Sentences with phrase «essential concern of»

Now this soul, whose activity is always a synthesis, in itself eludes the investigations of science, the essential concern of which is to analyze things into their elements and their material antecedents; it can be discovered only by inward vision and philosophic reflection.

The Scottish concern could then pale in comparison with the even far more essential concern of Britain's partnership with the relaxation of Europe, assuming the guarantee of an in - out EU referendum is stored.

Both the original novel and the film version of House of Sand and Fog (the latter captures the essential concerns of the book) shed light on certain features of American life, at least certain social types or personalities, although they hold themselves back from a penetrating or satisfying portrayal.

Not exact matches

«From an investor perspective, the unknown is always somewhat concerning,» said Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory of Raymond James Ltd. «It's going to be essential that who they hire as a successor buys into the vision or strategy CIBC has.»

Critics of GFI might be concerned that their work does not directly help to change public attitudes towards animals, and changing those attitudes may be essential for ensuring lasting progress.

Other Lutherans understand infallibility and inerrancy to refer to issues essential to the Gospel, and they would not insist, as would Missourians, that skepticism concerning, say, the historicity of Adam and Eve undermines scriptural authority.

In addition, concerning proteins, that are essential to the structure and function of all living cells, the odds of one protein occurring at random has been calculated as 10 113.

What could be more comforting to modern consciousness than to discover that «ultimate concern» and «sin» are essential and unavoidable characteristics of the human condition?

It can not be too strongly insisted that a world which is to be a moral order must be a physical order characterized by law or regularity... The theist is only concerned to invoke the fact that the law - abidingness... is an essential condition of the world being a theatre of moral life.

As far as green plants are concerned, CO2 is not a pollutant, but part of their daily bread — like water, sunlight, nitrogen, and other essential elements.

This is especially apparent when questions of change and passion were raised concerning the essential being of God.

They, too, are concerned to affirm God's compassion for his creatures as an essential part of the Christian message.

And if we can not avoid the tension between the lure of constituents which are truly atomic on the one hand and the lure of wholes which are truly organic on the other, it may provide what Thomas Kuhn has called an «essential tension «2 — a tension without which, at least in the realm with which Kuhn is concerned, science can not operate.

Two of Whitehead's brief statements concerning religion seem to suggest the synthesis of the elements which I am interpreting as essential polarities of religious experience.

One of the real glories of the preaching image is its unabashed concern with means as essential to the achievement of ends.

Parallel with this great fact concerning the wholeness of Christian experience in its essential nature is our approach to it and our certainty of it.

But far from being an elitist preoccupation, it is an essential component of genuine concern for such elementary rights as the right to food or the right not to be tortured.

By removing the wide segments of knowledge and skill with which the school ordinarily deals from all explicit relation to religion, the meaning of religion is falsified; by being made a specialized concern, it is robbed of its essential comprehensiveness, and the school studies become occasions for propagating the gospel of autonomy and self - sufficiency.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

A perfectly simple psychological investigation of what offense is will explain this, and at the same time it will show how infinitely silly their behavior has been who defended Christianity by taking away the offense, how stupidly or impudently they have ignored Christ's own instruction, who often and with such deep concern warns against the offense, that is, intimates that the possibility of the offense is present, and must be ever - present, for if it is not present, if it is not an eternally essential constituent of Christianity.

There was and is a need for a philosophy of science which, as Edward Holloway writes, was more «existential in emphasis» than essential, whilst being truly realist concerning formal universality (cf. Perspectives in Philosophy, Vol III, Noumenon and Phenomenon: Rethinking the Greeks in the Age of Science, Faith - Keyway Trust).

He believed, however, that they could be reconciled, for while the glorified body of the risen Jesus is normally neither visible nor tangible, it «temporarily reassumes the human outline, and solid frame, and former appearance, and marks of the wounds, for evidential and instructive purposes».13 In the resurrection narratives the Evangelists «describe the re-entrance of the glorified Body of Christ into terrestrial conditions, effected for the purpose of convincing His apostles of His Resurrection, and of giving them instructions and commssions».14 He believed that Paul, being the theologian, was not concerned with these occasional manifestations, but with the essential condition of the risen Christ and that his is therefore the profounder teaching.

This problem has been of critical concern to the paid - time religious broadcasters who are dependent on continuing audience response for their essential income.

I profoundly disagree with his desire to deontologize religious faith; I think that this tendency following the lead of 19th - century philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach in reducing the transcendent to secular concerns, profoundly misconstrues the essential genius of faith — at least Christian faith.

What emerges in a given situation as «operant religion» will differ considerably from the «formal religion» of the historic creeds, and more concern with the former is essential to understanding how belief systems function in people's daily lives.»

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

Rather the future is unrelated to the present, something which might possibly not be, and its not being would make no change in the present; something which is coming some time, but which so far as its essential nature is concerned could already have been some time; indeed the speculation is widespread that the blessings of salvation pre-exist and are already present in heaven.

Thanks to the leadership of the Dept. and the relevance of it in our time, the concern for social analysis has taken root as an essential aspect of the Christian theological enterprise, not only in the TTS but also in most other Indian theological schools and in the Serampore University curriculum itself.

He demonstrates that an impatience born of compassion does not conflict with, but actually supports, the apophatic posture of patience and concern for breadth essential to all authentic religion and hope.

In any event, I find that I have begun the decade of the «80s still firmly committed to the same essential project with which I entered the «60s: to work toward a genuinely postliberal theology that, being sensitive at once to the human concern for freedom and to the claims of Christian faith, will be as concerned for the credibility of the church's witness when judged in terms of changing human experience as for the appropriateness of its witness when judged by reference to its abiding apostolic norm.

Equally essential is that theology concern itself with the appropriateness of the Christian witness, by which I mean the congruence of what is meant in this witness, however it may be said, with what is properly taken to be the Christian norm.

As far as an environmental ethic is concerned, the still dominantly materialist orientation of contemporary science is unable to provide the cosmic vision essential for lasting commitment to the preservation of the earth's life systems.

While postexilic priestly law appears to be increasingly concerned with ritual — a concern perhaps inescapably induced by general environmental and ideological changes — it is essential to remember that all of the major codes of law in the Old Testament were preserved, transmitted, and of course edited, by the postexilic priests who, in the very act of incorporating so - called prophetic law in the total legal corpus, place their approval upon it.

The opposition is really to be sought between one way of acting which is contraceptive and opposed to a prudent and generous fruitfulness, and another way which is, in an ordered relationship to responsible fruitfulness and which has a concern for education and all the essential, human and Christian values.»

They consider religion essential to cultural integration, but their primary concern is not with the truth of faith but with the order of society.

Therefore «the primary thrust and concern... of Asian third world theology is liberation (which to be authentic must be indigenized or inculturated); inculturation, though an essential and unavoidable task, takes second place.»

An essential element of Hall's novel vision of the future is the idea that once technology has been fully established as a self - governing, self - sustaining system, a sort of «automatic rationality» with which we need no longer concern ourselves, we will be free to turn away from «actions over against nature,» to turn our attention «inward» to the sort of «actions» which enhance the aesthetic value of experience.

Newton does not believe that gravity is an essential property of matter, but he also denies that it can be a force that acts at a distance.15 Newton is clear on one point with regard to his analysis of gravitation; he is concerned with the mathematical treatment of gravitation, not with the nature or causes of gravitation or the manner in which gravitation acts but with the conditions under which gravitation acts (PNP 5f, 192).

Third, if the event in question involves free choice, there may be essential features spontaneously arising as the person commits himself to a value chosen; these are not of special concern here.

Since republics go against gravity, so to speak, it is essential if a republic is to survive that it concern itself actively with the nurturing of its citizens, that it root out corruption and encourage virtue.

Thus Pannenberg's ecumenical concern is an essential component of his theological vision.

Yet at the same time that these institutions asserted their readiness to remove themselves from church oversight and still remain a community of faith, they proved unwilling to undertake any of the essential tasks that a community of faith must perform in order to thrive or survive: the defining of authentic faith in seasons of dispute; the maintenance of moral discipline on standards grounded in faith; the invitation to communion and its withdrawal; concern for the personal welfare of its members beyond professional performance.

This Jewish category of Messiahship was not primarily metaphysical; it did not so much concern the essential nature of the divine missioner as his vocation; it could be applied on different levels — to one conceived as a «son of David» specially anointed to fulfil the divine purpose, or to one conceived as a preexistent being, come at last to earth to achieve God's will.

There is a concern about the self which is healthy and, as a matter of fact and observation, essential to each of us; but there is also a concern about the self which is vicious and unlovely — and also, I should say, destructive of the very thing it seeks to assert.

The ethical vision is governed by the concern that justice be done, if possible here and now.10 And, of course, such concern is absolutely essential in the maintenance of civilization and the quality of life.

As a matter of fact, one of the chief difficulties that confronts the Christian theological world today concerns interpretations of the Christian faith which contain hidden and uncriticized philosophical assumptions that operate under the guise of being essential ingredients of the faith.

Clarke D. Forsythe, senior counsel for Americans for Life, has written an essential book for lawmakers and all participants in the ongoing culture wars, particularly those engaging in public - policy issues concerning the origins of life, the end of life, and marriage.

Though criticisms occasionally have been made suggesting that the paid - time religious broadcasters are concerned primarily with raising money, there can, perhaps, belittle doubt that the essential reason why religious broadcasters are in the business is for the purpose of changing people's attitudes toward religious faith.

Luther's primary concern was that the palaver accompanying the offer of indulgences, their mechanical side, and the emphasis laid on them had radically covered over that first essential — sorrow for sin, turning to God, use of the sacrament of confession.

The essential question concerning the Gifts of the Spirit is this: Are the Gifts within every Christian soul after baptism?