Sentences with phrase «through redemptive»

I interpret this to mean that the Son of Man, Jesus, has come to his own flesh, his own family and by His supreme love, carries us back to the Father, to our natural and supernatural home, through His redemptive love.

In order to go up in the rapture, one must be saved or born again through the redemptive power of the blood of Christ upon the cross.

There is no natural human life that exists without this call and no ability of man to follow through on it without the intervention of grace, won through the redemptive act of Christ.

The power of godly men is wrought through the redemptive work of Christ in our hearts and lives.

As reiterated in the 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio and the 2000 instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus, the teaching is that everyone who is saved is saved through the redemptive work of Christ, whether or not they have ever heard of Christ.

This does mean, I admit, that Dillon — through the redemptive work of COACH — might have a marginal place for Riggins nobility.)

In Taxi Driver, the camera even hangs on the awkward reactions of those around Travis Bickle as scene after scene of personal embarrassment leads to him to seek validation and purpose through redemptive violence.

Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

Not exact matches

It has taken years of counseling, communication, and redemptive healing to work through those issues.

It wasn't until I lived through the trauma of miscarriage that I experienced my need for God's redemptive love in a way I never had before.

Through redeeming Christmas and Easter for Jesus Christ, we can show people the redemptive power of Jesus Christ in our own lives as well.

For Bonhoeffer, the perfection of being is achieved through the transformation of human life by the redemptive activity of the transcendent God, who identified himself with human beings in order to effect wholeness.

Through the work primarily of feminist christians, I have been led to Sophia / Wisdom, to «Christa / community,» to Hagar the slave woman, to Jephthah's daughter and those who fight back on her behalf: images that are redemptive because they are dark, images of black or marginalized women, vilified, trivialized, rejected, silenced — and resisting their oppression and that of their sisters.

Church is God's healing community; a place where we can have redemptive relationships to heal our inner deficits, first through the purest relationship with God, and secondly through relationships with his disciples as they seek to reflect God's heart, albeit through a mirror dimly.

We have already noted the conflict which runs through most of Christian thought between the biblical vision of God as the creative and redemptive actor in the history of his creation, and the metaphysical doctrine inherited from the synthesis of the Christian faith with neo-platonic philosophy which conceives God as the impassible, non-temporal absolute.

Indeed, the radical Christian has taken this original ground of the Christian faith to its inevitable fulfillment: if all eternity must pass through «Self - Annihilation,» then God himself must die to make possible the redemptive triumph of the apocalypse, for his death reverses that «Self - hood» which is the source of the fall.

If it is primarily applied to the first element, it is a positive, but not an exclusive statement, since the saving power and importance of the redemptive work of Christ (as the worship of God and the sanctification of man) affect man not only through their cultic presentation in the liturgy.

For example, how do we see the creative and redemptive love of God through the perspective of the age - long development of the immense universe, only a speck of which we inhabit, and of the evolution of sentient and rational life on this earth through thousands and millions of years?

Or, if they do, it is because through some special gift of providence some penultimate value is raised to a higher level of redemptive power.

While claiming that the whole of creation has as its very structure the Sabbath principle, Barth qualifies this statement by suggesting that creation (through its culmination in the Sabbath rest) paints also to redemptive history (to covenant) and to the final consummation of the same.

But there is an illumination and we can know that there is a patient, redemptive reality in and through all of life which transmutes real evil, real loss, real threats to the growth of human good into the deeper, more sensitive and more enduring goods of love and humility?

In our first chapter we said that the new life is made possible through an encounter with the redemptive love of God.

It is most productive and most redemptive when we wrestle with it together, in community — listening to one another, learning from one another, and loving one another through both the good and bad days.

In response to the call of Christ, the Corinth Methodist Church seeks to be a redemptive fellowship serving God and community effectively by: (a) enabling each person to achieve God's will through individual fulfillment; (b) providing religious training for all; (c) ministering to the community through service and witness.

The lines can not be sharply drawn, however: one could not believe that God had accomplished so much in and through Jesus and had exalted him to so supreme a status without soon asking, «What then was the essential nature of this Jesus that he can have become the agent of God's redemptive purpose?»

Now if humanity's transformation through relationship to Christ truly depends upon the human response of faith, then the expansion of the effects of God's redemptive presence in Christ will be processive in nature and have a time - space extension.

Curiosity is the first step in seeing things through new eyes and can lead to a redemptive revision of the story of one's life.

Suffering can be redemptive — through that insight the great Prophet of the Exile made his supreme contribution and started on its influential history an idea that has been rightly called «the noblest creation of Old Testament religion.»

God gave proof, and it was through the resurrection of His Son, and the unfolding story of historical redemptive history found in the Bible.

Thus I should say that if the story of Jesus» life had been told just as it seemed — and in a sense was — at the time it was occurring, that story would not have been adequately or truly told or that life was a part of a supremely significant, a divine event, the event through which God, the Creator and the Ruler of all nature as well as the Lord of history, was entering into man's life with new redemptive power; but that fact was not grasped clearly, if at all, till the event had reached its culmination in the resurrection, the coming of the Spirit, and the creation of the community.

The second group reduces kingdom to redemptive power and therefore it becomes a spirituality or personal salvation or healing or a charismatic moment or a social act that breaks through with God's will or a cultural good that evokes God's will now done on earth — and like the former view — out goes Israel and the church and we lose the dynamic of the kingdom.

Through Blake we can sense the theological significance of a poetic reversal of our mythical traditions, and become open to the possibility that the uniquely modern metamorphosis of the sacred into the profane is the culmination of a redemptive and kenotic movement of the Godhead.

Our faithfulness might not even look successful at first, but through the identity found in Christ, we can rest assured that our future is placed securely in His sovereign power and redemptive plan.

Now that we have this redemptive revelation through the sacrificial death of Jesus, we are able to live in a new way with other human beings.

Christianity is that movement within human history in which the efficacy of Israel's witness to God's creative and redemptive work has been mediated through Jesus and the apostolic witness to God's activity in him.

But it has to be noted that identity through representation is the first argument offered, and the redemptive benefits the second.

We appropriate the redemptive work of Jesus Christ «through faith» because it comes about not by our own doing, «but is a gift of God.»

Yet, not only is Chris Conlee judging his close friend, but he is using this friendship as a reason we are supposed to trust his judgment: «As one of my closest friends and partners in ministry, I can assure you that I have total confidence in the redemptive process Andy went through under his leadership in Texas.»

As Christians, conservative, liberal, and everything in between, we all agree that the point of the Bible and the story it is trying to tell us is the story of God's redemptive work in the world in and through the person of Jesus.

In fact, without this a priori framework it would be possible to see from the text that for Paul the knowledge of God through creation is a redemptive knowledge, since, if the loss of this knowledge and the failure to accept the law written in the heart result in a loss of grace and condemnation (Rom 1:18; 2:14 - 16), then the converse must be true, namely, that the possession of this knowledge means the possession of grace and therefore salvation.

The Syracuse Orange's redemptive run through the NCAA Tournament will continue in Houston at the Final Four.

Through our products we strive to express God's redemptive message of love and inspiration to the world.

One could go on to discuss the committed and rather spectacular performance that Miles Teller gives in the role Pazienza, or the cool aesthetic that matches the time period in small, effective ways, but despite the casts best efforts and writer / director Ben Younger's endeavor to paint more a portrait of a man determined to overcome the odds rather than going through the motions of another redemptive sports tale, Bleed for This unfortunately ends up reducing itself to just that.

A late sequence where Ernst and the heavily pregnant Mary — a potentially redemptive figure whose name is not just a metaphor but a meta - five — imagine themselves on an airborne vision quest, floating over and through devastated landscapes, is the sort of wild, risky flourish that could easily be mistaken for a mistake.

The sole redemptive aspect of the entire movie is Newton Howard's exquisite and bewitching score, one that singlehandedly cuts through the narrative incoherence with a glacial sense of wonder (and occasional menace).

It takes Lucinda through an epiphany and an unlikely romance in a tale that is redemptive, wickedly witty, and heartbreaking all at once.

Through our products we strive to express God's redemptive message of love and inspiration to the world.

Through our products we strive to express God's redemptive message of love and inspiration to the world.

Snow has long considered the redemptive power of human ingenuity through a variety of mediums.

Through our products we strive to express God's redemptive message of love and inspiration to the world.