The immediate problems of world - hunger, population explosion, illiteracy, pollution, energy, the spiritual confusion of our day, etc. demand an end to the hurling of condemnation and pronouncing of mutual anathemas.
Not exact matches
What is the relation between God's final victory, and the resolution
of the
immediate problems of justice, order, and peace in this
world of time, death, and conflict?
For Bergson, each tension yields a
problem that is also the mark
of apparently irreconcilable views
of what is vital to the place
of human beings in the
world: (1) Time is measurable according to length and brevity, but immeasurable in reality, because it is qualitative, felt, and
immediate; (2) Psychological life is divided into a self awareness
of deeper, dynamic layers
of human beings and what is superficial and fixed; (3) There is an inner consciousness and an independent
world apart from inner consciousness.
With regard to war, two factors prevented international conflict from being specifically dealt with in the New Testament as a pressing
problem: the apocalyptic expectation
of the
world's
immediate end, so that the gradual reform
of social institutions was not in the picture, and the further fact that the first Christians had no responsibility for governmental policies or influence in determining them.
Where understanding God by way
of discursive reasoning addresses these
problems by trying to explain the
world and to establish the sure validity
of its worldview, understanding God by way
of the affections grounds certainty in the sureness
of immediate experience and grounds a sense
of personal significance in the intensity
of the intimate face - to - face communities in which those experiences occur and flourish.
One asked, «Do we have an answer to the question «Yeah, it's gross, but why should I put it high on my list
of world problems that need our
immediate attention?»?»
At the policy level, Singh said, countries need to ensure polluters account not just for
immediate health concerns, but also for health
problems that are exacerbated by climate change, both within their borders and in other parts
of the
world.
This flurry
of research and review is
of course timed to help
world leaders at Davos concentrate on the longer - term
problems of climate change, environmental degradation, and food security, in addition to
immediate problems of economic stagnation, poverty, conflict and so on.
We have an
immediate problem to solve for the welfare and health
of not only our country, but the
world: How do we minimize the usage
of fossil fuels for automobiles!
Don't spin up this whole notion
of climate change onto what is a real
world and
immediate problem.
In cities around the
world, forward - thinking governments, spurred often as not by more
immediate crises and exercising their intrinsic subsidiarity, have found their way to sustainable solutions to
problems of energy use, transportation, air quality, resilience and waste.