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.
Not exact matches
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.