Forgiveness and Grace

2019 ◽  
pp. 136-145
Author(s):  
Leslie Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
God's Love

What can be said on either side of the God-relation? Andre Louf provides a vivid account of human repentance and God’s forgiveness and grace. Tillich provides an own account in his own terminology. Both emphasize the reality of God’s love and forgiveness.

God is Love

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Cefalu
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Broad Group ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
God's Love ◽  
1 John ◽  
Thomas Traherne ◽  
Henry Vaughan

The fourth chapter describes the extent to which Augustine as well as a broad group of early modern homilists and poets were influenced by the ontological conception of love described in John’s First Epistle: “God is love, and hee that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him” (1 John 4: 16). For John, responsive love expressed toward God is achieved fundamentally through an embrace of Christ’s Word, particularly because God’s love for Christ is expressed eternally for the Son prior to the Incarnation. This chapter addresses the unique ways in which three early modern English poets—George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne—appropriate the Johannine understanding of agape and an ontological conception of God’s love.

The Temptations of Christ and Other Stories

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonore Stump
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines biblical narratives to illuminate the role of Christ’s passion and death in bringing a person to a life in grace. Reflection on the narratives shows that Christ’s passion and death are a most promising way for God to help a human person to the surrender which is the necessary condition for spiritual and moral regeneration. The stories of the temptations of Christ show the way in which Christ’s suffering and death are connected to justification and sanctification. A person’s ceasing to resist the grace of God and surrendering to God’s love is the pinnacle on which her salvation has to stand. If we focus on this necessary condition for salvation, we can see the reason for Christ’s suffering. What can be gained by weakness that could not be gotten through power is the melting of a heart accustomed to willed loneliness and hardened against joy.

Love Divine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Wessling
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Systematic Account ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The Creation ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Wrath Of God

This book provides a systematic account of the deep and rich love that God has for humans. Within this vast theological territory, the objective is to contend for a unified paradigm regarding fundamental issues pertaining to the God of love who deigns to share His life of love with any human willing to receive it. Realizing this objective includes clarifying and defending theological accounts of the following: • how the doctrine of divine love should be constructed; • what God’s love is; • what role love plays in motivating God’s creation and subsequent governance of humans; • how God’s love for humans factors into His emotional life; • which humans it is that God loves in a saving manner; • what the punitive wrath of God is and how it relates to God’s redemptive love for humans; • and how God might share His intra-trinitarian love with human beings. As the book unfolds, a network of nodal issues are examined related to God’s love as it begins in Him and then overflows into the creation, redemption, and glorification of humanity. The result is an exitus-reditus structure driven by God’s unyielding love.

Hospitality at community wells: The life-giving waters of John 4:7–15

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-535
Author(s):  
Cindy Bolden
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Church ◽  
Samaritan Woman

Jesus’s encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well is a paradigmatic text for the Church, showing new possibilities for how the Church can engage the world, specifically engagement through invitational conversation and acts of charity at modern-day community wells. A Place at the Table is a pay-what-you-can café in Raleigh, North Carolina. Patrons can pay the suggested price, less than the suggested price, redeem a token worth the cost of a meal, or pay by volunteering at the café. Patrons who are able to “pay it forward” can further support the mission by tipping or buying meal tokens for others. At this café, a space reminiscent of an ancient “community well,” thirsty travelers receive the life-giving waters of acceptance, connection, and sustenance. The custom of hospitality is a life-giving and transformational practice for the Church, a viable and tangible way to connect with its neighbor and draw all persons into the experience of God’s love.

GOD'S LOVE CUTS ACROSS HISTORY

1985 ◽  
Vol 74 (296) ◽  
pp. 496-501
Author(s):  
Rose F.M.M. Fernando
Keyword(s):  
God's Love

GOD'S LOVE IN CHRIST IN EUROPE TODAY

1988 ◽  
Vol 77 (308) ◽  
pp. 503-510
Author(s):  
Noel Irwin
Keyword(s):  
God's Love ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Europe Today

Dieva mīlestības koncepts saistībā ar bāreņu tēmu latviešu tautasdziesmās

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Eva Mārtuža
Keyword(s):  
Folk Songs ◽  
Process Theology ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
God's Love ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Symbolic Images ◽  
The One ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The Latvian folk songs include the version of God’s love and the concept of God as a creative creature, which I will see in relation to the subject of mourning, pregnant women, orphans (for the sake of clarity, orphans) as a particularly sensitive reflection of society. The poetic layer of these songs reveals Latvian mentality, basic ethical and aesthetic values, and the nation’s understanding of God’s love for the most vulnerable members of society, using vivid symbolism and metaphors. Orphans do not question the existence of God, they see it as a comprehensive, unifying, self-respecting, compassionate, and understanding creature. We do not find proof that there is no God at all. In symbolic images, there is a proven belief in one God you understand. In this sense, there is a similarity with the assumption of process theology about God’s existence as an open concept in a situation where it is impossible to offer any other proof of God’s existence. In their lives, orphans encounter God as a responsive, creative, optimistic love; God encourages an orphan to learn, be smart, be morally complete, live with pleasure, not indulge in pessimism, and be creative. The abstract nature of God is depicted in two ways. On the one hand, God has all the power that a creature may have; on the other hand, God does not have all the power that exists because the creatures he creates also have the power that allows them to choose good or evil opportunities in their own lives. Evil is the choice of people to be cruel to the weaker. The folklore researchers also believe that this set of folk songs belongs to the most realistic, even natural songs because they are based on the direct observation of life, express frustration with this life, and the desire to make what they want into reality seeking support from God. In this situation, God is both responsive and compassionate to a human and a person who does not interfere in events. The orphan must learn to see the positive power of the love offered by God and, together with God’s involvement, to discover human self-worth, create the beautiful, seek creative self-fulfilment and creativity as the most desirable expression of spiritual existence. God exists as the originator of this process.

The transformative power of accepting God's love

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
T. Ryan Byerly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Pragmatic Argument ◽  
God's Love ◽  
Empirical Argument ◽  
Human Side

Abstract This article develops an account of some of the central features involved on the human side in adopting a richly accepting orientation towards God's love. It then builds a conceptual and empirical argument for the conclusion that accepting God's love can enhance a person's mental health and can indirectly enable a person to cultivate or maintain moral virtues – whether or not God exists. Importantly, the article contends that these transformative benefits are available to both believers and agnostics, and an original secondary data analysis is offered to support this conclusion in the case of agnostics. The article explains how this transformative value of accepting God's love may serve as the basis for a novel pragmatic argument for theistic religious commitment.

scholarly journals Jazyková stránka diskusí mladých křesťanů v kyberprostoru

2021 ◽  
Vol XXV (1) ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Irena Bogoczová ◽  
Lukáš Maršík
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
God's Will ◽  
God's Love

The present article introduces the results of the analysis of texts by Czech (Catholic) Christian young adults published in 2019 and 2020 on the website signaly.cz. This page is intended to unite Christians and support them in their faith. The texts are diverse in genre, their content is purely religious or secular, but it at least remotely touches on the issues of the spiritual life of man or his/her religiosity (“soft spirituality”). Posting on the internet testifies to the need for young people not only to strengthen themselves and others in their faith in God, but also to share trivial content that relates to daily life and behind which (in the background) they see God’s will, the expression of God’s love and wisdom.

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