Sentences with phrase «institutional form»

What is finally important in renewing the churches is not the health or even survival of any particular institutional form.

After our visit, my friend, a student of corporate and other institutional forms of leadership, offered the opinion that, in terms of competence, the Vatican leadership compared very favorably.

Apparently Blaine and company saw the enemy only in institutional form, i.e., the church.

The less than reliable curatorial voice from Powhida's future proposes an authoritative account of our present and near future through institutional forms — wall texts, videos, an exhibition catalogue, as well as fictional works of art, speculative drawings, and research - based diagrams, that point to the ways exhibitions shape and reflect histories.

Solution: Devise new institutional forms for delivering secondary education, using technology, modern organization theory, and outsourcing.

• Process formalities and other institutional forms.

Hindu nationalism took institutional form in the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or National Volunteer Society).

However, judging by her recent statements in the national press about the marked absence of Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) clergy in many roles within the established Church, HudsonWilkin clearly believes institutional forms of racism are still present in the Church of England.

Things naturally drift toward complexity... and our current institutional forms of being the church have been adrift for a long, long, long time.

As he sees it, the organizational dilemma of the church is that the very institutional forms necessary for the church to carry on its work continually threaten to distort and obscure the fundamental purpose for which the institution was founded.

Daycare centers are an easy target because they're the most institutional form of childcare, but this quality can work in their favor, too: They're usually regulated, offer a structured setting, and care is well - supervised.

Although it has resulted in stronger institutional forms and a somewhat more professional face for Waldorf education, it has also exacerbated the increasingly existential question, «What is a Waldorf School.»

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

This is not a story of steady progress towards a determined goal: it remained uncertain how and even whether the people's wish to share in the exercise of power could be given stable institutional form.

Together these works will explore institutional forms of artistic display and masculinity through a 3D scanning process that «seems to alternate between being swallowed by and breaking beyond the confines of the screen environment.»

In like manner, we are saying that the modern, inherited, institutional form of church has strayed far, far afield from the New Testament concept of «church» in the teachings of Jesus and the apostles.

It certainly must be clear that this theology has neither the power nor the ability to serve the Protestant Church in most of its present institutional forms.

If there is a need for new institutional forms and styles, however, this theology doubtless has a great deal to say.

If Sachs is the singular embodiment of the genius outsider, McKinsey & Co., the legendary consulting firm stacked with the best and brightest of Ivy League thinkers, is the problem coalesced in institutional form.

The term «civil society» has become so imprecise that politicians, pundits, and academics who should know better now use it to refer to a spirit that exists in every society, varying only in its institutional forms and relative strength.

On this basis, Protestants could question all institutional forms of mediation as falling short of the living Word of God who called such institutions to account, whether they were ecclesiastical or political.

Both are equally constitutive of the sum total of institutional forms and social interactions that has classically been called «politics.»

Hitler tried to use churches for his own purposes, and because religion in its institutional forms can be so vulnerable to state pressures, the religious involvement in providing a counterbalancing force to political structures and armies may take entirely new forms in the future.

The institutional forms of these missions have not differed significantly from those of the majority churches; they have focused on church development, health - care institutions and education.

The holy life, too, can be lived according to many different patterns, and any number of institutional forms may be devised to give body, structure, and continuity to religious conviction.

For not only do the priestly and institutional forms of Christianity submit to the heteronomous authority of a series of events that are irrevocably past, but the thought of the Christian theologian himself has been closed to a truly dialectical meaning of the sacred.

Only the institutional forms of campus ministry and the church - related college will provide such ministry in behalf of the whole church.

«question: A number of people are reacting to this statement in the book — «the church, in its contemporary, institutional form, has neither a biblical nor a historical right to exist.»

It simply means that the institutional form we're speaking of has no «Scriptural basis.»

Yes, I believe the growth is incremental (or at times probably none at all) but this institutional form of church does anchor the gospel in the community, strangely enough.

But the opposite error is also possible; a common life, vaguely defined by reference to a common spirit also vaguely described, is exalted at the expense of institutional forms.

We had been released by our supporting religious denominations from the encumbrances of liturgical and institutional forms to go with the «movement» for racial justice and for peace.

The alternative to the above position is to speak of revelation in terms of being, and this can take one of three possibilities: (1) doctrine, (2) psychic experience, and (3) an institutional form.16 The latter may be understood as the institution of the Catholic Church or the Protestant idea of verbal inspiration of the Bible.

And we see that in its social, institutional form, the Church is the facilitator of a personal and social relationship — a truly human, incarnational relationship — with God.

The Protestant Churches had long been ruled by the rural mentality and institutional form.

Thus, although the church consisted of people who professed the Christian faith, its institutional form was human and fallible.