Sentences with phrase «by the concrete situation»

The latter, of course, is provided by the concrete situation which is being addressed, while the former is the biblical norm in accordance with which an evangelical theology shapes itself and before the God of which it stands accountable.

Second, there is the immense variety in the affirmations of the Gospels, variations dictated by concrete situations.

Not exact matches

Faith is now sharply defined by this sacramental situation: faith is openness to and acknowledgment of Christ's authority in its concrete sacramental exercise.

Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their schools, etc..»

All religious reality begins with the acceptance of the concrete situation as given one by the Giver, and it is this which Biblical religion calls the «fear of God.»

The absence of directness in the relations between men in the modern world can only be overcome by men who respond to the concrete situations which confront them with openness and with all of their power, by men who mean community in their innermost heart and establish it in their natural sphere of relations.

But real justice does not exist until men actually make use of the foundation and material provided by this impersonal political order to build just relationships in concrete situations.

The job of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given gospel to the given world,» The given gospel — that is to say, the gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.

7 Such questions are idle except as a help to the imagination, by way of making concrete, in an actual historical situation, the bearing of the principles that Jesus laid down.

A person's right is not something fixed by a «primal order» of creation; 5 it must be determined impartially but not impersonally by adjustment of life to life within every concrete situation.

Obviously our cultural situation has already been shaped by images and ideas flowing from what Christians would call revelation, and our concrete questions arise out of a context that has been deeply influenced by biblical motifs.

This distribution can not be made once and for all, not even by revelation, because it depends on concrete situations.

The truth of the concept of the prophetic stance is realized only to the extent that my life is shaped by my apprehension not merely of the concrete here and now but of the global situation and eternal destiny of the human race.

But it is also in part determined by the concrete time - space situation in which the witness is given.

This silence becomes a little less perplexing, perhaps, when we recall that the letters of Paul are genuine letters, addressed to actual churches, that their contents are in large part determined by the requirements of particular concrete situations, and that therefore they can not be expected to indicate to modern readers the entire content of Paul's missionary preaching and teaching.

Twists are better recognized when they occur in concrete situations than when they are defined or described in generalized theories about change, because, by their nature, twists contort the accepted definitions of things.

He does not distinguish properly, for example, between the abstract non-temporal divine valuation «linking possible situations (containing many data) to the best possibilities of synthesis of those data,» and the concrete divine evaluation or actual choice of a specific initial aim in the light of what has just happened in the world and thus been prehended by the divine consequent nature («Consequences» 330).

They have both to answer the question how the individual Christian in the concrete is to be equipped with the insight and strength which he needs to withstand a situation which sets him a moral problem but the correct solution of which can no longer in fact so directly be supplied him by the official Church.

A person or an institution demonstrates integrity not only by choosing right from wrong in a concrete situation but by maintaining a «commitment to the pattern over a wide range of different actual and potential decisions, in differing situations, with differing consequences and levels of predictability of such consequences.

The student of comparative religion begins with the postulate that it is possible to understand a religion other than one's own.44 In our day, this postulate is being tested — urgently, severely, by our concrete human situation.

To take another seriously is to understand the other in the light of Christ as one who in his or her concrete situation is a sinner claimed by God's grace for the vocations of obedience and freedom.

What degree of violence that falls short of ultraviolence may be appropriate in a given conflictual situation must be decided in the concrete situation by reason and love in the service of reconciliation.

Since the measures were announced on 2 July, «The situation has been very chaotic in general, especially because of the lack of information and concrete actions» by the institutes, Garrido writes.

Indeed, by putting your learners in front of concrete and practical work situations, followed by answers to provide, it becomes possible to assess skills such as empathy and leadership.

By employing scenario - based questions requiring analysis of the best courses of action in concrete situations, the CMA (AAMA) Certification Exam is able to reinforce the education received in an accredited program and to assess whether candidates in fact have the necessary critical thinking skills.

(If you want to determine your parenting style by answering concrete questions that focus on specific situations, try this parenting style test.)

One common error in most couples is that they get stuck in fighting about concrete situations, rather than addressing their underlying universal human need to feel safe, liked, and cherished by their partner.

The Gift of Adoption Fund is a national 501 (c) 3 that inspires adoptions by giving grants that put adoption in reach: in reach for the 140 million children worldwide in need of families, for qualified parents yearning to adopt, and for those of us who want to do something concrete to move a child from a dire situation into a life of hope and promise.