Gandalf's role and importance was substantially increased in the conception of The Lord of the Rings, and in a letter of 1954, Tolkien refers to Gandalf as an " angel incarnate ".

In Chapter nine, Job recognizes the chasm that exists between him and God: “ For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together .” Job ’ s regret is that he has no arbiter to act as a go-between ; that Job cannot reconcile himself with God anticipates the need for the Messiah to become incarnate.

In his critique of the theology of Clement of Alexandria, Photius in his Myriobiblon held that Clement ’ s views reflected a quasi-docetic view of the nature of Christ, writing that Clement " He hallucinates that the Word was not incarnate but only seems to be.

Paschasius was clear that the body and blood on the altar are precisely the same natural body and blood as Christ ’ s incarnate body on earth.

For him, veritas meant “ perceptible to the senses ,” so the Eucharist could not truly be Christ ’ s body and blood, as it – according to the senses – did not change in appearance, but remained bread and wine, nor was it literally Christ ’ s historical incarnate body.

It is maintained by Theosophists that these less evolutionarily developed beings have never been previously incarnated as human beings ; they are regarded as on a separate line of spiritual evolution called the “ deva evolution ”; eventually, as their souls advance as they reincarnate, it is believed they will incarnate as devas.

' The expression is more apt than it is even in China ; for to lose one's face is to lose one's spirit, which is truly the ' face ', the dancing mask, the right to incarnate a spirit and wear an emblem or totem.

The statues of Apollo were thought to incarnate his living presence, and these representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in the Minoan period, and in the beliefs of the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the bronze-age.

As his divine power was incarnate in the vine, grape and wine, he was offered the first, sacred pressing of the grape-harvest, known as sacrima.

The first gods of these pairs would incarnate the violent, nocturnal, mysterious aspect of sovereignty while the second ones would reflect its reassuring, daylight and legalistic aspect.

God chose among the Youngest the first ones to be incarnated as humans, and allowed them to incarnate with a small part of their genius minds available ; enough to make them pioneers among the humans.

God the Father, desiring the world, which had been corrupted by the Original Sin of the first parents, to be reconciled to himself, sent Jesus Christ, the Son of God, to become incarnate of the Virgin Mary to redeem mankind through his perfect oblation on the cross.

This means that the Absolute truth is realized first as Brahman ( impersonal aspect ) then as Paramatma ( personal aspect ) and finally as Bhagavan ( incarnate perfection ).

( When Madame Blavatsky stated the Aryan root race was 1, 000, 000 years old, she meant that the souls of the people that later physically incarnated as the first Aryans about 100, 000 years ago began to incarnate in the bodies of Atlanteans 1, 000, 000 years ago.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: first Western woman to be recognized as an incarnate Lama.

The supreme act of surrender which the believer is called to emulate is the surrender of Christ first as coming into the world as God incarnate and then the surrender to the Cross in the act of sacrificial atonement, breaking the curse of sin and death from the Fall.

# Assertion that the biblical commandment forbidding images of God had been superseded by the incarnation of Jesus, who, being the second person of the Trinity, is God incarnate in visible matter.

David Hemlock has proposed an incarnational resolution: " On one small planet, lying in a manger, one incarnate babe could not lift the rocks He had made.

Monophysitism was born in the theological " School of Alexandria ," which began its Christological analysis with the ( divine ) eternal Son or Word of God and sought to explain how this eternal Word had become incarnate as a man -- in contrast to the " School of Antioch " ( birthplace of Nestorianism, the antithesis of Monophysitism ), which instead began with the ( human ) Jesus of the Gospels and sought to explain how this man had become united with the eternal Word in the Incarnation.

In trinitarian Christian teaching, God became incarnate in Jesus Christ, sacrificing his first-born son to accomplish the reconciliation of God and humanity, which had separated itself from God through sin ( see the concept of original sin ).

" When He became incarnate and was made man, He commenced afresh the long line of human beings, and furnished us, in a brief, comprehensive manner, with salvation ; so that what we had lost in Adam-namely to be according to the image and likeness of God-that we might recover in Christ Jesus.

" When He became incarnate and was made man, He commenced afresh the long line of human beings, and furnished us, in a brief, comprehensive manner, with salvation ; so that what we had lost in Adam-namely to be according to the image and likeness of God-that we might recover in Christ Jesus.

Seeking revenge against the X-Men after Jean ( as Phoenix ) had driven him insane, Mastermind used his powers of illusion to convince Scott and the others that Madelyne was Phoenix incarnate — a cosmic threat — in an attempt to have the team kill an innocent.

150: " We call this food Eucharist ; and no one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true .... For not as common bread nor common drink do we receive these ; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by Him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished, is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus " ( Jurgens § 128 ).

The Gem bestowed great physical powers on its wearer ; unbeknownst to them, it also contained a microscopic world, where Jacob Whitney's spirit had become incarnate as the demon Rott.

However following a misunderstanding Shabdrung Rinpoche and his party had with an important Karma Kagyu lama, Pawo Tsugla Gyatsho, the Tsang Desi demanded compensation be paid and that the sacred religious relics of Ralung such as the Rangjung Kharsapani should be surrendered to him so they could be given to the rival Gyalwang Drukchen incarnate Gyalwa Pagsam Wangpo.

The Miaphysites rejected this definition as verging on Nestorianism and instead adhered to a wording of Cyril of Alexandria, the chief opponent of Nestorianism, who had spoken of the " one ( mia ) nature of the Word of God incarnate " ( mía phýsis toû theoû lógou sesarkōménē ).

In all the yukams Mayon had to incarnate in the world to destroy the evils.

According to the Ananda Ramayana, king Padmaksha had a daughter named Padma-an incarnate of the goddess Lakshmi.

The need for a human life of perfect obedience to God's law was the reason that Christ, who is God, had to become incarnate ( take on human flesh ) and live as a human being.

This had the effect of making the hymn refer directly to the incarnate Word: Holy God, Holy and Strong, Holy and Immortal, Christ, King, who was crucified for us, have mercy on us.

The Miaphysites rejected this definition as verging on Nestorianism and instead adhered to a wording of Cyril of Alexandria, the chief opponent of Nestorianism, who had spoken of the " one ( mia ) nature of the Word of God incarnate " ( mia physis tou theou logou sesarkōmenē ).

While there have been many theological disputes over the nature of Jesus over the earliest centuries of Christian history, Christians generally believe that Jesus is God incarnate and " true God and true man " ( or both fully divine and fully human ).

Some commentators have emphasised Tibetan innovations such as the system of incarnate lamas, but such genuine innovations have been few.

In other cases, local customs have been deliberately adapted and imbued with Christian meaning in an effort to keep the Church incarnate and accessible to local Christians.

The angel Cassial has been recorded since ancient antiquity, to incarnate as a leopard.

# In the Middle Ages Roscellin of Compiegne, the founder of Nominalism, who argued like Philoponus that unless the Three Persons are tres res, the whole Trinity must have been incarnate, was refuted by St. Anselm.

Like all Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Armenian Church has been referred to as monophysite by both Catholic and Eastern Orthodox theologians because it rejected the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon, which condemned the belief of one incarnate nature of Christ ( monophysis ).

Historian Pamela Cullen speculates that as the Duke was head of the freemasons, Adams-a member of the fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren-would have been motivated to withhold the necessary vital treatment, since the " Grandmaster of England would have been seen by some of the Plymouth Brethren as Satan incarnate ".

While there have been theological debate over the nature of Jesus, Trinitarian Christians generally believe that Jesus is God incarnate, God the Son, and " true God and true man " ( or both fully divine and fully human ).

While there have been theological debate over the nature of Jesus, Trinitarian Christians generally believe that Jesus is the Logos, God incarnate, God the Son, and " true God and true man " ( or both fully divine and fully human ).

Mainly we wanted to see Ubu incarnate in the versatile talent of M. Gémier, and tonight and tomorrow night are the only two performances that M. Ginisty and his production of Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam have been free to relinquish to us.

This concept of a mystical union with God in this lifetime — the opposite of the Catholic doctrine of the Beatific Vision after death ( that Man could only ' see Him as He is ' after death )-was seen as being a form of Resurrection or eternal aliveness in this world, the Soul having died and been reborn in God while still incarnate ( an interpretation of the Resurrection found also in some of the early Gnostic movements ).

Within Christology, a number of philosophical questions have been raised, such as how the divine can incarnate as a human, how the eternal can enter the temporal, and how the divine and the human can be united in one yet remain distinct.

At the end of your film, after the other characters have been killed in sadistic and gruesome ways, the only survivor is the one who is evil incarnate, and we hear his cold laughter under a screen that has gone dark.