Sentences with phrase «uncreated grace»

His mystical theology of uncreated grace, the purifying encounter with God in His very Godhead, is henceforth anchored to the preaching and ritual of the Church as the concrete locus of God's certain, undialectical presence.

At its heart, Luther's early theology is marked by a strong emphasis on what the scholastics called uncreated grace, grace as the presence of the uncreated God, and on the transformation of the human heart by God in the utter transcendence of His Godhead.

Not exact matches

In fact, as you point out, «religion» can actually desensitize a person to Grace, which I understand to be Uncreated, an immanent Divine Presence, not a created «power» that enables us to keep the Law.

I wish someone had told that to the Reformers, some of whom were burned for translating the Bible into their native languages so people could read it, who argued for salvation by grace against a salvation by works Gospel, who argued for Jesus as the son of God, uncreated, instead of just one among many of «God's» created beings.

He replied: «In this ceremony we are offering created fire and from it comes uncreated light, by the grace of the Holy Spirit... before the ceremony begins, a kantila — a little oil lamp — is placed, already lit, on the tomb.

The Holy Name of Jesus constantly on their lips mellows the spirit and purifies the soul until, through God's grace, they perceive the uncreated light of Tabor.

Faith, or unqualified trust in the goodness and loving / mercy of God is the human response to Grace, which is not a created power that enables us to fulfill the demands of the Law; but the Uncreated Presence of God.