Sentences with phrase «dialogue with people of»

There needs to be a genuine cross-party dialogue with the people of Wales».

Perhaps the most unexpected lesson I have learned in the dialogue with people of other religions is how important it is for me to keep in touch with those of my own faith community who remain suspicious and fearful of that dialogue.

Christians have entered into serious dialogue with people of other faiths only very recently.

Since Vatican II, the Catholic church, both at international and national levels, has actively pursued dialogue with people of all faiths, whilst continuing to proclaim Christ as «the way, the truth and the life».

While in recent years churches have given more attention to dialogue with people of other faiths, much of the initiative has come from individuals and unofficial organizations.

Christian dialogue with people of other living faiths and the world wide struggle for justice are the other two areas referred to in the process of globalization.

Cobb (1982b p. 21) draws attention to a statement from a World Council of Churches consultation on dialogue with people of living faiths in 1971 which said «Dialogue thus involves the risk of one partner being changed by the other.

Rabshakeh is barred from dialogue with the people of God.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

The report also speaks of dialogue with people of other faiths.

Neither is mission simply dialogue with people of other faiths in the hope of bringing them to Jesus.

Finally, Stanley I. Samartha of India, who is director of the WCC's program on Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies, sums up the new attitude toward other religions by asserting:

The various themes of re-conceptualization that emanated in the new period includes mission as missio Dei, mission as «Christian presence,» mission as «witness» in and to the six continents, mission as development, mission as liberation, mission in relation to dialogue with people of other faiths and non faiths, mission as contextualization and inculturation.

In an interview with Premier Christianity, Monsignor Halík, who is committed to engaging in dialogue with people of different beliefs and cultural traditions, said he received the award on behalf of his teachers, many of whom suffered under the Soviet regime.

Martin Buber remained a Jew to all but the most anxiously orthodox, yet his I and Thou spelled out terms of dialogue with people of other faiths and of no faith.

Not exact matches

Being able to say you are not comfortable with a certain task, time frame, order, or suggestion opens the door for dialogue and shows people that you are open to talk but not willing to sacrifice the integrity of your own work or the performance of your company for the sake of niceness.

The 9th Dialogue was held in Singapore last week (4 - 6 June, 2010) with defence officials from 28 countries attending, including the US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, the Deputy Chief of the Peoples» Liberation Army (PLA) of China, the National Security Adviser of India...

In addition to this training program, Starbucks will work with the community to leverage existing programs that help connect young people with internships, apprenticeships and jobs, and foster the type of dialogue and engagement needed for continued social change.

This is one of the problems that often hinders dialogue with radical atheists (not sure you are one, but you did answer a question I posed to people who believe God is a fantasy)-- rather than offer a defense they will attack in such a way as to obfuscate the purpose of the original discussion.

If we open a dialogue, we hope they will see that the rest of people can live side by side with us.

If we can not dialogue with a variety of people from a variety of walks of life — then we limit what we mean to the community around us.

It is in understanding of this point that major Jewish thinkers such as Leo Baeck and Martin Buber came back to Germany after the war to engage in dialogue with the German people.

They've been very involved in interfaith dialogues for many years; in fact, they're just the kind of Muslims we should be looking at and encouraging dialogue with because they've been doing it for 10 years... Some people are trying to convince the Imam to focus on the multi-faith aspect of this and perhaps dedicate the whole institution to the victims of 9/11.

In about 2000/2001 I was in Austin to dialogue about emerging ministry, and facilitate a «culture clash» simulation game based on values and beliefs of people from the kinds of «postmodern cultures» that I'd been interacting with since the early 1990s.

But the person who maintains dialogue between the historical and the contemporary has relevance and perspective, and the meanings with which he meets life will be a product of the dialogue.

Kelby Carlson, writing at Alastair's Adversaria, proposes a richer theological model of disability as he brings his experience as a disabled person «into dialogue with two important concepts: the evangelical doctrines of vocation and the theology of the cross.»

Whenever pluralism becomes too content with a relaxed model of «dialogue,» it can ignore the need for conflict and the actualities of systematic distortions in the personal (psychosis), historical (alienation and oppression) and religious (sin) dimensions of every person, culture and tradition.

The point is that if spirit - filled Christians want to communicate effectively with those who do not share such experiences, then they should heed the assumptions of the secularists, for it is a safe bet that if another person's deepest presuppositions are ignored, the possibility for meaningful dialogue diminishes rapidly.

Perhaps we are finally moving toward the cultivation of an alternative way to do the nation's business of forging one from many — namely, dialogue: people talking, with moral passion, with respect, and with agreement that we fall or stand together.

Hence it implies both dialogue and direction — the dialogue of the person with an «other» than he now is which gives him an intimation of the direction he is meant to take.

(Ibid., p. 89) Only the philosophy of dialogue makes possible an adequate picture of what does in fact take place: the pupil grows through his encounter with the person of the teacher and the Thou of the writer.

A debate in which the thoughts are not expressed in the way in which they existed in the mind but in the speaking are so pointed that they may strike home in the sharpest way, and moreover without the men that are spoken to being regarded in any way present as persons; a conversation characterized by the need neither to communicate something, nor to learn something, nor to innuence someone, nor to come into connexion with someone, but solely by the desire to have one's own self - reliance confirmed by making the impression that is made, or if it has become unsteady to have it strengthened; a friendly chat in which each regards himself as absolute and legitimate and the other as relativized and questionable; a lovers» talk in which both partners alike enjoy their own glorious soul and their precious experience — what an underworld of faceless spectres of dialogue!

Sure, there is more dialogue than in a typical church, and it sounds more free - flowing, but it is still too «churchy» for most of the people I know here in the Northeast who want nothing to do with «church.»

Thus all those who compose the one People of God, both pastors and the general faithful, can engage in dialogue with ever - abounding fruitfulness.

«A lot of times in church we don't want to talk about those kinds of things because it's uncomfortable, but there are so many people in church who need to have that dialogue with God that I had.

Regarding teaching Scripture, I once heard a person say, «We need to exegete the culture so we can dialogue with people through the metanarrative of Scripture.»

The method is invaluable in helping those experiencing painful losses to do their «grief work» by bringing into the open and perhaps finishing the energy - depleting inner dialogue (usually of guilt and anger) with the lost person.

Then the person has the different parts of the dream dialogue with one another.

Because of the above (cf. first sentence of Chapter IV, «The Role of the Church in the Modern World», beginning at para 40) the Council wanted to foster a respectful «dialogue» with the great mass of people outside the Church «acknowledging their positive values» (57).

Preachers who understand that the Word seeks dialogue with the body of the faithful, even in the preparation and delivery of the sermon, will so restructure their sermon preparation regimen and alter their rhetorical strategies that they make room for the whole people of God in the pulpit.

In his address to the New Delhi Assembly of the WCC in 1961, Thomas spoke of Christ being present in the world of today engaged in a continuous dialogue with the peoples and nations.

Those who have been directly impacted by the silence and even malice of the Church have asked the faithful to engage in dialogue with First Nations peoples and to repudiate colonial attitudes and concepts.

The truly intimate God of revelation wishes dialogue with persons, and abhors a religious slavery that in turn invokes the accusation against the divine that we can observe, for example, in the writings of Nietzsche and Sartre.

And the CDF and the Bishops must lead people into a dialogue with God, to understand human existence in the light of God in his real presence with us in the Church and her sacraments.»

Nevertheless, stirrings or «preambles» of faith, to which the Synod Propositions refer (see page 21), can provide a basis for the dialogue that the Synod advocates with secular humanists, scientists, and people of other religions.

It is an honor to dialogue with you on the important and timely subject of Israel / Palestine, the land and the people.

He added: «The most effective way to deal with it is to accept that it is there, to educate ourselves as best we can about both the benefits and the risks of online activity and to seek to engage our children and young people in meaningful regular dialogue about those issues.»

It would be just as easy to accept that many people never will do this and you co-inhabit a world with people of faith and mocking them is not the way to build up a dialogue.

When he leads persons in a study of our passage from the Sermon on the Mount, master teacher Walter Wink asks them to do the following: Bring into consciousness an enemy; conduct an imaginary dialogue with that person, in which you accuse him or her of the evil he or she seems to intend, imagining what he or she might say in response; then pray for the well - being of that person.

When we truly listen to each other with a heart to understand, it changes the dialogue and, hopefully, reminds us that they are people God created to be welcomed and loved into the family of Christ.