Sentences with phrase «men for affirmation»

Women have been socialized to discredit the value of other women's care and support, preferring to depend on men for affirmation of self - worth.

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First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

«4 Affirmation of being in the form of the Promethean spirit is a rebellion against the sacred, for the sacred reality can be known only as wholly other than the man - made world of being.

The theology of the Mass is another area which we think is ripe for development, especially given the affirmation in Gaudium et Spes that «in her most benign Lord and Master can be found the key, the focal point and the goal of man, as well as of all human history» (n. 10).

Touch is not in and of itself evil, for as we know, babies need touch to grow and many men and women receive love and affirmation through physical touch, however, if not stewarded well, touch can send unintentional and undesired messages to the opposite sex.

The first affirmation we are making when we confess that God raised Jesus from the dead is that the resurrection hope which we hold for all men has already become for us a living reality in the case of this man Jesus.

Proxy baptism is also an affirmation of our faith that God lives and Jesus» atonement is for all men and women of all ages.

For Karl Barth man always appears to remain on the knife edge between the love of God and the abyss of damnation.24 Reinhold Niebuhr holds that we are redeemed from sin in principle, but whether we are redeemed in fact is not made clear.25 Christ, he says, is our hope, not our possession.26 And again he suggests that only in the moment of prayer can man really love God and his neighbor with the love which Christ has shown to us.27 Emil Brunner comes closer to positive affirmation of the new life of the man to whom the love of God has come with power.

And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.

Thus an original statement of Jesus that the Sabbath was made for man and that the» son of man» (that is, man) is master of the Sabbath becomes an affirmation that the Son of Man (that is, Jesus himself as God's vicegerent) is Lord of the Sabbaman and that the» son of man» (that is, man) is master of the Sabbath becomes an affirmation that the Son of Man (that is, Jesus himself as God's vicegerent) is Lord of the Sabbaman» (that is, man) is master of the Sabbath becomes an affirmation that the Son of Man (that is, Jesus himself as God's vicegerent) is Lord of the Sabbaman) is master of the Sabbath becomes an affirmation that the Son of Man (that is, Jesus himself as God's vicegerent) is Lord of the SabbaMan (that is, Jesus himself as God's vicegerent) is Lord of the Sabbath.

Referring to the Bangkok Assembly of the WCC, The International Congress in Lausanne, the Bishops» Synod in Rome on evangelism in the modern world, and the Orthodox Consultation on Confessing Christ today, Thomas said that theological convergence in these meetings is striking in three points: Firstly, in their emphasis on the whole gospel for the whole man in the whole world; secondly, in their effort to relate evangelism to the identity of the church and to its growth, renewal and unity; and thirdly, in their affirmation of the realities of the contemporary world.

«God is human» in «His free affirmation of man, His free concern for him, His free substitution for him.»

William Stringfellow has criticized Edmond Cahn's book, The Moral Decision, calling it blasphemous and immoral «for the only affirmation Professor Cahn is really making is an affirmation of man as one who is justified by his own decisions founded in his own knowledge of good and evil.

This introduces an entirely new element, which completely transcends natural science, as can be seen, for instance, from the fact that the affirmations of natural science are intrinsically transsubjective in character — that is to say, they are entirely independent of man's subjective understanding of himself.

God, as chief causative principle and as supreme affect, is «in this world or he is nowhere»; biblical material, and in relation to it Christian liturgical and hymnological imagery, with the theological articulation of this, intend to make affirmations which are to be found in the pictures and forms and myths — and these we must seek to make meaningful and valid for ourselves in our present existence; man is an «embodied» and a social occasion or series (or «routing») of occasions, organic to the world of nature, and can only truly live as he lives in due recognition of these facts and sees them as integral to himself.

Underneath man's quest for an ethical way of life Schweitzer sees a struggle which has not been sufficiently recognized, that between world - affirmation and world negation.

The current life - style of so many teenage girls suggests a contempt for virginity — in which a girl should naturally see an affirmation of her own sense of self - worth, the surrender of which signifies the total gift of self and as such is to be kept for the man she marries.

The glory of God is revealed, his Word is given, uniquely (such is the Christian affirmation) in Christ, signifying God's commitment to that Covenant in which he offers to redeem man from all his multiform, perennial Egypts, and bring him into the freedom of his service, to take him for his own.

For this last affirmation I was called «just a simple believer at heart» by one critic and a «right - wing radical» by a death - of - God man.

We don't understand it, but in Jesus, the God - man who became the innocent victim who suffered for our salvation, we affirm it and in this very affirmation receive the power to endure it without destroying us.

Yet even among those who manifested such tendencies, there was a concern for maintaining the other side of these affirmations; there was an insistence that man is made in the image of God, that Christ is one with his human brethren, and that God is at work in his world here and now.

«This fix - it - now approach ignores basic metabolic conditioning for mother and child, negative reinforcement training, long - term behavioral problems, what it does to the family as a whole and the biblical affirmation of man's nature.»

Nowadays the proposed «winner man» model is of a growing individualism, a frantic search for affirmation on the others at all costs.

I have been doing intentions and affirmations, positive thinking, clearing blocks, online dating, for years with pitiful results (2 - 4 dates / year) Where do I find great men in a small town on a large island where the distances are great??

Equally, save those affirmations for the mirror — 25 per cent of men are not impressed by urges to «be yourself» or to «dream big».

Many of these men are affiliated themselves and for whatever affirmation they are abominable extramarital affairs.

Not long ago, I offered up a retrospective review of the minor 1980s hit, Soul Man, in which I somewhat questioned the merit of the filmmakers for adopting this formula: exploit as many stereotypes against Black people for easy laughs, because in the end, it will go for affirmation of the ridiculousness of such stereotypes.

Writing to Herbert Read of the sculptures in the British Museum, she asserted: «Only a society in a state of affirmation can produce sculpture - a primitive society or one fighting for its existence... on the basis of active belief in both the virility of nature & the spiritual ascendancy of man» (18 Jan. 1953, Sir Herbert Read Archive, University of Victoria, B.C.).

Thank you Ron, for that affirmation, I wish more men in business dressed appropriately in the office / field.