Sentences with phrase «language of affirmation»

Not exact matches

I aim to get at some of the theological underpinnings of that unease in language that may seem unfamiliar or even unwelcome, but it is language that is grounded in important Christian affirmations that seek to understand the child as our equal» one who is a gift and not a product.

After reading Gary Chapman's best - selling book, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, I discovered my love language is words of affirmation.

The recognition of the limits of language and human knowledge when we speak about the divine is at the same time an affirmation of the mystery of God.

You know all of that, but you're still able to hear these as true stories, as metaphorical narratives using ancient archetypal language to make, among other affirmations, that Jesus is the light coming into the darkness, to make the affirmation that the Herods of this world constantly seek to destroy that which is born of God.

It is an affirmation and not, as many conservative evangelicals have reflexively assumed, a questioning of biblical authority when the language of liberation and empowerment prove fruitful in understanding further dimensions of what salvation always meant according to the scriptural witness, even though we had not previously been pushed to see it that clearly.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

(By «catholic and orthodox» I mean affirmation of the substance, if not the language, of the ecumenical creeds of the undivided church.)

The first, can appear the model of pure a priori thought, disengaged from the world of experience; the second, a massive collection of detailed descriptions and theories about the enormous variety of material phenomena, but with no intelligible unity; and the third an obscure and generally unrigorous rhapsody of affirmations and aspirations, at one end couched in the languages of politics and sentimentality, and at the other in the terms of a cosmic poetry unregulated by science or philosophy.

They are not excluded from affirmations about God, but they are much more likely to concern themselves with images of God or language about God than with God.

And again, through the work of other scholars like Bultmann and Buri, with their frank recognition of the mythological element in the biblical story, we have come to see that the affirmations of Scripture have their abiding significance, not in spite of, but precisely because of their being stated in language which can only be described as highly metaphorical.

But we must reflect more on the New Testament affirmations in the light of ever - changing understandings of history, language and literature and the psyche in order to see how these affirmations might be substantiated.

Now what sort of language is this affirmation of faith?

Thus they are not only affirmations of faith, but the language of defiance and ultimate resistance.

Study group participants generally agree that at least one central affirmation of the creed's father - son language involves the generative relation of the first to the second person of the Trinity: the second person comes «of the same stuff» and is not a creature.

It's possible that while his language is affection hers may be gifts or words of affirmation.

I'm definitely not a words of affirmation love language but my husband is so this is one I've had to learn a lot about.

Do you have any advice on how to love (or how not to love) a person whose love language is Words of Affirmation??

I suspect that physical touch is one of Avery's top 3 love languages, along with quality time and words of affirmation.

Especially if your child's love language is words of affirmation and time, he / she will thrive on your spending time with them.

If your child has Words of Affirmation as his primary love language, criticism cuts deep.

The five love languages are words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time, and physical touch.

My primary love language is words of affirmation; my wife's is quality time.

While he liked getting a note in his lunch, it doesn't attach the same importance as it does to someone who's love language is «words of affirmation.»

Words of affirmations are a language of love.

My oldest son, I mentioned above, is also fluent in the «words of affirmation» love language.

Each one of us has one main love language and a secondary love language: gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service (devotion), and physical touch (intimacy).

That means, if one spouse's «language of love» is to do helpful things or buy gifts, and the other's love language is verbal affirmations, loving touch, or quality time together, the receiver doesn't really feel love, and the giver doesn't feel appreciated for the love they're giving.

They need constant affirmation and a sense of confidence — not just in words, but in actions and body language — from their parents that they can do pretty much anything!

And the language is ambiguous and I'll let you talk about how it's — for some people it's an affirmation of a Ptolemaic worldview or universe view, solar system view for others, it's an embracing of the new Copernican view.

Dr. Chapman says that each of us has two dominant love languages of the five: physical touch, receiving gifts, acts of service, quality time, and words of affirmation.

My main love language is acts of service, followed closely by words of affirmation.

It's based on a book that describes how we all (apparently) have a primary and secondary love language from these five: gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, and physical touch.

So the first love language we can hit is words of affirmation.

Basically there are 5 love languages: words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch.

My love language is «words of affirmation» and I am forever chasing that gold star, which is exactly what this app gives you when you accomplish a goal!

«His love language is «words of affirmation» and those come pretty hard for me, so it is easier when I get to type him a random «thank you for being amazing» during the day, because I know it makes him happy.

Chapman's theory is really quite straightforward: he believes that the many, many ways in which people express emotional love can be condensed down into five broad categories or «languages» (receiving gifts, acts of service, words of affirmation, physical touch, and quality time).

Showing our love can be channeled through different «love languages» (as outlined by Gary Chapman), including spending quality time together, gift giving, physical touch, acts of service, and words of affirmation.

When one person's primary love language is «gifts» and the other's is «words of affirmation», they are each speaking a foreign «love language» to their partner.

The five primary languages of love include words of affirmation, receiving gifts, acts of service, quality time, and physical touch.

The five love languages are: receiving gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, and touch.

While working as a marriage counselor for more than 30 years, he identified five love languages: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch.

For Pendleton, abstraction is not a dead, empty visual language, and appropriation is not a form of meaningless relativism, but rather a charged set of assumptions and strategies that, when displaced, offer 21st - century viewers a vital affirmation of the possibility of new orders and narratives.

He doesn't describe the world we know — i.e. he doesn't focus on the scaffolding, in which we communally invest, through language and social order to run our lives — an approach that delivers the comforting satisfaction of affirmation and recognition.

They cut into the shape structure more to become shapes in their own right, For me they are an affirmation of non objective colour painting that looks toward a new pictorial language and one which connects abstract painting to it's history.

The paintings invite the lines of the circle and the ellipse to join with a language of painting that celebrates the materiality of color and light, the juxtaposition of the anticipated with the unexpected, and the affirmation of depth by close attention to process.

Has it noticed that a supermajority of Parties understand the absence of new equity language as an affirmation of the original, and take the Convention's language to remain entirely operational?

This tradition of an affirmation as an exception is reflected in current statutory language.