Sentences with phrase «liberating power of»

But if the past was once used as a trap for Aboriginality, we have seen a transformation, whereby Aboriginal peoples have reclaimed the key to the trap and have found the «liberating power of remeberance».

Lansing, Michigan About Blog Riverview exists to proclaim the liberating power of the Gospel as we grow, serve, and go.

Union Baptist Church was founded in 1852 with a collective of freemen and former slaves who banded together to express the liberating power of God.

The film is sprinkled with hints of violence — whether vicarious, playful, or accidental — and the fearfully liberating power of that violence.

About Site - Riverview exists to proclaim the liberating power of the Gospel as we grow, serve, and go.

A less practical and more philosophical answer is that Cosmos Studios was conceived to awaken the widest possible public to the liberating power of science.

Johnson is pursuing «a resymbolization of divine power not as dominative or controlling power, nor as dialectical power in weakness, nor simply as persuasive power, but as the liberating power of connectedness that is effective in compassionate love.

There he imbibed the theology of the Confessing Church, inspired by Karl Barth and preserved throughout the years of struggle between the church and the Nazi state... We learned the origin of the Christian faith in the suffering of him who was crucified and in the liberating power of the risen Christ.

Some are most impressed by liberation movements and the new recognition of the liberating power of the gospel.

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).

Not exact matches

Resentments of America returned, 50 years after General Eisenhower's (mainly American) armies had liberated western Europe, including most of Germany, 75 years after General Pershing's Expeditionary Forces saved the victory of France and the British Empire on the Western Front, and as soon as American firmness and economic and military power had induced the bloodless collapse of the Soviet empire and Union, and of international communism.

Jesus did not die to liberate us from norms for living but to save us from the power of sin so that we might live for his glory in his good creation empowered by the Holy Spirit.

It is this assurance of divine liberating power that makes unnecessary the impatient employment of such human devices as ideology, which are generally felt to be necessary where power is urgently needed and divine power is not hoped for.

Nevertheless, this theology is liberation theology because it witnesses to the power of Jesus Christ to liberate me from my white middle - class world, from the university, and to place me beside the marginals, the oppressed, in hope and promise of their liberation.

The Christian feminist knows the power of Christianity, is conscious of how this religion has worked to the detriment of women, but also knows of the good it has done, and of the good it could do if its liberating message were heard.

Through Nietzsche's vision of Eternal Recurrence we can sense the ecstatic liberation occasioned by the collapse of the transcendence of Being, by the death of God — and we may witness a similar ecstasy in Rilke and Proust; and, from Nietzsche's portrait of Jesus, theology must learn of the power of an eschatological faith that can liberate the contemporary believer from the inescapable reality of history.

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.

It is only when man has been delivered from the threat of condemnation, a threat always present wherever humanity exists in a state of isolated selfhood, that a truly forgiven humanity can be liberated from Satan's power.

My faith in the power of God - with - us — our creative, liberating power with one another — is secure, and my hope for the world is being radicalized.

For those whose memories of St. John Paul reach back only as far as his last years, Liberating a Continent is also a powerful reminder of what a handsome, charismatic, and utterly compelling man John Paul II was at the height of his physical powers.

The «uniqueness» of pastoral counseling and of the minister as counselor has been taken to mean that these disciplines speak with an especially liberating power because of their great religious and biblical heritage.

If we ask from what we are liberated, the answer, in the context of Romans is the power of sin, the law, and the flesh.

Responding to the challenge of «the signs of the times» (Gau & um et spes 4), the Gospel must be continually reinterpreted and witness must be given to its healing and liberating power in life.

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

If science and technology are ever to be liberated from tutelage to the dominative powers of history, if the drama is to be «interrupted» redemptively rather than destructively, then Christian theology, which has itself been enticed time and again to legitimate dominative power, can contribute to that future by mediating more dialectically to the present the subversive memories of God's identification with the struggles of victims everywhere in the mystery and message of Christ Jesus.

There will be a new language, perhaps quite unreligious, but liberating and saving, like the language of Jesus, so that men are horrified at it, and yet conquered by its power.

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.

... issues such as these need to be faced together, in a spirit of openness, mutual respect and fidelity to the liberating truth and saving power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ».

... To the individual he comes with power to liberate him from every evil and sin, from every power in heaven and earth, from every threat of life or death.

I find that Boff has gone the furthest in repudiating all vestiges of conventional power in lifting up the liberating work of God.

The starting point is the appearance of One who asserted that he came to announce and inaugurate the kingly rule of God in such a way as to actualize the hopes of the people of God, make effective the liberating promise and power of God, establish men — by his life and teaching and deeds — in a new relationship to God and to one another.

What is the actual nature of God's liberating power?

The logos of this being liberates and raises us out of the power of history into the eternal present.

We can learn through Paul (as Beards - lee has taught me) that it is only to the extent that we live in faith that we are liberated from the law, only to the extent that we live in Christ or in the new aeon that we are liberated from the power and authority of the old aeon.

The early Church confessed Jesus as Lord, as the highest authority at whose name every knee shall bow, who in the cross and in the resurrection has liberated in this world the power of sacrificial love.

Divine compassion is not a form of paternalistic charity but a more radical love that offers liberating power.119

Max reminds us of this question — and the reminder liberates us from having to take such power seriously.

He argues that God is the one who has the world - creating power of language completely; that language is that which makes one present; that Jesus» authentically liberating and authoritative word constitutes a fulfillment of human presence (in terms of decisive presence to self, world and God); that therefore Jesus is the Word of God.

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

liberated from feverish concern for institutional self - preservation, the church is free to give itself up its proper service of proclaiming Christ and heralding the kingdom by word and deed... Its real power lies in its faithfulness to the kenotic life - style, and to the cross and the resurrection.

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

Becoming like the Proverbs 31 Woman is not about WHAT you do, but HOW you do it... I was so buoyed up by this idea and have kind of been floating on the liberating feeling of it and the power of the blessing of «Eshet Chayil»!

At the heart of the Fascist and Communist projects, Berlin warned, was a determination to use political power to liberate human beings, whether they liked it or not, for the realization of some higher historical end.

Rather, society may be viewed as the locus for the creative and liberating activity of God amidst the principalities and powers in the ever - present struggles of daily striving (EMLK 28).

We go to war in the name of liberating people from dictators, and frequently, the new leaders placed in power are just as corrupt and destructive as those which were removed.

RiceBran Technologies is liberating the nutritional power of rice bran from rice, one of the world's oldest and most common food sources.

Brexit is a «power grab» not by those who want to liberate the public from the shackles of Europe — but a libertarian clique that will trap us into a new order shaped by a strong libertarian philosophy.

Mr Lansley has argued that this represents a «liberating» decentralisation of power and saves the NHS huge costs in bureaucracy.

These are the kinds of threats, the kind of rooted interests, that strive to disprove that story I grew up with, the one about improvement and the power of technology to liberate.

For the outside job, it is liberating your skin from toxic personal care products and experiencing the extraordinary power of natural products so you can radiate with a fresh, happy glow.