Sentences with phrase «end of existence raised»

I am suggesting that we must think differently about what the saving love of God means if it is to speak to our time, addressing the question of the possible end of existence raised by, ecological deterioration and nuclear escalation and that we do this by thinking in different images.

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The raising of Lazarus is thus not a sign of the coming resurrection at the end - time, but a symbolic and dramatic description of Christian experience, in which Christ, by his life - giving word, delivers a man from an existence which is virtual death, and raises him to a quality of living which can properly be called «eternal life».

The term «resurrection of the dead» should not be interpreted as a hope for the prolongation or restoration of our own conscious existence, but rather a hope that human life has meaning, that when our conscious existence is ended, the historical life we have lived may be raised before the eternal Judge, and may be vindicated, as being of some value for that Kingdom which is eternal and for whose fuller manifestation on earth we ever pray.

I'm reprinting it here, edited, because like Susan's column and Kipnis» book, it raises an essential question about the role of love in a marriage: If we marry for love, shouldn't it be OK to end the marriage when love is no longer present or if we are not content to accept «mature love» — aka, a sexless, roomatelike existence — as its replacement?

Toward that end, the superintendent is trying to raise $ 250,000 to support the work of revising the state's Education Technology Plan - a document so out of date and irrelevant that many Capitol insiders are unaware of its existence.