann dissolves Christology into soteriology, 3 for he has been unable «to express in an adequate way the «objective» reality of the revelatory event Jesus the Christ «4 even though he does «intend a divine act in the fully real and «objective» sense.

But he can tell us whether or not it is probable that the Exodus from Egypt ever happened; and if he were to tell us that in all likelihood the whole story is unhistorical then it would cease to be for us a revelatory event, since it would have ceased to be an event.

At bottom, Greenberg's theology rests on the conviction that the Holocaust was a revelatory event.

Tillich holds that theology must start from the «questions» implied in human existence and the «answers» experienced in human life in response to revelatory events.

There is the attempt to understand how God is peculiarly at work in all of this and how his present work is related to his work in the revelatory events.

Exhibitions can be revelatory events, shedding new light on particular artists or historical periods, and influencing public opinion.

Museum exhibitions can be revelatory events.

Not exact matches

Christian Scientists see these events not as supernatural interruptions of the natural order but as a revelatory appearance of a spiritual reality, shaking the very foundations of human perception.

It is not enough simply to say that these events have in fact been taken as revelatory, and that the continued appropriateness of doing so is demonstrated by its fruitfulness.

While the events of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures certainly have remarkable revelatory power, we can not deny such power to other events or to other writings.

Since these special events must be received and understood as being revelatory, there is of course a subjective element in revelation.

However divergent our views may be on other matters, I venture to affirm that we all agree in recognizing the several elements I have indicated as being present in the event we call by Christ's name as well as in ascribing to this event, as one and indissoluble, a supreme revelatory significance.

Can Christians plausibly continue to affirm the revelatory supremacy of the Christ - event and at the same time be fully open to other traditions that have their own unique convictions about religious meaning and truth?

So, too, events, in which we may find revealed to us something or someone in whom we are impelled to put our trust, are revelatory only in so far as we react to them in certain special ways.

To the community, his life is revelatory; these particular events illuminate other events.

The total Christ - event is symbolically revelatory of the ultimately mysterious horizon of our existence.

He confesses the redemptive and revelatory power of the key events in this history.

Eiseley is at his best when he narrates an event or describes a poignant revelatory moment.

But what was revelatory about the Queen's Speech was what it didn't mention: it wholly ignored the seismic political shifts and horrific events which have brought renewed public engagement in politics and staunch opposition to an ideologically - driven political agenda of austerity and deregulation.

There have been two recent events that have been much discussed and that might tarnish this persona and that I think are revelatory about some of the features of contemporary school reform — for which Ms. Rhee is a powerful symbol.

«Black Box,» along with «Die» which was not included, was to Smith something like what «Onement I» was to Barnett Newman — a minimal but revelatory watershed event that redirected the course of modern art.