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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