Sentences with phrase «concrete situations»

It is a basic quality of such models that they shape emotional and behavioral responses in concrete situations.

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.

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.

Looking at concrete situations, what is the percentage when travel could have been eliminated, with no negative consequences on performance and productivity?

In addition, she also uses scenarios from theatre brochures in which concrete situations in life are captured in a nutshell.

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.

Further queries would elicit more details about a simple inner mental life concerned only with concrete situations and people in its work area.

We may even be able to transform ourselves and our immediate concrete situations.

We could recognize that emphasizing what is common in all situations can blind us to the most important issues, issues that only immersion in concrete situations of oppression can make real to us.

The anti-toxin is the forces of liberation that cooperate with the divine freedom in concrete situations of oppression.

All petition and intercession ought to take their rise from actual concrete situations in which people find themselves.

Freedom is always present in its inevitably limited way in concrete situations which are socially and economically as well as physically conditioned.

Living theology is a dialogue between the gospel of Christ and the self - understanding of men and women in concrete situations. . . .

Biblical symbols, stories and narratives are peculiarly relevant struggles in concrete situations.

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.

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.

What we have in the New Testament are proclamations to concrete situations with the Gospel as the text in each case.

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

One difficulty grows out of the presence of something in Jesus» teaching, namely, a certain strenuous and uncompromising quality; the other difficulty grows out of the lack of something, namely, light on what particular choices should be made between available alternatives in many concrete situations.

But examples can be given of concrete situations which scientists have faced, and of some of the factors which might be significant from a Christian perspective.

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

Secondly, the preacher may, out of this concern for all the individuals before him, preserve the sharp clear imagery of concrete situations but crowd so many different pictures into one sermon that his kaleidoscopic presentation lacks unity, and lacking unity, it lacks movement.

We fulfill the law of love only as we become inclusively concerned for other people and work in concrete situations to make them happy as whole personalities and communities.

While Hauerwas may be quite correct in asserting that it is impossible to ascertain specifically exactly what is determined and what is self - determined in concrete situations or more generally about one's character, a conceptual elaboration of the relationship between efficient and final causality would have been helpful in clarifying the issue.

We are given a survey of a large variety of typical concrete situations in which people find themselves, and these situations are set in the light of what God has done for men in Christ.

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.

His job is mediating the principles to the needs of people in concrete situations.

Basic principles related to concrete situations.

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.

Practical thinking flows from a sense of the tensions of these concrete situations and returns to them after some necessary theoretical clarification.

Kuhns delineates five areas in Bonhoeffer's thought that hold particular fascination for Roman Catholics: (1) «his idea of community» (the church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or right?)

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.

For the universal truth can only become individually, personally, and socially important when it is embodied in new concrete situations.

Some are rebuilding knowledge on the basis of the concrete situations, some are trying out new economic forms, some are creating the basis of a new kind of politics, and some are inventing new cultures.

Instead of perfection as unchangeableness or immutability, they speak of perfection as love in its highest and fullest degree, adapting itself unceasingly to concrete situations.

Many of the questions used in The Moment of Truth are problematic because they bear no connection to concrete situations.

We'll place it in a concrete situation, structuring a notable story with humor and a convincing message.

Other disciplines must provide help in the analysis of the concrete situation within which Christians are called to act.

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..»

Only then do we become responsible to this life, and this responsibility can not be laid down according to any set principle but must be ever again recognized in the depths of the soul according to the demands of each concrete situation.

The prophet is in effect the man who brings a Word of God to bear on the actual, concrete situation of man, his political situation.

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.»

Put the other way around, our discernment of God's view in the concrete is experienced as feeling - for God's aim in the midst of all the variable factors and messages and possibilities in the same concrete situation.

In other words, whether we protest or revolt — and even revolution can be necessary, indeed it can be the sacred duty of a Christian in certain circumstances — we are always still imprisoned within our own 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.

It may be increasingly necessary, however, to allow the concrete situation, rather than the biblical revelation, to propose the «doctrinal» loci or the organizing forms in terms of which biblical faith needs to speak, because the secularism of our time has so transformed the way people think that Christian faith is now in a cross-cultural situation.

Rather one must move from the concrete situation to the decision as to what is the right direction in this instance.

Philosophy begins with «the primary act of abstraction,» that «inner action in which man lifts himself above the concrete situation into the sphere of precise conceptualization.»

Of course what we call «common sense» does not immediately see the concrete situation for what it is.

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.