The Widened Heart
Believing belongs to experience. It does not generate itself. When men today repeat the Lord's Prayer, saying Jesus' words after Jesus, Lead us not into trial but deliver us from evil, they are giving voice to their believing for a reason. The reason is the experience of being diminished...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1969]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1969, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 127-154 |
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| Summary: | Believing belongs to experience. It does not generate itself. When men today repeat the Lord's Prayer, saying Jesus' words after Jesus, Lead us not into trial but deliver us from evil, they are giving voice to their believing for a reason. The reason is the experience of being diminished and enlarged in the world of death, beauty, and renewal in the great world of action that is the circumpressure of God. Believing (literally, holding dear) arises in times of testing in which human faithfulness takes shape and becomes tangible as an affection. How faithfulness becomes palpable is the subject matter of the following account. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000027693 |