Sentences with phrase «institution of»

The idea, that the relative strength of our linear power is too often the basis of our sense of self - identity and self - worth, is illustrated in the institution of athletics.

The inviolability of the institution of marriage justifies a deaf ear and a blind eye to the violation of a woman's body and spirit through torture and terror.

Consider first the situation in which an institution of higher education is committed to being, in some way, Christian.

Bankers would be expected to be college graduates, but they normally learned the business of banking by experience in banks rather than by special courses in an institution of higher education.

I learned later that the only invitation he received from a department of religion in an institution of higher education for more than a single lecture was for a summer course in the Claremont Graduate School.

The Book of Common Prayer had this meaning in view when it employs, in the course of the Prayer of Consecration in the service of Holy Communion, the words: «Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son our Savior Jesus Christ, we, thy humble servants, do celebrate and make here, before thy Divine Majesty, with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension; rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.»

And he has noted what any person of common sense has also noted: «The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.»

Same - sex marriages are no more a threat to the institution of marriage than heterosexual «open marriages» where both partners consent to mutual adulterous behavior.

As a result of this act at least one institution of higher learning was established for these practical purposes in each state.

Catholics have been gratified to find in Evangelicals true brothers in the defense of human life, in the defense of religious freedom, and in the defense of the institution of marriage.

Is it a shock to our modern sensibilities that the man who wrote the «neither slave nor free» line does not strike out at the institution of slavery when Onesimus is a legal «prisoner» of his master Philemon?

Although there is no evidence that Jesus self - consciously contemplated the institution of a new ecclesia.

Every institution of education — the home, the school, the church or temple, the industrial shop or laboratory, the museum or library, the mass media — can be and ought to be an agency of religious instruction, engaged in the one saving work of emancipating persons from bondage to selfish desires and idolatrous attachments and of directing them toward the life of devotion to that in which their being and well - being are grounded.

Now this passage deals only with the relationship between the individual human person and the state, which is the institution of fullest human community.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

Born out of the revolutionary crisis of the Atlantic world in the late 18th century, America's first time of trial was our struggle for independence and the institution of liberty.

The function of the state as the most general institution of human society is to order properly our mutual fulfillment of the needs of self and others.

As the institution of colonialism strengthened its grip on other nations, the flow of resources from the colonies to the colonial powers intensified and thus the gap between them made wider.

The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.»

A perfunctory patching - up of the institution of the Church began without any debate about the need to adapt to the changed conditions.

Daniel Coit Gilman, founding president of The Johns Hopkins University, the other new nonsectarian institution of higher learning, grieved over a government report that as of 1876 there were 545 degree - granting institutions in the country.

Is the institution of marriage in worse shape than the schools?

This was a time when theology was beginning to mature to the point where it might have been strong enough to provide the unity and spunk in an institution of strenuous and innovative scholars.

Fisher: As a secular institution of higher learning, Reed strives to provide an environment that is open to all denominations and faiths.

Authorities cited lack of money as the reason for the incarceration within the same institution of prisoners of such diverse backgrounds.

l Meanwhile, every institution of every nation — starting with the U.S. — needs to be reclaimed for Christ from the grip of Satan and his humanist minions.

The institution of advertising, in other words, is something different from the mere sum of all advertisements.

The institution of marriage is in trouble after all.

The institution of marriage is unique.

The approach of some of my Christian friends has been to insist that we can not form partnerships to strengthen the institution of marriage with anyone who disagrees with us about its definition.

The author of the book reviewed here believes that the institution of marriage is about to collapse and there's little that can be done about it.

The 1992 campaign has demonstrated once more that we are a very long way from understanding the implications of religion as the first political institution of the republic.

And we shall see that the transformation of the earth, its new creation, is not solely a reorganization of its social and technical aspects nor just the institution of new political and economic relationships among people; it is also a profound spiritual metamorphosis of mankind, a revolution.

The institution of marriage is assumed, and a spouse is permitted to make critical medical decisions.

One of the more visible manifestations of early Mormonism's identification with Old Testament times was the institution of plural marriage (polygamy), which was openly practiced in Utah from 1850 to 1890.

As for the Naked Pastor blog, I think money grabbing and ego - power - trips by pastors are the least of everybody's concerns about the institution of church.

On Maundy Thursday Christendom commemorates the institution of the Eucharist by our Lord.

For this had been possible in the early Church and exists even today at least in very rudimentary form in the institution of the so - called patronates and in certain rights of the congregations in some Swiss cantons regarding the appointment of their parish priests.

Since the institution of the Church the task of the theologian has primarily been a priestly one.

But the institution of church is not God.

Of course, this explicit confession and the historical institution of this salvation of Christ which is offered to all is itself a grace and part of salvation.

When the institution of the university developed in the Middle Ages and the writings of Aristotle were rediscovered, theological schooling stressed far more than it previously had discursive reasoning, technical logical skill, and academic specialization.

The institution of private property has a sound foundation — the proposition that people have a right to the fruits of their labor; that is, to the output of their mental and physical efforts.

But in the meantime the non-religious concerns of the earlier prophets had found new forms of expression in the emerging institution of the synagogue, which pioneered quite a new phase m man's spiritual pilgrimage.

The institution of the order of Levites likewise shatters the normal institutional order of ownership, duty, provision for the future, etc..

In our post-Nietzschean age of AIDS and rampant venereal disease, the remark now carries with it a certain unintentional irony, but one finishes reading Bloom's book not entirely sure why erotic relations nowadays are so dreary: Is it because of the relentless reductionism of Freud and Kinsey or because, as Nietzsche held, Eros and Institution will always be at war — and Christianity, with its rigorous stress on monogamy, now symbolizes for modern society the institution of marriage par excellence?

We often forget that the Easter Triduum begins with the institution of the Eucharist.

David brought the institution of prophetism into the court, on how large a scale we do not know.

In the face of these direct and indirect attacks on the institution of matrimony, and on the life of the family, the urgency of compiling a document to bring to the attention of society and governments the most important rights of the family was compelling.

God's clear right in this, as well as the clear duty of couples, stems from the very institution of marriage.