Sentences with phrase «in dependence upon it»

And this did a great deal to prepare the ministers for separation by training them in dependence upon persuasion unbacked by even a possibility of coercive power, and teaching them reliance upon political sagacity and the necessity for very down - to - earth political activity at least in ecclesiastical affairs.

The allusions themselves, indeed, can not be Lukan; not only does Mark 14.62 have the same combination of allusions, but there is also no indication that Luke ever uses Son of man except in dependence upon a Vorlage.

One protection against some common misunderstandings is to keep clear this fact that the minister has his vocation only in dependence upon the whole community of faithful and needy people.

But the moment requires the church to stand upon its own feet, to do its work in its own way, to carry on its revolt against «the world,» not in dependence upon allies or associates, but independently.

The entanglement with capitalism appears in the great economic interests of the church, in its debt structure, in its dependence through endowments upon the continued dividends of capitalism, and especially in its dependence upon the continued gifts of the privileged classes in the economic society.

The Christian church, he declares, is constantly confronted by the Bible and in dependence upon its message proclaims the fact of God's revelation.

Our goodness is a response to His, and exists only in dependence upon it.

The humble act of self - examination; the opening of the closed self to the cleansing and healing work of God; the sealing of moral resolve in dependence upon the power of God; all this is what real prayer can mean in the moral life.

Let's face it, by the global standard we are rich, and that wealth has made us complacent in our dependence upon God for provision.

The Old Testament was there, and the Church grew up in dependence upon it.

Not exact matches

I can't tell you when for sure, but I can tell you for sure that there will be UBER - like providers of outsourced IT support for companies of every size and shape because the explosion of diverse technologies in every industry and our businesses» complete and utter dependence upon these tools means that there's simply no choice and realistically no other viable solution.

By insisting in an exaggerated fashion on our dependence upon government, by overlooking the ways in which multiple sources of support in civil society and the marketplace afford us a kind of independence, President Obama would, in effect, turn the clock backward.

Yet tensions erupted in 1538 over what both Farel and Calvin came to see as Geneva's excessive dependence upon Berne.

Clad only in her own hair, illustrating her complete dependence upon God, she leaves behind scenes in which she preached the gospel message of hope.

The value of fasting can also be better understood in this context because fasting can enhance our understanding of our dependence upon God and that we need him more than air, food, or water.

This is where dependence upon the Holy Spirit comes in, big time.

We would not seem to be far apart in terms of our fundamental allegiance to either Freud or Nietzsche, and perhaps we are not far apart in terms of our dependence upon either Kabbalism or Madhyamika Buddhism.

Drawing upon The Courage To Be, Scott is aware of three characteristics of «absolute faith»: (1) To live in the power of being that enables a person to withstand the onslaughts of guilt, death, and meaninglessness; (2) To experience the dependence of all manifestations of nonbeing upon being, such as the dependence of meaninglessness upon meaning, thereby testifying to the ultimacy of being - itself; and (3) To accept being accepted in spite of one's separation from the power of being (AC 95f).

Further, what did, for instance, the late Dom Gregory Dix, in the last and most permanently valuable chapter of his Shape of the Liturgy, (Dacre Press [1945]-RRB- mean when he said that «we depend upon God for our very dependence»?

This is contrary to our vision, in which anything's (analogical) existence is directly dependent upon a creative mind; this dependence is thus intrinsic to its essence, that is to its definitive intelligibility.

In this survey we are to see again and again the partial dependence of the influence of Jesus upon forces extraneous to it.

In consequence, therefore, man must first of all be seen as a finite process of becoming, with recognition of his dependence upon environmental factors both natural and historical.

To summarize what we have argued in more detail elsewhere, (N. Perrin, Kingdom, pp. 160 - 8, with heavy dependence upon Gerhard von Rad, Theologie des Alten Testaments: II Die Theologie der prophetischen Überlieferungen Israels; München: Chr.

In fact, due to our widespread dependence upon buildings, it could be argued that our worship of God is weaker because we depend on buildings.

Augustine disputed with Pelagius about free will, and generally Pelagianism has been viewed by the main stream of Christian thought as a heresy in which man's dependence upon grace for salvation is denied.

For Schleiermacher, as we have seen, 20 the essence of religion lay in the individual's feeling of dependence upon the Infinite.

These are certainly historical facts, because they both imply an element of dependence of Jesus upon the Baptist and they are inconceivable as products of a Christian community concerned to exalt its Lord and engaged in rivalry with a Baptist sect.

And Hartshorne does just that: «The eminent form of sympathetic dependence can only apply to deity; for this form can not be less than an omniscient sympathy, which depends upon and is exactly colored by every nuance of joy or sorrow anywhere in the world (DR 48).

3 Here I must make particular acknowledgment of von Rad's Des Erste Buch Mose, cited in Chapter I. Readers familiar with that work will recognize both the dependence upon, and the departure from, von Rad's interpretation.

The emphasis on mutuality in the interaction of the trinitarian persons offers a corrective to the traditional tendency to conceive of them only in terms of relations of origin, which is to say in terms of the dependence of Son and Spirit upon the Father.

However, Augustine had some extremely valid insights into the Pauline insistence on our radical dependence on grace, and unlike most of his Catholic predecessors Augustine caught something of the Pauline sense that everything is finally held in the electing hand of God: «For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all» (Rom.

In my view, no thinker better highlights the necessity or dignity of intermediary associations (a conservative theme par excellence) nor provides a deeper account of the dependence of modern liberal democracy upon the «moral capital» of premodern times.

Historicity signals limits within the economy of salvation, and an increase in the status of the monastic institution: divine graciousness calls for the transcendence of history and dependence upon social institutions.

From David Hume and Edmund Burke to Michael Oakeshott and Friedrich Hayek (each of whom is amply represented and thoughtfully commented upon in this book) conservative theorists have criticized «contractualist» and «constructivist» approaches to political life that ignore the dependence of the social fabric upon institutions, customs, and habits that are not the product of human design.

The Church should never think of itself as possessing grace, but as participating in it, and that participation is above all dependence upon grace as forgiveness.

Such an understanding is present in Schleiermacher's definition of religion as a sense, feeling, or awareness or human dependence upon God.

In short we might say that Buddha and scripture denials are primarily methodologically and psychologically oriented; they are designed to shake one loose from easy dependence upon the mere forms of piety and open to him the deeper truth of his own being.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

Contingency, he says, not origination in time, is the cause of the dependence of the world upon God.

... prehension is a radically one - way dependence of an actuality upon «antecedent» conditions, that is, temporally prior actualities prehending is a form of including, whereby reality is enriched, «increased» in multiplicity of factors.

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 becominIn 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 becominin his enthusiastic adoption of Whitehead's view of the universe as essentially one of perpetual change and becoming.

Dependence upon the practice, rhetoric and norms of secular education is risky business, for, I suggest, there is something unique about education in religious communities.

The indifference of philosophers to Christianity has nothing to do with their dependence upon a nexus of cultural meaning which, in subtle and unobtrusive ways, permeates every discourse that, of necessity, draws upon a given heritage of accumulative cultural meaning.

Such arguments are certainly worth engaging in, for in doing so we come to understand better the dependence of creation upon its creator; but any argument toward first principles, especially a first principle whose relation with His effects can be described only analogically, must be more of an invitation to take an argumentative leap than to recognise how propositions already held oblige certain conclusions.

We have argued that man's bond with the ultimate structure of God's good, and man's dependence upon the working of God's power is disclosed in the midst of the turmoil of our existence.

The much - discussed September lecture in Regensburg was precisely an appeal to Western secularists to recognise that philosophy is crippled by its exclusion of the questions addressed by religion, and an appeal to Christians not to repudiate the Christian - Hellenic synthesis with its accent upon the mutual dependence of faith and reason.

«The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation...» ~ Ingersoll

The principle may be stated thus: Growth in Christian maturity is growth in love for all the goods of mortal life, and at the same time it is growth in the capacity for detachment of our ultimate faith and hope from dependence upon our particular plans and interests.

Therefore, growth in grace is never growth away from dependence upon the continuing mercy of God.

The spring growth that he looked for in hope was a new growth, very like the previous spring's growth in appearance and having a great dependence upon it, yet essentially new all the same.