Sentences with phrase «experiencing human community»

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We believe that if the law on collective worship were repealed schools would risk losing this vital element of shaping a community that reflects the full breadth of human experience.

This community has as its core a mystery to the human experience, and a sense that story and imagery can persuade at least as well as logical, more strictly factual arguments.

We are witness of a savage destruction of historic human values and experiences at our base - level communities in the villages, in the localities and towns.

In every community and in every age verbal formulas need to be critically examined and reinterpreted, through dialogue and fresh experience, in order that their power as bearers of meaning, and hence as creators of authentic human existence, may be assured.

The other, and surely the most significant arena where abstract philosophy must interact with concrete experience, is community life — where principle and practice come together on a personal, human scale.

Lutherans believe that we experience God's law as the driving force behind the demands that human beings impose on each other as they live in community.

The new disciples, whether with Jewish or Gentile backgrounds, found in the Christian community not only a transforming experience of divine grace but a sustaining experience of human fellowship, and, in whatever other ways this fellowship functioned, it was bound to express itself in corporate worship.

If the concepts of relational power and aesthetic value are accepted as more adequate categories for understanding human experience than those arising from substance metaphysics, then we must obviously change our images of ideal personhood and ideal communities.

As a human product, the Bible tells us about their experiences of the Sacred, about how these two communities saw things.

The immediate implication of this, which is really my second statement in shorthand form, is that the Bible is thus a human product, namely, the response of two ancient communities to their experience of the Sacred.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

Nonetheless, according to Paul, Abraham wrestled with his doubts, discounted his own experience, rejected skepticism, and clung to the promise of God: «No apistia, no suspicion, made him waver Thus, Abraham becomes the prototype of the community of faith, which interprets all human experience through trust in God's word.

The word which the apostolic community used and offered to us is the word «resurrection,» hardly a term derived from or consonant with our usual conceptuality or our ordinary human experience, however rich and varied.

They do have their own active and creative manner of collectively representing their historicity, which I am arguing, is closely intertwined with their experience with what they take to be the Divine Power, Ellaiyamman as the goddess of the Paraiyars is a pivotal symbol of the source (and the hope of protection) of this distinct physical and conceptual space: she conserves their geographic space by guarding their particularity as a community and she represents their conceptual space as self - reflective human beings.

For if this possibility is excluded on a priori grounds, the experience must be interpreted another way: as an unwarranted enthusiasm, as the presence of human love in community, as the activity of God mediated through the community's memory of Jesus, or what have you.

This leads Christian anthropology to a Moral Realism which recognizes the Human Community in the ultimate sense, like the human experience of friendship and love, is a gift of Divine Grace, and that therefore there is no final path towards it through technological, political or legal organizaHuman Community in the ultimate sense, like the human experience of friendship and love, is a gift of Divine Grace, and that therefore there is no final path towards it through technological, political or legal organizahuman experience of friendship and love, is a gift of Divine Grace, and that therefore there is no final path towards it through technological, political or legal organization.

From the standpoint of our interpretation of religion the central Christian experience just described is important because it provides an answer to the question regarding the relative power of community - creating and community - destroying factors in human history, i.e., to the question concerning the outcome of the battle between good and evil.

You are welcome to not believe in a greater cosmos than human experience if you like, but belittling those who understand the purpose of community and cosmos is irrational, ignorant, and hateful.

Worship, we have seen, is an indestructible element in human experience; and in the Christian tradition it is inextricably associated with the faith and the moral life of the believers in the community that responds to the action of the living God in Christ.

It needs to declare what are the external and overriding criteria, based on shared human experience, that its qualified defense of communities requires; it needs something like natural law.

What is destroyed in the loss of the ecosystem, therefore, is not only the intrinsic value of myriads of individuals making up the forest community but also very important additional contributions of the forest to the intrinsic value of human experiences.

The corrective is to be found in the New Testament experience; what emerged in the first century world was a profoundly revolutionary community, rooted in a new understanding of history and of human purpose.

God doesn't want anyone to try to redirect their desire for community to himself... Instead, I think God wants people to experience his love through their experience of human community — specifically through the Church.»

In the community that «remembered Jesus,» to use John Knox's phrase, the primitive experience found that this same Jesus was made available to them «in the Spirit,» which animated the fellowship and which seemed to them decisive for human existence under God.

As human beings and communities apprehend the presence of divine compassion for them and with them, they experience power to resist the degrading effects of suffering, to defy structures and policies that institutionalize injustice, and to confront their own guilt... the compassion of God empowers.

In them, both the community of human experience and the ways of God with men found a focus, so that starting from them something happens to affect men and, if I may say so, God.

Second, because the overwhelming majority of Christians come from Dalit and Adivasi communities, all of their experiences and expressions of God, world and human beings will be interpreted through the paradigm of Jesus Christ.

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

Rather, it is a gospel of the free experience of God's engagement in the lives of God's people, which is freely and creatively expressed according to the particularities of various human communities, especially as represented by the Dalits and Adivasis.

In other words, these biblical stories, which are not self - conscious literary creations but genuine emergents from the experience of a religious community — these stories are attempts to express an understanding of the relation in which God actually stands to human life, and they are true in any really important sense only if that understanding is correct.

Some of us have discovered that critical interactions between the message of our Bible and the world of our Asia can deepen our experience of God's saving activity in the human community as well as in the Christian community.

If God did in fact make a unique and supreme revelation of himself in that event; if God was actually in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; if something of decisive importance for humanity really happened in connection with the life and death of Jesus, however different may be the theological terms in which we attempt to express that meaning — if this is our faith, the church becomes immeasurably the most significant of human communities, for it was within its experience that the revealing event first occurred and it is in its experience that the meaning of that event has been conveyed from one generation to another.

They point to the urgent task of building an alternative view of society where all human beings live and experience as «persons - in - community, m various forms of daily social life.»

«The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human — at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life - systems, in a time - developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience... The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.»

This foundation leads to a rich academic high school experience that supports young men and women in realizing their full potential as students, as people, as members of the human community.

Each of the voices in this conversation brings a breadth of experience, research, and knowledge — and BOND is a tremendous opportunity to bring it all together: research on infant / early child development, attachment, sociology, public health, education, the experience of medical professionals, pediatric support professionals, educators, volunteer, and manufacturers, and of course, our collective minds and skills as a service community working to strengthen human bonding and family health.

A growing number of camps are offering leadership training experiences for young adults, and organizations such as Global Works and Onshore Offshore Expeditions have created camping experiences that include community service programs where young people can work to improve the human condition and preserve the environment.

I am excited to share my experience with others, guide community outreach, and drive forward the mission to expand human milk access to babies.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was scheduled today to announce a $ 1 million grant from Google.org, the internet giant's philanthropic wing, to The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, to start a project preserving the oral histories and human experiences of the people who stood up and fought back during those tense days in 1969.

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As human beings we are biologically programmed to build relationships and feel like we're part of a community with whom we gather and share experiences.

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Along the way, the whole realm of human emotion and community experience is chronicled, satirized, critiqued, and explored, with Kurosawa at the peak of his artistic powers.

Looking back after ten years» experience as a teacher and as a human, I see that my reaction to the event did nothing to help me, my students or the school community learn from the situation.

I present this dismal portrait of school as a reminder of the importance of relationships, human - centered experiences, and community.

Experiences show faster recovery in communities less affected by destructive violence in a meaning of loss of human lives as well as devastation of homes and economy.

Slower transformation and recovery of relational as well as other aspects of social life is evident in communities with bigger loss of human lives — the places deeply traumatized with horrible experiences of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

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