Sentences with phrase «community came into being»

Here, too, it was through response to events in history, not to theological ideas, that the community came into being, and recollection of these events serves to preserve its distinctive beliefs.

Since I am emphasizing the process by which a just and sustainable community comes into being, and since that process is a participatory one, it would be quite inappropriate for me to say what the resulting community would look like.

Of course, new communities come into being in slums and suburbs, but their quality is inferior to what existed in rural America in earlier periods.

But the new forms of communication require to redefine some of the ways by which community comes into being, and to fashion communication processes which include the feedback and mutuality essential to community and to the life of its members.

Not exact matches

«I think that comes from being born into a poor community.

To better understand how that came to be — and the impact of the company's behavior on some of the country's hardest - hit communities — Fortune delved deeply into McKesson's history with opioids.

But the power of what Dinner Lab is doing comes into focus when you step back a bit and look at the community of people who participate in the Dinner Lab experience.

«Instead of coming to agreement, the community, developers, and code are fracturing into different groups.»

The RECF (real estate crowdfunding) community has been keenly interested in finding creative ways to use the new Regulation A + that came into effect earlier last year.

«It's a breath of fresh air to come into a community with business ideas and have them accepted, and they work with you to find ways to make it happen.»

It's our mutual respect, our respective talents and our combined actions that come into play and create our commitment to Sharing the Good Life with our families, friends, investors, employees and our family of community residents.»

If those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it would.

The problem with most Churches is our virtual total lack of going into the community, we expect them to come to us, Jesus didn't.

Maturity comes as we learn the hegemonic skills by which communities are build up, by which one and one become a pair, pairs become families, families are gathered into a gens, the gentes become a state, the states a united nations of the Earth, the worlds a galactic federation.

If 57 % don't think they're sincere, then when the FBI comes into their communities, they're not going to cooperate with those efforts.

After NBC tossed Community into the Indefinite Hiatus Limbo, there was lots of speculation that it'd never come back at all.

But it was not until the church came that we changed from a subdivision into a community and became real neighbors to one another.»

Just as Israel came into existence through the grace of God when — humanly speaking — it was impossible, so the early Christian community as the continuation of Israel came into existence through the grace of God.

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

So today we must believe that God is seeking us out, coming to us where we are and seeking to bring redemption into our lives, our homes, and our communities.

Whether Rama or Ravana ruled, whatever political authority structures came into being or disappeared, they had but minimum impact on the life of the various village communities; they continued to live in some kind of internal self - sufficiency according to their different traditions, with Custom as the real King.

Humanitarian works are fine, but beware of the preachers who come into your community claiming to know more than you about something they call GOD.

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.

In its second and third generations, the ethnic community is integrated into the larger multicultural scene, and another important strategy comes to the fore.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

If God's work is reconciliation, that is, personal restoration of his people to the community of love and the renewal of the «marriage bond», one would suppose that the profoundest insight into the «how» of reconciliation would come from the experience of reconciliation between persons.

In order to be able to say it, man must finally come out of the false security of community into the final solitude of the venture of the infinite.

When the community first comes into view, it is a Semitic clan, or group of clans, wandering between the two great civilizations centred upon the Euphrates and the Nile.

A new era has dawned; a community has come into existence — in effect a new Israel — in which there is offered forgiveness for the past, spiritual power for the present, and hope for the future.

i truly don't think we help the journey by pretending we «know» less than we do (read «know» as «have come to know» or «have been drawn into a community's story by experience, discernment, mystery, and tradition»).

I was infant - baptized in the Anglican communion, came to faith in the Baptist church, got baptized again, switched to Pentecostal, «got the Spirit», drifted into Interdenominational, stopped going, joined a New Testamentish house - church style of community, changed to Presbyterian, received spiritual direction in the Roman Catholic church, and am presently a Vineyard pastor.

How do you think we walk the line so predominantly white churches don't just go into a community and say, «We're coming to help,» but really integrate and come under leaders of color?

The decisive ground of our faith that that purpose exists is the historical revelation, which began with the calling of Israel and culminated in the great event — the life and death and rising again of Jesus and the coming into being of the community of Christ the Lord.

Migrants and visitors to the UK not eligible for free healthcare will from now on be charged upfront for the cost of their treatment, as rules come into force that also extend charging community health services and charities that receive NHS funding.

He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.

«Christ» here stands for the new order of relationships between men and God and among men, the new and divine community, which is preeminently heavenly and eschatological but which in a real though partial sense has come into historical existence with the event and in which the believer is already incorporated.

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.

The church is the community which came into being with the event and in which the event in its totality occurred.

It does mean that he was himself remembered as being the kind of person he was, that this memory has come down to us in the Christian community, both in the New Testament and as a «living voice,» and that as members of that community we have entered into this memory.

At this point a number of traditionalists reacted to the new demands for freedom, characterizing them as the work of the devil, and in some cases urging withdrawal into communities of the perfected saints to preserve a «saving remnant» from God «s wrath as the world came to an end.

Billboards will not upset the religious one's knowing only the weak one's will move out behind it... at least that will filter out hypocrites from their communities... Normally youth do start as non practicing to their religions as atheists or agnostics but there is a time or an exprianced moments come in to their life when they start to become into practicing and stronger in faith...

The just war tradition came into being during the Middle Ages as a way of thinking about the right use of force in the context of responsible government of the political community.

Some of them came to Catholicism from an empty space, a spiritual desert; others found in the Catholic Church a more complete expression of the one Church of Christ into which they had been baptized, albeit in a different Christian community.

In fact, it's almost certainly the case that, for many of those who came into full communion with the Catholic Church from other Christian communities, it was the doctrinal and moral confusions in the community of their baptism that led them to seek a Church that knew what it believed, why (and Who) it worshipped, and how it proposed that we should live.

Here, as we shall be seeing, the Christian community comes together to be made into the unity which is described in the phrase, «the Body of Christ.»

he belongs in some cloistered church compound... they love him, he loves them, they can take advantage of living in our wonderful country, come out to see the diverse and secular civilized community america really is and then turn around and run back into their compound.

PAW: It's about a theological approach where people are able to come into our community and be hopeful; whether that's about death or in a crisis in their lives or struggling with sickness.

It is a matter of 1) coming into a proper relationship to our technologies, and 2) understanding how our media have a powerful shaping force on our communities, our cultures, our societies, and our selves.

By «mythological» I refer to the suprahistorical elements in the story which came into being within the Christian community as the only possible way to express this transcendent and redemptive meaning of the event.

Thus I should say that if the story of Jesus» life had been told just as it seemed — and in a sense was — at the time it was occurring, that story would not have been adequately or truly told or that life was a part of a supremely significant, a divine event, the event through which God, the Creator and the Ruler of all nature as well as the Lord of history, was entering into man's life with new redemptive power; but that fact was not grasped clearly, if at all, till the event had reached its culmination in the resurrection, the coming of the Spirit, and the creation of the community.