Sentences with phrase «terms of agape»

Without the Bible's eschatology, the God of the Bible can not be understood in terms of agape, the radical self - giving love of one who holds nothing back — not the life of his son, not the sharing of his own being.

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It would be foolish to engage here in either a definition or an analysis of the terms, eros and agape.

These two points, that the creative process includes the lure of a telos and that the agent of creativity is responsible for its activity, serve as a basis for the suggestion that self - determination in creative processes can be conceived in terms of two notions familiar to the philosophical tradition: eros and agape.

The relation of God's love (agape) to individual and collective life in terms of justice was close to the heart of Niebuhr's thought.

[157] Her award - winning first book, Journeys by Heart (1988), essentially blew the work of Anders Nygren on Agape and Eros out of the water by reversing the terms: God's love is not agapic, but erotic.

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.

Assuming that agape requires justice in human affairs, the author explores the implication of biblical love for social justice in its historical foundations, in the terms of justice, group loyalty, humanitarianism, protest, nonviolence and nurturance.

Agape (Ancient Greek, agp) is a Greco - Christian term referring to love, the highest form of love, charity and the love of God for man and of man for God.

Moments like O'Brien and his friends jumping from a skyscraper window feel like the kind of sequence that shouldn't go with something technically dubbed a young adult movie (a term I really despise, as it shoots franchises like this in the foot before they even begin), yet here we are, gripping the edge of our seats, mouth agape at the severity of the action.

In terms of the beliefs about love, based on John Alan Lee's six attitudinal styles of love — Eros (erotic), Pragma (rational), Ludus (game play), Storge (friendship), Mania (passionate) and Agape (altruistic)(De Andrade & Garcia, 2014, Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986)-- studies in various cultures indicate that men tend to have a predominant outgoing and adventurous style in their romantic interactions (ludus), while women possess more rational (pragma), friendly and companion (storge), intense and uncontrolled (mania) profiles than men (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1995, 2000; Sprecher & Toro - Morn, 2002).