Sentences with phrase «toward consummation»

Their preaching propelled redemptive history forward toward the consummation of all things.

The «Come, Lord Jesus» leans forward toward the consummation of «the fullness of him who fills all in all.»

Finally, while the Bible focuses upon the history of human salvation, the whole creature is struggling toward consummation, striving to realize to the fullest degree the potentialities of the creative thrust that throbs within it.

At the end of that letter to the Corinthians, Paul tells us that even though we see through the glass darkly, «for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly.

Calling is a way of articulating the relationship between God, self, and neighbor that is rooted in creation and moves all reality toward its consummation.

Not exact matches

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and more fully toward an eschatological consummation.

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and fully toward an eschatological consummation.17

But though this is a primary manifestation, and initially occurred in Christ, 16 the incarnation can not be understood and participated in save as a total and perpetual process which moves on toward a supreme consummation:

He believed that the impulse toward a better society was the fruit of Jesus» proclamation of a kingdom of love, divine in its origin, growth, and consummation, sustained by the Holy Spirit, made manifest and operative as the will of God is done in human society.

If we can derive no meaning for our lives from our involvement in the immediate events of history, perhaps we can endow them with significance as a part of an overarching movement toward a distant consummation.

Narrative competes with abstraction, metaphor with metonym, toward the eventual consummation of painting and drawing in a single composition.