Sentences with phrase «confronted the reality in»

«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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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 perspectivIn 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 perspectivin 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 perspectivin contemporary society; and the temptation to identify science with the whole of reality in the scientist's own perspectivin 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.