Sentences with phrase «with redemptive»

As well, Will's desire to fulfill his promise to his father, along with some redemptive actions by others, keeps this privateer adventure afloat — even if only barely above the waterline.

And Cooper, like Keaton, may have to make a superhero movie, fall into obscurity and return with a redemptive triumph to win in this category.

Love Liza doesn't leave us with redemptive speeches or somber homilies but with a hard - earned sense of something moving down deep, below the apparent emptiness

Nicholson finally gets to play a rotten bastard without diluting his character with any redemptive qualities, while Damon sheds his sympathetic Everyman persona for the first time since «The Talented Mr. Ripley.»

Here, they go all in with a redemptive tale that takes some unexpected turns even as it appears to be sticking with the safe bets.

And when sin entered the world and humanity to wreak havoc and chaos, God intervened again — with the redemptive mission of restoring Shalom — all that which God intended for us.

Twenty years earlier, the same university's brochure had spoken of Catholicism, of Pius XI's depiction of the Christian Catholic character, and of endowment «with the redemptive merits of Christ which we call grace or supernatural life.»

Others were impatient because they believed themselves allied with redemptive powers and possibilities whose adequacy was threatened by this identification of hope with so scandalous a historical particularity.

In our first chapter we said that the new life is made possible through an encounter with the redemptive love of God.

Our need to be comfortable is at odds with the redemptive work our Comforter God is calling us to.

The power of the resurrection was the establishment of the faith that in Jesus God's Messiah has appeared with redemptive power, and God's Holy Spirit is present to bring men into the new life for which Jesus has opened the way.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

Does this mesh with the Redemptive Power of Jesus Christ on the Cross and God's Nature and Teaching of «Love your Enemies, Bless those who curse you» etc etc?

Read with a redemptive trajectory in mind, the problem isn't a problem.

Not exact matches

With more than 40 years of experience helping restore men and women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.

It is in this context, a context decisively shaped by God's redemptive purposes in Christ, that we can join with St. Francis of Assisi in hymns of familial and filial piety toward nature.

A truely redemptive species with Truth on Planet Earth.

Seventh and finally, the song of redemptive hope, of the resurrection of the body; of our bodies that encompass the stuff of the creation of which we are part; of our bodies that participate in the body of Christ that is the Church, and therefore anticipate, already now, that perfect communion with God for which the whole creation waits with eager longing.

But as you mentioned with # 2 and # 4, there are biblical passages that offer support for loving, redemptive, discipline and for controlled anger against sin.

And the whole scene is suffused with a comedy which, though often acerbic, is finally redemptive.

Dickens» exquisite appreciation of the redemptive power of violence, seen also with the death of Nancy, shows clearly here.

That coupled with what I observed in a lot of Christian believers, being ordinary people, sinners like I am, yet having faith in God and His redemptive Grace, I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior in a moment of clarity over a prayer.

My littlest girl was born at home, in water, with midwives, a beautiful and redemptive experience for me.

Cameron Mackintosh, the producer of the Broadway musical Les Miserables — easily one of pop culture's most redemptive storylines, with...

Of course, we can not view things with the large, serene perspective and the redemptive assurances of God.

When you form your children's imaginations, you are training them to see more than just what is there — to look at the world, nature, people, and even daily life with the same eyes of the heart that God gives us to see His redemptive work in eternity.

In Greenberg's view, Christianity acquires full validity only when it acts in ways that comport with his Jewish sense of the redemptive, world - perfecting task of religion» and, crucially, only when it repudiates its anti-Judaism.

For Bonhoeffer, the perfection of being is achieved through the transformation of human life by the redemptive activity of the transcendent God, who identified himself with human beings in order to effect wholeness.

Church is God's healing community; a place where we can have redemptive relationships to heal our inner deficits, first through the purest relationship with God, and secondly through relationships with his disciples as they seek to reflect God's heart, albeit through a mirror dimly.

We have already noted the conflict which runs through most of Christian thought between the biblical vision of God as the creative and redemptive actor in the history of his creation, and the metaphysical doctrine inherited from the synthesis of the Christian faith with neo-platonic philosophy which conceives God as the impassible, non-temporal absolute.

This chapter is not written with the view that Christianity answers every question raised in Judaism, or to prove that the Christian way of understanding God's redemptive work is superior to that of Judaism.

If the Bible is an ancient dialogue around the gradually growing picture of the character of God, fully revealed only in Jesus, it is also a dynamic conversation which, rather than ending with the finalisation of the canon of the Bible, continues beyond it and involves all of those who give themselves to Christ's ongoing redemptive movement.

Blake's vision is more consistently kenotic, for it fully identifies God with the dark abyss or evil potency of the Godhead even while unveiling the goal of this potency as being wholly redemptive.

What the Church knows as the descent of Christ into Hell is not, according to Blake's vision, a descent apart from the body, but rather a descent into the very depths of bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanity.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

As G. E. Bentley Jr.'s critical study of Vala demonstrates, Blake's frequent and disorderly revisions of this manuscript epic reveal his own movement into a Christian and redemptive understanding of history, an understanding that could not be reconciled with the initial direction of the poem.

The main difficulty with this view, however, is that it seems that the way of Jesus in setting up a spiritual Kingdom is «Plan B» in God's redemptive purposes.

The word Messiah, which means literally «anointed one,» points strictly, of course, to an individual; but in the psychology of Israel with its facile and often unconscious transitions from individual to corporate personality, we are hardly wrong in allowing a broader definition to the term Messianism, in which emphasis is placed upon the redemptive function of the human entity, whether group or individual.

(1) Biblical teaching is coherent and self - consistent: for, as I said above, with whatever variety of literary form and personal style from writer to writer and with whatever additions and amendments as redemptive history progressed, it all proceeds from one source; namely, the mind of God the Holy Spirit.

I see the Old Testament in its totality laying a permanent foundation for faith by its disclosure of God's moral character, sovereign rule, redemptive purpose, and covenant faithfulness and by its exhibiting of the positive dispositions of faith, praise, and obedience contrasted with the negative dispositions of mistrust and rebellion.

The ultimate job and purpose of the Church must be to equip its members to be co-creators with this ongoing Generative and Redemptive Power of the Universe seeking to transform the world into a place of peace, justice and compassion — a world sustainable for all of its inhabitants.

As created beings, we and all humans are called to the work of co-creation with God in an ongoing generative and redemptive process.

I would start with Adam and Eve creating clothing and then just follow the trajectory of history and scripture where technology played a role in God's redemptive program (Noah's Ark, Moses's use of the recently developed alphabet technology, David acquiring iron smelting technology, Paul using the roads Alexander built, etc.).

In theological terms I see Fowler's system or design as a variation of redemptive history with its chronological sequence of dispensations.

Along with attending to the Word, Christians have felt God's redemptive love quite palpably in such sacraments as baptism, Eucharist, and marriage.

Defining the «redemptive quest» and the «maturation» of a community of faith can really be done only in conversation with the tradition, a conversation that tests our assumptions and challenges even our most cherished and deeply held convictions.

Suffering, when it is linked with Christ and his suffering shares the latter's redemptive effects.

I point to his use of the word «come» with the sense of «willfully take action» by placing our faith and trust in the redemptive work of Christ.

The significance of the kerygma, which proclaims the redemptive work of God in Christ, lies in its opening up in a universally relevant fashion the manner of God's dealing with the whole created order in carrying out his saving purpose.

And to speak in that fashion would be to say, with Dr. Paul Knitter of Xavier University in Cincinnati (one of the brilliant young Roman Catholic process theologians of our time), that we need to «recognize the possibility that other «saviours» have carried out... for other people» the redemptive work which as Christians we know in Jesus Christ.