Sentences with phrase «truly radical force»

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From another, we might rather say that dialectical theology refuses to be truly dialectical, it refuses both radical transcendence (biblical or eschatological faith) and radical immanence (contemporary Existenz), and thus is forced to reach a non-dialectical synthesis between a partial transcendence (Tillich's Unconditioned and Bultmann's Word of faith) and a partial immanence (an Existenz whose Angst can only be answered by «faith»).

Liberation theologians who want to appreciate the truly radical ways of Jesus might ponder these words of Hans Küng, who writes in On Being a Christian that Jesus» revolutionary method means «love of enemies instead of their destruction; unconditional forgiveness instead of retaliation; readiness to suffer instead of using force; blessing for peacemakers instead of hymns of hate and revenge» (p. 191)

He further ordered that emancipated Southern slaves «be received into the armed service of the United States,» a truly radical measure for the day and one that provoked great political opposition in parts of the North, and massacres of captured black Union troops by the armed forces of the South.

And even Effie, a picture of privileged, blinder - wearing, Capitol hypocrisy, is being forced to feel — to truly face her world's radical injustices.