Sentences with phrase «truth of agape»
The attempt to make a synthesis of them can only result in the damaging or the titter elimination of the truth of agape.
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If God is indeed agape, then we have reason to hope that God will look mercifully when viewing our woefully inadequate insights and self - interested truths and make far more of what we say and believe than we have any right to hope for.
Today's definition of tolerance is NOT the same thing as true, agape love; which is not afraid to speak the truth with grace.
... While the Principle of Redemptive Withdrawal is focused on the abandonment Jesus experienced as he experienced the Father's judgment on the sin of the world, it is nevertheless grounded in the truth that the cross is the definitive expression of the self - giving, mutual indwelling agape - love that defines the triune God throughout eternity (p. 778).
Following Jesus means subverting every claim to truth, authority, and consolation that could interfere with a life of self - emptying agape.
It is particularly instructive to turn from Nygren's work to that of Reinhold Niebuhr, for the latter is a theologian who sees the truth for which Nygren is contending and yet who insists that there is a way of bringing agape into a positive relation to the human struggle for the ideals of justice and brotherhood.
It means that those who recognize the agape of God in the historical revelation can be thankful that it has come to them there, while they remember that it does not give them an exclusive possession of the truth.
The relation of love to the intellect proceeds from three assumption: first, that faith transcends rational categories through God's self - revelation in Christ; second, that intellectual understanding is necessary for the guidance of human life; and third, that both seek the same object in God's being and His revealed truth — namely, that it is through agape with its consequent repentance, humility, and understanding of human limits that the intellect can appropriately function.
Christian society lives instead according to a spiritual reality that discloses the truth of God and the occasion of agape, «the bright love of brotherly service.»
For Nygren the agape of the Gospel is the spontaneous unmotivated grace of God and it is contrasted with all eros love, which seeks its own fulfilment in goodness, truth, and beauty.