He protested my saying he was disillusioned, but he did begin to
speak of the actualization of Christian unity in more eschatological tones.
Not exact matches
Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort
of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning
of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so
speak — has determined that «in the fullness
of the times» there shall be just such an
actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.
This horizontal line moves from possibilities
of actualization, as they are available for the
actualization which will produce real entities, through the «creative nexus» (
of which we shall
speak in a moment), to the concrete occasions with which we are confronted in their presentational immediacy to us.
Thus far we have
spoken concerning the
actualization of the good in the world.
How can we
speak of an authentic
actualization of freedom unless we can articulate in productive imagination the content
of the hope underlying such freedom?
For if we can
speak of individuals as fully constituted short
of «their» coming into existence, then existing is indeed an «accident» (or in the undifferentiated discourse
of contemporary metaphysicians, a property), for it is something which «happens to» the already constituted individual; namely, its «
actualization.»..