Sentences with phrase «in despairing»

Even in my despairing moments, I try to remember that we're making progress.

Similarly, the P tradition is an attempt to mediate the old memory in the despairing situation of Exile.

In despairing, I die rejecting God, cause I blame him, or even curse him.

Hence the self in its despairing effort to will to be itself labors itself into the direct opposite, it becomes really no self.

This unlovely portrait is not wholly wrong, but it is, in its despairing one «sidedness, wholly inadequate as a basis for analysis.

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After all, targeted harassment is usually a means of asserting control and defending status on the part of the harasser, to leave victims «afraid, despairing, utterly alone, and complicit,» as Catharine A. MacKinnon wrote in her 1979 book «Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination.»

The problem, of course, is that any solution the disoriented and despairing choose in times of crisis will be to some extent an extremist simplification relative to the bewildering abundance of life in which they must find their reorientation.

At the end of the 19th century Jesus was Adolph von Harnack's teacher of «the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of mankind»; in the early years of the 20th century Albert Schweitzer's despairing Messiah; in the «30s, Rudolf Bultmann's preacher of obedience.

We can trust that even in this violent, unjust and despairing world, God's word of hope is true, and we will sing it «from generation to generation.»

We can trust that even in this violent, unjust and despairing world, God's word of hope is true.

In the terms with which Oelschlaeger views us, we might be despairing of our poor embodiment of our own values if it were not that apart from those values and their implementation there is no hope for the Earth.

Only our most over-zealous preached it but it was an unwritten expectation running through a lot of our theology: don't give in to the darkness, don't name it, don't give it power, don't acknowledge it, don't confess it, don't be sad, don't be mad, don't be despairing.

Surely the Christian — and only the Christian — should be able to exercise this clarity of vision and thought because the Revelation has to some degree given him an understanding of the world, and also because, terrible as the reality may be, he can accept it without despairing, for he has hope in Jesus Christ.

Recent happenings in the United States, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Japan, and all over the world make us anxious and despairing.

The person described as the «heathen» in Christian Discourses is now the despairing individual:

In intellectual matters, religious faith means devotion to truth, keeping inquiry open, foregoing the demand for absolute certitude yet not despairing of progress, striving for universality, publicity, and objectivity in knowledge, and being thankfully obedient to the disciplines of reason and of empirical evidencIn intellectual matters, religious faith means devotion to truth, keeping inquiry open, foregoing the demand for absolute certitude yet not despairing of progress, striving for universality, publicity, and objectivity in knowledge, and being thankfully obedient to the disciplines of reason and of empirical evidencin knowledge, and being thankfully obedient to the disciplines of reason and of empirical evidence.

If it does not stay at that point, merely marking time, and if on the other hand there does not occur a radical change in the despairer so that he gets on the right path to faith, then such despair will either potentiate itself to a higher form and continue to be introversion, or it breaks through to the outside and demolishes the outward disguise under which the despairing man has been living in his incognito.

Humanly speaking his destruction is the most certain of all things — and the despair in his soul fights desperately to get leave to despair, to get, if you will, repose for despair, the consent of his whole personality to despair, so that he would curse nothing and nobody more fiercely than him who attempted (Or it may be the attempt) to prevent him from despairing, as the poet's poet so capitally, so incomparably expresses it in Richard II, Act 3, Scene Z:

A young man suffering from AIDS, who at first had a completely negative and despairing approach to the onset of his disease, was greatly helped by Victor Frankl's account of how prisoners in concentration camps who could find some sort of hope survived, when others succumbed to the terrors around them.

Then comes defiance, which really is despair by the aid of the eternal, the despairing abuse of the eternal in the self to the point of being despairingly determined to be oneself.

The despairing man who is unconscious of being in despair is, in comparison with him who is conscious of it, merely a negative step further from the truth and from salvation.

Therewith the whole point of view is inverted, he becomes now more clearly conscious of his despair, recognizing that he is in despair about the eternal, he despairs over himself that he could be weak enough to ascribe to the earthly such great importance, which now becomes his despairing expression for the fact that he has lost the eternal and himself.

This hiddenness is precisely something spiritual and is one of the safety - devices for assuring oneself of having as it were behind reality an enclosure, a world for itself locking all else out, a world where the despairing self is employed as tirelessly as Tantalus in willing to be itself.

I am relatively discouraged (although not despairing) about exactly how to take the next two steps: the development of a model for a Christian systematic theology that will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, the earlier model for a revisionist fundamental theology; and the development of a model for a public Christian praxis (or practical theology) which will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, both «fundamental» and «systematic» concerns.

In this respect despair is unlike bodily sickness; for not to be sick can not possibly mean to be sick; but not to be despairing may mean precisely to be despairing.

So the despairing self is constantly building nothing but castles in the air, it fights only in the air.

By unconsciousness the despairing man is in a way secured (but to his own destruction) against becoming aware — that is, he is securely in the power of despair.

Despairing narrowness consists in the lack of primitiveness, or of the fact one has deprived oneself of one's primitiveness; it consists in having emasculated oneself, in a spiritual sense.

For in another sense, an ethical - dialectic sense, the despairing man who consciously remains in despair is further from salvation, since his despair is more intense.

Theism deals with «wishful thinking», «make - believe», fantasy, magic — hopes of despairing men famously hallucinating in the desert who then «see» exactly what they want to see.

And if the suffering and despairing Jesus on the cross is accepted in one's heart and soul as a virtuous human being» if we can still, staring into our own abyss, wistfully hope to have his fortitude and compassion despite our enduring weaknesses» then is salvation really that far off?

Instead of despairing she came to a deeper understanding of God and humanity; instead of blaming, she expressed a strong sense of human responsibility for the suffering she witnessed: nothing can be changed in the world until we change ourselves.

My first thought, given the continuing tough job market in academia, was to picture despairing Ph.D.'s pondering whether the time had come to begin hormone treatments.

Mark Twain, who did entertain the possibility, presents in his later despairing writings a powerful illustration of this fruitlessness.)

We are emotionally centralized biological machines while intellectualism's emotionality ratios rises and falls in aged despairing ethnocentrism keeping taught most all whose psyche and / or ego abounds ever so saliently via leveraged cultivation around many perhaps most socialized centralizing normalizations.

To develop this sense of «belonging» will be a way in which, here and now, life can become meaningful; for in the little cells of Christian faith and love which are our parishes as they ought to be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community life of which they are also a part, knowing that they have passed from death into life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing world.

A man has sinned, so he can bear the punishment for it without despairing; but without blame to be singled out as a sacrifice to pity, as a sweet - smelling savor in its nostrils, that he can not put up with.

If we understand purpose, then when we meet those who are faltering and despairing, shouldn't we talk about it in sympathetic and persuasive terms.

St. Augustine's enduring conception of the two cities here receives contemporary development and application as outstanding authors, most of whom are also First Things contributors, address economics, the academy, natural law, politics, and marriage: Robert Jenson on the Church's responsibility, Robert Louis Wilken on what Augustine really meant, Carl Braaten on natural law, George Weigel on not despairing about the ambiguity of politics, Robert Benne on Christian engagement in economic enterprise, and Gilbert Meilaender on the virtue of marriage.

The church was one of the few institutions in the South to which the defeated and despairing people could turn in an effort to recoup some sense of purpose and hope.

I would suggest that neither naive liberalism (as it existed in the late 1800s) nor despairing dispensationalism prepared their offspring well for the twentieth century.

Religion either presents a a too negative, despairing and hopeless belief in human nature, or a too optimistic, positive and rosy one.

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

On the contrary, he gives to this despairing, defeated, and solitary man a superhuman and in some degree incomprehensible task.

My prediction that these movements will take a few years to burn out (at least among evangelicals) and make way for what Tom Nelson calls «hopeful realism» — neither naïve nor despairing about the church's role in shaping the dominant culture — may have been overly cautious.

Despairing over one's sin is the expression for the fact that sin has become or would become consistent in itself.

He would confess his sins, be absolved by a priest and within moments he was grumbling against God again in his thoughts, and despairing.

Now he has indeed become king, and yet, by despairing over his sin, and about the reality of repentance, about grace, he has also lost himself, be can not even maintain himself in his own eyes, and he is precisely as far from being able to enjoy his own self in ambition as he is from grasping grace.

I say hypothesis to underscore the role that faith plays in all religious decisions, even those that are cynical or despairing.

A despairing man is in despair over something.