Sentences with phrase «meaning of particular persons»

Other stories serve explicitly to raise the consciousness of the community to the situation and meaning of particular persons, groups, and institutions.

Not exact matches

The major problem with this particular practice is the fact that it indicates that the individuals at this brokerage have in one way or another gotten hold of the private information of people who had by no means contacted them, heard about them or showed in any form or manner that they were interested in trading using them.

In particular, support and resistance levels only have meaning with reference to the prices of things that people actively and directly trade in financial markets.

In particular, this means increased focus on education, immigration, social infrastructure and the participation of women and indigenous peoples in the economy.

To think that some bunch of people, from one particular religious sect, can unilaterally decide to say some dead person is «baptised», and to think that such a declaration means anything at all for the spirit (if any) of the deceased, is bizarre.

Hmmm, maybe God established this set of rules for a particular group of people at a particular time and it isn't meant to be taken literally by us today.

Regulators in North Carolina Jan. 11 ordered BitConnect to stop selling its products, and said the company targeted «persons of limited financial means, and unsophisticated investors» who would suffer particular hardship if their investments went down the drain.

There are also the objections that there is no national interest in trying to stop the use of a particular kind of weaponry — you can kill people by any means; and that even if there were such an interest, a weak and limited attack will be ineffective.

Can't be a Christian without belonging to the Church (by which I mean the community of all faithful people, not any particular denomination — sorry Rome).

But if they have meant that there are some persons who can contemplate deity without the use of any particular set of images or symbols, they may have spoken the truth.

The Puritans, in particular, were determined that their people should be able to read and write so as to understand the meaning of God's Word.

Further, he insisted, a congregation's particular story, because it draws from a treasury of narrative elements available to all groups of people as they struggle for survival and meaning, is its channel to participation in the worldwide mission of establishing God's shalom.

All this means that the Church will often have conflicting understandings of what it means to live as God's people in a particular location or cultural setting.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

When we say, then, that Jesus proclaimed the eschatological Kingdom of God, we mean that he proclaimed the final and decisive activity of God in visiting and redeeming his people; no particular form of this activity is necessarily implied and no particular accompanying phenomena must necessarily be present.

To become aware of a man, therefore, means in particular to perceive his wholeness as person defined by spirit: to perceive the dynamic centre which stamps on all his utterances, actions, and attitudes the tangible sign of oneness.

The notion of Israel as a chosen people elected by Yahweh for special reasons and for a particular purpose is by no means peculiar to the classical prophets.

Strings like, «There is something wrong with you if you don't speak in tongues» (a very unBiblical one that), you must have a full submersion baptism because the last baptism you had wasn't wet enough, you must sing naff choruses or it means you do nt» want to worship God, you must believe that the vast majority of people that have lived on earth are damned to everlasting Hell, you must not say anything controversial, you must not be too intellectually assertive if you're a woman, you must do as we say and believe as we say, you must force yourself to be attracted to people with a particular set of genitalia or be lonely and unfulfilled for the rest of your life.

Just because a particular type of prayer can be an important part of our spirituality, and in fact is for some people, doesn't mean that it must be for everybody.

The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.

It has for most people no other meaning than to name this particular person2, though there may be an awareness that this part of his name means that there is something special about him.

And because being in Christ is bound up with one and only one particular history — that of Jewish faith and of the man from Nazareth — it is simply not clear what it would mean to say that this perspective could in principle be gained by a7ny person anywhere with any sort of commitments.

Do you mean precept as say, a particular person's natural tendency not to murder anyone because of their religious beliefs?

The Christians, in their way, agree with the classical philosophers that the glory that was Rome is nothing in light of eternity — although by eternity they mean the life beyond death that the personal God makes possible for each particular person.

It is a particular imperative of the Christian conscience to have enough concern for persons to work for the correction of injustices by both personal and political means whenever these are perpetrated by any group upon another.

The sophisms of the substantiality of the «I» even today retain a particular luster, along with the Nietzschean and Freudian critiques of the subject; it is not without importance to find the root and philosophical meaning of them in the Kantian dialectic; this latter has condemned in advance any claim to dogmatize on personal existence and knowledge of the person; the person is manifested only in the practical act of treating it as an end and not merely as a means.

When there is a such a wide array of opinions and beliefs on what a particular passage means, and there is very little chance for the average student of Scripture to gain clarity or certainty on which view is right, most people think «Why even try?»

Almsgiving is a duty of charity, a commendable spiritual practice along with prayer and fasting, and a means for us to win friends in eternity, whether by giving money to organisations or individuals who carry out the corporal works of mercy — saving the lives of pre-born babies by supporting pro-life work, feeding the hungry by the alleviation of famine, sheltering the homeless, welcoming the stranger, or the spiritual works of mercy, such as having Masses offered for people who are sick or in particular need, or those who have died and the souls in purgatory.

Each continues, of course, to console himself with the delusion that his special system of theology or his particular interpretation of the meaning of the Word of God constitutes a universal frame of reference within which the other person is or ought to be included and that consequently communication between them ought to be possible.

«For many if not most of the people I was coming into contact with in local churches, talking about their congregation meant citing statistics of one sort or another, or details of particular programs.»

The kid is right in a way Religion is a way to enslave people to the thinking of that particular religion Jesus didn't come to form religion but to give us a way to get to Heaven through him The only mission of a church is to teach you about God's love to help the poor to love one another to do things that Christ would do There is a penalty for not being saved by the blood of Jesus There will be a separation from God for all eternity God made us for one reason to love Him the Creator of all The meaning of life

It is this background, the mighty acts of God, that gives cogency to the commandments of the Torah, for these acts of God established what is described as the «covenant,» by which is meant a special relation between this particular people and the God who had delivered them.

The enormity of America's history of oppression meant that the right of white people to expect any particular conduct from blacks, and the obligation of black people to comply with such expectations, were both severely attenuated.

At the end of the day churches like the one this particular pastor represents have a turnover of 50 % every two years, which means that if you visited his church every two years you would only find 50 % of the people had been there before.

All I can try to do now is to remind you that the process of reflection upon the God of Jesus, by which I mean upon the good news announced by Jesus, that the kingdom of God is at hand, was begun and carried on by people whose thinking was determined by the fact that they belonged to a particular community.

Instead, an increasing number of people are occupied in the production and distribution of symbolic knowledge; these are the people enumerated above, and, if a class is defined by a particular relation to the means of production (as Marx, for one, proposed); then indeed there is here a new class.

It is not the «truthfulness» of a particular world view that interests him, but the ability of people through their imaginative powers to create meaning out of the chaos they find.

By heretic, again, Aquinas meant a person of Catholic faith who deliberately and resolutely, even after having been called to reflect on the matter, has chosen to renounce that faith in some important particular.

Witnessing to the Kingdom means enabling people in each particular situation to see the nature of God truly reflected in the mirror of their own culture, their own institutions and their own conflicts.49

We have seen in particular how these laws are used by the government in an attempt to compel citizens to sacrifice their deepest convictions on marriage and what it means to be male and female, people who serve everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, but who can not promote messages, engage in expression, or participate in events that contradict their beliefs or their organization's guiding values.

When I say that all things exist to magnify the truth and worth and beauty and greatness of God, I mean that all things — and marriage in particular — exist to move the appearance of God in people's minds toward reality.»

Such an ethics always asks about the meaning of any particular sexual act in the total context of the persons involved, in the context of their society, and in the context of that direction which God desires for human life.

The concept of «presence» means really being there with the other, experiencing vividly that particular person's emerging uniqueness in that moment.

Just because people are against the law that president Obama and the Democrats put in - place doesn't mean they're not for reform... they may just be against the particular mandate in the law and for the majority of the rest of the bill... the statement «if they're against the law in place, then they're against health care reform or against health care for those that don't have it» is a truly ignorant statement...

Some people think that if they have the church and the bible behind them... (and not just any church, but their particular church... and not just any bible but their particular interpretation of it)... then they have authority to say incredibly stupid, inhumane and mean things.

Even if some modern Jews could trace their ancestry back to some ancient Hebrews, do descendants of a people that lived in a particular region 2,000 years ago have a right to return, particularly when this means evicting people who have long resided there?

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Whatever insufficient sex means to any particular person — even if that can be considered a betrayal of his or her partner's obligation — the fact remains that adultery just makes it worse.

I mean, not that she didn't get any attention, but a lot of the time she was quite content to do her own little baby thing (people watching, or chewing random things, or whatever) with no particular attention from me, as long as I was there.

In particular the shortage of labour meant it was considered worth investing the time and energy in getting everyone working, including those people who had become disabled during conflict.