Haselden's profound disappointment with Johnson
found expression as early as May 1965.
The black community in America has confronted the reality of the historical situation as immutable, impenetrable, but this experience has not produced passivity; it has, rather,
found expression as forms of the involuntary and transformative nature of the religious consciousness.
It finds expression as well in the manifold religious traditions; all religions in some manner embody this basic faith in their beliefs, rituals and symbols.
In literary history, the notion
finds expression as an arduous venture in Cervantes» «Don Quixote» (1605) with his fight against windmills.
Not exact matches
This «fame» is more likely to get her Twitter feed noticed by future prospective employers, who can visit her feed to
find such gems
as «once a n *** a proves he cant b loyal drop him and save yourself before its too late,» and a number of similarly piquant
expressions that demonstrate the kind of personal brand she would be bringing to a prospective job.
«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self -
expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had
found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except
as a leech on the souls of others.»
The celebrated Orthodox sobornost» (variously rendered
as synodality, conciliarity, catholicity) needs to
find its concrete
expression in the church that gathers at the council.
Some scholars believe that Luther
found his distinctive answer to this question very early and that his development
as a theologian was mostly a matter of bringing his discovery to dear enough
expression that it finally provoked its inevitable conflict.
This particular item can perhaps be dismissed
as an oddity, but its appearance underlines the more general point that the most important intellectual and institutional
expressions of the Christian faith, including Rome and Canterbury, have
found almost nothing of value to say about the current Middle East crises, and more generally about the West's struggle against militant Islam and terrorism, and the terrifying possibilities now facing the entire civilized world.
The greatness and inviolability of a subject have never yet exempted those who endeavor to
find expression for it from the effort of giving their very best from the artistic point of view; and to fail to fulfill this demand when a religious subject of such a sublime nature
as the story of Our Lord is involved, is not merely an aesthetic sin.
For this reason we probably ought to distinguish between anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish thought — the former being that modern phenomenon all democratic persons are eager to combat; the latter the
expressions of hostility or dislike
found in earlier periods
as a result of the specific religious and historical role the Jews and their antagonists have played.
We look to it to assert a principled conservatism that may have various
expressions on prudential questions, and one of those principles ought to be the moral order
as conservatism's
founding fathers (Russell Kirk, for example) understood conservatism.
My revelatory commission forbade me to resort to extrahuman sources of either information or
expression until such a time
as I could testify that I had failed in my efforts to
find the required conceptual
expression in purely human sources.
Hence his selfhood
found its positive
expression in his role
as «sign» of the eschatological situation to the world.
Twenty centuries later, I think we are the ones who invest our ego in the church and make the church about our values, rather than seeing our relationship to Jesus
as finding expression in a community of believers — quite literally a new family.
Ranade agreed that «the Christian civilization which came to India from the West was the main instrument of renewal» of India which
finds expression in the new love of municipal freedom and civil virtues, aptitude for mechanical skill and love of science and research, chivalrous respect of womanhood etc.; and it is interesting that his lecture on his new concept of «Indian Theism» (a redefinition of Visishtadvaita in the light of Protestant Christian thought)
as the basis of national renewal of India was delivered in the chapel of the Wilson College Bombay.
Wherever we turn to the fullest and most total
expressions of modern imaginative vision,
as, for example, in Blake, Proust, and Joyce, we
find that a new and total world of vision is established and maintained only by way of a dissolution or reversal of our given selfhood.
The variety of concerns and issues
finding expression in these counter-testimonies contributes each in its own way to chipping away at a crumbling and increasingly uninhabitable edifice, suggesting valuable alternatives that merit consideration
as attempts at a new resolution are explored.
Statements affirming particular facts may be
found to have value
as pictorial
expressions of spiritual truths, even though the supposed facts themselves did not actually happen.
In talking with Buddhists, I
find a certain ambivalence
as to the
expression of compassion.
Marx's view of religion
as a failure of nerve, a rationalization of misery and injustice and a projection onto an otherworldly future of that which ought to be realized here, would seem in this hymn to
find quintessential
expression.
But it's almost
as if because I know what it's like, I
find myself more hesitant to say anything, slower to give any kind of
expression and less able to know how to best comfort.
I do indeed believe, but I believe
as one of a great company of men and women, from many ages, of all races and classes, rich and poor, simple and learned, who in one way or another have been drawn to
find the truest key to the meaning and purpose of human existence given focal
expression in Jesus Christ.
Yet the central
expression of this spirituality is
found in the celebration of the Eucharist, which he sees
as the proleptic sign of the future fellowship in the kingdom of God, which no political order can fulfill.
As it happens, I coined the original slogan in an attempt to keep together the western environmentalists and the Third World economists and church leaders; and of course I frowned when, subsequently, «the integrity of creation» was substituted, an
expression which scientists I know
find meaningless.
As Carl Dudley writes, «When church size is measured by human relationships, the small church is the largest
expression of the Christian faith,» And David Ray reminds us that «small churches are the norm, primarily because many, many people still
find them to be the right size In which to love God and neighbor.
This is because they are seen
as the results of the continued efforts by human beings to
find more relevant intellectual
expressions of God's revelation to them.
And yet we
find ourselves in the strongest agreement with the German scholar, Professor von Rad, whom we have cited before, in his own expressed feeling that after all, legend is not an adequate term, so long
as it is commonly understood simply
as a mixture of history and unrestrained popular imagination (one part history, nine parts imagination — our comment, not his) We much better understand legend
as a combination of history and meditation, and
as motivated primarily by a concern to give
expression to the meaning of history,
as that meaning is conveyed by the faith that God makes himself known therein.12
On the other hand, if we look at the Jewish scriptures in light of some of the more extreme
expressions coming from deep ecologists and others, we do
find an emphasis on discontinuity
as well.
Just
as linguistic
expressions lead us to anticipate certain experiences, so for Berkeley certain experiences or immediate ideas are «natural signs» of others,
as the sound of the coach is a sign of the sight of the approaching coach.8 The second realist version can be
found in the writings of Thomas Reid, for whom sensations are signs of external objects.
One of the best
expressions of his views on the spaciness of mind is to be
found in Reality
as Social Process.
He
finds current
expressions of both to be internally divisive
as well
as at odds with each other, usually based on a conservative / liberal split that weakens the effectiveness of both «civil religions,» and leaves the way open for secular ideologies including material success, radical individual freedom, and an amoral pragmatism.
A.: It is reasonable to hope that science and technology, along with other
expressions of human imagination and creativity, will
find progressively better solutions to our problems
as time goes on.
As a Catholic who strongly supports Pope Francis and views Rush Limbaugh beyond the limits of decency, I
find any
expressions of hate and desire for bodily harm or death even more repulsive than Rush's most vile comments.
It was inevitable that it should
find another mode of
expression, and this it did,
as we have already seen.
Prophetism is the total achievement of that unique movement spectacularly witnessed in concentrated power in the eighth, seventh, and sixth centuries, but developing from the time of Israel's birth
as a people out of Egypt and continuing to
find essential
expression in the final six or seven centuries of biblical time.
As far as the former is concerned we find a considerable amount of variableness in the nature, intensity, and color of the unifying, basic religious experience, shades or differences in theoretical (belief, myth, doctrine) and practical (worship, activities) expressio
As far
as the former is concerned we find a considerable amount of variableness in the nature, intensity, and color of the unifying, basic religious experience, shades or differences in theoretical (belief, myth, doctrine) and practical (worship, activities) expressio
as the former is concerned we
find a considerable amount of variableness in the nature, intensity, and color of the unifying, basic religious experience, shades or differences in theoretical (belief, myth, doctrine) and practical (worship, activities)
expression.
But
as mainline denominations moved away from dependence on revivals and mass evangelism, they came to apply the optimism of perfection more to the arena of social transformation than to the sphere of personal sanctification.17 The result was that Methodist devotion to entire sanctification had to
find expression outside the denomination in so - called Holiness groups.
This is apparent in Mark's «messianic secret» and
finds expression in the modern definition of the Gospels
as «passion narratives with long introductions».
Those principles were now either set aside
as irrelevant or accepted
as the spontaneous
expression of the new heart that he
found within himself
as the work of the Spirit.
There is a purpose plainly marked in the fact that we are born man and woman, and it was once understood that this purpose
found its
expression in marriage
as a blending of nature and law.
In broad outline, Hartshorne's dependence upon White - head
finds clearest
expression in his enthusiastic adoption of Whitehead's view of the universe
as essentially one of perpetual change and becoming.
At the same time he was indicating very profoundly what God is «up to» in the continual coming to men and women which
finds its climactic
expression in the event of Jesus Christ, so far
as Christian understanding is concerned, although we dare not be so exclusive or uncharitable
as to rule out other ways for other people «who know not the Lord Jesus.»
This kind of internal contradiction seems to run through much traditional theology; it
finds explicit
expression in Luther's dichotomy between the terrible God, who put him not only in awe but in utter terror, and the tender and loving God whom he knew in Jesus Christ
as the savior, the loving friend, and the gracious Father of men.
It would be unfair,
as well
as uncharitable, to exclude such worship from the tradition which in more catholic» circles
finds its
expression in Eucharist - proclamation worship.
Crucially important to Meland's enterprise is a recognition of myth
as the felt
expression of the depths of human culture, In his view, religious faith, and more particularly Christian faith,
finds embodiment and
expression not only in religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures
as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western men.
Daniel Dore quotes Peter Lengsfeld's excellent comment: «If someday a human
expression were
found to be directly and absolutely identical to the divine reality, such an
expression would be the insurpassable and definitive manifestation of God
as we expect to know him in heaven.
We often
find the
expression «I am poor and naked» («naked» not
as an
expression of this poverty, but in the sense of «weak»).
In Christian worship, therefore, we shall expect to
find the
expression of the peculiar affirmation and the special quality of the Christian faith and the responsive movement of man to God
as he reacts to God's action towards him.
In that year, the bishops of East and West gathered at the Second Council of Nicaea: a meeting which, apart from its importance for other reasons, is remembered
as the last occasion on which Christian faith,
as a lived reality recognized throughout the then - known world,
found expression in a universally representative gathering.