Sentences with phrase «in the common living»

If prayer is to be effective in the common life, it must reckon with the common life as it is.

Finally, a tradition inevitably develops that tells the story of how these rules were first received, a story which roots them not in the common life of the people, but in the element of the divine.

Mutual dependence and interdependence, deepening inter-relationship all along the line of advance, community or sociality, participation in a common life, the presence of a drive towards satisfaction of the subjective aim, and above all the directive or projective aspect which is so closely related to that aim: here we have «in little» what in the universe at large we find in other ways.

Does this thesis mean that one has to be personally and existentially involved in the common life of a congregation in order to be capable of engaging fruitfully in the practices comprising a theological school?

How is this school's overarching goal concretely enacted by the role that worship has in its common life, and by how decisions about that role are made?

What pattern of life will serve the home, the husband's work, the coming family, and at the same time fulfil the deeply felt vocation to do significant work in the common life and the public world?

Failure to engage existentially in the central practice of a congregation may well make it more difficult to understand God because participation in the common life of a congregation is a common way to be capacitated, that is, to acquire the requisite concepts, for apprehending God.

At the same time, and without modifications of the «againstness,» a theological school's study may be «for» Christian congregations because it is the place where people can be helped to acquire the capacities for theological judgment that, as we saw, congregations inherently need in their common life.

Let him do well what he normally does in the common life, and this will be the principal indication of his hearing God's particular call to him, and of carrying out his particular ministry as a result.

Each goes out into the world to exercise his vocation, partly on special service, to be sure, but mainly through his participation in the common life, which is also ministry, if he so understands it.

A new society had been formed which used these materials in their worship and in their common life, and in turn these demands forged the materials prior to their final, written form.

However, at the deepest levels, the philosophical and religious traditions of the West tend to place truth and justice at the foundation of all else in our common life.

But does it not remain true that this event was a symbol of the human dignity of all persons, of their participation in the common life, of their will to be free from the control of another people?

Creaturely freedom is conditioned by the situation; for it does not simply possess itself but it must first gain itself, and this it can do only in the encounter with other freedom, in the common life in the world.

Different schools and different denominations doubtless represent different perspectives and emphases in their understanding of this Church; yet they participate in the common life insofar as they respect and gain profit from each other's contributions.

In a time of the triumph of doubletalk, the substitution of statistics for facts, the exaltation of the medium over the message, and the erosion of a sense of the future, the role of the imagination and its uses in our common life, particularly religion, needs our continuing attention.

The clue to the interpretation of whatever intimations of the divine are given us in our common life is provided by the first century event to which we find ourselves inevitably looking back and by the historical community through which the concrete meaning of that event has been conveyed to us and in which, therefore, the event itself is in a sense perpetuated.

The courses of study in denominational as well as interdenominational schools are even more indicative of their participation in the common life of the whole Church.

When the Wall was breached, Baum writes, the church ceased to play an important role in the common life.

In other ways also the churches in the New World seem to be «American» or «democratic» and to participate primarily in the common life of the «free society.»

As a political method for achieving a certain measure of freedom and security in our common life, such an approach has merit.

Indeed the reasoning inherent in economic decision - making has a chilling, global, coherence not matched by any other systemic element in our common life.

We can pay our full respect to the tested structures of authority in our common life, but all conventional human authorities easily assume a finality beyond their competence, and this is nowhere more dangerously true than in the high forms of spiritual authority which belong to religion and its institutions.

Kierkegaard sees that «purity of heart is to will one thing», to use the title of one of his meditations; but he does not fully see that purity of heart requires responsible participation in the common life.

Hence, good education must have as one of its major purposes a participation in the common life at an intelligent level, with due recognition of all that is relevant to augmenting that life.

It is my judgment that the theme of presence must be critically addressed, because a presumed, uncritical presence functions to legitimate and sanctify much that is false and destructive in our common life.

This means that society is involved in discovering and enforcing certain proper restraints in the common life.

But it does these things in concrete actuality only as it is used in certain ways in the common life of actual congregations.

Even more radically, the fact that the practice of worship of God inherently requires critical self - reflection means that it inherently requires critical examination of whether and why we should engage ourselves in the Christian thing at all, and hence in the common life of this or any congregation.

What trust in God means in the common life is that in great matters or in small, we can keep on working, hoping, praying.

Thus, having little spiritual courage for undergoing humiliation at any level, we manifest in our common life today what I can only consider a kind of repressed melancholy — the melancholy of those who wish above all not to appear melancholy.

It bears witness against every iniquity and injustice in their common life.

With rare exceptions, as they grew older monasteries lost the initial dedication which had brought them into existence and in their common life became comfortable and routine or worse.

However, it is uncharacteristic for such a school to institutionalize in its common life a structure for nurturing and monitoring its students» «piety» (which would be the closest structural equivalent to «spirituality» in the first ethos I sketched).

Hobbes thought that in our common life we are never very far from the state of nature, and indeed the experiences of our century have taught us to respect a certain Hobbesian pessimism.

Its membership consists of churchmen: existing and historic individuals, gathered together in a common life of faith which among other things seeks understanding of itself, of God and neighbor.

The Roman Church was firmly established in the common life.

To be «in Christ» is in New Testament thought to be «in the Church,» to belong to the family of God in Christ, to share together in the common life which the Lord who is proclaimed in the gospel opens up for those whom he did not refuse to call his brethren.

A hot social issue in common life, and you make it as a great hub in details.

Leave the carrier, with the door open, in a common living space that you and your cat use together, such as a living room.

Spend time in the common living area or have privacy in your own bedroom.

Free Wi - Fi is available in the common living room.

As in the common living areas, teak and rattan add rich natural texture, while white bedding is crisp and inviting.

There is also a three - quarter bed provided in the common living area.

Stallings creates transcendent moments of wonder in common life and invites atypical human exchange.

We wish to be treated as equal human beings — to be able to participate in the common life, to the extent of our capabilities, without having to face unnecessary barriers to our involvement.

But this kind of short term savings can quickly disappear if you don't protect yourself as a renter against the kinds of things that can befall us in our common living situations.

Family and marriage counseling are professional servises provided to couples facing difficult situations in their common life.

Not exact matches

If you remove the need to income split by taxing the family unit of those in married or living common - law relationships and then adopt a flat tax for everyone — say 20 % — there really is no need for small business to incorporate, except for perhaps liability issues.

Some common conditions of bail include living at a particular address, not contacting certain people, giving in your passport so you can't leave the country, and reporting to a police station once a week.