Sentences with phrase «more confessional»

«She uses a more confessional, stylistic voice at times, rather than something like telling a whole story.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

We never found him saying «Redeemer,» «Savior,» or other such more confessional language, although he did commend the figure of Jesus Christ to the Delaware Chiefs, and urged his men to conduct themselves as «Christian soldiers» worthy of the favors they asked of divine Providence.

Not exact matches

And the LCMS held an «International Conference on Confessional Leadership» last year in Atlanta, Georgia, with more than 120 Lutheran church leaders from around the world attending.

In general, members of the ILC see themselves as more traditional than the LWF in their understanding of Scriptural authority and confessional Lutheran theology.

Are Lutherans «evangelical catholics» (the confessional position) or just evangelicals more or less like other evangelicals?

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

I think the only way out of this for the Church is to be confessional and for us all to admit our flaws more readily.

Our priests are far more likely to mistake their confessional for a shrink's couch than a sadist's dungeon.

I think that most modern American Evangelical readers, attempting to read Lutheran confessional documents by himself or herself, will usually get lost more quickly, and give up sooner, than when reading the analogous Calvinist confessional texts.

The confessional structures, especially of the Roman Catholic Church, have turned out to be much more resistant than they appeared for a short while during the 1960s.

Does the change in me represent anything more than this: that the practical relevance, the struggle and the confessional character of my theological teaching have become visible to many, and now for the first time to most, against the background of a time which has taken shape at the hands of National Socialism?.

But it was more than a school of the Bible or confessional institute.

But there is also a larger and more important difference in their respective confessional stances.

More work in the line of H. Richard Niebuhr's still suggestive notion of a «confessional» theology that authentically re-presents a particular community's vision of reality without rendering that vision merely private strikes me as the kind of direction to pursue.

In such an affirmation, of course, we say more than we can understand, for the claim is precisely an acknowledgment that in and through this text, God's wind blows through and past all our critical and confessional categories of reading and understanding.

Confessional postmodernism, with its emphasis on images and narrative — which are more evocative and efficacious than concepts, touching deeper recesses of our psyches — fleshes out what tends to be rather abstract in the process - relational vision which, on the other hand, provides the former with a cosmological complement.

It has a properly confessional and hermeneutical stance before its ecclesial public, and it would be helpful if process theologians saw it more clearly as a distinctive endeavor, which is neither philosophical nor practical theology.

As Pelikan points out, the confessional texts from just the one German province of Franconia in the decade between 1520 and 1530 add up to more than 500 pages.

More theologians, concerned with excellence of an imaginative cast of mind, need to struggle in the «circuitous and tortuous» no - man's land of a style of theological reflection which is highly imagistic, experiential and confessional on the one hand and coherent and consistent on the other hand.

Performances in the confessional mode in a ritual context are «primarily concerned with identity and self - disclosure»; in the political (or ethical) mode performance «is oriented more toward affecting the world through direct social and political action.»

There can be no doubt that confessional practice has fallen off more sharply than any other indicator in the Church in the last 40 years.

The Faith Movement has large youth gatherings — but much of the real work is done more personally — the eager questions asked after a formal talk, the sacramental encounter in the confessional, the one - on - one conversations that run on late and tackle some of the great issues of faith and of life's purpose.

But the denomination does have the right to ask of the theologian as teacher and scholar that he deepen his own response to its confessional heritage, and that he help the denomination to respond more profoundly to its tradition.»

The confessional in particular will therefore be concerned more than formerly with fundamental formation of the conscience, which will then be committed to its own responsibility for the actual decision.

Of course, if we were to enter into such a hopeless speculation, we have in Eliot's case much more to go on than his poetry and prose, much of which was never intended to be personal or confessional.

Jones also explained why confessional statements must be a «living breathing instrument interpreted wisely and responsibly in the context of a community,» and that «contradiction of, or conflict with a confessional statement has to be more than just the explicit denial of some explicit aspect of that statement.»

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(2) «Confessional postmodernism, with its emphasis on images and narrative, which are more evocative and efficacious than concepts, touching deeper recesses of our psyches, fleshes out what tends to be rather abstract in the process - relational vision which, on the other hand, provides the former with a cosmological complement» (90).

However I will concede that it does make quick work of making a savory tart and on more than one occasion I've been duped by someone, whose tart I've complimented, which prompted what I call «The Garbage Can Confessional»: when someone has to fess up and extract an empty box from the poubelle, usually from Picard, France's popular frozen food chain.

Divided into seven sections - Pregnancy, Kids, Living, News, Dads, Video, and Confessional (most of these have more subtopics)- the blog taps into a long list of parenting issues, from naming your baby to addressing special needs.

The presiding justice at the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, Justice Mohammed Garba, has urged operatives of the Nigeria Police to do more investigation rather than waiting for a confessional statements to unravel a crime.

After a lengthy hug with Sharon, the young woman is energized enough to speak to Jesus once more about her confessional letter.

More compelling are the short, docu - style segments of James interviewing other trans individuals during a brief vacation to San Francisco, and Billie watching a YouTube confessional of the daughter of a transgender woman.

By assembling a cast of their favourite musicians and delving into their adolescent memories, Daft Punk have created something as emotionally honest as any singer - songwriter confessional — and a lot more fun to dance to.

Bringing back his most iconic creation in Campbell felt faintly self - reflexive for Raimi in the first season of Ash vs Evil Dead, but in Season 2, that personal, almost confessional element feels more sturdily at the center of the action and the series feels infinitely more galvanized for that.

But he suffers a pang of conscience on an off night, which turns into a confessional binge as he drafts a «mission statement» suggesting that the agents at SMI be less greedy and more caring.

Kaufman may see Caden's rants («I won't settle for anything less than the brutal truth») as confessional, but in the context of what is arguably cinema's least joyous depiction of an artistic mind at work, a shot of the character looking for blood in his stools seems more telling.

Stainback's future is less assured, but he's the more compelling subject for it, his off - kilter expressions and tearful talking - head confessionals recalling a younger, sweeter Tim Blake Nelson.

These columns by teachers who decided to leave teaching are often confessional, Read more about Why I Plan to Stay in Teaching -LSB-...]

Though we are getting close to capacity for room at our offices (as you can see above), we're not planning on slowing down anytime soon, and we plan on growing our readership more while continually striving to be one of the best places online for great travel features and news (and the occasional confessional about watching chick flicks on long flights).

She might have said that she paints to heal herself from the traumas of her mother's breakdown and her father's suicide, yet the drawings, paintings and mixed - media sculptures she shows here are more uplifting and humourously spirited than indulgently confessional or depressive.

British artist Tracey Emin also uses neon to sculpt words, spelling out confessional messages, which stand in stark contrast to neon's more familiar commercial applications.

Instead of the booth being fully enclosed like a classic confessional, open - air windows cut into the design, creating a tension between yesterday's private practice of confessing in secret and today's more performative and secular version of confession.

In her video Untitled (Spring 94) Bag performs for the camera in a work that seemingly anticipates more recent trends, including YouTube confessionals and Ryan Trecartin videos.

It also remains to be seen if 1:54 has the wherewithal to show and sell more artworks by: pioneers of video art; a growing fleet of robust confessional women artists and; artists that evoke the woes of the past through the current global market economy.

It's part sentimentality for a more naïve time, when abstraction sprung from «confessional poetry.»

Other contents include a contribution from Philadelphia's Headlong Dance Theater, which relates the process behind the company's highly regarded Cell piece from 2006; facsimile reproductions of 1960s letters from the artist James Lee Byars to MoMA curator Dorothy Miller (the second installment of the Modern Artifacts series, presented in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art Archives); two more «Guarded Opinions» from guards at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles — this time offering commentary on paintings by Degas and Gustave Moreau; an anonymous confessional piece about the life of a «decor artist»; a selection of never - before - published map sketches by Michigan artist Neil Greenberg; Angus Trumble's «2001 in Retrospect»; and a found object contributed by Stephen Weyl.

One of the most well - known of the bunch (who's lately been getting more attention for his weekly themed events), McGinnness will conduct his «Confessional Booth» via Skype at set hours from Spain where he's currently working.

While his confessional poetry and music explore these issues with startling honesty, Childish's paintings are more subtle.