Sentences with phrase «transcendent power»
The phrase "transcendent power" refers to an extraordinary or superior force or ability that goes beyond ordinary limits. It suggests the presence of something incredibly strong, exceptional, or divine. Full definition
Whilst we respect much of what Teilhard was trying to do we do not accept his concept of Christogenesis, and do indeed want to help people to see the truly transcendent power of God shining through his creation as well as his supernatural revelation.
faith.org.uk
Lent's shorthand for this pattern is «split cosmos, split human»: the assumption that our physical reality, personal or objective, can be controlled by transcendent powers.
Our Lady never doubted the divine transcendent power of Jesus to work miracles - and the Mass is a miracle.
In any given period, people perceived an overwhelming, transcendent power exerting a sort of gravitational attraction on them, molding their behavior, inspiring them to act in certain ways.
In his new film Isle of Dogs, it seems that Wes Anderson has spun a similarly wistful yarn about about the strangely transcendent power of canine companionship.
We are not supposed to do this, of course, but the fact that we can do so still demonstrates the transcendent power of the human spirit.
And as professional critics we reject any appeal to a transcendent power at work in history, much less one that «works for good in all things.»
God, the awesome and transcendent power, wants not the transcendence of life but rather its sanctification — in all the mundane activities and relations of everyday life.
At issue here is not transcendent subjectivity, it is transcendent power.
Just as God's transcendent subjectivity is adaptive to each situation, from a buddhized Christian perspective, God's transcendent power is adaptive to each situation.
«But,» as Paul puts it in speaking of the light that shines from God in Christ, «we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.»
This concerns the Taoist and Confucian concept of Heaven, the Way and Goodness as pointing to the Holy Trinity: «Chinese religion is aware of transcendent power, T'ien (Heaven), at work in those who seek Jen (goodness) by following the Tao (Way)-- fragmentary glimpses, perhaps, of the heavenly Father whose Spirit elicits and sustains our union with Christ, the Incarnate Way» (p47).
The real purpose of myth is to speak of a transcendent power which controls the world and man, but that purpose is impeded and obscured by the terms in which it is expressed.
Nevertheless what it affirms about the transcendent power of God to bring the world into being by his will, and call it good, is presupposed much earlier.
It is possible, he says, to speak in nonmythological terms of the finitude of the world and of man before the transcendent power of God, even of the signification of eschatological myths.
Simply by clinging to the religious image of transcendent power, the Church has resisted the self - negating movement of Christ and foreclosed the possibility of its own witness to the forward movement of the divine process.
She does this, rather unusually, by linking the transcendent power of prayer with the principles of chaos theory and sub-atomic physics.
The word God «objectifies» the experience of holiness or transcendent power, and to that extent the word itself becomes idolatrous.
There is nothing capable of holding together a group of willful, broken human beings except some transcendent power.
On the other hand, when a certain Jason of Cyrene wrote five books describing the events up to 161 (our II Maccabees is an abridgement of his work), he emphasized the transcendent power of God.
It is about God, what God has done, is doing and will do, «We have this treasure in earthen vessels,» said Paul, «to show that the transcendent power belongs not to us, but to God.»
Each of these tasks requires an act of transcendent power and wisdom.
Of them may be used the Pauline expression, «We have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us» (II Cor.
Adrift is the unforgettable story about the resilience of the human spirit and the transcendent power of love.
Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience.
After moving to New Mexico in the late 1940s, she painted stark landscapes evoking the transcendent power of nature.
In Ben Luke's recent words in RA Magazine, Le Brun has a «deep conviction in and passion for painting's transcendent power and enduring mysteries», and visitors to recent Summer Exhibitions have been captivated by his emotionally intense, large - scale, increasingly abstract oils.
We take a look at the latest work from the President of the RA, whose paintings embrace the transcendent powers of abstraction.
Through evocative imagery, a vivid palette, and intricate details heightened with gold and silver, paintings made for the rulers of the Rathore dynasty held a transcendent power.
Holding this in mind, Dots Obsession — Love Transformed into Dots can be read as a gripping existential work about the transcendent power of love and a will to lose oneself in a larger unity.
As a 26 - year - old Rome Prize recipient in 1972, Graham Nickson was already so convinced of painting's transcendent power that he began testing his own painterly mettle with a hazardous subject: sunsets.