Sentences with phrase «common vocation»

From the 19th century onwards, art criticism became a more common vocation and even a profession, [3] developing at times formalised methods based on particular aesthetic theories.

theologian have a common vocation of finding the words to communicate the power of experience without codifying it and bending it into dictionary definitions.

Her subordination is realized in her respect for and loving assistance to her husband; together they work out a common vocation under the cross.

They are likely to neglect the fundamental lesson of democratic faith — that, prior to all other commitments and uniting people of many forms of belief and practice, is our common vocation to love and serve truth, excellence, and justice.

Our deeper conversations remind us that we are different kinds of pastors with different perspectives and approaches to our common vocation.

The Rite is at pains to place a high value on the more common vocation of marriage, which is not to be considered as denigrated by implication, but it affirms the positive value of the vocation to consecrated virginity in itself.

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Not only that, but because the «rule of law» is itself part of the common good — i.e., it is one of those «conditions» that is conducive to human flourishing — it is part of lawmakers» vocation, and something they are obligated to do, to make law in accord with the rules - laid - down.»

Indeed, chatting to various priest vocation directors, a common theme is that few people are coming forward for priesthood largely because few have the faith foundation to build a vocation upon.

Daniel T. Rodgers, in his book The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850 to 1920 University of Chicago Press, 1978), enlarges upon Weber's original thesis, suggesting that «at the heart of Protestantism's revaluation of work was the doctrine of the calling, the faith that God had called everyone to some productive vocation, to toil there for the common good and for His greater glory.»

What pattern of life will serve the home, the husband's work, the coming family, and at the same time fulfil the deeply felt vocation to do significant work in the common life and the public world?

To be sure, this oppressive regime does not obtain in all seminaries, but the evidence suggests that it is widespread, and was even more common ten and twenty years ago, thus lending support to the claim that the crisis in priestly vocations is, in large part, «artificial and contrived.»

He is not so much working through and with other people in a common task, about which he bears particular kinds of responsibilities, as he is keeping himself so busy that he need not ask what is unique about ns vocation.

Each goes out into the world to exercise his vocation, partly on special service, to be sure, but mainly through his participation in the common life, which is also ministry, if he so understands it.

One is Dr. Robert L. Calhoun in God and the Common Life, and the other is Dr. Emil Brunner in The Divine Imperative.18 It is instructive to examine these side by side, not only because both contain such great merits, but because taken together they strongly suggest that neither Calhoun's liberalism nor Brunner's neo-orthodoxy gives a wholly satisfactory foundation to the doctrine of vocation.

«To do needful work, then, to lose oneself and find oneself therein, to participate thus in a common task and a shared life: this and the summons to it, we shall mean by vocation.

The language of vocation is problematic not just in its churchly usage (where the distinctions and congruities of «inner» and «outer» calls can trip us up) but in the more common reality of a multiplicity of calls with competing claims upon the stewardship of our lives.

Even if this is not the case, it is less common than it used to be in families for prayers to be said together or for children to beencouraged to seek a vocation of total commitment to Christ.

One protection against some common misunderstandings is to keep clear this fact that the minister has his vocation only in dependence upon the whole community of faithful and needy people.

Catherine Nancekievill, Head of Vocation for the Church of England: «The Church takes seriously the signs that God is calling Millennials to consider careers that offer the opportunity to work for the common good.

The Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches at the Chateau de Bossey near Geneva has as one of its major functions the bringing together of groups of people of a common profession — Christian doctors, lawyers, educators, industrialists, political leaders — for a week or ten days of mutual probing of the applications of Christian faith to their vocations.

The work of Paul van Buren says something about the rather strange sense of community that one finds in the death of God group that two such different personalities as van Buren and Altizer could have a common theological vocation.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

At the same time, a doctrine of vocation that claims all of existence will summon workers to attend to the concerns of the common life.

The two common characteristics of these dioceses is that they are led by bishops that are committed to a bold and courageous defense of orthodox Catholicism, and they are making vocations a number one priority within their dioceses through building strong vocation teams that are actively recruiting new priests.

These two characters have much in common, however, beyond their shared vocation: passion for their work, care for their patients, side interests in art (he with literature and visual art, she with music).

Our staff of actual cinema nerds come from a variety of vocations and disciplines but the one thing they all have in common is a deep, fundamental love of film and a burning need to write about movies, then share that cinephile goodness with you right here on the pages of this site.

School is changing, as new concepts of organization and of roles appear; most significantly, the concept of the school organized on the model of the partnership so common in other white - collar professional vocations.

A common misconception is that style influences the Luminary vocation's ability to stun monsters.

The most common training programs are found in technical schools, vocation schools, junior colleges and community colleges.