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It is just here that the skandalon lies — one who is a legitimate subject for historical research, with all its uncertainties and inferences, is nevertheless the unique and
ultimate revelation of God.
It is in the Bible that we read about the Word of God — Jesus Christ, who Himself is
the ultimate revelation of God.
Although Jesus is
the ultimate revelation of God — the Word of God incarnate — many Bible teachers and writers allow the violent portrayals of God in the Old Testament to override and trump the completely non-violent revelation of God in Jesus Christ.
This is why
the ultimate revelation of God is not the sight of God's glory — which is what Moses wanted — but the sight of God exposed in the misery of a condemned criminal, hanging naked on a cross and enduring an excruciating death.
What doesn't compute with me, and probably a lot of your readers, is equating those truths with the complete and
ultimate revelation of God which was Jesus.
The gospel of John sees the passion as
the ultimate revelation of the Son's glory, while Matthew focuses more on Jesus's human suffering.
Not exact matches
When later quizzed over whether the recent
revelations of data security compromises had resulted in the dismissal
of employees at fault, Zuckerberg accepted
ultimate responsibility but added that he doesn't want to «throw anyone under the bus for mistakes that we've made here.»
That can only be appropriated through
revelation and consummated by salvation: the
ultimate redemption
of the world by its creator God.
Betz is on safer ground when he suggests that «the
ultimate point
of the analogia entis, as employed by Przywara, is precisely not by philosophical means to close the gap between God and creatures, grace and nature, reason and
revelation (as Barth seems to have feared), but rather to widen it.»
While I do believe that Jesus is the
ultimate and most perfect
revelation of God, I also believe all Scripture is inspired and inerrant.
Looked at that way, the essential content
of revelation, or perhaps the very nature
of God (whatever is the
ultimate «subject matter» or «object»
of the inquiry) dictates certain methods and movements
of thought which, if followed, denominate the inquiry as «theology.»
If we follow God as set forth in the teachings
of Jesus, aren't we stating that, although other religions may contain some truth, the complete and
ultimate truth
of God is found in Jesus (above all other
revelations)?
In the specific Christian case, that
ultimate court
of appeal in the corrective use
of theology is the
revelation of God in Jesus Christ.
The
revelation of the sacred name in Exodus 3:15 has been misconstrued, for instance, as God's refusal to be named, an indication
of the
ultimate unnameability
of God, rather than God's act
of naming himself.
Finally, the «pluralists» are those who are prepared to give up on the centrality
of biblical
revelation, even if they admit that their own access to
ultimate reality has been inevitably conditioned by their Christian background and experience.
The
ultimate crime
of scapegoating,
of course, is the crucifixion
of Jesus, who, on the cross, gives the clearest
revelation of scapegoating in history.
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Of course, it is quite possible that the
ultimate source
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of his idea
of the centrality of love in the universe is the historic Christian revelatio
of the centrality
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of love in the universe is the historic Christian
revelation.
Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance
of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways
of experiencing the
revelation of an
ultimate reality transcending the comprehension
of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth
of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).
When
ultimate power conceals itself in apparent powerlessness and when mystery «loses» itself in the particulars
of history or in the uniqueness
of a particular personality, there is already a ratification
of the symbolic and the relative as the media
of revelation.
Likewise,
revelation's gift to us
of an image
of ultimate fidelity delivers us from the need to «perform» to the point
of self - exhaustion for finite others in order to gain their approval.
It rejoices gratefully in the goods
of creation and interprets their gift - like character as a hint or
revelation of the
ultimate beneficence
of God.
And so, if the
ultimate content
of revelation is the divine mystery
of God, then no set
of propositional truths can mediate it to us either.
But if we fail to relate
revelation to the most interesting, and especially the
ultimate or «limit» questions that arise out
of the scientifically informed inquiries
of many people today, it will eventually become a lost notion for all
of us.
In its focus on Jesus Christ as the
revelation of God, Christianity claims that the
ultimate mystery
of reality becomes incarnate in the life
of a particular human being at a particular time in the history
of the world.
In the rhythm
of the liturgical year, Lent leads to Easter, the
ultimate weakness
of God to the blinding
revelation of his omnipotence.
A trust in the
revelation of our relationship to an
ultimate environment
of unconditional love is capable
of breaking through such situations and exposing the contexts in which self - deception flourishes.
This does not mean,
of course, that nothing nonhistorical is real; the whole purpose
of the event, according to Christian faith, was to provide an historical medium for the
revelation of God, who is the
ultimate reality above and beyond history as well as within it.
Because Jesus is the
ultimate and complete
revelation of God, and this is what God has been doing from the very beginning.
This approach is different from that
of the Semitic religions which is based on the self -
revelation of the
ultimate in history in unique particular nama and rupa.
But this reduction would leave aside entirely the matter which is in question, not how to know the truth
of God as the
ultimate basis
of all truth, but the fact
of a historical
revelation and
of the devotion that the human spirit can offer it.
This tendency to look for fixed meanings, authoritative images, sacred words, divine
revelation,
ultimate moral norms, the truth, is finally the expression
of our own insecurity with human relativity and a symbol
of our desperate need for security.
Although quite considerable differences exist between the mystic religions
of redemption and the prophetic religions
of revelation (and even among the latter there are great differences between the closely related Judaism, Zoroastrian Mazdaism, Islam, and Christianity)-- important as these differences may be, they are overarched by an
ultimate unity.
To Christian faith Jesus is the decisive symbolic
revelation of the
ultimate mystery
of the universe and history.
No evidences from human experiences (Holocaust, hurricanes, slavery) or from other interpretations (evolutionary theory and Marxism) will ever count against the
revelation whatever the content
of the «
ultimate purpose» might be.
According to Paul Tillich, a simple key to the plurality and diversity
of religions and ideologies throughout human history is the fact that almost any thing, event, person or social group can function as a symbol (and therefore
revelation)
of the
ultimate.
The
revelation of an
ultimate friendship, however, is not without its own kind
of injunction or demand But the demand is simply that we surrender any attempt to solve the big problems
of life all by ourselves.
On the other hand, if the
ultimate criterion in scholarly disputation is reason, then publicly claiming prior authority for
revelation is a breach
of ethics and is rightly reprehended by secular scholars.
For devout thought, all alike became ipsissima uerba
of the will and
revelation of God and, as such,
of ultimate authority over human conduct.
Science, already oppressive with its shocking
revelations, will perhaps be the
ultimate exterminator
of our human species — if separate...
The
ultimate revelation that Owen is doomed to be another blood puppy like poor Father (Richard Jenkins), bald and old and mad and jealous into his dotage, is undercut by the boy's discovery
of a photo - booth picture sequence that shows a young Father in thrall to ageless Abby (Chloe Moretz).
There is an underlying clash
of philosophies that is as compelling in its all but subliminal presentation as the dashes through the maze, and the
revelations, which come thick and fast and always as a surprise, about what the maze's
ultimate purpose is.
One could look at the last
revelation of The Trip to Spain as the
ultimate joke on how these movies usually leave Steve — alone and uncertain — or as a cliffhanger to get us wanting another sequel.
Understanding the real purpose
of Safari was the
ultimate revelation for Dr. Garner at this time.
He also seems to have missed the recent
revelation that what really matters to climate is the total
ultimate slug
of emitted CO2, implying that unfettered emission today dooms us to more drastic cuts in the future or a higher
ultimate atmospheric CO2 concentration, which will persist not just for «possibly centuries», but almost certainly for millennia.