The Christian faith can be good news in all the variety
of human situations, but to be so it will find many modes of expression.
Of course such dissemination of information can never be a substitute for Christian living, for Christian witness to the truth and Christian ways of coping
with human situations.
They have no time to assess the worth of what has been accomplished, still less to value it in relation to the
total human situation.
We live in a time in which the
entire human situation must be explored, a time in which our perspective must move from the particular to the universal.
Third, the preacher had failed to associate what he was saying with this man's point of concern or, in fact, with any
other human situation.
It is not accidental that the mainstream of Western theological tradition seems to have had so little to say about the
empirical human situation.
Unless we have some standards beyond the
immediate human situation, the most we can do is to help fit a man into the existing social fabric.
Men may have their visions, but they are required to work them out in the everyday stuff
of human situations.
Hence the use of critical study for the recovery of the revelatory power of testimony is a matter of close attention to how the various genres work: to what they do say and what they do not say, and therefore to the great variety of
human situations in which testimony has been borne.
Unless we are totally blind to
human situations as they really exist, we can not avoid the conclusion that without a revolutionary quality of living the human race is doomed to an endless process of unproductive suffering or even of total extinction.
Transcendence, thus, refers to the transformation the sovereign and eternal God has effected upon the
concrete human situation in terms of reconciliation, redemption, the restoration of health, the healing of social and political divisions etc..
This trailer — which is more of a single scene preview than a traditional jumble of «moments» — imagines a normal
human situation where two police officers attempt to get details of the number plate of a supposed felon, and then replace the humans with animals.
Making education contextual means recognizing that 1) theology involves responding to the living God in
diverse human situations; 2) theology involves specific practices as much as it does religious concepts and experiences; and 3) theological education requires attention to personal formation and not simply the learning of specialized lore and skills.
Without the Christian revelation, without a point of reference which lies beyond the
present human situation, I can not myself see that any really cogent argument can be advanced against materialism.
Newbigin's contention, with which I wholeheartedly agree, is that «a standpoint outside the
real human situation of knowing subjects» is not available to us, and consequently Christianity is always received and transmitted within existing particular structures of life and thought, as is also the case with the tradition of scientific rationality.
In that context, the charitable reading of the tweet is that Father Spadaro was reminding us of the obvious — that pastoral care is an art, and that the priest dealing with complicated and
messy human situations is not like a first - grade teacher drilling six - year olds in addition.
If Christian love is supposed to be «doormat - like» in its meekness and gentleness, in many
existing human situations it does not have a chance to get started at all.
The need to use physical force, the need to bring people slap up against the consequence of their own wrong - doing, and sometimes the need to deflate them drastically are undoubtedly called for by
certain human situations, but as methods they are only part of a much bigger whole.
There are rapid sketches of
typical human situations: fishermen picking over their catch, children quarrelling in the market place, a son watching his father at work and learning his craft by imitation.
Within this larger spectrum of the general
human situation there appears to be at least two elemental factors with which the practice of relational power must wrestle in its struggle to create individuals and groups of larger size.
The first answer to the
sinful human situation was God's grace expressed in Christ as the Truth (Son of God and second Adam).
In the nature of the
complex human situation of which we are a part it must be understood that there are aspects and dimensions of truth which are vital to man's well - being on which science has nothing to say.
God entered sinlessly and victoriously our
full human situation in the life of Jesus in such a way that he can also enter into and become victorious in any human life, if he is understood and accepted.
Here we have no piece of theocratic history or myth, but a straightforward, and so far as we can judge, faithful account of a
very human situation on which so much hung for the future of Israel.
Yet, in light of the gospel and of our
current human situation, we might better say that while responsible love and sexual expression can not be sundered, procreation and sex can not be irrevocably joined.
These characters are almost make - believe,... but then they get put into these incredibly real,
incredibly human situations and they react in incredibly human ways, and I think that's what pulls you down to earth into the «Juno» world, which is so out there.
As writer Christoph Danelzik - Brüggemann says in the book Intersections: «In parallel with a continued emphasis on
striking human situations, in landscapes he developed a visual language that accorded more meaning to space than to time.
Apple was the first to implement an improvement after a JAMA study showed how poorly equipped virtual assistants are in handling
dramatic human situations.
Wisdom, cleverness, experience and psychological «know - how» are all useful tools in dealing
with human situations, but unless they are used by love no situation is permanently changed and no human attitude radically altered.
What it does demand is that we shall live as what we are, that is, as those who participate in the
total human situation and thus live not only with, but from and by and for, others.
The
universal human situation is described in the self - contained tales of the Garden of Eden (3), the Brothers Cain and Abel (4), the Flood (6 - 9), and the Tower of Babel (11).
Every profound theory of the atonement has its existential aspect, that is, its way of expressing the
concrete human situation and what redeems us from futility.
In the last four centuries mans s cry for freedom has been raised with Increasing intensity and from
diverse human situations.
Rather, it informs all as to the basic principles that ought to be taken into account in coming to specific judgments, in interpreting the particularities
of human situations and in guiding concerted action.
The mighty descending, crucified, and ascending curve of love's restorative action as it invades, reenacts, and lifts back up to itself the
entire human situation — this is the central theme of an impressive body of contemporary reflection.
This reflects the inadequate information on which he relied, a certain hope about
the human situation that kept him from assuming the worst, and a habitual skepticism about reports of priestly immorality» an inevitable reaction given what had been a standard practice of deception in Communist intelligence services.