It is difficult to minister to the need
for affirmations with «truth is relative,» especially when relativism becomes one of those analytic monsters like absolutism.
Not exact matches
Olympus Corp ended up 6.6 percent to 1,985 yen, reaching the 2,000 - line at one point
for the first time since October 2011, after UBS Securities started its coverage
with a «buy» rating and a target price of 3,000 yen as the company on Monday submitted to the Tokyo Stock Exchange a written
affirmation on the internal control system as stipulated in the securities listing regulations.
When compared to the 22 % who would invest
with no prior or given information, this is a concrete
affirmation of the importance of crowdfunding portals
for both ends of the deal.
Narcissism combines an exaggerated sense of one's own abilities and achievements
with a constant need
for attention,
affirmation, and praise.
We also find groups of Christians who search the Bible
for affirmation of what they already think, turning to hatred and violence instead of looking
for information and a deeper relationship
with God.
I realized this as I reflected on these texts — Solomon's prayer
for wisdom rather than riches, Jesus» parables of treasure and pearl and fishes, and Paul's
affirmation that God works
for good
with (or
for) those who love him.
In this fearless, funny, and refreshingly relatable chronicle of her own metamorphosis from the insecurity that once held her captive, author Kayla Aimee unfolds the blueprint
for women to identify the deep - seated sources of our assumed inadequacy and replace them
with steadfast truths of
affirmation and replace our need
for approval
with the promise of an enduring acceptance.
Many women have responded by listening, and
with affirmation and encouragement, jus as Sian has done
with saying she longs to be critiqued, does not want to have critique held back from her
for her being a woman and was appropriate in affirming the critique of the «feminist» interpretation of scripture I made as described.
In the aftermath of an unfathomable tragedy, both Jews and Christians must do what God requires of His covenanted Israel» work
with redoubled effort
for the
affirmation of life.
On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong
for religion's advocate to confound the object of this
affirmation with the modalities of the
affirmation; it is wrong
for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness;
with greater reason it is wrong
for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.
In a briefing, sent out ahead of the meeting, the Church said the Synod would look at «the liturgy
for Affirmation of Baptismal Faith, contained in the Common Worship service book, may be used
with people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.»
Even if we can not pray
for some of these goals
with much
affirmation — even if we find ourselves praying
for the salvation of liberals before Christ returns, or the redirection of evangelical social concern to its proper sphere of evangelism and world mission, or the disappearance of the electronic church — God will answer our prayers,
with corrections if necessary, and will either change our minds or the minds of those
for whom we are praying.
Such
affirmations of endless development in the divine consequent nature can not be reconciled
with Kraus's interpretation of God as eternally complete in every respect, and another interpretation of God's being always in concrescence and never in the past» is called
for.
Furthermore, theological
affirmations regarding the divinely appointed vocation of each individual coincide
with concern
for the civil and human rights of each person born into the world, no matter how conceived.
The physical need
for release of sexual tension is intertwined
with a variety of psychological needs:
for the security and warmth of body - closeness and stroking;
for feeling loved, nurtured, cared about;
for affirmation of one's masculinity or femininity.
Thus believing theology can begin its work by taking
for granted a system of theological concepts and
affirmations with a proved scientific basis.
Rather, it is in the sure
affirmation of faith that
with God and in God, everything is
for ever safe — and safe in the one way in which it can be enduringly secure, namely in God's valuing and receiving it into the divine life, to be treasured there
for ever.
There are four
affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree,
with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3)
for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified
for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end
for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.
It must offer a formula
for a new world mind
with spiritual ends, involving evangelical
affirmations in political, economic, sociological, and educational realms, local and international.
Karl Barth himself perhaps even fell into an exaggerated identification of a political cause
with the cause of Christ in some of his writings during the war.54 In any case the Christian
affirmation is that the reign of Christ involves a demand
for justice and freedom throughout the whole of life.
Why do we hear that as a perilous
affirmation fraught
with exclusion rather than a suggestion of the right path
for Thomas and the disciples,
with us as present company included?
He develops a hopeful new vision
for Muslims that is based on
affirmations of what is right
with Islam and
with the U.S.
For Karl Barth man always appears to remain on the knife edge between the love of God and the abyss of damnation.24 Reinhold Niebuhr holds that we are redeemed from sin in principle, but whether we are redeemed in fact is not made clear.25 Christ, he says, is our hope, not our possession.26 And again he suggests that only in the moment of prayer can man really love God and his neighbor
with the love which Christ has shown to us.27 Emil Brunner comes closer to positive
affirmation of the new life of the man to whom the love of God has come
with power.
Nonetheless, the
affirmation will not be evaded that the biblical influence has been, and is, of a more potent sort;
for it strongly grips human emotions, the driving force in achievement, and sets them aflame
with a supreme ideal which by its very loftiness thrills and mocks us.
And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate
for themselves its central
affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated
with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible
with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor
with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.
This
affirmation is certainly not affected at all by the proposal that our universe is, somewhat mysteriously, inter-connected
with other ones, and argues, a posteriori,
for an immediately complimentary, creative mind which founds and sustains its order across space and time.
Thank you
for the
affirmation about other's thinking what they want and if they are not cool
with you being yourself you can be cool
with who you are.
When «The Gift of Salvation» speaks of «needlessly divisive disputes» between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals, it does not refer to the many weighty theological matters on which we still conscientiously disagree, such as sacramental theology, Marian devotion, purgatory, etc. «The Gift of Salvation» takes note of these matters, referring to them as «serious and persistent differences» which are «necessarily interrelated»
with the
affirmations we have made in common, and are thus future agenda items
for us.
Lausanne, and Rome
with regard to the understanding of salvation comes at three points - the
affirmation of its comprehensive nature, thc recognition of the eschatological basis
for historical action, and the understanding of the church as a sign and bearer of salvation.55
This answer begins
with an
affirmation of the pre-existence of Jesus: When Jesus ascended to the Father after his resurrection (
for by the end of the first century, or soon afterward, resurrection and exaltation, originally one event, have been distinguished from each other [It hardly needs to be pointed out that there is no ascension in Paul.
No good purpose is served by concealing this fact, as is often done today when things that are really incompatible are combined by the following type of over-simplified reasoning: that whatever in early Christian teaching appears to us irreconcilable
with the immortality of the soul, viz. the resurrection of the body, is not an essential
affirmation for the first Christians but simply an accommodation to the mythological expressions of the thought of their time, and that the heart of the matter is the immortality of the soul.
God, as chief causative principle and as supreme affect, is «in this world or he is nowhere»; biblical material, and in relation to it Christian liturgical and hymnological imagery,
with the theological articulation of this, intend to make
affirmations which are to be found in the pictures and forms and myths — and these we must seek to make meaningful and valid
for ourselves in our present existence; man is an «embodied» and a social occasion or series (or «routing») of occasions, organic to the world of nature, and can only truly live as he lives in due recognition of these facts and sees them as integral to himself.
But when this becomes linked
with an excessive hunger
for affirmation, one may lose candor and misplace truth.
It's just a small incarnational moment, hardly worth noticing
for most of the world, but
for me, this was a metaphor moment of life in the Kingdom, life in the glorious truth of worship in spirit and truth, Jesus - shaped leadership as servanthood, and so our family's lighting of another candle within community,
with their
affirmation and prayers and participation, pushed back just a bit more of the darkness, and then we scattered back out again.
Implicit in that
affirmation is the suggestion that the issue is not settled even
for us settled secure North Americans, but is an open question
with risks.
A theology of redemption combines
affirmation of human creativity in the purpose of God and deliverance from human sinfulness to release humans
for their vocation of cooperation
with God in continuous new creativity.
In any event, and
with all respect to a distinguished scholar - cardinal who has been kind enough to praise my own work on John Paul II and from whose books I have profited over the years, it does seem to me that Cardinal Kasper's analogy between his proposal on Holy Communion
for the divorced and civilly remarried, and the development of Catholic self - understanding that led to Vatican II's
affirmation of religious freedom, just doesn't work.
Blake's fusion of the holiness tradition of ministering to the poor and oppressed
with concern
for national issues has garnered a statement of
affirmation from Catholic scholars.
Please hear that David, but I did find your laughing in
affirmation at Gary's comment a little not in keeping
with what I think is the good
for the most part that you do here.
That basic theological
affirmation does not settle many complex issues of public policy, but it does provide an essential framework
for grappling
with them.
By beginning,
with affirmation of what you appreciate in each other you provide a positive context
for facing the unmet needs in your relationship.
His message that skin color is as nothing compared
with content of character was both an
affirmation of equality
for blacks and an olive branch to whites worried about the possibility of reverse racism.
Often this is avoided
with an explicit
affirmation that its ability to provide resources
for the economy has no practical limits.
One could note in passing that if pleasure is received
with gratitude - to God, to one's spouse - this is already a significant step towards purifying it of self - centredness,
for gratitude is always a coming out of self and an
affirmation of the other.
It is important
for an
affirmation of the human soul congruent
with our best contemporary knowledge to be introduced to challenge these implicitly dehumanizing ideas.
Christians can add to this therapeutic insight the
affirmation that part of the capacity
for God is the capacity to recognize the beautiful, and this recognition is itself an encounter
with transcendence that beautifies and heals.
But when we confess our faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, we make a particular
affirmation: We are calling people to recognize in the events of Golgotha and of the garden tomb, the redeeming and saving power of God
with consequences
for all humankind.9
From its Ockhamite beginning, as Pinckaers writes, «freedom of indifference was... impregnated
with a secret passion
for self -
affirmation.»
Ironically, Hart ends
with an eloquently simple
affirmation of what might be called capitalism's original position: «the community that exists wherever one person trades one «gift»
for another.»
Yet even among those who manifested such tendencies, there was a concern
for maintaining the other side of these
affirmations; there was an insistence that man is made in the image of God, that Christ is one
with his human brethren, and that God is at work in his world here and now.