Sentences with phrase «as a community of»

Instead, ask a CEO mom how they, as individuals and as a community of business professionals, can help each other embrace the opportunities, lessons, and payoffs of the dual leader / parent role with grace, optimism, and success.

My best advice is to not see Pure Barre as just a workout, see it as a community of motivated ladies (and gentlemen).

In this year's list of Social Media Marketing Influencers there are many people who demonstrate this kind of helpfulness and I am encouraging those influencers as well as our community of readers to nominate up and coming social media marketing leaders.

We have a responsibility to be the light in the darkness, and the Academy Awards offers yet another opportunity to discuss these issues and seek change as a community of passionate believers.

The white community looks upon the Negro as a clown and criminal and the Negro community looks upon the white community as a community of «Wallaces and Barnetts.»

6) Community: At its best, the reflection seminar can provide a community of colleagues with whom learning takes place, as well as a community of mutual care and responsibility.

In short, should it aim to be a single community, or should it model itself as a community of communities?

Fourthly, the idea of residential houses which brings together teachers and at least post-graduate students as a community of intellectual seekers of truth or some equivalent of it should find a place in the life of a college.

As the community of the baptized, the church is sustained by God's grace.

Consider the school as a community of persons.

What's a few cigarette butts in the parking lot when you're taking a stand as the community of Jesus on one of the great plagues of our time?

If there is more than one, do they shape different aspects of the school's common life (one shaping its teaching and learning, another its life of worship, perhaps another its common life as a community of students, faculty, and staff)?

My mind and spirit are humming with possibilities here and I can't wait to see where the Spirit leads us all as a community of women.

The point to be made, then, is that as a community of persons that seeks to understand God truly, a theological school is a community seeking to learn concepts, that is, to grow in abilities and capacities relative to God.

At a certain moment of history a special temporary form of the permanent nature of the Church as the community of free faith, hope and love may, indeed, become absolutely essential.

One can start answering these questions by observing that the church's role as a community of memory is being emphasized by thinkers like Maclntyre and Bellah and by many church leaders precisely at a time when an increasing percentage of Americans are not being born and raised in churches, or if they are, they are.

What does it mean to say that the church functions as a community of memory, especially at a time when so many of its actual historic links are being weakened?

This is the guiding principle with which to think about Christian communication, the place of the media, old and new technologies, and the work of WACC as a community of communicators.

St. Andrew has developed the following mission statement: «We are sent as a community of disciples and apostles to share God's love.»

The church as community of memory.

They will do this as they serve as communities of memory, denominations that help people act locally with thinking globally, or as support groups.

In considering churches as communities of memory, therefore, we must ask how strong this tradition will be and what goods it will convey.

I want to consider three ways in which the church confers a Christian identity and focus on the challenges presented in each of these areas: the church as a community of memory, the church as denomination, and the church as a supportive community.

Now, in what sense is an occasion's universe — understood as a community of settled, or completed, actualities — immanent in the occasion itself?

In a pair of articles written some years ago («The Holy Trinity as a Community of Divine Persons,» Heythrop Journal 15 [1974], 166 -82,257-70), I endorsed the argument of the medieval theologian, Richard of Saint Victor, to the effect that two persons in love with one another need a third person whom they mutually love, precisely in order to achieve the fullness of love for one another.

I define «church» as a community of believers operating in the fivefold ministry, moving in the gifts.

Would it be possible to use Whitehead's notion of society (or, better, of a structured society) to describe the Trinity as a community of coequal persons who are themselves in process, hence who are subordinate personally ordered societies within the «democratic» structured society which is the community as such?

I shall not endorse Royce's own conception of the Trinity in this book, since it is more Sabellian or modalistic than genuinely Trinitarian.3 Rather, my intention is first to summarize Royce's understanding of human community, then to make clear how it corresponds to a democratically organized structured society within a Whiteheadian perspective, and finally to apply this understanding of community to the Trinity in order to clarify the notion of God as a community of divine persons.

Christianity is, through and through, a historical religion, and except for the coming of Jesus Christ into the world, his life, his teachings, his death and resurrection, and the establishment of the Church as the community of his followers, we should have neither Christianity nor New Testament.

4 Here one could counterargue that a divine community consisting of four or five persons would be «greater» than one containing only three persons, that a community of ten persons would be greater still, and so on ad infinitum, with the net result that the notion of God as a community of divine persons would be completely discredited.

Not I see the church as a community of imperfection.

We must determine and discharge the specific responsibilities we have as individuals and as a community of believers to be at work in the local community and the world beyond.

I think of this as a community of communities of communities.

In the second place, as one community agency among many, the school also serves the ultimate social objectives indirectly, insofar as its immediate concern is to teach men who will be able to guide and carry on the activities of other agencies; so it functions as a community of teachers.

Robert Bellah has argued that the church should serve as a community of memory.

Where the Church is understood as a community of acceptance and reconciliation, the sacramental forms will be discovered to have a meaning and power which for many they have lost.

Messer leads the Simchat Torah Beit Midrash congregation in Colorado, which describes itself as a community of Jewish and non-Jewish believers in «Yeshua,» or Jesus Christ.

Furthermore, when we support and spur one another on as a community of artist, we transcend art for the sake of art, and start tapping into good ole» biblical edification.

An Athanasius, inspired by a genuinely Christian monasticism, not only had a more (comparative to his times) wholesome understanding of human sexuality and marriage, as well as women s ministerial roles in the church, but also struggled (to the point of being expelled from his diocese five times by those supporting the imperium) for an orthodoxy which would confess the God revealed in Christ as a community of consubstantial Persons.

The Church, as the community of his followers united by his living presence as Holy Spirit, is more than a social institution; it is a divinely grounded fellowship.

Theologians throughout Christian history have envisioned the church as a community of believers not separate from the ambiguities of a sinful yet graced world but fully immersed in that world.

The full substance of the new life in Christ «and of the church as a community of grace is maintained by the continual renewal of the faith through the Scriptures.

To describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theology.

However, I've found that having mentors talking me through it, as well as a community of other people experiencing deconstruction and those who have endured it, invaluable!

The book reflects a Mennonite understanding of the church as a community of reconciliation, as stressed in scriptural texts such as Matthew 18 and John 20, wherein Jesus explicitly ties God's forgiveness of people to their forgiveness of others, especially in the Lord's Prayer.

In faith we judge for ourselves as a community of Christians, even if the truth we come to know is not the currently accepted «truth» of a particular congregation, denomination, or culture.10

Hall addresses with the question How shall we be able to fashion our life as the community of Christ's disciples (after all, our only raison d'être), and how shall we carry on as a missionary faith, in a world that is multicultural and pluralistic?

James Gustafson, Treasure in Earthen Vessels: The Church as a Human Community (New York: Harper & Row, 1961), developed the concept of the church as a community of language, although he does not press the implication of language beyond its Christian symbols; nor does he argue that the community employing this language is either essentially or primarily the local church.

Both the baptism of believers and the baptism of infants takes place in the Church as the community of faith.

And yet, central as the community of the church is for us, it is not our only community.