Sentences with phrase «individual perplexities»

This process, which is the inner history of every man whose life in the whole weight of its problematic character and its ambiguous self - consciousness has been lived within the sound of the voice of the Christian tradition, has a pace that is slower than the urgent haste of individual perplexities.

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In faith's response to its kenotic image of God there lies a surprising way of bringing new meaning to our normally confused sense of mystery, to our puzzlement about evolution and other recent discoveries about the physical universe, to our perplexity at the broken state of social existence, and finally to our own individual longings and sufferings.

These manuals follow a common pattern, taking up individual cases and indicating how they are to be resolved, and the directions they offer are remarkably similar in character.53 The greater number of cases discussed deal with moral perplexities — questions involving family life, economic activity, military service, political issues, the relationship of master and servant, the right use of recreation — but spiritual perplexities — involving «the great case which the Jews put to Peter and the jailer to Paul and Silas «54 undoubtedly received equal attention in actual pastoral work.