Sentences with phrase «revelatory image presented»

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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.

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.

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.

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.