Sentences with phrase «confronting reality with»

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.

Not exact matches

A lot of men over 50 aren't familiar — or comfortable — with confronting that reality.

But winning the deal may have had more to do with the geopolitical realities confronting the United States and South Korea as America embarks on tricky nuclear discussions with North Korea.

Those that believe in something that does not exist, do not want to be confronted with reality.

Contact with reality» which is to say, the actual operation of the legal system and its impact on society» is more likely to confront academics with the immutable truths of human nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections of one's colleagues.

Anyway, if you want to see the TRUTH about reality, come to Stormfront and be confronted with your hatred of whites and white culture.

Instead, we're confronted with arguments framed as a hard, false choice between sound economic policies and social programs, between fiscal realities and compassionate acts.

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.

But the church is confronted also with the reality of the judgment of God upon unrepentant idolaters who subvert the will of God and oppress the neighbor.

And it's a bit disconcerting to confront the reality that it's possible to wrestle with the same God and walk with the same limp and yet reach different conclusions.

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.

The vast majority of them are concerned with the experience and / or subsequent activity of men confronted by the reality of God at work.

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.

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.

And yet, when it came time to write a book about church (which, like every book, began with the rather rigorous and uncomfortable exercise of confronting my own bullshit), I couldn't deny the reality that, as much as I may dream of it, there's no starting from scratch... for any of us.

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.»

Sweeney traces the same ground as Rosen, having grown up at nearly exactly the same historical moment, but he confronts the realities of a fundamentalist background with more depth and gives us a careful examination of his own soul.

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.

Love your thoughts, but until ignorance is no longer bliss you can expect those who back their good thoughts and feelings with fantasy rather than the realities we are confronted wth every day to rule our lives.

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.

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 perspective.

After his experience with ex-gay ministries, (which we discussed last week), Justin had to confront the reality that he would likely never become straight.

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?»

This ground is meant by the word «God», the ground which is not the sum of individual realities but which confronts them freely and creatively without forming a «higher whole» with them.

Then man will no longer be confronted with the one whole of reality as such nor with the whole of his own existence.

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.

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.

We understand you being uncomfortable when confronted with reality.

Though Stout is fully aware that the social reality is often more bleak, he confronts injustice with a passion born out of his awareness that something much better is not only possible but already exists.

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).

Today I woke up this morning confronted with the reality that if a there had to be a choice between my life and the life of a woman, I would be expected to forfeit mine... on so many different levels.

Constructive confrontation means confronting the person with reality and helping him look at it squarely.

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.

Confronted with this kind of reality, our present concern calls for a perspective on baptism which differs from the more usual biblical or theological approaches.

Suddenly the Protestant Churches were confronted with the stark reality of the failure of their dreams.

When confronted with that reality, Bachmann replied, «All oxen are animals and the Lord made them without intelligence».

The traditional scheme of the last things will no longer serve us, I have said; yet that scheme did confront men with the Christian faith and it did make them face «reality» with honesty and humility.

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.

The reality with which the early churches at Ephesus, Colossea, and Asia Minor were confronted is the same that confronts us today:

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.).

Conversely, the absence or weakness of social support undermines subjective certainty — and that is precisely what happens when the individual is confronted with a plurality of competing world views, norms or definitions of reality.

To seek the meaning of any given signifier is only to be confronted with an alternative signifier, and thus any kind of terminal meaning is forever scattered and «not yet,» so much so that even the reality of one's own selfhood must be found to be something thoroughly insubstantial and vaporous: in short, our condemnation is to «the prison - house of language.»

Forgetting about it is something that's easy for me to do because I'm not confronted with the realities of racism every day.

As this season is wrapping up for my Niko, I am confronted with the reality that this beautiful, exciting and thrilling ride is about to be over.

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Confronted with these realities, more and more people have begun to ask ever more penetrating questions.