Sentences with phrase «accepted in»

We see the possibility that human history will come to its end neither in a brotherhood of man nor in universal death under the blows of natural or man - made catastrophe, but in the gangrenous corruption of a social life in which every promise, contract, treaty and «word of honor» is given and accepted in deception and distrust.

The story reveals both the desire for a keener language in the pulpit and the weakness of the materials that are often uncritically accepted in that quest.

[6] If she is accepted in this way, she «discovers herself», she can realise that she is a gift toanother and she is drawn to make a gift of herself.

Otherwise it might seem that the true power of God in the Universe (not the «expanding force» that Teilhard de Chardin intuited) is to be guarded rather than accepted in a faith - filled way.

The letters of captivity to the Ephesians, the Philippians and the Colossians are hotly contested as being non-Pauline, but have always been accepted in the Church's Tradition.

With Glaube (faith) substituted for Vernunft (reason) this is a viewpoint widely accepted in our current discussion.

In fact, I have an adopted black child that I love very much, and who is very well accepted in our community.

The striking similarity between the Sufism of Seh Siti Djenar and the Iranian al - Hallaj could probably not be accepted in itself as convincing evidence that Islam came to Java by way of Iran, but it is a significant part of the evidence for believing that Islam as it was known in Java came through Iran and from there through western India and Sumatra.

Lacking clarity about their content, how could we judge whether in fact the church accepted them in all times and places?

Since we are bombarded daily by the mass media with news and views on the economy and economic policies, it is necessary to be trained to demythologize the claimed orthodoxies of economists, academics, policy makers and media programmes, as is accepted in the case of the stories of the scared scriptures.

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

In chapter four the Pope calls upon bishops to make sure that the doctrine of EV is handed on in its integrity, making sure that it is accepted in theological faculties, seminaries, and Catholic institutions, in which «sound doctrine is taught, explained, and more fully investigated.»

Is this not commonly accepted in the U.S.?

Jesus did all sorts of things that would not be accepted in many churches today.

«Child abuse can not be accepted in any form.

Our understanding of sex in the narrower sense of genital activity and in the wider sense of relationship with others has been so altered in recent years that the assumed fixity of thought in this area, with reference to auto - erotism, homo - erotism, and hetero - erotism, along with the related fixity which has been traditionally accepted in respect to judgements upon the right or wrong ways of sexual expression, has been shown to be indefensible by any intelligent standards.

Confronted with such enormous offer of love, our conscience gets unburdened, not because it is literaly washed by Christ's blood, but figuratively: the realization that innocent blood of God's Son was shed FOR ME, unconditionally, makes me aware of God's love, makes me feel loved and accepted in God's eyes.

Therein lies the reason that child abuse has been allowed and accepted in the church as well as other established male dominated organizations.

Do you think Islam would have been accepted in Jamestown in 1629?

In fact, however, the use of violence, whether by Christians or non-Christians, has always been accepted in Christian thought, on various grounds.

The offer of forgiveness through the cross is accepted in partaking of the Lord's Supper in the light of the guarantee of the resurrection.

We know how often a God - image is transmitted and also accepted in an almost externally mechanical way without leading to an inner assimilation....

For a man to accept others he must know that he is accepted in a context wider than himself.

We have a Trojan Horse in our midst and the horse has already been accepted in such places as Dearborn, Michigan.

It speaks to the smokers walking past that smokers are accepted in our church.

... The truth of God, accepted in faith, encounters human reason.

If the potato crop fails, he does not regard it as an intervention by God to demonstrate His judgment — a judgment which must be accepted in humility and responded to with penitence and fasting.

The values of Jesus, when accepted in truth, will have social consequences.

With something so broadly accepted in Christianity as «vision», one really does need to be very provocative to get people to think about it ---- otherwise they just do their usual «pass over» of the issue and assume that a vision statement is what everyone should have because, well, that's how it's always been done.

It ever seems to be my lot in life to find it necessary to deal with half - truths which have a germ of validity but which accepted in their distorted form constitute a heresy — which is exactly what I think we are dealing with in the «church growth movement.»

A further difficulty arises from the attitude of the Eastern Church, which recognized the primacy of the Roman Church and its bishop, but not the kind of primacy claimed and accepted in the West.

He has accepted me in the beloved simply because I believe.

There is more emphasis on community service than on classroom instruction» an emphasis entirely consistent with the belief widely accepted in our society that values, while they may be created and clarified, can be neither true nor false.

I suspect that before I can love others I first need to know God's love, that before I can accept others in all their brokenness I first need to have been accepted in mine.

The school must not be undertaken, that is, as a brief experiment only; it must be a genuine part of a long - range parish program over several years, with the definite intention of continuing the school so that it will be accepted in time as a normal and expected part of the total life of the congregation.

The task has been accepted in academic theological circles for a long time, but only in the last few years has there been more popular and widespread interest in what is going on.

racial segregation was so widely accepted in the churches and societies throughout the world that few white theologians, did see the injustice, did not regard the issue important enough to even write or talk about it.

Spiritual intuition — the experience of the Divine — is accepted in Hindu philosophy as a valid source of knowledge.

Baha'is had never been accepted in Iran but their station in life plunged with the arrival of the Islamic revolution in 1979.

Jefferson viewed the changes as a mangling of his original intention but accepted them in the spirit of accommodating statesmanship.

Homôsêxuality is the only activity / lifestyle that I can think of which is widely accepted in our secular society, and yet proscribed against in the Bible.

She had not been accepted in our school and was often teased.

It offends me when religious people try to «save» me based on their determination of why they think I need to be «saved», but I think I find it even more offensive that any myth, fairy tale, delusion, or what - have - you can be completely accepted in this society, but the ones who are considered «off» are the ones like me who find religious beliefs absurd.

Was Roman primacy really accepted in the East, though?

Now the point of this analysis is that when we ask what self is accepted in therapy, the answer must be that all these selves are accepted, but in somewhat different senses.

Jesus apparently accepted in the main this popular belief.

But the ideal self is not to be accepted in the sense that it defines the real good of the person.

«Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,» says the writer to the Ephesians, «who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:... Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved» (Eph.

The actual self is accepted in the sense that the person is allowed to express himself, his feelings, his fears, and his hopes as they are.

Evelyn Waugh thought of his novel not as entertainment but as a camouflaged sermon, a case study of mercy being rejected and then accepted in the end.