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36161 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Joel (2).31
… spiritual kind, the outpouring, like copious showers, of Divine blessing, so that the whole community would be set on a higher level of spiritual apprehension …
36162 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.74
… that spiritual and theological atmosphere, equally characterized by that type of thought which we call Johannine, and which presents an interpretation …
36163 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.75
… of spiritual intuition, could under any conditions have evolved a system of thought having the special characteristics of this theology.
36164 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.77
… ’the spiritual, and leading the church to a profounder realization of its essential and inalienable resources in the new spiritual life it possessed through …
36165 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.81
… Divine spirituality is both moral and metaphysical. The religious relation to God, as it exists for Christian faith, rests upon the fact that the Supreme …
36166 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.82
… the spiritual universe. God is Life. He is the ultimate eternal Reality. He was "in the beginning" ( John 1:1 ), or "from the beginning" ( 1 John 1:1; 2:13 ). These statements …
36167 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.83
… every spiritual nature exists. The elements present in the conception of the Divine life are these: (1) The ethical: the life God lives is one of absolute righteousness …
36168 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.84
… of spiritual perception (ginoskein), and the source of spiritual illumination to every being capable of receiving the revelation. "God is light, and in him …
36169 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.85
… ultimate spiritual essence, in eternal separation from all that is material and mutable. But while John also, as we have seen, conceives it in this way, with …
36170 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.92
… are spiritually His children ( John 14:23 ); but His undivided and essential love is given also to the whole world ( John 3:16; 1 John 2:2 ). That is John’s great truth …
36171 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.101
… a spiritual presence, and yet really His own--a presence in which all and more than all the effects of His bodily presence would be perpetuated ( John 14:18; 16 …
36172 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.5
… . The spiritual life in men, which is "begotten of God," is the vital essence, the mystic principle which is manifested in all the capacities and activities of …
36173 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.7
… of spiritual life is closely analogous to the common conception of physical life. We do not conceive that a man lives because he breathes and feels and acts …
36174 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.8
… the spiritual nature of man. This is its ultimate definition.
36175 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.19
… antecedent spiritual predisposition (John’s equivalent to the Pauline predestination). There exists in certain persons what is lacking in others, a power …
36176 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.20
… and spiritual, not mechanically ecclesiastical, In the visible community spurious elements may intrude themselves, as is proved when schism unmasks those …
36177 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.21
… which spiritual efficacy is attributed either to the physical elements in themselves or to the physical act of participation. And (though there is little …
36178 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.23
… was spiritual and essential. The omission, to whatever motive it may have been due, is counter-balanced by the sacramental discourse ( John 6:1 - 71 ). While the language …
36179 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.24
… the spiritual in its contemplation of life, grasping what is of universal significance and dwelling upon events only as they are the embodiment of eternal …
36180 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.26
… profoundly spiritualizes. He reaches down through the pictorial representations of the traditional apocalyptic, and inquires what essential principle …