Sentences with phrase «for contemplation in»

Rhoades» work explicitly addressed religion, commerce, sex, and racial and gender stereotypes, offering these subjects for contemplation in the form of maximalist installation.

These colleagues focus me and serve as a sounding board and support network for my contemplations in the classroom.

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What's done during that alone time - the grinding, the planning, the long solitude - allow for contemplation and careful consideration, and it's in this area that introverts excel.

He grew up here and for the last 10 years he decided to be in Cambridge, therefore any contemplation that the body should be taken to a home country....

He also founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an organization that encourages acts of justice rooted in prayer and respect for other religious traditions.

In another two years he's looking forward to «contemplation» in his nice home, where he lives alone and where everything he needs will be provided for him until he dieIn another two years he's looking forward to «contemplation» in his nice home, where he lives alone and where everything he needs will be provided for him until he diein his nice home, where he lives alone and where everything he needs will be provided for him until he dies.

Although certainly useful for developing Catholic thought about beauty, the particular strength and importance of Poetry, Beauty, and Contemplation rests in Trapani's ability to show how Maritain's aesthetics have significance beyond strictly philosophical or theological domains.

I wish I had been wise enough to honor the genuine tension in their faces and their sincere contemplation of perfect attendance for the Lord.

Which makes me wonder why in the world you would want to hang around a blog where the primary subject for contemplation is God.

Morris learned to say a daily Office, be quiet in contemplation and engage in Lectio Divina (Latin for divine reading).

Next, looking back to the introduction of contemplation in the sport chapter, worship is understood as flowing from a response to the reality that is, and the Mass is seen as fulfilling the human search (evident in the history of religious rites) for the right way to worship.

Without further qualification, the capacities cultivated in theological schooling could just as well be capacities for «doing» contemplation or capacities for specific affections as they could be capacities for intentional bodily action and discursive reasoning.

For one who is capable of accomplishing something for others is not regarded by the edifying contemplation as in the strictest sense a sufferFor one who is capable of accomplishing something for others is not regarded by the edifying contemplation as in the strictest sense a sufferfor others is not regarded by the edifying contemplation as in the strictest sense a sufferer.

The point for us is that for these two 20th century professors — as much as for any mystic wrapped in contemplation in some more remote ashram — the inevitability of death brought one face to face with the question of whether his existence had any point.

Joseph Fessio notes: «It's about heart change, an «integral ecology» that recognizes that «We are not God» and proposes «redefining our notion of progress» and adopting a «responsible simplicity of life, in grateful contemplation of God's world, and in concern for the needs of the poor and the protection of the environment.

The problem is most people do not appear to think things through, even many Christians do not comprehend they must examine themselves not only in prayer, but in contemplation of God's self - revelation in Scripture and what His Will is for us at this moment.

The speech assessment exercise became one more action in the service of «contemplation»; it pointed to an individual's need for «perfection» or «purification» by getting minimal instruction in «effectiveness» before studying the more complex, theological act of preaching.

My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.

He does not call for any simple return to a metaphysic which downplays the goods of worldly life in comparison to theoretical contemplation, religious devotion, or civic participation.

Merton was anxious to erase the earlier conception of the Trappist that he himself had helped so create in Seven Storey Mountain: «The man who spurned New York, spat on Chicago, and tromped on Louisville, heading for the woods with Thoreau in one pocket, John of the Cross in another, and holding the Bible open to the Apocalypse» (Contemplation in a World of Action, p. 159).

For ancient philosophers, the dignity of contemplation lay in its fulfillment of our longing for truFor ancient philosophers, the dignity of contemplation lay in its fulfillment of our longing for trufor truth.

No longer was there a higher kind of life as there had been for the ancients, a life devoted either to theoretical contemplation or to participation in the public activities of a citizen.

In those spaces of contemplation, care for the Earth and constant work toward being present, we find the true gifts of Advent despite consumerism and colonization.

With the aid of a facilitator, staff members review the year and prepare for the coming year in an atmosphere of contemplation.

The musterion [a Greek word that can also be translated sacrament] is something so rich in intelligible content, so inexhaustibly full of delectation for the mind that no contemplation [of it] can ever reach its end.»

In the last paragraph of the Third Meditation, one notices a direct reference to Catholic instruction: «For, as the faith teaches us, the supreme happiness of the other life consists in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42In the last paragraph of the Third Meditation, one notices a direct reference to Catholic instruction: «For, as the faith teaches us, the supreme happiness of the other life consists in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42in this life» (42).

But if it should as objects for the contemplation of the intellect but its objectification in actions and deeds that become embodied in the flesh and blood life of the reader, it will in turn realize a new potentiality: the transformation of the reader's self and the world to which that self belongs.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

He said there's no higher education in America, because there's no class of people freed from work for leisurely contemplation.

It's important for me to spend time in contemplation, discovery, and in practice, learning what I purpose or intend when I am afforded that sacred public space.

In as far as thework of the demiurge is successful, it is completely transparent to contemplation for the essence of things allows for an exhaustive rational understanding, as they arise from a (finite) intelligence which has informed matter.

In the moment of contemplation it stood out so distinctly before him, so clearly, that the Good, in truth, has all the advantage on its side, that the Good, in truth, is a gain both for this and for the future lifIn the moment of contemplation it stood out so distinctly before him, so clearly, that the Good, in truth, has all the advantage on its side, that the Good, in truth, is a gain both for this and for the future lifin truth, has all the advantage on its side, that the Good, in truth, is a gain both for this and for the future lifin truth, is a gain both for this and for the future life.

For Dupré, Western culture's acquiescence in the materialist and positivist view of creation has resulted in such a profound neglect of the transcendent life that references to contemplation, meditation or mysticism only bring smiles of condescension or else incomprehension.

My goal was to mix family - friendly activities with ideas for contemplation, giving, and prophetic action in response to injustice.

Too many have accepted the popular «neo-orthodox» idea that contemplation and mysticism have no place in the Christian life; on the contrary, they have a real place and an important one; and for those who may be called by God to this particular mode of communion with him, there is a great blessing and a wonderful gift.

This soldier refused to spend time in quiet contemplation (like everyone else who is not Christan) thus showing open contempt for all the other soldiers.

Questions of calling were being played out among people who in some cases pieced together two or three part - time jobs, and who, with less time for leisure and contemplation, were making ethical and moral decisions that rendered absurd our late - night conversations at the student coffee shop.

This being so, the more I consider the fundamental question of the future of the earth, the more it appears to me that the generative principle of its unification is finally to be sought, not in the sole contemplation of a single Truth or in the sole desire for a single Thing, but in the common attraction exercised by a single Being.

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity

Both someone who requires evidence to make claims about belief and also sits in contemplation of what a risen Savior means for humanity.

In any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall seIn any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein «vocal» prayer, as we shall see.

Distributists allege that their principles, when adopted and carried to their term, are ordered to the most noble of ends, which culminate in the very contemplation for which the human person is created.

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

Friar was used for the modern orders of men who were committed to working in society, and to «passing on the fruits of contemplation», and were frequently moved from one friary to another.

[10] The Christian life, in short, is construed as mainly a life spent actively preparing by disciplined loving for a future fulfillment of our humanity in a perfect contemplation of the unchanging God.

And it is the Scriptures that I am concerned with — not biblical texts as records of discrete historical times, but rather the Bible as a coherent unit, brought together under the auspices of the Holy Spirit and fitted in God's providence for leading Christians to the contemplation of the Triune God as revealed in the text, the Church, and the world.

Oord concludes that for Augustine, «God ceaselessly loves Godself in contemplation and enjoyment in the Trinity's inner life.»

But in a quick reaction, Ojudu said as a loyalist of the APC, there was no contemplation on the platform where he hopes to contest for the governorship seat.

«Ultimately artist Anthony Goicolea's design was recommended by the Commission and selected as a result of the circular layout and permanency of the bronze stones that expressed the uncompromised strength of LGBT community, marries well within the sites natural environment, invites sitting and contemplation and stands for equality, fairness, justice, and equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens,» the state parks department said in its statement.