Sentences with phrase «sacrificial self»

For such thinkers as Jan Patocka, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and, to a certain extent, Jean - Luc Marion, the highest ethical gesture is a sacrificial self - offering which expects no benefit in return.

But even in individual and personal relations the ultimate level of sacrificial self - giving is not reached without an intermediate level of justice.

Not exact matches

There is no room for the self - sacrificial hero in the great ascent into the future.

Hmm, «In the precious name of boundaries, and by the blood of the lamb, I will not show self sacrificial love»!

We pledge to stand with you, our Christian brothers and sisters of the historic Black church, and to work arm in arm with you in Christ - like self - sacrificial love to build in America a true culture of life and of family life.

God is not a baby - killing deity, who seeks to exact revenge on His enemies for a crime many decades old, but is a self - sacrificial, enemy - loving God, who would rather die for His enemies than see His enemies die.

Instead, God is to be found in the self - sacrificial death of a lamb, who pours out His blood for others, so that death and destruction, when it comes, passes over the house and can not touch those who live within.

As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.

True power and true victory lie in love for your enemies, in self - sacrificial service, in infinite forgiveness, and in bearing sin and shame for the sake of others.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

Divine love is as glorious as a summer day high in the Alps; it is merciful and makes our sins, though they be as scarlet, vanish into insignificance, replacing them with his own action in us; it is, finally, self - sacrificial unto death, for it seeks not its own.

I skip creating in some grand self - sacrificial way but then everyone else ends up missing the best and most whole version of myself altogether.

As a result, the literal and tangible sacrificial apparatus of the Jews became to the Christians symbolic of another kind of religious system altogether, whose temple is heavenly, not earthly, whose high priest once for all has entered the holy place of divine communion, where believing souls may follow him, (Hebrews 10:19) whose sacrifice is voluntary self - giving, and whose consequence is an open way for all to «draw nigh unto God.»

This is because the movement of the energy of passion is kenotic or sacrificial, both in origin and in goal: therefore an energy becoming actualized or incarnate in the flesh must be self - subdued in self - annihilation.

On the cross, Jesus shows us what kind of God Yahweh is, and how Jesus came to rule and reign, not by might, nor by power, but by self - sacrificial service and taking the sins and guilt and blame of the entire world upon Himself.

As Christians, we believe our faith is founded in God's self - sacrificial love, a virtue we are commanded to emulate: «Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven» (Matt.

The letter to the Hebrews argues that Jesus» perfect self - offering brought to an end the sacrificial system of the Temple.

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

Life of eternal dimensions is the here - and - now gift to those who believe that this self - sacrificial One is the Son of God.

Now a considerable number of Christians see his divinity in some special feature of his humanity, such as his intense awareness of God, or his total self - giving and sacrificial love.

It expands by manifesting the power of self - sacrificial, Calvary - like love.»

It requires an offering of self, just as the marriage relationship requires sacrificial service.

«For Paul, Jesus» death on the cross is an act of loving, self - sacrificial obedience that becomes paradigmatic for the obedience of all who are in Christ.»

The essence of true courage is not self - seeking, but is sacrificial to the core.

The never - ending cycle of violence will never stop through the use of more and greater violence, but through the self - sacrificial way modeled by Jesus.

It includes values from both the independence and the self - sacrificial model of love but avoids their excesses.

Therefore God's justice has been manifested apart from the Law through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ (3:21 - 22)-- through his obedient, self - sacrificial death on the cross.

Some understand it as a self - sacrificial love — a mandate to love the other at the cost of sacrificing the self.

Extreme self - sacrificial models of love also can be manipulated to persuade oppressed people to endure passively, in the name of bearing their crosses, their situation of oppression.

The body is God's temple, these authors remind their readers, and the real aim of keeping it «under subjection» — thin, firm, disciplined — is not mere self - gratification but sacrificial obedience to God.

Both the sacrificial model and the self - fulfillment model contribute to the decline of families in our society.

This extreme self - sacrificial interpretation of neighbor love has often been coupled with those passages in Ephesians, Colossians and I Peter that seem to advise women to submit to the spiritual authority of their husbands.

Ask another what a home is, and a very different answer would be given: A home is a place where we have to consider the wishes of others, where we can not always have our own way, where children fall sick and require sacrificial care, where puzzling problems rise which it is hard to settle, where we must be true to love to keep it, where every day brings some small self - denial and every year some great one.

The one thing I do know is that when I have been intentional about living a self - sacrificial life like Christ, and explaining that to those around me, they tend to see the beauty of it and follow!

This basically mirrors the scene in Mission to Mars between the characters played by Tim Robbins and Connie Nelson, whereby the death of one leads to a void whereby the other is willing to act in a heroic and self - sacrificial manner.

Secondly, as an action the Eucharist is sacrificial in quality, since it has to do with an oblation, offering, or self - giving which was the characteristic mark of the life of Jesus in obedience to what he took to be the vocation given him by his heavenly Father.

The Law can support a stable society based on reciprocal altruism; but it can not transform self - interested moralism into self - sacrificial love.

The meaning and truth of God's self - revelation in Christ is known through identification with the incarnation, both in sacrificial living and in significant dying.

Hyde refused, saying it was now out of date: Communism had lost its ethos of self - sacrificial commitment.

Yes, it takes greater courage to follow Jesus into self - sacrificial love for our enemies than it does to cry out for their death and destruction.

I just have never been satisfied with any of the proposals for how to reconcile the violence of God in the Old Testament with the self - sacrificial love of Jesus.

The well - known phrase «impossible possibility» stands here in Niebuhr's thought for the warning that the pure love of God transcends human possibility.17 At the same time an element of uncalculating sacrificial giving of the self to the good of the other is possible for man.

In Christ the Truth (Son of God and second Adam — Incarnation - Atonement and sacrificial love) God's grace has provided the self's norm.

Unless a gift is in this fashion sacrificial — the giving up of something — it is argued, a gift reduces to a hidden contractual agreement, governed by a principle of self - interest; and actions out of self - interest, as Kant pointed out, are not pure gifts.

Mutual love, because of this self - interest, always remains partly a contradiction of sacrificial love.

What Niebuhr has done is to take the useful, practical distinction between intending my own good and intending the good of another without regard for self, and then to raise this distinction to the level of a metaphysical dualism between sacrificial and mutual love.

We need to comprehend the first link if we are to understand something of the process by which sacrifice was displaced from an actual bloody ritual practice to a metaphor for moral action, such that we can now say «he was very self - sacrificial» and not mean «he offered his body to Aztec priests.»

He needed his self - sacrificial love of his virgin wife, he needed his tender care for the infant Jesus, and, most of all, he needed his decisiveness and holy fear of God for prompt and courageous action.

He believes that the self - sacrificial image of Jesus Christ is a vivid emblem of a humane orientation in life, and he claims that the chief responsibility of theology is to deal seriously and critically with the question of God.

It allows us to envision a community of healing and hope, beauty and creation, love and peace, and then take self - sacrificial and Spirit - empowered steps toward accomplishing that vision.