On balance, Berger's theoretical perspective has provided a modern apologetic for the value of religion, arguing not from theological tradition but from the secular premises of social science that humans can not live
by the bread of everyday reality alone.
What do our lives look like when they're sustained
by the bread of life?
Not exact matches
Eliminate vagueness and make it more achievable
by stating it this way: During the month
of August, I will lose five pounds
by cutting off refined sugar,
breads, and all fast food.
The Conch Republic retaliated
by declaring war, blasting water from fire - boats, and throwing stale loaves
of bread at offenders.
Today, I woke up
by 10:30 am, mopped up my floor, took a cup
of tea and few slices
of bread, took my bath, switched on my generator and pulled my laptop closer to my bed and started work immediately.
The Australian Financial Review has also reported on the spectacular returns generated
by unlisted portfolio investments such as its student housing project, losses at shoe brand Aquila, and a breach
of covenants at artisan bakery Wild
Breads.
Bring a homemade loaf
of bread and leave it with a note
by the front door
of a friend going through a hard time — or just to brighten their day.
In it, he described a virtual currency that,
by its very nature, transcends political boundaries and shackles financial growth not within the confines
of the hands
of banks that feed us our daily
bread, but within reach
of Average Janes and Joes.
Yet he is so far behind the heterodoxy curve as to be unaware that his shattering innovations are little more that the platitudes
of New Age suburbia, and have long been superseded
by those «weekend spirituality workshops» in which feminist nuns and retired orthodontists are taught how to deconstruct the New Testament and make pumpkin
bread.»
He also suggests that the eschatological prospect entertained
by Jesus is a later addition, and notes that it has nothing to do with the gift
of bread and wine.
This is completely reflected in the teaching
of the Church that in the Eucharist the
bread and wine are changed
by transubstantiation into Jesus Himself in Person:
Calvinists have thought more in terms
of a spiritual presence to the believer effectively signified
by the
bread and wine.
I have comfort books (Anne
of Green Gables), comfort food (beef stew and
bread), and I have comfort television: Saturday night and we watch Hockey Night in Canada
by lamplight.
And as though that was not enough,
by attending Mass we are given something... and not just anything... we are given the opportunity to receive the
bread of life... the body and blood
of Jesus, the Son
of God.
Here the sun, the centre
of the universe, its eastern rising, its brilliant light pouring past the great crucifix over the cathedral sanctuary, is mere material
by which the cosmic architect fashions a symbol that speaks
of himself, his silent, humble presence in the
bread and wine that is given to be eaten.
Tarwater fights the call and comes to fulfill it only
by way
of the tortuous route
of slowly realizing the shallowness
of Rayber's rationalistic secularism and his own deep allegiance to and need for «the
bread of life.»
Man does not live
by bread alone, that is,
by means
of his natural environment.
If you desire publicly to confirm before the church this pledge
of love,
by eating
bread and drinking wine, the living memorial
of the suffering and death
of Jesus our Lord, then let each say: I desire it in the power
of God.
Real Christianity is good
bread - and - butter stuff which nourishes men's souls
by the worship
of the true God and
by the exercise
of practical compassion.
The claim that just social structures would make charity superfluous «masks a materialist conception
of man: the mistaken notion that man can live «
by bread alone» — a notion that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human.»
V
of Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral) says also that «man doth not live
by bread only.»
Just a little note but it was not the passover meal Jesus was having it was the Last supper at that point in time and
by the word it was command that no yeast was to be within the house for passover so the last supper it the last day to eat yeast
bread and to eat all
of it so that the house was clean.
So we prepare a limitless table, and there, surrounded
by a cloud
of witnesses, we remember Christ in
bread and wine, Christ present, remembering us and calling us
by name.
Man does not
of course live
by bread alone; he merely continues his physical existence with some concomitant mental phenomena.
Surely the liberal christian communities would come to see the rightness
of the theologies
of liberation being generated globally
by christians and others struggling for
bread and dignity.
To say it quite simply: the loaf
of bread has become much bigger, thank God, but man can still realize that he does not live
by bread alone, for he has always been tempted, not only now, to think the opposite.
Instead
of the twelve cakes, there are twelve disciples, there is the
bread and wine, and the new and everlasting covenant offered
by Jesus our Priest, and eaten not at the golden table, but at Jesus» Table in the Kingdom
of His Father (Luke 22:30).
Let us break the
bread and drink the wine
of a savior so subversive he was executed
by the government
The focus
of this new relation is hinted at
by John when he recounts how the risen Jesus gave
bread to his disciples, and
by Luke when he says that he was «recognized
by them at the breaking
of the
bread.»
He goes his way indifferent to the distribution and division
of earthly goods, as one who has no possessions and desires none; he is not concerned for his daily
bread, like the birds
of the air; he does not trouble himself about house and home, as one who neither has nor seeks a shelter or a resting - place; he is not concerned to follow the dead to the grave; he does not turn his head to look at the things that usually claim the attention
of men; he is not bound to any woman, so as to be charmed
by her and desirous
of pleasing her.
I've known I've been called to ministry since I was a child and played pastor with my stuffed animals
by giving them pieces
of bread and grape juice enacting the Sacrament.
Where freedom
of religion is allowed but not governed
by a public theology, the sharing at the communion rail has little chance
of being translated into the sharing
of bread and drink with the hungry and thirsty.
Gregory makes a stunning point on the ambiguities
of giving to those derelicts among the poor who are
by consensus generally regarded as less worthy: One should give not just to the unworthy poor, but also to the worthy poor, regardless
of their moral condition, and for a profound reason: because one «gives
of his
bread to an indigent sinner, not because he is a sinner, but because he is a man.
I held a loaf
of bread in my hands, tearing off a piece for each pair
of cupped hands that went
by, slowly, as music played.
However,
by the end
of the year, the church council forced Calvin to resign his position and leave Geneva because he wanted to force church members to sign his doctrinal statement and articles
of church organization (which few people wanted to do), and because he refused to serve communion with unleavened
bread on Easter Sunday.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish
of the seed
of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings
of the LORD made
by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the
bread of his God.
«Man» does not live
by «
bread» alone which means one does not live
by Christ's teaching alone but
by the very word
of GOD, the Father
of God, Christ Jesus!
In the predella, or bottom border, it shows Martin Luther preaching Christ crucified to his Wittenberg congregation; in the triptych's left wing, Philipp Melanchthon baptizes an infant; in the right wing, Johann Bugenhagen exercises the power
of the keys in confession; and in the center panel, Jesus feeds a morsel
of bread to Judas (reception
by the unworthy!)
But as Catholic theology progressed, it was decided that the power
of the meal was not in what happened during the meal, or in the gathering
of people for the meal, or really in the food itself, but in the
bread and the wine after it had been blessed
by the priest.
The tradition
of using a tiny bit
of bread and wine (or juice) has continued to be practiced, even though it does not even come close to what was practiced
by Jesus and His apostles on the night He was betrayed, and reflects instead some sort
of magical ceremony where some people believe that God is giving them special grace and power through the ritual elements
of bread and wine.
16 Moreover he said unto me, Son
of man, behold, I will break the staff
of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat
bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water
by measure, and with astonishment: 17 that they may want
bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
In the stiffly rugged heaviness
of the shoes there is the accumulated tenacity
of her slow trudge through the far - spreading and ever - uniform furrows
of the field swept
by a raw wind... [The shoes] are pervaded
by uncomplaining worry as to the certainty
of bread, the wordless joy
of having once more withstood want, the trembling before the impending childbed and shivering at the surrounding menace
of death.
Relying on intelligence dossiers prepared meticulously
by his UDR commanders, he prepared intensively, making several dry runs
by following the
bread delivery van in which Hackett would ultimately die; he blocked out the reality that the target might be a family man with a pregnant wife and child awaiting his return home from work; he avoided reading the papers or listening to TV reports over the next days, because the stories tend to make a real human being out
of what had to be thought
of only as «the target.»
was not answered
by manna falling from heaven but rather
by women, who, following a recipe found in Q (13:21), hid leaven in three measures
of meal until the whole was leavened then put it into the oven until it was transformed into
bread.
The bishop rejected the presentation
of bread baked
by one
of the groups and sent the master
of ceremonies to the sacristy for a large white host.
nah — they believe that grocary store
bread and wine becomes the flesh and blood
of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because a priest does some hocus - pocus over it in church
of a Sunday morning; that a being reads my mind whenever I pray and intervenes to change what would otherwise be the course
of history in small ways to «answer my prayers»; and that I will survive my own physical deathand live happily ever after if I follow some rules laid down
by goat herders in Bronze Age Palestine.
This is supported
by the analogy
of a human father, who would not give his son a stone if asked for
bread, or a serpent if asked for a fish, or (Luke adds) a scorpion if asked for an egg.
Gen 3:18 «Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants
of the field; Gen 3:19
By the sweat
of your face You will eat
bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.»
Both told
of a Last Supper linked with the blood sacrifice whose symbolic recreation
by eating
bread and wine provided salvation for all worshippers.
Bound together in fellowship
by their common possession
of the Spirit (Acts 2:38) and their common belief in the Messiahship
of Jesus (Acts 2:36), they came naturally to worship and to «break
bread» as a united body (Acts 2:42), and