Sentences with phrase «spirit of agape»

The spirit of agape leads to action to meet the needs of men in the world as it is.

We must ask, however, whether with all the realism of the Reformers in their doctrine of vocation, they solved the problem of self - sacrifice in the spirit of agape.

Because the spirit of agape transcends group loyalties without renouncing them, the question of the nurture of the personal life and its love becomes a critical one for Christian ethics.

Those who offer a contextual Christian ethic in our own day seem to be so far in accord with the biblical view that justice is to be sought as the expression of the life of the covenant community as it undertakes in the spirit of agape to bring reconciliation among men.

At the same time, the spirit of agape is that of universal concern.

Not exact matches

The doctrine that agape fulfils the human loves has a critical test in interpreting the sexual life, not because of the earthiness of sexual love, but because of its power to drive the spirit in seeming disregard of God or neighbour.

Can we understand the spirit and forms of agape more deeply through insight into the sexual eros?

The agape which redeems and reconciles does one of its greatest works in the infusing of the sexual life with the spirit of humility and charity.

The entire passage reads, «In spite of the many kinds of love, which in Greek are designated as philia (friendship), eros (aspiration toward value), and epithymia (desire), in addition to agape, which is the creation of the Spirit, there is one point of identity in all these qualities of love, which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,» which is the inner dynamics of life.

Such humility does not exclude the ecstatic joy of receiving the Spirit of God, or the peace of agape with God and the neighbour, but it is joy and peace made possible within love's work of forgiveness.

Unquestionably, the pietism which both Luther and Calvin resisted, tended to reinforce an individualistic view of salvation in spite of the fact that pietistic mysticism usually stressed experience of the Holy Spirit in the agape - love which binds the community of the faithful together.

I have already mentioned the proposal of the Freudian, Herbert Marcuse, for a panerotic philosophy of life in which eros, agape, and thanatos (death) will all be integrated in the one self - expression of the human spirit.

Man's problem is not that agape stands entirely outside his desire, but practically it is that when sinful man desires he corrupts the spirit of love.

No human love, it is held, even the most idealistic, can be said to embody agape, the love of God, for human love is always limited and ambiguous in its object, and is corrupted by human selfishness in its essential spirit.

As to Paul the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ are terms used interchangeably, so for most purposes and in most contexts the agape and the charis (grace) of God are identical, and both represent the love of God coming to us in Christ.

This agape of God has come to men through God acting in Christ, and is mediated through the Holy Spirit.

An ethic of agape must incorporate the spirit revealed in such a statement, the integrity of group life within a universalistic and brotherly concern.

Agape is the affirmation of life, the forgiveness of sin, the spirit in which the self can give itself away and yet be fulfilled.

Spirituality of the spirit, through human experiences... Agape, In Lak» ech... Namaste.

But there is in faith the beginning of agape's formation of the human spirit.

Christian counseling should also be characterized by agape or Christlike love that is the fruit of the Holy Spirit.»