Sentences with phrase «estrangement not»

When a parent is rejected by a child for what appears to be valid and justified reasons, the rejection is referred to as estrangement not alienation.

If that truly is the case the case involves estrangement not alienation.

Not exact matches

Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility between humanity and nature, the hostility of person against person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.

In his book The Neoconservatives (1979), Peter Steinfels described those on our side of the barricades as «counterintellectuals,» people who move in the intellectual world but who do not share that world's dominant sense of alienation and estrangement from the ideas, values, and institutions of the middle - American majority.

Instead of denying our estrangement or bemoaning it, why not embrace it as a gift from God?

Woman's estrangement is not simply from her sisters but also from herself.

The world is, of course, not to be saved from its present discords and estrangements by the teaching of certain codes of conduct.

It is in us, in our ways and our works, that the estrangement exists, not in God, who is deeper in us than our own selves, as Augustine, in a happier mood, rightly said in his Confessions.

But there is really only one form of estrangement for all are subsumed under estrangement from God, since God stands for all that fulfils experience and the possibilities of life not yet experienced by us.

In the Roycean view, grave fault was not, as in the Christian tradition, a fall from grace; rather, it evidenced an estrangement in the relationship between the individual and the community.

But such a classification is misleadingly selective, for the commonly recognized states of self - estrangement are certainly not the only possible ones, perhaps not even the most important ones.

People's anguish is not over the alienation between the soul and God but rather over the estrangement between black and white, rich and poor, male and female, East and West.

This estrangement occurred not because God turned away from man, but because sin made its way into human life and established itself there, distorting what God had made, destroying the original balance and harmony of creation, and turning man's heart from obedience and fellowship to transgression and rebellion.

If I am right, refusing to attend another's suicide — at least in circumstances involving terminal illness or profound disability — could one day result in social martyrdom, the loss of valued friendships, family estrangement, and accusations of cold - hearted moralism (not to mention the guilt of being absent when a loved one dies).

Actually, Christian theology at its best has recognized that sin is not fundamentally an act but rather the condition of alienation or estrangement out of which harmful acts may arise.

Sin is not only the breaking of the divine law; it is personal estrangement, it is the separation of man from the true source of his being.

Such alienation or estrangement brings about a sense of human frustration, sometimes felt very keenly but more often and with most of us in something like Thoreau's «quiet desperation,» known at moments when we can not sleep or when we are not happy about what we have been doing or thinking.

When the text thus interprets its interpreter, it does so not through re-engaging belief in ancient religious categories but by raising questions about the would - be interpreter's existence — his estrangement from himself and others, his experienced «fulfillment gap» between what he is and what be could be.

To realize such emptiness is to cling to nothing, not even an identity, and to be surely delivered from all suffering, estrangement and relationship.

The dialogic model does not encounter these difficulties, and is particularly suitable for interpreting the Christian experience of reconciliation overcoming estrangement, and the more personal dimensions of guilt and forgiveness.

The estrangement between academy and church recounted in The Soul of the American University has implications not only for the position of religion within the university, but also for the position of intellectual life within the church.

This very rarity brings out an aspect of the estrangement between the Church and modern science which is not properly dealt with by Professor Barr.

Endless references to the thousand - year estrangement between Rome and Moscow display ignorance of the fact that 1,000 years ago the Patriarchate of Moscow did not exist.

In Paul Ricoeur's terminology, we can not return to a pre-critical naiveté.10 Neither, however, can we abide forever the estrangement of our minds from nature.

Cases of melancholy appear to have been not uncommon, stemming in part, perhaps, from that general sense of the decay of the world which was a familiar feature of the Elizabethan climate of opinion, in part from the sense of rootlessness and estrangement which is characteristic of a transitional society, and aggravated no doubt by the searching, pointed preaching of the time.

He attempted to win over Karlstadt also but the estrangement could not be resolved.

In any case, agencies having contact with children generally do not enquire about the father's PR status, and will usually only do so where there is evidence of substantial conflict with or estrangement from the mother, or major child welfare concerns regarding the father's care of the child.

A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self - help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you can not see.

Tim Mooney (Ansel Elgort), supposedly a star of the football team, has quit the sport — to the estrangement of his father Kent (Dean Norris)-- and somehow finds time when he's not playing video games to mumble his way into a chaste romance with Brandy (Kaitlyn Dever).

In contrast, because Billions is nothing if not a show that likes to play off of its parallel relationships, Bobby and wife Lara (Malin Akerman) are in a tentative estrangement.

Furthermore, what if Caden's life — a series of estrangements, feuds and ailments — was a wreck, and not an easy, funny wreck, but a state of being so sore and unhappy that laughter chokes halfway up your throat?

When I published a piece earlier this year about the tense estrangement between conservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reformers.»

You really can't describe the situation we are in today as an estrangement between the bankers and corporate CEOs and the rest of the 99 percent that brings out the worst in both — barefaced greed and a hateful relish in the suffering of others in the first and a dystopic and quiescent resignation to the inevitability of capitalism in the second.

Early on in the novel, Hans mentions that he doesn't connect to himself as a child («I, however, seem given to self - estrangement»), then proceeds to produce numerous memories of his childhood and of his mother.

But as someone who is not a native German speaker, my feeling of perpetual estrangement throws me into negotiating the capability of words to create new possibilities of experience.

From the German artist Colombo learned not to be afraid of playing games or of the sense of estrangement caused by an unpredictable situation that interrupts the accepted structures of real space.

It is not solely reprehensible, however, for it presages a situation in which art, having completed its estrangement from human ends, returns to life.

This is not to say that Youkhana's work is insincere, or lacks commitment to the unique contexts she borrows footage from, but that the meaning of the show runs on a chain of deferrals that produces a sense of estrangement.

«The crucial problem with the proceedings to date is that the people who ought to [be] Terri's guardians — her parents — are not, and the man who is, Michael Schiavo, holds that position by operation of his status as Terri's «husband,» when from the facts known to all, he has lived his life in recent years in such a way as would be conclusive evidence of estrangement in any divorce court in America.

«However, the judge here commented that the deceased was stubborn, intransigent and insensitive and that the estrangement was not for want of trying on the part of the claimant who had been rebuffed.

It is important to recognize that this approach does not prevent counsel or the court from addressing the negative behaviours typically raised in proceedings alleging alienation or estrangement.

What if, due to geographical distance, death, or estrangement, you can't observe how your man treats his mother?

Parental alienation, however, is not the same thing as estrangement.

In the absence of abuse or neglect, the more extreme the rejection, the greater the probability it is due to alienation, not estrangement.

I don't expect that my 16 year estrangement from my son can be fixed, In Texas, at age 12, children can choose their custodial parent.

When this happens, it can cause turmoil and even estrangement if the feelings are not processed and dealt with.

Contrary to popular wisdom, it is feelings of estrangement, isolation and loneliness that are the driving force causing marital separation and * not * conflict or anger.

We contend that none of these concerns provide compelling evidence that PAS does not exist in some cases — even if the diagnosis is not yet in the DSM, even if false allegations can be made, and even if it is difficult to differentiate alienation from estrangement.

When alienation or estrangement has not occurred in one's family, it is hard to understand and others are quick to judge.

I agree that many factors may lead to estrangement and interrupt, if not destroy, a parent child relationship.