Sentences with phrase «liberating experiences of»

For a young black female growing up in Mississippi, there were already a number of historical factors and cultural attitudes that were set up to make me feel bound, and my education — and the truth that I found within it — became one of the most liberating experiences of my life.

These new experiences with men are part of the liberating experience of reaching the age where you realize that you don't need all of the «conventional» things that you thought you had to have in your 20's or 30's or you would just die alone and unhappy.

A scientist is a person «who cares deeply and passionately for truth and clarification, for the liberating experience of finding order and beauty in a chaotic jumble of natural events.»

Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness.

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He experienced it again in the late 1990s when he wrote a book that considered the potentially liberating power of Web 2.0 (before it was actually known as that).

And that's a shame, because attaining the state known colloquially as «inbox zero» is one of the most liberating experiences a person can have in the Internet age.

For every creative person I know (myself included) college is one of the most liberating and miserable experiences at the same time.

If the true God is the God of our experience, then why can't the voice of liberated desire be the Spirit of God?

But unlike so many modernists who thought the confused, fragmentary, dislocated qualities of modern experience are liberating (otherness!

Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T in an illegal war to «liberate» 100's of billions of barrels of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people died in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association was put in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T in global wealth & destroying millions of jobs, etc..

True, every man today who is open to experience knows that God is absent, but only the Christian knows that God is dead, that the death of God is a final and irrevocable event, and that God's death has actualized in our history a new and liberated humanity.

These represent the various facets of the baptismal experience that liberate one from despair and thrust one into a new mode of existence.

Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity in history: it is precisely the self - alienation of God from his original redemptive form that has liberated humanity from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of human experience.

because the Christian lives in the fully incarnate body of Christ, he acknowledges the totality of our experience as the consummation of the kenotic passion of the Word, and by giving himself to the Christ who is present to us he is liberated from the alien power of an emptied and darkened transcendence.

Once we grasp the radical Christian truth that a radically profane history is the inevitable consummation of an actual movement of the sacred into the profane, then we can be liberated from every preincarnate form of Spirit, and accept our destiny as an occasion for the realization in the immediacy of experience of the self - emptying or self - annihilation of the transcendent and primordial God in the passion and death of Christ.

The vivid experience of a liberating love is so rare and precious that in our eagerness to retain it we may place ourselves in bondage to conditions, real or imagined, that we associate with it.

Some have negative biases toward small groups because of painful experiences with rebellious, partially liberated «group - ers» in their organization.

They will only be met when affluence liberates us more or less completely from concerns of this type in order that we might experience more leisure and give ourselves more fully to discretionary and recreational pursuits.

Moreover, black theology knows, from the data of human experience, that the experience of suffering from oppression entails a desire to be liberated from such suffering.

(One of the liberating findings, as long as it does not become standard setting, of the Masters and Johnson research is that many women are capable of multiple orgasms — a series of climaxes during the same experience of intercourse.)

«18 But conversion as a liberating experience was always balanced by the coordinate concept of covenant, which implied a definite set of obligations between God and man and between man and man.

This eschatological consummation will be the death of the transcendent God, his self - negation by a total incarnation of actualization «throughout the total range of human experience, «18 his «kenotic passion» fulfilled in a «new and liberated humanity «19 — a humanity liberated from even the memory of God to become its own Divine Self.20

We may have some unique opportunities to liberate the Bible within the churches, and to release Scripture to act as a text of liberation within our communities and in our personal experience.

It was reading almost exactly the same set of documents back in college that opened my mind to the possibility and desirability of a Catholic social order, so I do hope this book will help others to have that liberating experience, too.

- poses the possibility of experiencing a defamiliarization of the reality structures of being - in - the - world and with it an actualization of a new self - awareness that is both liberated and liberating.

Christian spirituality is the experience of being liberated from self - love.

Israel experienced this invitation and its consequence — the covenant with God — as an expression of His saving, liberating love.

Growth groups can help make the power of authentic relationships — the people dynamic — a liberating experience in community after community for the greening of the world.

When the troubled person finds himself or herself under the care of someone with accurate empathy, someone who seems able to enter another's perceptual framework, he or she experiences a profoundly liberating feeling of being known, being understood.

And for those theological students who first knew the faith only in authoritarian, biblicistic or pietistic forms, study of it by way of historical consciousness proves a liberating experience.

The black church gave black women the «possibility of experiencing a liberating Jesus even as they were given a racist and sexist one.»

It is a matter of common experience that within restricted groups (the pair, the team) unity, far from diminishing the individual, enhances, enriches and liberates him in terms of himself.

Unless a man is unusually liberated from male prejudice and empathetic regarding the experience of being a woman in our culture, he had better not attempt to lead an all - women liberation group.

Kelsey thinks the unique difficulties of being a New Yorker make it a breeding ground for a more liberated, relational church experience.

It provides the spiritual food for communities of exploited people who examine «their experiences of suffering to death» in light of structural causes and the liberating example of Jesus Christ.

If we can truly know that God is dead, and can fully actualize the death of God in our own experience, then we can be liberated from the threat of condemnation, and freed from every terror of a transcendent beyond.

Each time I decide to keep a secret, I affirm the value of my own experience, independent of what others know about me, and that can be incredibly liberating.

Only by accepting and even willing the death of God in our experience can we be liberated from a transcendent beyond, an alien beyond which has been emptied and darkened by God's self - annihilation in Christ.

We ourselves experience the power of Pentecost whenever we glimpse the liberating agenda and praxis of the Spirit that beyond finite utterance.

In other construals the advice would be, «Study religious experience» or «Reflect on liberating praxis,» or «Study Christian tradition (or at least the first five centuries of it).»

According to the written tradition, the first experiences that the liberated clans from Egypt had with him at Sinai were accompanied by thunderings and lightnings and the mountain's smoking — «the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.»

However, in the modern world we find the strange phenomenon of the Christian who is liberated from the fear of damnation, a Christian who apparently is incapable of experiencing terror.

In my experience, admitting a lack of certainty can be a strangely liberating and faith - building experience.

With one blow it pulverized the contradiction in that without circumlocutions it placed materialism on the throne again... One must oneself have experienced the liberating effects of this book to get an idea of it.

I knew that me leaving my role as pastor of Rothesay Vineyard would liberate me to be who I am without restraint and to do what I am passionate about with freedom; I immediately knew that Jon would assume the role as interim pastor and their dilemma would vanish; and the church would experience a brand new and fresh season.

The New York Times: The Freedom of the Hijab Ayesha Nusrat, a 23 year - old Muslim woman in New Delhi writes about her decision to start wearing the hijab, and how that decision has been «the most liberating experience ever.»

Grocery shopping for the provided food is a key part of the learning experience and learning to cook it and follow the plan is an exciting, liberating experience, plus it enables a successful transition between the away - program and the at - home program.

You'll experience your new curves as a welcome part of your radiant self, liberating yourself from self - judgement.

Frustrated and challenged by his volunteer experiences with traditional charitable responses to hunger and homelessness, Robert pioneered a new model aimed at liberating people from the conditions of poverty.

«There's a little concern about the unknown, but I think our experience in Connecticut is so powerful in terms of liberating candidates from endless dialing for dollars,» Demos president Miles Rapoport said.