Sentences with phrase «revelatory image of god»

Hence, by its challenge to our favored images of God, especially those that present God as one whose favor we must win by our religious or ethical performances, the subversive, revelatory image of a God who participates in our own shame pulls the rug out from under a society that seeks by way of religion to legitimate its exclusivism.

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Some portray the apostolic witnesses less as revelatory witnesses to God's mercy than as oppressive promulgators of abusive images of God.

In other words, the revelatory image of a self - limiting, self - giving, self - emptying God fosters a continually widening coherence in our understanding of reality and mystery.

Jesus» repertoire of images of the kingdom, his habit of presenting what we can hope for in the idiom of parables of God's reign, is an exceptional illustration of these four revelatory aspects of religion.

On the other hand, by viewing the plurality of faiths from the point of view of our central revelatory image, that of God's self - emptying love, we may effectively confront the temptation to idolatry.

Rather, as our best theologians in this century have increasingly confessed, the roots of much serious atheism can be found in long - revered ideas of God that have not yet been shaped either by the promissory aspects of revelation (especially in the case of the kind of atheism associated with Marx) or by the revelatory image of the kenotic God (especially in the case of the atheism associated with existentialism).

The revelatory image of a self - emptying God explains not only the fact of reality's mysterious openness but also why mystery presents itself to us in the mode of a promising future.

The revelatory image of a self - emptying God explains not only the fact of reality's mysterious openness, as we noted at the end of Chapter 3, but also why mystery presents itself to us in the mode of a promising future.