Sentences with phrase «constitutive power»

Only narrative is sufficiently sensitive to amplify the unique accents of a congregation's idiom, sufficiently intricate to explain the congregation's constitutive power, and sufficiently comprehensive to link congregational events and meanings.

To say that the words of our doctrinal formulations must resonate if they are to retain their constitutive power is not a modern invention.

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The principle of equality most profoundly means that we are equally dependent on the constitutive relationships that create us, however relatively unequal we are in our various strengths, including our ability to exemplify the fullness and concreteness of this kind of power.

The mine wars, the schemes to deprive local Appalachians of the mineral rights to their lands (an injustice which has never been put right), workplace injustice and the struggle to right it are the constitutive violences of the coal and electric power industry.

If grace were constitutive of human nature, then all of the effects of grace would lie in strict and essential continuity with human nature's intrinsic powers.

«For the constitutive paradigm of the «Little Ice Age», matters of power, violence and death depended on a fundamental change of climate.