Sentences with phrase «much pastoral work»

The dynamics of human development, of sexual relationships, and of interpersonal adjustment are now interpreted with insights which have not been available in the past, and we have discovered that much pastoral work has been done in ignorance of many factors which we need to understand.

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He might not consider himself a Christian blogger in the sense of your list, but he's a Christian blogging, and much of his work in death and grief has wonderful pastoral and supportive application.

They also have more time on their hands, so they're much more able to be involved in the pastoral work of the Church as they don't usually have the commitments that a husband and father, wife and mother, have with family and children.

More than that of any theologian from Augustine to Luther, Gregory's pastoral work had awesome political effect — so much so that it has become axiomatic that to understand the Middle Ages, one must understand Gregory.

He loved pastoral work and activism fully as much as writing and studying.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

It's a film about tone as much as anything, and the gorgeous, pastoral quality of the work here has lingered long past the film's ending.

Whatever we think of them they are not going to go away, and the state would be much better off working with them, taking advantage of the resources they offer and learning valuable lessons from their approach to pastoral care and motivation.

I wish she had worked a little more thematically, perhaps drawing together a group of works to emphasize the streetwise lyric poetry of New York, the dark pastoral mood that you find in some of the late Gorkys, in de Kooning's saturnine Valentine, and in Pollock's Full Fathom Five (which I much prefer to the slightly later, larger drip paintings).