Sentences with phrase «concrete way of speaking»

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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.

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

Christian is here speaking of the concept «event» as used in Whitehead's earlier works; the term doesn't change its reference in the later works, though it practically drops out of the picture as being a less than ultimate concept (corresponding to the notion of a structured society) which gives way to the category of «actual entity» as the term descriptive of ultimate, concrete reality.

That significance lies in the undeniable fact that the God who «made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel,» revealed himself as a concrete reality afresh in and through the words of this man, who «spoke as never man spoke.»

To speak in that way of factors that make a given theological school concrete is to speak very misleadingly.