Revelation is not a conception of God; it is God himself acting within certain communal events and becoming known there
in the concrete way in which we know one another.
Christian social ethics therefore requires a view of human fulfillment and hope that will support young people
in concrete ways in the sexual crisis that has engulfed them and the society of which they are a part.
Discernment, therefore, is in the comparison of one faith experience with another faith experience, and
in the concrete way in which that faith manifests itself in living.
DE: I suspect this is formalizing in an abstract way something which is also given
in a concrete way in sense perception.
Not exact matches
It's pretty clear by now that the loosely - organized movement doesn't have much
in the
way of
concrete goals.
Aron says that AMC's goal is to «reshape our product
in some
concrete ways so that millennials go to movie theaters with the same degree of intensity as baby boomers went to movie theaters throughout their lives.»
Read on for three
concrete ways to incorporate long - term thinking into your strategy
in the year ahead.
Along the
way, however, I've found seven
concrete actions that build trust
in a business environment.
The organization calls the commitments generated within these working groups «turning ideas into action,» by creating clearly articulated,
concrete goals to solve a problem
in a measurable
way.
You don't need a complex answer to that question, but you do need to be able to answer it
in a
concrete way.
In its final report in December 2009, Ernst & Young said that Concrete did little in the way of accounting and «took many actions that in the Receiver's view were not for the benefit of the Partnership.&raqu
In its final report
in December 2009, Ernst & Young said that Concrete did little in the way of accounting and «took many actions that in the Receiver's view were not for the benefit of the Partnership.&raqu
in December 2009, Ernst & Young said that
Concrete did little
in the way of accounting and «took many actions that in the Receiver's view were not for the benefit of the Partnership.&raqu
in the
way of accounting and «took many actions that
in the Receiver's view were not for the benefit of the Partnership.&raqu
in the Receiver's view were not for the benefit of the Partnership.»
Passion is critical, but if you don't express it
in a
concrete, succinct, and convincing
way, it becomes your enemy.
They made clear to me
in a very
concrete way that our collective dream of entering space is now
in the countdown phase.
Founded
in 1942 as Burns and Dutton
Concrete and Construction Company Ltd., the firm now describes itself on its website
in a
way that is as blunt as it is charming: It promises a «think straight, talk straight, do - it - right - once approach with no surprises.»
If you're
in an industry that does not engage
in social media, or tends to be self - focused like
concrete, look at creatively overcoming objections as a
way to build links.
All the benefits and value I described
in the preceding section is just one of the two
concrete ways your link building strategy will earn value
in the long term.
And it's still
way too soon to draw any
concrete conclusions about what the growth
in «passive» investing will mean for the markets, how far it's going to go or what the market impact will be.
One
way to talk about 2017 positioning
in more
concrete terms than just more or less is to start with a basic or neutral portfolio set up to meet specific needs and preferences of a hypothetical investor.
As Navillus makes its
way through bankruptcy, the
concrete company is going after one of its general contractors for allegedly stiffing its workers on one of the biggest construction projects
in Times Square.
Either
way, you are leaving behind that physical life and the people
in it so it would make sense to focus on that, on the things
in your life that are
concrete.
What,
in a more
concrete sense, might a shared intention to study divinity imply for the
way in which we, at the beginning of this new term, seek to give order to our lives?
Then donate the money you save on groceries to a charity or project that serves the poor
in concrete ways.
In addition to proposing
concrete, forceful corrections to liturgical abuses, the document goes some
way towards promoting an overall vision of the liturgy which will be widely welcomed as a more synthetic correction.
It is my assumption that all of you could describe
in far more
concrete and realistic
ways than I the tension between regulations designed to encourage increased production and those that protect community, present, future, and natural.
Such texts imply that the invisible God is made visible through the incarnation
in a
concrete and not simply mystical or anagogical
way — that those who saw Jesus
in his earthly life also «saw» the first person of the Trinity.
Thus such traditions become kerygmatic, not by appropriating the traditional language of the Church's kerygma, but
in a distinctive
way: They retain a
concrete story about Jesus, but expand its horizon until the universal saving significance of the heavenly Lord becomes visible
in the earthly Jesus.
True agreement comes, for example, not only when we state that we agree on the gift of salvation but when we then work out
in concrete terms the profound implications of that for the
way we think and live as churches and as individual Christians.
Concrete signs of the success of the Pembury project are the explosion of young families that have joined the congregation
in the last four years and the fact that no fewer than five former Anglican clergymen have presented themselves at St Anselm's for reception into the Catholic Church, on their
way to becoming Catholic priests.
As members of a community of faith, we miss the point when we refuse to offer guidance
in ways that are
concrete but not intrusive.
In a special way, so Christian faith holds, the divine Spirit came to concrete human expression in Jesus, but God needs for his existence no psychophysical organis
In a special
way, so Christian faith holds, the divine Spirit came to
concrete human expression
in Jesus, but God needs for his existence no psychophysical organis
in Jesus, but God needs for his existence no psychophysical organism.
In our reflection on the notion of a social practice in chapter 6 we noted that all practices are inherently and inescapably concrete in this way, that is, institutionalized, materially based, and socioculturally locate
In our reflection on the notion of a social practice
in chapter 6 we noted that all practices are inherently and inescapably concrete in this way, that is, institutionalized, materially based, and socioculturally locate
in chapter 6 we noted that all practices are inherently and inescapably
concrete in this way, that is, institutionalized, materially based, and socioculturally locate
in this
way, that is, institutionalized, materially based, and socioculturally located.
How does the fact that it is a theological school constrain the
concrete ways in which the disciplines function
in these practices?
It is also the case that the school as a school is
concrete in this
way.
On the other hand, if the
concrete way this school does «have to do with God» is ordered to education for ministerial functions, is it not then
in practice using «having to do with God» for a further, ulterior purpose («educating for ministerial functions»), thus corrupting its proper theological character («having to do with God for God's own sake»)?
At bottom, changes
in a school's
concrete identity come by decisions it makes, deliberately or inadvertently, about three factors we noted
in chapter 2 that distinguish schools from one another: Whether to construe what the Christian thing is all about
in some one
way, and if so, how; what sort of community a theological school ought to be; how best to go about understanding God.
A school whose
concrete identity is that of a church - like community tending to understand God by
way of contemplation is likely to include more course work
in spirituality, especially ascetical theology, than is a school whose ethos is that of a cadre of clergy tending to understand God by the activist
way.
Not only is this the one
way a Christian caught
in the toils of violence can witness to Jesus Christ; it entails
concrete consequences of a very real kind.
How Aristotle thinks of entity can best be judged by the
way he links it to his concept of «nature» as dwelling
in concrete things.
Put the other
way around, our discernment of God's view
in the
concrete is experienced as feeling - for God's aim
in the midst of all the variable factors and messages and possibilities
in the same
concrete situation.
But its establishment illustrates
in a
concrete way what it means to order our lives to life rather than to wealth.
But the Church can not offer a
concrete model of the economy as it might be today and as
in certain circumstances it ought to be,
in such a
way that to realize this model would be a binding moral duty on those
in charge of economic life.
It moves from
concrete experiences of death through theological reflection on them
in order to enter new experiences
in a more integrated, faith - filled
way.
The
concrete meaning of «future»
in this case is hard to specify, at least
in a
way that can be translated into social programs and action.
He, like Whitehead, will have a «dipolar» God, but
in a different
way.10 For Hartshorne, the dialectic is between the abstract and the
concrete: «The supreme
in its total
concrete reality will be the supereminent case of relativity, the Surrelative, just as,
in its abstract character, it will be the supereminent case of nonrelativity — not only absolute, but the absolute» (DR 76).11 These two poles are not said to be separate entities but are, rather, aspects of a unified divine essence.
But although it was undoubtedly the actual personal life and character of Jesus that
in large part determined the actual
concrete character of the event
in the more objective sense, the relationship between person and event is,
in a
way, revered when we consider the faith of the church.
It may be increasingly necessary, however, to allow the
concrete situation, rather than the biblical revelation, to propose the «doctrinal» loci or the organizing forms
in terms of which biblical faith needs to speak, because the secularism of our time has so transformed the
way people think that Christian faith is now
in a cross-cultural situation.
It is primarily through the experience of God's power, whereby our lives are affected
in a
concrete way by God's presence, that we come to understand its authority.
The gulf war, both
in the
ways it is like all wars and
in the
ways it is unique, makes the testing both
concrete and urgent, while also heightening the chances that the «facts» available when this text is drafted will have been changed by the time it reaches readers.
This catholicity of the cross is made
concrete for von Balthasar
in the
way that Jesus» death fulfills the deepest intuitions of the world's religions.
The answer is that theology is a very human, and very important, enterprise; that grasping and assimilating what God has done and continues to do is not something that can be engaged
in passively but is a challenge to everything any of us possesses; that the separation of theologizing from what the minister and the church try, fallibly but authentically, to hear of the Word of God
in specific situations from some alleged and remote theology is bound to be blasphemous as well as mistaken; and that the one
way to hear the Word of God, if it contains the Protestant principle, is to submit our functions to
concrete self - criticism.