Sentences with phrase «kind of new life»

What these sculptures made me feel (when I saw them the day before the critique) was the notion that Alexandra had deconstructed a natural material and completely transformed it into a kind of new life form.

By arguing that the Bible's first «author» was a woman, Bloom has breathed a kind of new life into the dusty old Yahwist, that hybrid creation of rationalism, historicism and romanticism usually associated with the name of Julius Wellhausen (1844 - 1918).

For this reason the kind of new life which Christians claim through faith in the risen Christ is essential to the actual advancement of community and to the creation of the religious outlook which underlies it.

To say that Jesus is unique is only to assert that the kind of new life which vital Christians discover they regard as available only through Jesus.

Not exact matches

Emily, a psychic medium based in Brooklyn, New York, directly opposed my unrealistic, misinformed view of psychics from the moment I met her because not only does it turn out that she lives in my neighborhood, but also she embodies an even more mysterious kind of magic: the ability to be an everyday person, a working mom, and the possessor of an impressive gift.

It's the kind of convenience I've become accustomed to after living in New York for over six years.

And when you hire new employees, make sure they are the kind of people who are willing and able to live out your brand values, too.

Twitter's purchase of Periscope, a live video app, for $ 86 million in 2015, and the embedding of Periscope's features into Twitter itself at the end of 2016 showed that the company was serious about giving users a whole new kind of content experience.

I warned then that tricked traffic, vicarious visitors, and the kind of morons attracted to the latest news on Momma whoever's new diet weren't worth reaching or pitching to in any case because they weren't buying anything worth selling — but at least we thought they were living, breathing human beings.I said:

«For our civilization to become a new kind of entity on the planet, we need to live comfortably, over the long haul, with world - changing technology,» David H. Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Library of Congress, said Dec. 12 here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

I thus began to long for a life as something other than a business owner, looking to sate my appetite for a new kind of challenge.

Since then, her ongoing research and those of dozens of colleagues have led to conclusions that urban pollution, particularly the kind you live with in dense areas like New York City, New Delhi, London, and Mexico City, is a critical health concern.

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In other words, those happen because those are natural firsts, those happen naturally because of evolution but can you create those kind of important moments in your life and it really comes down to creating doing new things, always creating — you have to be a little more creative when you get older to create those new things but those are the things you think about which I think are quite important.

Starting a new life in Cambodia as an expat can be a fantastic journey with all kinds of fun to be had.

As this decade hobbles to a close, a new kind of social gathering is invading America's living rooms: the gold party.

According to live video marketing expert Joel Comm, a pioneer who has been using the format since 2008, that combination of an audience primed for video content and a gadget that puts a lens at eye - level is the perfect set - up for a new kind of live video.

«There's nothing more fun than opening a new location,» he says, «and watching it fill up with new members and see what kind of life it takes on.»

The kind of evolution that creates a new and more complicated living thing DOES N'T HAPPEN!

The book moves back and forth between accounts of meetings and chronological detail to a kind of theological interpretation grounded in the Christian language of death and new life.

• For biologists, 1995 was a banner year, marked by the first discovery in decades of a whole new kind of animal life.

The proliferation of communication technologies, the changing structure of everyday life (due largely to technology), the growing complexity of family life, the changing understandings and norms of sexual conduct and the expansion of consumer culture (as evidenced by unprecedented levels of consumer debt) are only a few of the conditions that present pastors with new kinds of demands.

(n. 29) «Therefore, the priest's life ought to radiate this spousal character which demands that he be a witness to Christ's spousal love, and thus be capable of loving people with a heart which is new, generous and pure, with genuine self - detachment, with full, constant and faithful dedication and at the same time with a kind of «divine jealousy» (cf. 2 Cor 11:2)-- and even with a kind of maternal tenderness, capable of bearing the «pangs of birth» until «Christ be formed» in thefaithful (cf. Gal 4:19).

You say, we have all these teachings and society has moved away from these teachings in all kinds of ways; and this creates this incredible tension between New Testament sexual ethics and the way we all live now.

It is this kind of experience which perhaps best explains the meaning of the traditional term «eternal life» — which is now not conceived as an extension in time of our personal existence but as a new dimension of existence into which one can enter during his natural life.

Many conservative evangelicals, like me, believe that a straight forward reading of the biblical text indicates that new «kinds» of life were specially created, not evolved.

There have been times writing and editing this blog on that kind of insane schedule for more than a decade when I have wondered who this new frantic way of life would kill first.

It will conclude by exploring the possible emergence of a new kind of society — a global society, whose cohesion and harmonious life rest upon the rise of a global culture.

Indeed it is much easier to imagine the souls of the dead living on in some new kind of existence than it is to accept as fact that they have really died.

If theology is tested by its ability to shape new kinds of personal and corporate existence in the times in which it lives, then it would seem that radical theology may be able to pass such a test.

Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the new context.2 Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activities.

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

Eliade has also documented the extreme persistence of this style of ordering life into a story which is not open to the new, in the rural cultures of Europe right down to the time of his own youth, and not only so, but he brilliantly predicted the resurgence of this kind of life story in the counterculture in a book which he wrote as long ago as the 1940's.2

Christianity revitalized life in Greco - Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems.

Whereas contemporary understanding envisions the curious person as open to knowledge, life, and new experiences in a kind of whimsical, impish, or carefree way, scholastic theologians saw curiosity as a wayward pursuit which impedes the studied application of the mind to worthy things.

They meant to say that here was a new kind of community life, exhibiting the marks of inward spiritual power in its freedom, unity, and constructive energy.

Jesus called the young ruler to a new kind of material life, a life given to serving the poor with the «materials» of tears, blood and sweat.

The fictional lead character in New Kind is poised to abandon his ministry until a wise new friend initiates him into the ways of postmodern Christianity, rehabilitating his ministry and liNew Kind is poised to abandon his ministry until a wise new friend initiates him into the ways of postmodern Christianity, rehabilitating his ministry and linew friend initiates him into the ways of postmodern Christianity, rehabilitating his ministry and life.

Everything in the life and liturgy of the Church has its meaning in this new kind of community.

He was a parish minister for thirteen years in Detroit; he taught for a third of a century at Union Theological Seminary in New York; he was a constant «circuit rider» preacher to colleges and universities; he was kept busy most of his life with political activities; he made himself available to all kinds of people; and he was a prolific writer.

It is a gift of a new kind of personal and corporate life that God is giving to man.

We may recall that Christianity is in the first instance a gospel, a proclamation, in which it is declared that the eternal Reality whom men call God has crowned His endless work of self - revelation to His human children by a uniquely direct and immediate action: He has come to us in one of our own kind, the Man of Nazareth, uniting to Himself the life which, through His purpose, was conceived and born of Mary, and through this life in its wholeness establishing a new relationship to Himself into which the children of men may enter.

Rather than think our way into a new kind of living, we need to live our way into a new kind of thinking.

Applied to the description of the Christian life, this means that our standpoint is directly opposed to that neo-orthodox doctrine which stresses the discontinuity of Christian faith with the rest of experience in such a way that it is asserted, for example, by Dr. Daniel T. Jenkins that there is «no kind of continuity between the «old man» and the «new man in Christ.»

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

Allan Bloom, in his great «Interpretive Essay» on the Republic, says Plato's criticism of Homer and his own example resulted in poets like «Dante and Shakespeare» capable of «a new kind of poetry which leads beyond itself... and which supports to philosophic life.»

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

But odd with a new Pope and Lousiville the college of Cardinals and Blue Devils that injury thing on national television, blackouts at superbowls and other such nonsense but stay honest true and keep integrity seems kind of important with whatever is going on in ones life.

In the organic realm, too, a living thing's self - transcendence into another kind, if and to the extent that anything of the sort occurs, a question which does not concern us here, will constitute the new kind as such.

The pre-exilic prophets were already speaking of the judgment to fall «in the latter days» as one in which the God of Israel «will be judge between nations, arbiter among many peoples» 8 and where the divine judgment would result in a new kind of world in which «the wolf shall live with the sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall grow up together, and a little child shall lead them».9