Sentences with phrase «lives by this structure»

It is rather that the Word and the church will be interpreted to them as God's will for the freedom of man to live a human life, to fight against the demonic forces of his own nature that seek dominion over social as well as personal life, to order his life by structures of love and justice relevant to the conditions of society.
Dogs live every waking moment of their entire lives by this structure.

Not exact matches

On the one hand, says Haff, we can no longer live without the «support structure and the services provided by technology» — the communication, transportation, energy, and other networks that developed to make human life on an increasingly crowded planet function in the first place.
In addition to bragging rights, they'll get to eat lunch served by robotic waiters, take a private tour of the 25 - million - brick structure and bring their winning entry to life with an endless supply of Legos, among other once - in - a-lifetime experiences.
In this respect Google is like the bizarro - Apple: the iPhone maker has the distribution channel and business model to make Siri the dominant assistant in its users» lives, but there are open questions about its technology prowess when it comes to artificial intelligence specifically and services generally; moreover, efforts to improve are fundamentally stymied by the company's device - centric culture and organizational structure.
The fund's UIT structure is shared by a few other long - lived ETFs (like SPY), with the most notable effects being a slight cash drag since stock dividends received in between the ETF's distributions can't be reinvested as is typically the case.
For example a client living in Sacramento may structure their search by entering «House cleaner in Sacramento» or «Sacramento cleaning services».
Technology, concern about work - life balance, and initiatives to help the environment by reducing traffic have made a variety of flexible structures available to modern workers.
The evidence is simply overwhelming and of various different types: the fossil record, the genetic code, experimental confirmations, structures in living organisms which are of no current use but once were, faulty «designs» that are explained by «blind evolution» but that no sentient being would create, predictions that are tested based one the hypothesis it has occurred etc..
Since no one has yet to SEE an atom, the idea of the structure of the atom can only be inferred by experimental evidence — yet I see no Republican trying to stop teaching the structure of the atom in school — oh that's right, its because major corporations and industries rely on this science (pharm, weapons manufacturers etc etc) whereas the theory of evolution is merely think piece of scientists on how life on Earth changes over time.
Like a bipolar magnet, the Christian author today feels the pull of both forces: a fervent desire to communicate what gives life meaning counteracted by an artistic inclination toward self - expression, form and structure that any «message» might interrupt.
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.
In the journal Physics of Life Reviews, Stuart Hameroff and Sir Roger Penrose suggest that quantum vibrational computations in microtubules (components of a cell's structure) are «orchestrated» by synaptic inputs and memory, and terminated by «objective reduction».
I don't think it necessarily means leaving the family, but no longer subscribing to its rules, conforming to its pressure, or defining our lives by that social structure that is so firmly entrenched.
Revolutionary structures, he adds, can not serve this design except by providing occasion for each social group to participate more fully in shaping the community's economic and national life.
We learn who we are through the stories we embrace as our own — the story of my life is structured by the larger stories (social, political, mythic) in which I understand my personal story to take place.
My reading of Bonhoeffer's essay «The Structure of Responsible Life» resonated with the moral arguments put forward by the ANC.
According to Balthasar everything in the Church is a movement between these two principles (Marian and Petrine): the Church as the bride of Christ is the extension and product of the living reality of Christ, which requires an essential structure (sacraments and ministry, which are founded by Christ Himself).
The claim that just social structures would make charity superfluous «masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion that man can live «by bread alone» — a notion that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human.»
God continues to order the natural life of humanity by means of the concrete historical structures that impinge on our existence — the particular systems of government, economics, and family that frame our life.
However improbable in a mechanistic sense the elaborate organic structure created by life may appear, it seems increasingly evident that the cosmic substance is drawn toward these states of extreme arrangement by a particular kind of attraction which compels it, by the play of large numbers in which it is involved, to miss no opportunity of becoming more complex and thus achieving a higher degree of freedom.
If this maturing does not occur, four types of nonproductive life - orientations (and character structures) develop in the attempt by persons to defend themselves from feelings of existential insignificance and aloneness.
The man in the street had few possibilities, but by this very fact he was as it were held together from outside, he was confronted with a certain structure and shape of his life from the beginning, so that he did not need to think very much about it.
Every structure of secular life both present and to come is called into question by hope, because this is the anticipation of what is not in our power, and the historical and social act of hope is realized in this calling into question, though not entirely.
We need to teach on submission and church authority structures in a way that equips women abused by the very leadership to which they were called to submit to boldly live out their gifting as co-heirs with Jesus Christ.
a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)
By proceeding on the assumption that people are what they are to a large degree because of their basic character structure, a structure which was formed in the very early years of life, psychotherapy has been able to release many from the vicious cycle of guilt and compulsion which has made self - determination impossible.
Brilliant minds of the order of Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, John Von Newman, W. Ross Ashby, and Stafford Beer, among many others, provided the conceptual structures for the multidisciplinary methodology of the systems approach.2 Incredible advances in computers, in league with sophisticated instruments of systems analysis, play an ever increasing role in shaping the life style and the world view of contemporary society along the lines suggested by systems theory.
To answer this question we need to consult the descriptions of nonsocial nexus which Whitehead gives: «The characteristic of a living society is that a complex structure of inorganic societies is woven together for the production of a non-social nexus characterized by the intense physical feelings of its members» (PR 161).
He proposes that humanity is in a certain sense naturally religious, for the structure of the individual human person and of corporate human life is pervaded by religion., This is consistent with his view that one can expect to find the mark of the Creator in creation.
We, as a race of living godheads tend to forget where from we were built and by whose hands our bodies of Godly structured buildings did lay one's foundation while in the womb.
Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?
There are now persons in the pews who were born in the city, who are secular in their outlook, who are keenly aware of the ways in which their lives are shaped by structures which they do not control and who are concerned that their religious institutions should be active agents of social change.
One of [the whale's] peculiarities it is, to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood - vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.
It is pervaded by the sense of the order of the creation, with a definite physical, living, and moral structure which set the conditions of man's life.
As long as teachers are regarded (and regard themselves) as lay people who make their living by teaching, they can not readily transcend the class structure in the conduct of their work.
Finally, it is a fragile and superficial structure, shedding a haphazard light on our lives, maintaining and propagating itself by grace of circumstances that are in themselves precarious and changeable: how can we compare it to those deep, underlying determinisms which impose an ineluctable course upon the advance of Life?
Often preservers are motivated by the impulse to honor those who sacrificed, whose immigrant lives were ennobled by the devotion they gave to a structure in the new country or by their ability to create a space in which tenors of life, which came in abundance, could be controlled.
What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.
This authority structure is typically described as a series of «coverings» or «protections» but unfortunately, the effect is often the opposite, as abused women and children find they have no recourse or power, as every decision in their lives must be made by a series of men, many of whom are more invested in protecting the reputation of the ministry than the people in it.
Life in all its forms is defined by structures that afford constancies amid change.
Furthermore, if the evidence from some branches of Orthodox Judaism and of Black Islam in America is taken into account, it may be that the simple clarities of fundamentalism give persecuted people whose lives are in disarray the clean - edged structures by which discipline and order can be imposed on chaos from within.
Suffering and mystery, to which Feuerbach attributed the existence of religion, are now seen more precisely as the sorrows brought about by enforced, unreasonable, incomprehensible and alien conditions of life (social structure).
The person who knows this Word of, God in his life and exalts it with wonder, or the one who has not experienced this liberation, who has perhaps been crushed or coerced by a family or ecclesiastical structure, and who considers this law abominable because he has known nothing but the slavery imposed by other people?
This guy somewhat confused about the relationship between a person and god / the universal life force, and the relationship between the individual and the religion / corporate structure which earns it's living by peddling dated dogma and reassurances that it's way is the right way to deal with the universe.
Not the other as a psychic life that is to be re-experienced and reconstituted, but the other as a vision or a truth conveyed by the speech performance of an author in terms of a potentiality structured in the text that can only be actualized through the process of reading.
«Equally they measure, the one by the complexity of its structure and the other by the intensity of its awareness, the quantity of choice that the living being has at its disposal» (CE 286).
By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.
Although sanctification in the life of communities and social institutions is not so clearly defined an experience as it is in the individual, Niebuhr said that old forms and structures of life may be renewed rather than destroyed by the vicissitudes of history.
A push toward a scientific sovereignty in which the empirical world was the only world, a mechanization of life through the emerging structures of technology and mass industry, a cultivation of persons along the lines of immediate gratification and fulfillment of base impulses, and the use of mass culture by dictatorial regimes to shape a people.
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