Sentences with phrase «lives of all community»

Above all else, encourage a program of patronizing your local bookstore, supermarket, shoe store, you name it, in the interest of maintaining the life of your community, even at some expense.

«In Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (2000), Professor Bruce Chilton develops the idea of Jesus as a mamzer; someone whose irregular birth circumstances result in their exclusion from full participation in the life of the community.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

On the one hand, one must counter a dictatorship of positivist reason that excludes God from the life of the community and from public organizations. . . .

That means opposing the self - contradictory «dictatorship of positivist reasoning that excludes God from the life of the community and from the public order, as well as acknowledging... human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its exercise».

It looks upon the daily work to support one's family and to improve the life of the community as an obligation as important as prayer.

In Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (2000), Chilton develops the idea of Jesus as a ma - mzer; someone whose irregular birth cir - c - umstances result in their exclusion from full participation in the life of the community.

The life of community links one with the creative sources of being.

It is open to and engaged in a «public» cultural life broader than the common life of the communities for whom the schooling is undertaken.

My hope is this will communicate the message that all our congregations should be centers of compassion and care in the life of community, rather than simply pastoral chaplaincies serving only those who show up at our doors.

The test of the authenticity of faith is the caring and loving quality of the life of the community, its service to others and its commitment to the struggle for justice and integrity of the whole creation.

Furthermore, as paideia, theological schooling generates its own writings that are intended not only for use within Christian communities but also as contributions to the cultural life of the communities» host societies.

The tragedy was that the new situation demanded a willingness to sacrifice principles and attitudes previously regarded as essential to the life of the community and its relationship with God, and for this many were unprepared.

For our purposes, the most satisfactory definition would be: Christianity is the total life of the community of men and women who respond to what they know about God — along with their neighbors, who are caught up into the social movement or process we call «the church» (however this may be understood)-- in terms of the socially remembered event of Jesus Christ.

She believes that being faithful and committed to one community is important and necessary for the quality of the life of that community.

The main conclusion I draw from the data is that, other things being equal, the person who is involved in religious life is also likely to be more involved then his secular counterpart in the life of the community.

Hermeneutics remains a private, armchair exercise so long as it remains divorced from the life of a community that struggles to be faithful to that story and the One whom it reveals.

These focal images are tested by a process of trial and error to see whether they illuminate the whole NT and are pragmatically effective in the life of the community.

It can only be intimated in words and can first be satisfactorily proclaimed only by being confirmed in the life of a man, in the life of a community.

For the solitariness of individual life exists to be transcended and absorbed into the ongoing life of the community.

Evangelism falls flat if the worship life of a community is not exciting.

But again this belief in the divinity of Jesus rested on the experience of the divine in the life of the community and on the recognition of the divine significance of the event.

Because their structure is organized to secure the preservation and extension of the larger institution, congregations that take their primary identity from their denominations can not relate to the total life of a community.

Zionists tend to look on it as a national destiny and perhaps also a culture but not as a people embodying an essential relationship to God in the life of the community.

As in the life of the community attained reality must ever again be placed in the continuity of experience, so in the life of the individual hours of orienting follow hours of realization and must so follow.

Amos's «righteousness,» Hosea's hesed, or «lovingkindness,» and Isaiah's «holiness» represent three important developments of the meaning of the divine kingship for the life of the community.

In the book are recorded the key events, central teaching, and ritual regulations governing the life of the community.

The state must cease to be a machina machinarum which «strangles the individuality of small associations» and must become instead a communitas communitatum — a union of communities within which the proper autonomous life of each community can unfold.

Their enduring presence in the life of the community is expressed figuratively or in abstract masses of a more or less anthropomorphic character.

These writings have their being, as they had their origin, within the life of a community which traces its descent from Abraham and Moses, from prophets and apostles, and plays its part in the history of our own time; and the Scriptures not only recall its past, but serve the needs of its day - to - day existence in the present.

The goal is to create communities where every person is free to contribute fully to the life of the community and to receive its benefits.

When you do have opportunities to read with others, pick books that are relevant in some way to the common life of your community, and discuss them in connection with the realities that you live within.

Reading carefully in ways that draw us deeper into the life of our communities will undoubtedly help our communities to flourish, and in the process, will radically transform the world as well.

The most pressing question for Muslims in many lands is how to order the life of the community in a society that is not governed according to Muslim law and in which Muslims must conceive of their religion, at least in part, as equivalent to a voluntary association.

Eros and Purpose in the Life of the Community.

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.

These symbols are rooted in historical circumstance, not human contrivance; they are «born,» «live,» and «die» within the life of the communities shaped by them.

Also integral to the life of this community is a reorientation to responsible participation in society through concrete opportunities for deliberation and action.

But the sermon is the most consistent and public statement of the Christian vision and thus plays a crucial role in the social life of the community.

To share in the life of this community, to do its work, to hear its story, to read its Book, is the way to such knowledge of God as Christians have.

«Politics» is the Aristotelian name for the set of activities through which goods are ordered in the life of the community.

Practical theology — theology that is addressed to the lives of communities and grows out of the lives of communities, theology that is done for the sake of a way of life — is a growing, exciting dimension of theological studies.

Thus defined, it is not a mere belief, but a part of the empirical ground in the life of the community upon which sound belief of whatever kind must rest.

First, there is the presence on every page of the words, categories, myths, images, and technical terminology of the social, cultural, religious, and scientific life of the communities addressed.

The first of these alternatives is exemplified in the Fourth Gospel, where the meaning of the return of Christ is all but exhausted in the coming of the Spirit upon the church and where the whole content of redemption is involved in the incarnation, which is a past event — present and future only in the sense that it is perpetuated in the life of the community.

But when examined these claims have no justification in the corporate life of the community.

And in the course of that inquiry they quickly discover that education is so closely connected with the life of a community that queries about the aims of teaching and learning can not be answered unless ideas about the character and the purposes of the society in which it is carried on are clarified first of all.

The life of the community and the development of the Bible belong together.

Since these differed as the life of the community went on, the presentation of history changed as well, whether it was the reign of David or the ministry of Jesus.

Christian observances were part of our street life and part of the civic life of our communities.