Sentences with phrase «immersed in»

The fact God could just pop up a replacement is not the same thing as going through the pain and emotion of complete absence of God while immersed in sin.

We must remember that by the beginning of the second century a wide rift had opened up between Jew and Christian, and Christianity was primarily spreading among the Gentiles, to whom the traditions of ancient Israel were foreign, and who, on the other hand, were mostly Greek - speaking and immersed in Hellenistic culture.

The town is immersed in religion — for anxiety relief»?

That includes you, who were once alienated, enemies in your own minds to God's purposes, immersed in evil actions; but now you are bodily reconciled in his fleshly body which has tasted death.

They will be disciplined persons, almost sectarian in their attitudes and commitments, but choosing to live fully immersed in this world rather than withdrawing from it.

As one who has been immersed in Gutiérrez's writings for more than a decade, I consider the charges preposterous.

There's an obscene amount of money to be made by keeping people immersed in fear and ignorance.

Based on his contact with the Missionaries of Charity, he emphasizes the need for living a life of deep prayer while immersed in the world.

In the middle of the frenetic crossfire of passionate opinions and strong stances that we find ourselves immersed in every day, it almost never occurs to us that we can simply pause.

When Eliot's life - partner, publisher George Henry Lewes, died in 1878, Eliot immersed herself in «In Memoriam,» the poem by her friend Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Seminarians are immersed in the deposit of faith as expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, they undergo formation courses in Christian anthropology, psychological counselling, John Paul's Theology of the Body and Lectio Divina.

Our spiritual self - consciousness is materially incarnated and, with our body, immersed in a material environment «in which we swim like a fish» (Perspectives in Philosophy, II, p. 82).

The theologian must be immersed in the struggle for transforming society and proclaim the message of the gospel from that point.

The time came when I realized, each time, that I was already there, that I was already wise, that I was already alive, that I was already here, now, full of and immersed in all I sought.

We find ourselves immersed in now one and then the other.

While Holmes frankly admitted that he hated facts and used them only as pegs on which to hang legal principles, Brandeis, as a practicing lawyer, immersed himself in the facts of a case to show that a particular outcome was the more just.

That non-Markov machines exist is shown by a simple example: the magnetization of a piece of iron immersed in an oscillating magnetic field depends on the values of the external field in the past, as well as in the present.

The Churches were immersed in all this activity — they could not escape it.

Persons who find the richest satisfactions in church membership are almost invariably immersed in the fellowship of one or more of its smaller groups.

Anyone who has immersed himself in a certain subject is infinitely more alive to other things than the person who has stopped short at a general education, even though these subjects be completely outside his special field.

But Moore writes as one who is personally and professionally immersed in relationships and in studying them.

In fact, you are so immersed in doing so, that you completely ignore the realities of the statements that you are responding to.

One wonders how Eliade will respond to this nonbook, for it attempts to unmask him as a historian of religions and to unveil him as a Christian homo religiosus immersed in a labyrinthine world in which God is dead.

Being immersed in scripture and discussions has enabled me to have a broader and deeper understanding.

This is a problem that can be corrected by those evangelical process theologians who are genuinely immersed in scripture rather than distinguishing themselves by their objective statements about biblical authority.

Wesley was a process thinker, I believe, because he was immersed in the Bible and because he was radically open to what he actually experienced.

Many process writings in the field of theology approach biblical teaching from the outside, whereas Wesley approached all questions from a point of view that was immersed in scripture.

As a licensed marriage and family therapist, divorce is often a reality I am immersed in.

I hadn't really thought about it much, but I'd have to say that mostly, it's as not - God, because daily life is so distracting; though the awareness of being immersed in God is not usually far from my consciousness.

When you're immersed in a certain culture, you really can't see what's wrong.

We share the sense that human beings are immersed in the natural world and do constitute one species among others.

NT is immersed in a hermeneutical tradition nourished in Western thinking.

The third temptation is to become so immersed in the local situation that the aims of ministry itself may be forgotten.

Although feminists are extremely critical of the way men have written history and have understood the historical process, and although they sometimes call for the kind of sheer presence in the moment that is characteristic of Buddhists, nevertheless, they are inevitably immersed in social and historical analysis.

It's not just an awareness of being immersed in God, though.

But when he becomes immersed in full - time ministry, and the job is never done, and he has not prayed enough nor done enough for his family, the chances are that he develops «hosts of friends» but has no real friend, even another minister, with whom he can share the gripes that one does share only with a real personal friend.

Late in the 19th century, George Inness, who was immersed in the theology of Swedenborg, spoke of the artist's need to contemplate the invisible in the visible.

However, the idea of a Wholly Other God immersed in total bliss also has mythic and mystical support.

The thief was not immersed in water for the forgiveness of his sins.

Thus the system evolved in complex ways, as converts kept one foot anchored on the (seemingly) stable rock of the Bible and the other immersed in the rushing, turbulent river of current events.

I know it doesn't cover the aspect of rite of Lord's Supper or any other rites that a Christian may participate in, but would something like «Immersed in Sacrifice» work?

In sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to love one another isn't being matched enough by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working for the really radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» together.

The religion has gotten way too immersed in politics and condemning anyone who doesn't follow the self - serving Bibical interpretations of the hypocritical «leaders.»

«Deeply immersed in these values as they were, however, the women Stevens interviewed were hardly immune to the more mainstream ideals of womanhood shaped in part by liberal feminism.

Of those who streamed during their commute, 12 percent said that they had gotten so immersed in the show or movie that they missed their stop.

Are we immersed in a world in which a total vision is no longer a possibility?

When they were safely aboard the ark, God sent a flood until the world was immersed in a cleansing bath, so that new life could begin in the watery womb called Earth.

They were convinced that all Christians should be in the same boat, that all should learn to serve God while immersed in the world.

By imagining that my hands were immersed in hot water, I was able to increase my body temperature by four degrees.

Sustained by prayer, especially before the Blessed Sacrament and in the Divine Office of the Church, and by the sacramental life, she was immersed in theology, particularly spiritual and mystical theology; she also retained her love of literature.