Sentences with phrase «for the wholeness of»

It matters not whether we be conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist; in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ in his Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.

And the finality of Jesus Christ, in whom true God is active for the wholeness of men, consists in his endless fertility; as a modern saint has put it, «He is adequate,» and his adequacy is not for us alone but for all men everywhere and at every time.

Reaching for the wholeness of Scripture is to read each text in the canonical context, not to see it as an atomic unit all alone but as a member of the divinely willed body of the canon such that the light of every part is shed on all the rest.

When it has passed beyond what we called at the beginning its «critical point of socialization'the mass of Mankind, let this be my conclusion, will penetrate for the first time into the environment which is biologically requisite for the wholeness of its task.

But if presented as simply engendered by nature and need and not as a faith in the faithfulness of God — that is, as trust in its object — it is distorted into a psychological reassurance, or degraded into some sort of bonding agent which can then be exploited as a necessary adhesive for the wholeness of the personality.

In his writings and speeches, he stressed the importance of the secular for the wholeness of the church's life and mission.

Christianity is not the simple religion of God's Fatherhood and man's brotherhood, but rather the religion which finds God come to men for their wholeness of life in the person of Jesus Christ; and therefore finds in Him, in who He was, in what He did, in who He is, and in what He does, and in the consequences of those things, the whole substance.

All that has taken place elsewhere can now be seen in a fresh way, as the work of the same God who for us men and for our wholeness of life was made man in the life of a brother Man.

Here there is entrance into the «benefits» — the results made available for the lives of men — which Christ's life, death, and resurrection effected and which gave rise to the specifically Christian claim that he is God's Son, that One in whom True God dwells supremely in a true man, for the wholeness of all men.

It is not that the gospel adds anything to the sacrament, or the sacrament adds anything to the gospel; it is simply that they belong together, that together they make one thing — and that one thing is the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom God so richly and truly dwelt for the wholeness of men.

The gospel is the proclamation that God is active in the Man Jesus, is self - expressed there, for the wholeness of men.

Throughout some of the bigger challenges in my life with my athletic career and disordered eating, my autoimmune disease, and losing my dad, I've learned that I am able to experience so much more joy and contentment when striving for the wholeness of life over striving solely for happiness.

Hagler, who was Noel's student, writes that «Scott always encouraged in me a love for the wholeness of perception, I would even say the wholeness of existence, accepting even that which is problematic, in the world and in myself, and integrating it and shaping it to try to produce an artwork which is so much more than a mimetic image, but under the best of circumstances becomes a fictionalized embodiment of reality that embraces a more complicated beauty and somehow, deep inside, rings true.»

Not exact matches

In a world in which all barriers to action and expression have been crushed, we are no longer open to Bonhoeffer's quiet but firm recognition when he writes: «The peculiar fact that we lower our eyes when a stranger's eye meets our gaze is not a sign of remorse for a fault, but a sign of that shame which, when it knows that it is seen, is reminded of something it lacks, namely, the lost wholeness of life, its own nakedness.

So the term agnostic or «Not Knowing» describes for me the process of giving up the need to know, so that I can take in the wholeness of that moment of awareness.

and there is a sacrament for each stage of life, linking its great moments to God through holy rites that communicate wholeness.

Discipline is reorientation to love and shalom and wholeness for all of us.

What would that child have to do to make you choose to be separated from him / her for eternity — when you had the power to heal their brokenness and restore him / her to wholeness and loving relationship with you and the rest of humanity — and eternity to wait for them to respond to your love?

I think it would surprise and amaze and intrigue the world, giving a glimpse of what God intended for wholeness within the body of Christ — and it would be a sigh of «finally at last» from the Holy Spirit.

Happiness isn't the only metric for wholeness, but it should be one of our concerns.

In # 4, you say that there is an unseen wholeness to everything: for years, physicists have been searching for what they call the «unified theory,» one theory that will explain the physical properties of the universe and not break down at the very small or very large levels.

It is itself related to at least three other feelings arising during the playtime — a sense of personal unity and wholeness, a gratefulness for the «common world» of the play community, and a recognition of life's fundamental sacredness.

For Keen, the dis - eased person as Homo Faber is the individual who has destroyed both human wholeness and the possibility for new life by denying the «feminine» in favor of the «masculine.&raqFor Keen, the dis - eased person as Homo Faber is the individual who has destroyed both human wholeness and the possibility for new life by denying the «feminine» in favor of the «masculine.&raqfor new life by denying the «feminine» in favor of the «masculine.»

A clergyman functions as a preacher when he proclaims Christ, the significance of Christ for men, and the need for acceptance of Christ as bringing wholeness of life; he is to preach for repentance and for participation in the Church which is the setting for the gospel.

It is simply not true that the gospel of God in Jesus Christ for man's wholeness stands or falls with this biblical picture of the world.

In that gray area debate rages, choices are complicated, and human beings wrestle with a conflict between a search for wholeness and a reality of guilt.

They truly are a prophetic voice for peace and wholeness and the kingdom of God as a sisterhood.

For Bonhoeffer, the perfection of being is achieved through the transformation of human life by the redemptive activity of the transcendent God, who identified himself with human beings in order to effect wholeness.

God's acceptance of us and his guidance for us helps us to reintegrate broken parts of our humanity, once again restored to wholeness.

For sex to be sacrament of wholeness, it must be shared inside a relationship that is special and loving.

Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.

Thus counseling and spiritual healing methods are complementary instruments for enhancing the wholeness of persons.

What this means for the minister as counselor, is the importance both of striving for inner wholeness for oneself and of looking at one's counselees and parishioners as whole persons, individuals who are free to grow into whatever their own potential dictates rather than according to some arbitrary cultural or religious standards of «femininity» and «masculinity.»

And in the preaching of the gospel this same notion frequently shows itself, when the minister who proclaims in Christ the action of God for man's wholeness puts our Lord in a total isolation from other men in whom something of the divine activity is at work.

But, from his clinical experience, he developed a theory of personality that provides resources which are useful for facilitating growth in people all along the continuum of wholeness.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

The implicate order is the proposal of another order which will be suitable for this unbroken wholeness, not the Cartesian order.

The doctrine of inspiration implies belief in the coherence, if not tight uniformity, of Scripture and commits us to the quest for canonical wholeness.

It is simply the case that sexual relations are «natural» to «embodied» life, and so may be (and indeed usually are) necessary for the wholeness and fulfillment of individuals no matter what their marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identification may be.

We worked for a sense of wholeness, a new perspective on the self, a feeling of internal, personal goodness.

Beyond the anger — if we can keep on talking to each other long enough — awaits a relationship between the sexes which can provide the basis for a benevolent society and fullness (wholeness) of life for everyone.

For the sake of its own wholeness, the church needs the encounter with Judaism.

The ethical consequences of such a christology are manifold; for it at once denies us, as a paradigm of wholeness, a Christ - figure morally impeccable in his unique and lonely perfection, and it gives us a model of moral integrity achieved through an ongoing struggle towards depth and truth in all of his relationships.

The point of this story is the struggle for wholeness through becoming further wounded.

A sense of the deep roots in our tradition of passion for personality wholeness can help the mental health concern catch fire in a local congregation.

Yet it is also the case, as the next section will seek to show, that to men and women who need a Lord whom they can adore, a «Pattern» (as Kierkegaard put it) they can follow, and a Savior who will bring them wholeness of life when they know and acknowledge their selfishness and sin, Christ is God's supreme Deed for us and for our salvation.

Such an awareness is impossible if and so long as the other is for me the detached object of my contemplation or observation, for he will not thus yield his wholeness and its centre.

The gains from differentiation are balanced against the need for wholeness and variety in the development of personality.

Just for these reasons scientific method is not qualified to find the wholeness of man.

And he couples the recognition that true freedom comes only from personal wholeness with the assertion that freedom is only of value as a springboard for responsibility and communion.