«All of us have
confronted the reality in Washington, D.C., that is a Congress that is virtually closed for business,» says Benjamin Jealous, the former head of the NAACP, who now advises and invests in tech startups.
We may just need to
confront this reality in order to get started.
On another timeline Black Panther would be building on the small triumphs of diversity and equality, but instead it finds
itself confronting a reality in which the President of the United States is being endorsed by white supremacists.
Not exact matches
My own desire to
confront that
reality compelled me to start,
in 1994, the Shoah Foundation.
Since entering the German market
in 2008, Morrow says, the company has had to
confront the
reality that businesses
in Germany approach their printing operations quite differently from businesses
in, for example, Italy.
The discreet launch reflects the daunting hurdles
confronting the nascent industry of augmented
reality, known
in the industry as AR.
But the
reality that all leaders must
confront is that being influential today requires competing for attention
in the online realms of Facebook and Google, today's towering kings of media.
Those that believe
in something that does not exist, do not want to be
confronted with
reality.
In sharp contrast to feeling better, we are forced to
confront the
reality that sin has infected everyone and everything on this planet and that if anything is true of the human condition, it's that it is not something that should make us «feel better.»
I believe that it is truly important for everyone to
confront in dialogue the historical
reality of the Reformation, its consequences, and the responses it elicited.
The black community
in America has
confronted the
reality of the historical situation as immutable, impenetrable, but this experience has not produced passivity; it has, rather, found expression as forms of the involuntary and transformative nature of the religious consciousness.
John Jefferson Davis» book contributes to evangelical liturgical reform at two levels,
confronting the shocking «God - vacuum»
in popular evangelical worship and examining the foundational
realities of worship.
But dealing with these
realities requires sure footing, and many find it easier to bend with the times than to
confront a popular cultural shift
in spite of its obvious hazards and horrific social results.
Speaking
in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from
confronting the
reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught
in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.
Cremation isn't healthy or unhealthy
in and of itself... just so we don't use it as a way to get around
confronting the
reality of the death of our loved one.
Whereas they pointed to the pantheon of gods
in their unseen heavenly world, the Bible pointed to one who was
in no way to be identified with the gods of ancient man, but who was known to them
in the sphere of human history as the deepest
reality confronting them there.
Following Wilder's altogether persuasive statement of the matter, we might say that the parables impart to their hearers something of Jesus» vision of the power of God at work
in the experience of the men
confronted by the
reality of his proclamation, and this would be true if we are allowed to stress the «
in the experience of the men
confronted...» It is a remarkable and little noted fact that, pace Jüngel, there is only a very limited number of parables which are concerned to proclaim the Kingdom of God per se.
The family was
confronted by the crisis of the fall and return of the prodigal, and
in this crisis the quality of the father's love made possible a new and deeper
reality of family life and relationships.
My purpose, rather, is to remove the unnecessary obstructions and stumbling blocks
in order to enable people to
confront the central and ultimate stumbling block: the call to commitment that
confronts us
in the message of Jesus of Nazareth,
in the understanding he gives us of God and of love, of truth and
reality.
If the appearances to the apostles were private manifestations,
in the sense that a casual bystander would have seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were
in the nature of visions rather than of bodily seeing, this does not imply that these men were not
confronted with the Lord's presence as an external
reality.
For example, his torts scholarship failed to
confront the
reality of rampant industrial accidents
in an age before government regulation of capitalism.
If the basic purpose of the study of man is defined by the image of man as the creature who becomes what only he can become through
confronting reality with his whole being, then the specific branches of that study must also include an understanding of man
in this way, and this means not only as an object, but also, to begin with, as a Thou.
But
in addition to terrorism and military conflict, Americans still need to
confront the growing
reality — and awareness — that the global economy remains highly unequal, including over 2.8 billion people who survive on less than two U.S. dollars per day.
In its pages the
reality of change is recognized and the deepest questions of beginnings and endings — of creation and destruction — are constantly
confronted.
The disciples are recruiting agents for the new people of God, but their function as such is simply to
confront men with the
reality of God coming
in his kingdom, and leave it to them.
Upon my arrival I was instantly
confronted by the visceral
reality that I was
in the country with the highest murder rate
in the world, where rape was common and more than half the population was HIV - positive — men and women, gays and straights alike.
When man
confronts the question of the meaning of his life he finds that the question can only be answered if he sees that he is related to a transcendent
reality, a God whose being is of a different order from that of all creatures and processes
in our experience, who is the «unconditioned» ground of all being, to use Tillich's phrase.
However, as Dr. Lampe says
in the same paragraph, «this does not imply that these men were not
confronted with the Lord's presence as an eternal
reality.»
In such a framework, we can have «Christ without myth,» where he is understood as «the final reality of God's love that confronts us as sovereign gift and demand in all the events of our existence.&raqu
In such a framework, we can have «Christ without myth,» where he is understood as «the final
reality of God's love that
confronts us as sovereign gift and demand
in all the events of our existence.&raqu
in all the events of our existence.»
Why believe
in real truth - that actually
confronts the deep multiplicity of what it means to be human, and actually change your life - when you can believe
in your own shallow truth that simply adds to one's self - justification and denial of
reality, and remain the way you are?
Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action
in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think of God as the transcendent ground of all
reality, of its existence and of its becoming, as the primordial
reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component
in the
reality with which we are
confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.
Rather, I try to do here the same thing I do
in all my books: face, alone, this world I live
in, try to understand it, and
confront it with another
reality I live
in, but which is utterly unverifiable.
In particular we shall examine the problem of the Christian ideal of love when it is
confronted by the
realities of the political orders.
It is just here that we are
confronted with the —
in the best sense of the word — simple desire for truth on the part of our hearers, and nothing is so damaging to the reputation of the theologian as when his utterances produce the effect of parrot - cries which have ceased to be relevant to the hearer's grasp of truth or
reality, and therefore so utterly irrelevant to his daily life.
In subsequent chapters we will look at the expressions of these dangers in particular situations: the limitations of scientific methodology as the teacher confronts them; the idolatry of science in contemporary society; and the temptation to identify science with the whole of reality in the scientist's own perspectiv
In subsequent chapters we will look at the expressions of these dangers
in particular situations: the limitations of scientific methodology as the teacher confronts them; the idolatry of science in contemporary society; and the temptation to identify science with the whole of reality in the scientist's own perspectiv
in particular situations: the limitations of scientific methodology as the teacher
confronts them; the idolatry of science
in contemporary society; and the temptation to identify science with the whole of reality in the scientist's own perspectiv
in contemporary society; and the temptation to identify science with the whole of
reality in the scientist's own perspectiv
in the scientist's own perspective.
They would have found themselves
confronted in him with a moral
reality — disturbing, sometimes even terrifying, but not to be ignored and never to be forgotten — which might alone have prompted the solemn wonder, «Is this the Christ?»
The eschatological
reality becomes congruent with and partially confirmed
in a man's life experience when absolute limits, boundaries, inescapable facts
confront him
in the realization of his personal, social, and national experience.
The reason is to make it possible to
confront more openly and daringly a spiritual
reality too often ignored
in our world of system and fact, According to Eric Rabkin (The Fantastic
in Literature [Princeton University Press, 1976]-RRB-, «Admittedly, the fantastic is
reality turned precisely 180 degrees around, but this is
reality nonetheless, a fantastic narrative
reality that speaks the truth of the human heart.»
This real word is present to us
in the connection and unity of all individual words and
confronts us with
reality as a whole, at least as a question.
These words epitomize the unyielding difficulty
confronting classical theism, for it can not seem to reconcile God's goodness with his power
in the face of the stubborn
reality of unexplained evil.
God as love -
in - action is more than any particular expression of His love (hence He is transcendent); God as love -
in - action is always available (hence He is onmipresent); God as love -
in - action is able to envisage every situation
in its deepest and truest
reality and accommodate Himself to it, so that He can indeed achieve His loving ends (hence He is omniscient and omnipotent); God as love - inaction is unswerving
in His love, unfailing
in its expression, unyielding
in His desire to
confront men with the demands of love (hence He is righteous).
Transfer is not involved because the act of prayer takes place solely within human experiences
in which the person is
confronted immediately (i.e., without mediation) with the
reality of his own existence and of his world on the deepest levels of awareness (change, dependence, etc.).
Hence we are, on the one hand,
confronted with an abundance of material, rich
in analysis and content from a variety of perspectives that can offer to the Indian church sensitive viewpoints and creative directions for the understanding and practice of mission
in India today, and, on the other, still
confronted with the
reality that,
in so far as the mission question is concerned, an agreed upon standpoint, either
in theological or practical terms continues to be elusive.
I may get into some trouble for saying this, but I don't care; we simply can't afford any more suicides or families caught
in the middle: I think it's time for evangelicals to
confront reality and move away from the «reparative therapy» approach, which seems to be doing far more harm than good.
Like any such significant new historical
reality that has come into motion now and
in the past, globalization embodies and
confronts us with benefits, opportunities, challenges, risks, dangers and oppressions not just for some but for all sides involved.
It was
in confronting the younger churches
in the mission field that Jerusalem came to face the
reality of the church
in missionary thinking.
Your continued push that most people, if
confronted by their sin of living together, would stay
in that particular church is not even close to
reality of the majority of those situations.
The impression of being
confronted with a stale program becomes so much the greater for the reader of the present day, who is otherwise open to intellectually demanding projects, when Whitehead designates Process and
Reality as «an essay
in Speculative Philosophy» (PR 3/4) and explains his cosmology as aiming at a «system of general ideas» (ibid.).
Thus, while his presence takes all value and
reality from the world, his equally absolute and permanent absence makes the world into the only
reality which man can
confront, the only sphere
in and against which he can and must apply his demand for substantial and absolute values.
As I shall say,
confronting that plain fact does not suggest that we should spend our time
in the not very profitable exercise of meditating every day on its
reality.