Sentences with phrase «move that world toward»

To move the world toward this fulfilment, God shares in the concreteness of events.
That this has not yet been accomplished is a major source of the Church's failure to move the world toward the promise given in revelation.
It is the essence of God to move the world toward new possibilities, and his being is «complete» only as an infinite series of creative acts, each of which enriches, modifies, and shapes the whole society of being.
Marguerite Manteau said it the best way I've heard it expressed for action......... it will take ALL of us, all walks of life, actively pursuing solutions, with or without science backgrounds, certainly and obviously not by way of politics, to move this world toward a healthier and sustainable balance.
While the political fight over the now - vivid environmental threat attending offshore oil drilling plays out, it remains clear that the country's lawmakers are not remotely engaged in the multi-pronged energy quest that would be required to move the world toward a non-polluting, yet prosperous future.
Those steps could move the world toward population reduction, the sine qua non of sustainability, and without which none of the other environmental goals are likely to be reached.
While climate change is the greatest threat, there are many other threats that, if we do not reverse them, could cause the collapse of our present global civilisation; yet far more people are concerned with beliefs that are entirely without evidentiary support than are trying to move the World toward sustainability.
Technology trends and market forces stronger than any politician are moving the world toward a clean energy economy.

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But as broadcast entertainment moves ever faster toward a world where viewers are free to choose what they watch, where they watch it and when, the audience for top dramas and comedies continues to fragment.
Varied points of view energize the juiciness of storytelling by challenging assumptions, opening up a world of possibilities to move toward a more honest representation of you... and your true story.
The biggest common thread at #TBCCSF 2016 was a need for collaboration toward a scalable industry standard for blockchain technology to fundamentally change the way the world moves money.
Will Japan finally move toward acquiring offensive strike capabilities for the first time since World War II?
On the heels of the Dow moving back toward the 24,000 level, there was an overreaction in one of the world's largest silver producers.
As the world is moving toward digital revolution, the potential of P2P marketplaces and online payment ecosystems is huge not only in the real world but also in the crypto - verse.
Taken together, Mr. Trump's actions demonstrate his resolve to turn away from a decades - long move toward open markets and integrated world economies and toward a more starkly protectionist approach that erects barriers around a Fortress America.
They move us, therefore, toward the global capitalism that is now the dominant force in the world.
Father, Son, Holy Spirit: Though we can not fully get our minds around such incomprehensibles, we know by our faith that the triune God is how the world came to be, the energy that keeps it going, and the future toward which it — and we — move.
We know by our faith that the triune God is how the world came to be, the energy that keeps it going, and the future toward which it — and we — move.
First, there are those who believe that the Tendenz of Camus» works moved steadily toward Christian conversion, or at least toward a genuine appreciation of a life of grace in a broken world.
The empiric sense of reality moves ironically in the opposite direction, away from assertions about divine presences and powers and toward the scientific understanding of the world's regularity.
The Crystal Cathedral, with its fountains and flowers, catches — as other major religious television programs holding different world views do not — the awareness that the world and its inhabitants are good and that in such recognition the world moves toward wholesome fulfillment.
In one of the two greatest lines of world poetry, Dante bows gently toward «The Love that moves the sun and all the stars.»
To maintain his existence as the transcendent Creator, God must continually cancel or negate the world; but to move toward his universal epiphany as the Incarnate Word, he must negate his sovereign transcendence.
We have to hope that The Closed Circle is not the last word, but it is a powerfully sobering story that severely tempers any hopes that the Arab world will be moving toward the establishment of free and democratic societies in the foreseeable future.
In this presentation, Moltmann has moved away from the classical understanding of God as absolute and immutable toward a process concept of divinity in which God and the world stand in an ongoing, ever - changing reciprocal relationship.
After World War II, everything rapidly moved toward mechanization and an urban, industrial economy.
He suggests that the world should move toward a reestablishment of colonialism, or, if people prefer, a United Nations - sponsored trusteeship system.
We have been moving toward globalization for centuries, but the process was interrupted by the communist revolution in Russia, the Great Depression, World War II and the cold war that followed.
If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.
Peace movements thrive, an English writer has observed, when there is both optimism and pessimism: optimism, because there must be hope that shooting can be averted, that steps can be taken toward a more peaceful world; pessimism, because there must be clouds of war to spur interest in peace issues, to move us out of...
The Social Setting Our «social scene,» really the world social scene, is rapidly moving toward the catastrophic.
Rather than conceiving of modernization as moving happily toward greater prosperity and enlightenment for all, world - system theorists depict it as moving in fits and spurts, as a kind of Hobbesian drama.
What matters is Jesus, moving toward the world as he moved, living and believing as Jesus, «Jesus only.»
The trade - off is not the helpful image for moving us toward this new world.
With a suddenness which is unprecedented in Christian history the whole body of Christian believers in every part of the Western world has awakened to the consciousness that the entire secular order of the modern world, instead of moving steadily toward the acceptance of Christianity, has been for centuries moving steadily away from it.
but the rank and file of church members have seemed paralyzed, unable to act decisively, unwilling to insist in any clear and public way that the nations of the world, including their own, move toward the abolition of war and the realization of the prophetic dream.
One reason the move toward ecumenical union seems easier today is that national differences are not as important in the modern, interdependent world as they once seemed to be.
In that tradition, instead of thinking of God as a persuasive power who acts as a kind of lure toward which things move, which was Aristotle's conception, Aquinas and others adopted the understanding that God creates by being the ultimate efficient cause for the world.
All of this is to say that the rapidity and enormity of changes humanly caused make it imperative for us to give close attention to the question of «alternative futures» in order that we may have the best possible prospects of moving toward a tomorrow in which human beings can at least survive, and, hopefully, live in a peaceful, prosperous, joyful world.
The human enterprise is a great adventure, as we move from the relatively settled world of our past, through decisions and actions in the present, toward the unexplored but alluring world of the future.
The church's ministration is basically one of caring for its people and enabling them to lead the gospel life and thus to move the world on toward salvation.
Conflicted and failing to adapt to a world moving toward greater justice and uncertainty, they double down on old ways that aren't just outmoded but are mortally flawed.
It is quite another to move toward a more systematic theoretical perspective that links even the more mundane questions of religiosity and religious organization to broader concepts of world order.
But we can probably move toward a more gracious stance than we currently live, and seek to reveal some of God's grace to this world.
This process of development is seen in all parts of the world, as for example in India and in China, so very different one from the other yet moving toward compassion as the key to life (in India) or family affection and mutual concern in an ordered society as that key (as in China).
For the time being at least, much of the world is moving toward a market economy and toward democracy.
It increases interdependence, and it can thereby move us toward the «One World» for which many idealists long.
If the previous view failed to understand the world as heading toward redemption, this one sees moving it toward being fixed as a human project.
It means penetrating them in such a way as to be able to instruct the world concerning its purpose of serving human need, concerning its original foundation and the end toward which it moves.
The author analyzes the ethics of international trade and concludes that we should withdraw support from the move toward transnational trade and seek to strengthen the ability of nations, especially in the Third World, to control their own affairs.
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