Search results for "Divine grace" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Generally, a sacrament refers to a ritual meant to invoke divine presence ... “an outward sign of an inward (invisible) grace, instituted by Jesus Christ” ...
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  • quot; in a larger picture of God's grace or salvation history. ... Anonymous Christianity means that a person lives in the grace of God ...
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  • teaching that the principle of truth is a divine light within us, he wrote ... heart to God is unattainable without divine grace, and nothing renders us ...
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  • idea of punishment to meet the demands of divine justice. ... the nature of sin, debt, punishment, and grace. In his section on man, he ...
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  • power of the individual, without the need for divine grace. He was attempting to describe a "middle way" between Pelagianism, which taught ...
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  • His theology, emphasizing the importance of divine revelation given ... According to Barth, a new divine revelation given in our faith now ...
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  • happiness), Traité de la nature et da la grace in 1680 (translated as Treatise ... from mere perceptions) only exist in the divine intellect. Moreover, it is ...
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  • been seen as a symbol of power, prosperity, grace, and virtue. The witnessing ... or in conjunction with the three other divine mythical creatures of ancient ...
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  • of ritual duties alone, but requires the grace of God, which can only be ... Madhva openly proclaimed himself to be divine in many of his writings, ...
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  • In his autobiographical book, Grace Abounding, Bunyan describes himself ... “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James ...
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  • that the division between humanity and the divine could only be bridged by ... Madhva openly proclaimed himself to be divine in many of his writings. ...
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  • salvation was exclusively the work of inner grace, Hutchinson disparaged the ... on an inner prompting. Her emphasis on grace over "works," while ...
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  • says, "and the Word dwelt among us full of grace and truth." (John 1:14) "Grace" here carries the idea goodness, and the phrase ...
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  • exists only because of God's unmerited grace, and salvation especially ... nature against a backdrop of the sovereign grace of God in salvation. It teaches ...
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  • is the ubiquitous description of the Divine as a God of Justice. Though ... Likewise, the Gospel of Matthew discusses the need for Divine justice ...
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  • characters as they might be touched by divine grace--not in the Protestant ... characters as they might be touched by divine grace. This ruled out a sentimental ...
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  • operation by the Son, and perfecting its grace by the power of the Spirit; ... or conceived, in the motion of the Divine will from the Father, through ...
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  • of the six days, angels, demons, the fall, grace, and sin; the third with ... this love literally is God; one becomes divine and is taken up into the ...
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  • guilt, seen as a necessary step to receive divine forgiveness. Confession is ... for the soul as well as to regain the grace of God, lost by sin. The ...
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  • criticizing what he called "cheap grace" and emphasizing that ... the Mount in which he attacked "cheap grace" as a cover for ethical ...
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  • priests. To sanctify herself so that the divine sap may be communicated through ... you into God, to nourish in you the life of grace with which you will attain heaven. ...
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  • the irrational element in the Idea of the Divine and its relationship to the ... even irrational sense of awe before the Divine. That paradox does not entirely ...
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  • God, as an unfathomable and unspeakable divine depth. Large fragments of ... ), and the Bibliography of Fabricius (BibL Grace, vol. ii. p. 294) mentions ...
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  • A famous statement by Thomas Aquinas reads, “Grace does not remove ... Aquinas derived a system of ethics from his concept of nature and ...
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  • a vehicle of revelation or of God's grace? Or is the Church's ... *What does the Church do? What are the sacraments, divine ordinances ...
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  • world and peace, and the fourth for the divine providence in general. ... survived. Her major work is the Dialogue of Divine Providence. ...
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  • during one of the battles between the divine and anti-divine forces. Her ... during one of the battles between the divine and anti-divine forces. In ...
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  • of ritual duties alone, but required the grace of God, which can only be ... named Gururaja and Venkatamba. By the grace of Lord Venkateswara, a third ...
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  • that Christ had "two natures," divine and human, a formula which ... Word of God to man was only according to grace or energy… as says the ...
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  • where it represents the ten sephitot, or divine emanations. Here, it symbolized ... reflecting man, who is a microcosm of the divine creation. ...
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  • meaning "gift" or "divine favor" and most often ... or phrases related to charisma can include: grace, exuberance, equanimity, ...
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  • to a rational and purposeful order (a divine or eternal law), and that ... nature (as opposed to being the result of divine positive legislation), the ...
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  • emphasizing the hypostatic union of his divine and human natures. It assumes ... article asserts its power to resist subjection to divine law. ...
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  • pleasure" and "mere and arbitrary grace" that any man was actually ... of the revival, the doctrine of a special grace in the immediate, and supernatural ...
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  • with a more participatory notion of the divine. Derived from the Greek words ... and immanent properties of the divine by preserving aspects of ...
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  • collective naval journey in search of the Divine Bottle. ... :Grace, honour, praise, delight, ::Here sojourn day and night. ...
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  • is no darkness. When one walks in the divine life, he is purified by the ... final judgment, God's kingdom, peace, grace, and glory. Moreover, in ...
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  • vices that cut a person off from God's grace. In Latin and English, the ... sin cuts off the sinner from God's grace; it is in itself a rejection ...
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  • had put there give any light at all, the divine light totally annihilating ... would keep 15 living family members in a state of grace. ...
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  • god, who himself created new tools for divine and human use. This general ... Ares was indubitably the child of the divine ruling couple, the mythical ...
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  • Hawthorne explores the issues of grace, legalism, and guilt. ... her lover. She accepts the punishment with grace and refuses to be defeated ...
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  • make herself a living vessel of God's grace. Her method to achieve this ... ::Place your heart in the figure of the divine substance! ...
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  • in modern times) of feminine beauty and grace in the Hindu religion, Sita ... came to be conceived of as the supreme divine couple, male and female aspects ...
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  • was too young. At 14, she said, "the divine call was becoming so insistent ... ::The fire of Love divine effaces all. ::O sacred flames! O furnace ...
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  • doctrine that humans cooperate with the Divine Grace in regeneration.[http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=s&word=SYNERGISM ...
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  • symbol of light has been used to depict divine power, clarity, and understanding ... that the halo represents the light of divine grace suffusing the soul, which ...
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  • thoughts.Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace: Having hope, finding forgiveness ... emphasis on the need for humans to find divine forgiveness for their own ...
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  • love that redefines the connection between divine omniscience and omnipotence ... sin, free will can only function after divine grace is given us. As regards ...
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  • Judaism regards the violation of divine commandments to be a sin on ... is that it is made on the basis of divine grace and repentance. According ...
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  • his subsequent resurrection, and the grace and rebirth that he offers ... tended to focus more on Jesus' divine attributes than his earthly ...
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  • is seen not as a specific channel of divine grace, but as an expression ... the Eucharistic elements, and that, in the Divine Liturgy, the one sacrifice ...
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  • which gave the city of Nineveh forty days grace in which to repent. ... In the Roman Catholic Mass, Lutheran Divine Service, and Anglican ...
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  • through rigorous austerities (tapasya), or by grace. Siddhi powers are said to be obtainable by meditation, control of the senses, devotion, ...
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  • belief in human perfection, the state of divine indwelling in which anything ... antinomianism arises out of the doctrine of grace, the forgiveness of sins ...
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  • which held Vishnu as the supreme personal divine. With the outgrowth of the ... The Nalayira Divya Prabandha is a divine collection of 4,000 verses ...
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  • names"), which were abbreviations of divine names/titles used in early ... *Sill, Gertrude Grace. A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art. Touchstone ...
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  • and joy people feel towards God for the grace and blessings has bestowed ... themselves to the Service of their Divine Benefactor; and that, together ...
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  • rosary. Examples include the Chaplet of Divine Mercy introduced by Saint ... # The Assumption of Mary. Fruit of the Mystery: Grace of a Happy Death ...
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  • fathers of the Reformation teaching on divine grace. In the Eastern Orthodox ... of grace from God. For Pelagius, divine grace merely consists in the ...
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  • in the apostolic benediction: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ ... God are all one and the same and equally divine. The latter school, on the ...
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  • it weighs the soul down such that only grace can uplift it. ... movement toward us or, in other words, grace. For Weil this meant that ...
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  • Drifters. Live at Fillmore West and Amazing Grace were two of her most influential ... was at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City during Elton ...
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  • strength by way of sorcery and knowledge of divine weapons. ... is shown as dominating all human and divine races, to the extent that ...
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  • are asacharya or gurus, teachers of divine personality who have come ... liberation consists of union with the Divine, while for Yoga oriented ...
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  • styled himself as divi filius, son of the divine (Julius), and struck coins ... *Sill, Gertrude Grace. A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art. Touchstone ...
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  • Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, through the grace and bounties of His love ... one's sense of harmony with the Divine, but also to avoid the future ...
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  • to their eyes except the beauty of the divine virtues and of the divine ... And [the Lord] gave grace to Antony in speaking, so that he consoled ...
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  • human history as moving towards a human-divine partnership, or towards human ... law); the third in the age of Christ (under grace). Perhaps the most widely ...
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  • to rely on the outward signs of spiritual grace rather than on grace itself. ... of God, and that only they constitute the Divine rule of Christian faith and ...
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  • the Grail is a symbol of God's grace, available to all but only ... Cycle used the Grail as a symbol of divine grace. Here, Galahad, the illegitimate ...
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  • the gospel and did not claim to rule by divine right," whereas for ... of good actions is a gift of divine grace. His definition of faith ...
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  • Cause is made manifest. The portal of His grace is open wide; enter therein ... made a counter-claim to receiving his own divine revelation. His followers ...
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  • is changed. … We observe, then, that grace has more power than nature ... a "Mystery," something known by divine revelation that could not ...
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  • United Kingdom, the son of Robert Davy and Grace Millett. He grew up in a ... believe that he was more a servant of the divine than a self-promoter. Still ...
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  • ridiculed as un-kingly. Insisting on the divine right of kings, he purged ... devotion to the old ideal of the Divine Right of Kings, feeling that ...
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  • of Jerusalem and proclaim himself to be divine. This prediction came to ... with a typical Pauline blessing: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ ...
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  • because of his traditional association with the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, which is celebrated only during that liturgical season. St ...
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  • #039;s justice, Moses urges obedience to divine ordinances and warns against ... forth, which Moses also describes as a gift of divine grace. ...
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  • and unite her more closely with her beloved divine Spouse. ... herself with the garment of God's grace through prayer and penance ...
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  • being utterly passive under the influence of grace was also rejected. The greatest weight in the Council's decrees is given to the sacraments ...
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  • higher levels of relationship with the divine. Later scholars became more ... the notions of original sin and divine grace in Christian philosophy ...
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  • of his works as compared to the divine revelations he had received. ... doctor angelicas (Angelic Doctor). In The Divine Comedy, Dante sees the glorified ...
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  • they affirm or deny either of these divine attributes, are rather simplistic ... there is no evil in the world which is divine. Mary Baker Eddy, founder ...
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  • that he has not been faithful to the given grace of forgiveness of sins. ... of inner conviction, outward signs of inner grace. He wanted society to be ...
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  • is noble and reflects the quality of divine forgiveness and grace to ... resulted from rulers claiming the “divine right” to rule. Roman ...
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  • In opposition to the rational approach to divine understanding adopted ... the truth was already known and the way of grace was clear. He thus had no ...
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  • is a God of love. He also taught of the divine polarity of love and wisdom ... quot;), the spiritual, and the divine worlds. The foundations of ...
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  • therefore pray to the Holy Spirit for the grace to be genuinely self-denying ... purification of past memories. With the grace of the Holy Spirit, the Lord ...
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  • although he has been well-trained in the divine weapons, he must possess ... Additionally, Varuna also gave Arjuna a divine chariot, with powerful white ...
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  • that the end of history is overseen by a divine reality will interpret historical ... It finds the end of history in divine will and relates to all historical ...
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  • to Donatus concerning God's grace"), and three books of ... he fled in accordance with visions and the divine command. From his place of ...
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  • The ceremony takes place at the end of the Divine Liturgy. ... believe that footwashing imparts salvific grace to the recipient—In this ...
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  • ultimately God-given, either endowed by divine grace or written in the fabric ... law is "nothing else than the type of Divine Wisdom, as directing all ...
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  • * Sola gratia: Grace alone :Salvation is entirely the act of God, based ... the spiritual idea of sonship, and thirdly Divine Science or the Holy Comforter ...
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  • #Were Shimon ben Yochai the father of the Kabbalah, knowing by divine ... upon man: he alone can bring about the divine effusion. ...
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  • rejection of idol worship, the doctrine of divine incarnations, and a strict ... and glories of the community, invoking divine grace for all humanity.Parrinder ...
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  • angel to Zechariah's bed to perform a divine errand, the child might well ... he has fallen away completely from the divine and Catholic Faith. ...
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  • Many schools of Hinduism contend that God is all-merciful and His ... actions. Thus, God is the sanctioner or divine accountant, and the jivas ...
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  • His parishioners had to tell him before divine service whether they wished ... terms than Helmich himself (a Dutch divine, 1551–1608); for I affirm ...
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  • was "His Majesty Farouk I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt and ... quot; (Quran 28:3-4) and claimed to be divine (Quran 28: 38). ...
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