Sentences with phrase «continuity in living persons»

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It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

While I have tried to describe rather carefully the pastoral role of a clergyman working in a mental health center as contrasted to that of a parish pastor, I think it is important that some aspects of his pastoral role be maintained diligently — his openness to all levels of pastoral conversation, his availability at all times, his understanding of and empathy with the deep yearnings of people for a sense of purpose and meaning in life, forgiveness, moral clarity, the sense of the holy, and the importance of confidentiality and continuity in relationships.

Amid the way of personal existence, we identify with and cling to past and future experiences in our own life - stream, accentuating our own continuity over time, but often at the expense of also identifying with other people and the rest of the world.

As Lasch has observed elsewhere in his critique of Sheehy's book, negotiating the crises and «passages» of one's life simply by shedding old selves, not panicking, and taking on new interests denies the human need to grow to maturity through continuity with one's old selves and the people of the past.

Though natural things may «say» something to us and in that sense have «personal» relations with us, they do not have the continuity, the independence, or the living consciousness and consciousness of self which make up the person.

As Polkinghorne requires the continuity of something through all the changes of our material constituents in this life, so he should require the continuity of something between this life and the next if the same person is to survive.

I was a historian of Christianity when I came to this work, and I have always have been intrigued by the dynamics of continuity and change in the Christian church and in how we live as Christian people.

Whitehead underscored this continuity by including «higher animals» in his definition of «living person.»

I think the great objective proof, if you can talk in those terms (and I'm not sure if you really can)-- the nearest, at any rate, that you can get to objective proof of the Resurrection — is the birth of the Christian Church, this community of people who live by faith in the living Lord, and the continuity of that community down the ages in that same faith.

When eschatologies emphasize some measure of continuity, they usually inspire people to start living by the ideals of the future in the present, and to try to realize them in their societies.

They are not at home in America, but they wish to be, and they write about people who are nostalgic for a time when smaller - town values, continuity, tradition and a sense of duty and public virtue presumably colored common life.

If the Christ of Israel was in very fact the Word who is God in Person, then we must be able to show the continuity in this Church of the life, the action, the authority of very God, ever living to make intercession for us, ever operating with divine efficacy, ever teaching with divine infallibility: otherwise the Incarnation is an irrelevance of human history.

Especially in Whitehead's «enduring object» or «living person, patterns of continuity that are ever revised in new spontaneous moments are of crucial importance.

Section IV of chapter 3 is taken up with a detailed analysis of this ethical problem, and of its parameters, and in particular, a thorough biological analysis of the continuity / discontinuity question is presented: «whether to claim that [biological findings] teach us about an embryo's essential continuity withand similarity to human beings at other stages of life, or to argue that they reveal profound and morally meaningful discontinuities between embryos and live - born persons.»

Milan and Chelsea hv ceased being talked off, afta their short lived heroics, but Barca embodies a winning philosophy and continuity - when other teams go about looking for coaches with long CVs, Barca entrust their affairs in the hands of people upholding the club's philosophy, even when they are debutants.

AtHoc's software platform enables people, devices and organizations to exchange critical information in real time during business continuity and life safety operations.

Curating images from Belfast archives for People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground (2011), Broomberg and Chanarin juxtapose images of terrible violence with those of daily life during the Troubles, alluding to the absurdity of violence and the consuming continuity of life.

Every institution (e.g., hospitals, nursing homes and residential care facilities) and palliative care hospice in Quebec must offer and have a clinical program for end - of - life care and ensure that it is provided to the persons requiring it in continuity and complementarily with any other care that is or has been provided to them.

For years, companies both large and small have purchased and owned both key man life and key man disability insurance policies on the lives of their strategic people so that business continuity can be maintained in the unforeseen circumstances of a death or disability.