Sentences with phrase «contemporary person concerned»

Never, so far as I can tell, has modern historical study made it impossible for a contemporary person concerned about intellectual integrity to believe what the Church (or the synagogue) has long taught as necessary for true faith.

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As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

If we have in mind his concern for the rise of a new people of God out of the confusions of contemporary Judaism, we can see that so far at least he would be in sympathy with the Baptist's aims.

The concern of the prophets and the Lord Jesus Christ for the epileptic, the demoniac, the anxious, and the fear - ridden provided both model and motivation for this effort to teach ministers about the contemporary ministry to people in mental illness.

Although we are not prepared to argue for the authenticity of any of the narratives concerned, we are arguing for the authenticity of such an element in the historical ministry of Jesus: he did help those who confronted him in their need in a way his contemporaries regarded as remarkable, and he did link this with the «faith» of the people concerned.

The concern of the prophets and Jesus Christ for the epileptic, the demoniac, the anxious, and the fear - ridden provide both model and motivation to teach ministers about the contemporary ministry to people in mental illness.

The contemporary mental health thrust in the churches, while having the advantage of new insights from the sciences of man and new helping techniques from the psychotherapeutic disciplines, is essentially the same concern for the healing and growth of persons as was found in the ministry of Jesus and throughout the church's history.

Two types of contemporary Christian lay - people and religious are, along with theologians, concerned with problems arising out of today's encounter among religions.

Gregory does not, it turns out, base his critique on concerns about salvation and true doctrine, but instead on the inability of the contemporary world — having unjustly excluded religious ways of thinking from the public arena of the secularized university — to address and resolve adequately for people what he calls «Life Questions.»

• Teachers require an understanding of current evidence - based research regarding the contemporary issues concerning the health and wellbeing of young people.

Hughes's work is concerned with our environment and contemporary man's relationship to it, examining the space between the world people habit and that which nature claims as its own.

Gradually, the way his work demonstrated concerns of the time fell away from the discourse around his work, giving the impression to students and other people new to contemporary art that he was singular, unique, even genius.

The exhibition will explore the way in which politics, power and the movement of people have historically shaped our world, and will consider contemporary concerns around post-colonialism, socio - politics, hospitality and humanity.

Terry Svat by imaging pictographs reminiscent of Lascaux cave drawings, Pauline Jakobsberg by constructing narratives to confront cultural memory, Felisa Federman by depicting folk legend concerning natural and landscape, and the negation of people's personalities by standardization, Miguel Perez - Lem who paints contemporary landscapes relating to agricultural memory in Latin America, Nancy Nesvet who paints seascapes of degrading glaciers and animals whose future is threatened.

Throughout People vs. Space, students worked directly with Plensa to develop project proposals for public works integrating contemporary media with the core concerns of objects, spaces, communities, and interactions.

At base, it was considered that where nationwide strategies for the twin goals of self - determination and social justice for Indigenous people could be set, the problems associated with the gross over-representation of Indigenous people in matters of child welfare and juvenile justice would begin to be addressed and concerns over contemporary separations correspondingly allayed.