Sentences with phrase «concrete human situation»

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.

Every profound theory of the atonement has its existential aspect, that is, its way of expressing the concrete human situation and what redeems us from futility.

Not exact matches

They have always had as their goal the reconciliation between human solidarity on the one hand and the dignity of individual, concrete persons, situations, and facts on the other.

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..»

In moving to the universal, it must abandon the concrete particular, for there is where we meet the human situation.

Appraisal, he tells us, involves discerning (1) the ontological features of the human, especially in its relation to the divine, (2) what is «enduring, true and real» about the tradition, (3) what this truth implies for concrete «choices, styles, patterns and obligations» of life, and (4) the connection between these different levels of truth in the tradition and concrete situations that we confront in our everyday life.

The answer is that theology is a very human, and very important, enterprise; that grasping and assimilating what God has done and continues to do is not something that can be engaged in passively but is a challenge to everything any of us possesses; that the separation of theologizing from what the minister and the church try, fallibly but authentically, to hear of the Word of God in specific situations from some alleged and remote theology is bound to be blasphemous as well as mistaken; and that the one way to hear the Word of God, if it contains the Protestant principle, is to submit our functions to concrete self - criticism.

The stage of human history will be even more a single unity than it already is; everyone will be everyone's neighbour and the action and attitude of each will contribute to determining everyone's concrete historical situation.

The test of theory is its capacity to illuminate the concrete demands which God makes upon the use of our freedom in all the variety of human 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.

If the program of Bultmann is not carried to the concrete existence of a particular congregation, then we are left with a universally applicable interpretation of Scripture in terms of «the human situation».

The other element in the problem consists in the apparent silence of Jesus on particular concrete questions of conduct and on the issue of what is better and what is worse in situations where, given human finitude and sin and a fallen, distorted world, perfect action is not possible.

«The concrete eschatology... is attractive to those who see no way out of a seemingly hopeless human situation....

While abstract principles in themselves may give no absolute guidance in the concrete situation, responsible and loving action will seek the principles of equity and order which ought to govern human life.

Basically, this ever - growing understanding of human mental function notes that all ideas and concepts — including hard - to - grasp ones like personality and trustworthiness — are ultimately anchored in concrete situations that happen to flesh - bound bodies.

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.