Her innate consciousness of a mission seemed to her to indicate her as destined for some redemptive work, not only for others, but also for herself.
The condition of all really redemptive work is a "descent into hell.
We are lifted by the cross into a great redemptive fellowship, a society of redeemers--the redeeming Father, the redeeming Son and a whole company inspired by the redeeming Spirit.
The judgment of the Church is the instrument of God's love, and the moment it is accepted in the sinful soul it begins to work as a redemptive force.
Schmiedel explains the repetition as partly accidental, and partly indicative of the fact that Christ's death is here regarded as a purely human occurrence, and not as a redemptive deed of the Messiah.
Everywhere the Jesus that they present is most strikingly similar to the Christ of Paul; but nowhere--not even where Jesus is made to teach the redemptive significance of His death (Mk.
Paulinism is a redemptive religion in the most thoroughgoing sense of the word; it finds salvation, not in a decision of the human will, but in an act of God.
No attempt indeed should be made to underestimate the community of interest which binds all redemptive religions together and separates them sharply from all others.
The character of Paulinism as a redemptive religion involved a certain conception of the Redeemer, which is perfectly plain on the pages of the Pauline Epistles.
Not the details of Jesus' life, therefore, but the redemptive acts of death and resurrection are at the center of the religion of Paul.
Paulinism is like the mystery religions in being a religion of redemption, but within the great category of redemptive religions there could be no greater contrast.
The character of Paulinism as a redemptive religion, the Pauline doctrine of human depravity, is therefore insufficient to establish dependence of Paul upon the mystery religions of the Hellenistic age.
The whole of Paulinism is based upon theredemptive work of Jesus Christ.
The event was the redemptive work of Christ in His death and resurrection.
But His teaching was all in vain unless it led to the final acceptance of His redemptive work.
And now, when at the end of the ages He once again calls us women to stand heart to heart with Him in a great redemptive purpose, shall we hang back?
I say redemptive work, for it was one of her deepest convictions that woman's function, was to be the saving salt of all life.
She was unalterably true to her divine womanly ideals of woman's nature, place in society and redemptive work.
In Philip, his son, was not even this slight redemptive quality.
I may perhaps be pardoned for adding that in my judgment even the earnest redemptive endeavours of men like the editor of the Clarion have indirectly been made possible by it.
It is the truth implied in all redemptive effort that has ever been made, and in every message that has ever gripped conscience and heart; it is, as the Nicene creed has it, "the taking of the manhood into God.
Most significant of all, perhaps, is the fact that much of the moral earnestness of the nation and of social redemptive effort exists outside the churches altogether.
But to some extent they all succeeded, too, for the world is a better place to live in because of the gradual and cumulative redemptive effort of the Christian ecclesia, the Church of Jesus.
Surely everybody is included in this redemptive purpose of the Lord!
In His redemptivegrace He has made provision for marred work, for spoilt and perverted life.
But that same redemptive work appears, in the more Pauline of the two Joannine currents, as the direct result of so many vicarious, atoning deeds, the historic Passion and Death of Our Lord.
It is nowhere implied that Jesus himself was in need of redemption, but rather that he alone possessed from earliest years the fulness of redemptive power.
That law is that no redemptivegood for men is ever secured without the suffering and sacrifice of those who seek to confer that good upon their fellows.
Christ sacrificed his life that humanity might have redemptive life through a process of spiritual reproduction, regeneration.
But through the death of Christ the wrath of God was appeased, and redemption of the sins of all who should acknowledge His redemptive power was secured.
That society can be redeemed, and that the church can and will purge herself from the things that defile her beauty and corrupt her powers, and gird herself for the redemptive work assigned her, is the faith of every loyal Christian.
But a sociology which ignores this primary fact has in it no redemptive power.
The religion of Jesus emphasizes, as no other religion has done, "the redemptive principle in its idea of God.
A Chinese woman, listening to a recital of this redemptive work of God, turned suddenly to her neighbor and said, "Didn't I tell you that there ought to be a God like that?
To such beautiful spirits, saved from wrong and woe by theredemptive shelter of their lot, happiness is a better purgatory than wretchedness.
The conception of salvation by ritual works based on faith either faith in Deity or in some redemptive agency is exhibited all over the world.
So, even the dark door of retribution, when men will advance by no other way, leads them to thoughtfulness, regret, and a redemptive readjustment of their passions and acts.
Therefore, every being must at length be saved from misery, if not by redemptiveatonement then by absolvent annihilation, and one absolute heaven finally absorb the dwindling hells.
Of course, he said to himself, the redemptive work begun and carried on by the Holy Spirit in His wonderful displays of power in the First Church and in the tent meetings had had its effect upon the life of Raymond.
If so, they could go on with some courage to do the redemptive work begun by the evangelist and now taken up by the disciples in his own church.
But the prophets claim to be directly and really inspired to teach and interpret what God is doing and commanding in their own age, and to forecast what in judgment and redemptive mercy God means to do and must do in the Divine event.
There remains the further aspect of His redemptive work, in which it is regarded as effecting our reunion with God by delivering us from the power of sin, and by filling us with the Divine gift of life.
If the redemptive work of Christ satisfies these conditions it is evident that it is not a simple, but a very complex fact.
If again we take into account the scope and significance of His redemptive work, it is vain to compare Christ with 'other great men.
It is, then, this idea of beauty in process that we bring with us as we approach to behold the facts and method of God's Redemptive Work.
The God presupposed in Christian Ethics is One who displays holiness combined with power, love controlled by wisdom: in a word, He is the God of redemptive history.
It also recalls the great landmarks of God's redemptive action; it sets forth His gracious acts, partly as an incentive to gratitude, partly as a ground of obligation.
With what precision and emphasis He unfolded the system of the Faith He was expounding, elucidated its fundamental verities, stressed its distinguishing features, and proclaimed the redemptive character of its principles?
One fact is doubtless universal--the appearance of a redemptive religion marks the decadence of an old and the rise of a new period of culture.
Moreover, ideas of purification are necessarily involved in redemptive religions, and hence are to be found in Christianity no less than in the world religion of the Orient, though in a different form.
The prophets conceived the inmost essence of things, the being and will of God, as a creative and redemptiveforce that guided and revealed itself through the career of a great national community.
Much greater stress is laid upon the redemptive than upon the creative function.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "redemptive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
