Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of god [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 2 | The richness of personal awareness of God in the Old Testament is hardly better seen than through the wealth of metaphors for the God who was known and loved in daily life : |
| 3 | The most effective put-down of North during his testimony came from Senator George Mitchell of Maine , stung by the colonel 's constant juxtaposition of God with the contras . |
| 4 | First , it revokes the fundamental belief in a dependence of the world upon God that is not reciprocated by an equal and opposite dependence of God upon the world . |
| 5 | Mark has two ways of emphasising the fact that Jesus is fully and uniquely endowed with the Holy Spirit in his role as Son and Servant of Yahweh , who brings in the kingly rule of God in the end-time . |
| 6 | The initial idea of God as the one who led the people ‘ out of the house of bondage ’ , who freed the Israelite slaves from Egyptian control , develops into an idea of God as one who made the heavens and the earth . |
| 7 | How regrettable it is that so often in the marriages that we come across , those are the only promises that seem to be made , and the only mention of God within the family . |
| 8 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 9 | The horror of the war led some Christians to look in desperation for a new understanding of God as the suffering God . |
| 10 | This is the knowledge which redeems man and is the basis for the contemplative experience of God as the final transforming reality in which joy and sorrow are perceived as harmony not discord . |