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.