Sentences with phrase «view of agape»

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These definitions, and Rand's discussion of them, are immensely pertinent to understanding Christian agape as more than simply doing what has to be done in order to get to heaven, which is still the view of many Christians.

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.

Unquestionably, the pietism which both Luther and Calvin resisted, tended to reinforce an individualistic view of salvation in spite of the fact that pietistic mysticism usually stressed experience of the Holy Spirit in the agape - love which binds the community of the faithful together.

It should be pointed out here that Peirce's view of the circularity of cosmic agape is consistent with the overarching thesis of synechism which embraces agapasticism.

Although he viewed disharmony as integral to the function of agape, he remained faithful to his inclination to be an idealist by subsuming disharmony under harmony.

Peirce seems to believe this, too, since he views agape as spreading among the creatures who participate in creative evolution, and he speaks of the genius as one who acts agapastically as an individual rather than as a community.

The answer to this must be in any Christian view that agape both in God and in man intends the Kingdom of God, that is, the bringing of all things to creative dynamic harmony under the sovereign rule of God.

Those who offer a contextual Christian ethic in our own day seem to be so far in accord with the biblical view that justice is to be sought as the expression of the life of the covenant community as it undertakes in the spirit of agape to bring reconciliation among men.

Maria at Agape Match has the best view of any dating or matchmaking office I've been to yet.

Had the audience no gotten just the random glimpse of Dafoe's eyes and mouth and a fuller view of his expressive face, the costumed character probably would've been more menacing, for the fixed mouth - agape expression on his metal mask certainly isn't.