Sentences with phrase «forming of a new community»

But Christ's coming had issued in the forming of a new community, a social event, and Augustine insists that the City of God is a corporate body, an association of believers.

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The videos would eventually form a history, a chronicle of how the New York City startup community develops over time.

Developed by local design firm Myron Creative, the new logo features bold, interwoven lines that form the shape of a «V» — intended to represent the connected and inclusive nature of not just our organization, but the Greater Vancouver business community.

While this cohort of entrepreneurs forms the core of the MaRS Commons community, other active and aspiring entrepreneurs from the broader web and mobile startup community will join them to network, learn and engage with the advisors in the Commons — the second key element of this new community.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

Since then, many new forms of social media have burst onto the scene, including blogs, podcasts, video, virtual communities, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Periscope, and many many others.

This unleashed a wave of other cryptocurrencies also known as alt - coins, and a whole new community of computer experts formed who were inspired to share a spirit of exploration and experimentation which lead to the first wave startups utilizing bitcoin blockchain technology.

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

The newest and most pernicious form of narrative is the turn to the idea that universities have the «civic mission» to transform political dialogue by activist illumination of community deliberation.

It was the form of Catholicism that withstood the onslaught of the French Revolution, giving birth to new religious communities and new missionary energies.

On top of testing their faith, the plant has also been a steep learning curve for the couple — settling their young children into a new city, forming a fledgling church community and learning how to lead together.

By maintaining the integrity of the Christian community in the face of the dominant culture, churches can rediscover the means to embrace new members from the margins of their culture, forming a commonwealth in exile, a distinct and enticing place of renewal.

Can the communities of the poor which are irrupting throughout the Third World be the basis for a new «people's theology» which seek to liberate humanity from all forms of oppression: poverty, servitude, racism, sexism, and the like?

They search for new forms of community but tend to be wary of authority figures and particularly of leaders... The young neotraditionalists also have an almost intuitive attraction to liturgy, ritual, and symbol as forms of knowledge that complement the dominant rational, scientific one.»

At the core are those actually experimenting in a serious and disciplined way with new forms of community and symbolic expression.

A negative attitude toward established American economic and political institutions is clearer among those practicing oriental disciplines than among those who are drawn into new forms of Christian community.

«Although some notable New Testament scholars affirm traditional Johannine scholarship, the majority do not believe that John or one of the Apostles wrote it, and trace it instead to a «Johannine community» which traced its traditions to John; the gospel itself shows signs of having been composed in three «layers», reaching its final form about 90 - 100 AD.»

We must construct new models, new pageantry, new hymns, new forms of prayer, new anthems of praise, new dramatizations, in which, for example, the labor movement may be caught up in the embrace of religion, the peace movement, the civic conscience, the community spirit, the family and every great aspiration of our time.

And while there are signs of hope to be found in renewal movements and new forms of Catholic community across the continent, the continued embrace of Catholic Lite by too many western European Catholic leaders and intellectuals bodes ill for a European Catholicism that can inspire Europe to reject demographic suicide and rediscover the joy of creating the future through having children.

My encouragement to you is to not worry too much about which forms new followers choose to keep or cast aside, but to focus on developing the transforming life of Christ inside them (breath and reality) and let the Spirit show them how to express what's inside in a way their community can understand.

Dissatisfaction with older forms stemmed also from a new understanding of worship and community.

Out of such a commitment to discover the sources of their power, women have been able to be creative in the conceptualization of new forms of community and relationship.

Many also feel the need of new forms of community, often for a community based on shared beliefs and lifestyles.

For a time the new Christian churches were started within the Jewish synagogues and contained a large proportion of Jews; the form of organisation adopted for each community seems to have followed, within limits, the Jerusalem pattern.

The New Monastics are present day communities of Christians, living in the corners of the American empire, living and hoping for a new and radical form of Christian practiNew Monastics are present day communities of Christians, living in the corners of the American empire, living and hoping for a new and radical form of Christian practinew and radical form of Christian practice.

The new community which was forming around him must henceforth be his family: «Here are my mother and my brothers; whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, my mother.»

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

The downside is that this type of development is directly destructive of existing community and works against the development of new forms of community.

As such, it will require of us new understandings of religious community and new holistic forms of Christian education.

This reappearance of the religious in the midst of secular society — and in forms far different from our traditional religious communions — raises as well, of course, a host of vital theological issues that can not be ignored: What is the relation of Christianity (or of Judaism) to these new and old religious communities?

«There was the search for community, whether in parachurch groups or forms of communal life; a quest for ecstasy or an alternate form of consciousness along with a disillusionment about Western rationalism; and, thirdly, a search for new forms of healing.»

New relationships of imagination, of justice, of dialogue must be formed in the midst of a pluralistic world and new forms of relating, teaching and community building will have to be developNew relationships of imagination, of justice, of dialogue must be formed in the midst of a pluralistic world and new forms of relating, teaching and community building will have to be developnew forms of relating, teaching and community building will have to be developed.

In the creation of a new egalitarian community, the church as a counter — public of justice names a space in which ways of justice are modeled and formed.

That's why so many ex-church goers are looking for new forms of community.

Furthermore the recent World Youth Day provided a great example of many young people well formed in their faith, especially by new communities and movements.

In part the realization of the Church community in the New World waits on the development of institutions able to give it form and wholeness; in part the institutionalization in denominations expresses the variety and unity characteristic of the community on this part of the planet.

(42) As more members of the Church community throughout the world use and understand the varied technologies of information - sharing and interconnecting we may well empower new cornmunities — i.e., new forms of conununio.

It is a tragic feature of the contemporary West that the Jews have so often been invoked as a convenient stand - in for the evils wrought by elites afraid of community — a typical response of those who would attempt to sacralize an ethnic community in order to form a new chosen people, as described by David P. Goldman.

It breaks open every present form for the sake of a new, and more inclusive community of meaning.

There are some couples who do think with the mind of the Church, but they are highly likely to be people who have been catechised and spiritually formed through one of the new movements or evangelical communities.

The Jesus Family shared most marks of the Jesus People Movement, but tried to get new Jesus - followers to settle in local churches rather than forming separate communities.

The struggle of the Christian community to adjust itself to the new situation in the American scene is clearly illustrated by the emergence of the Church - State issue in a radical form after World War II.

This implies the establishment of a new relationship of one's self with his total world, the creation of a new depth of community, or in fact a form of «communication».

The Jewish community to which he belonged was by now so wedded to the written form of the old heritage, that it could not tolerate the thought of a new prophet, proclaiming something new.

But the new forms of communication require to redefine some of the ways by which community comes into being, and to fashion communication processes which include the feedback and mutuality essential to community and to the life of its members.

Biblically literate women looked to scripture to justify their changing situation, especially in the churches.25 Gabriele Dietrich emphasizes three points which are important in our context from the Jesus Movement26: firstly, the Jesus Movement was critical of the existing patriarchal family structure and created new forms of community; secondly, it was egalitarian in terms of class with a bias in favor of the poor; and, thirdly, it provided for a participation of women which was far reaching and unusual under the conditions of the time.27

People have already begun to sense the need for new forms of community.

We can seek out all the kinds of community life for their own sake, and wherein we might sustain older cultural forms or even come up with new ones.

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

In which I both challenge the trans community to face up to the implications of their own logic and, in honor of the season of goodwill, selflessly offer the New Left a helping hand by coining a term for a novel and pernicious form of oppression.