In fact, I asked a group of ten men — regardless of their primary love language — what words
of affirmation made them feel the best, and this is what they said.
On the other hand, what evidences
of affirmation make a contract legally binding when not signed?
Not exact matches
Make affirmations part
of your culture by asking people to post it at their desk, add it to their e-mail signature, or start meetings with sharing
affirmations to create an environment that supports everyone's growth.
A great boss rewards with words
of encouragement and
affirmation, with a clear explanation, and with communication that
makes the employee feel valued.
To
make it even easier, it appears that self -
affirmation can help you have more self - control when you're running out, according to a study published in the Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology.
The JOBS Act did at least
make verification affirmative by the sell side for the online portals instead
of mere self -
affirmation as before.
Another announcement that will benefit Greater Vancouver Board
of Trade Members is today's
affirmation that the Provincial Government will cut the small business corporate income tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent, which will
make B.C. the second-most competitive tax environment for small business in the country.
Did you
make it because you feel, since the bible speaks
of hell, that you have to
make a positive
affirmation concerning it?
The proper course, it seems to me, is for church leaders and people
of good will to
make every effort to connect the human - rights project to an
affirmation of the essential interplay between individual rights and democratic values.
First, the Scholls» resistance to the Nazi regime began in their discovery and
affirmation that the human person is not
made by or for the state, but that the state is
made by human persons for the fulfillment
of human nature.
Many women have responded by listening, and with
affirmation and encouragement, jus as Sian has done with saying she longs to be critiqued, does not want to have critique held back from her for her being a woman and was appropriate in affirming the critique
of the «feminist» interpretation
of scripture I
made as described.
This is why I think Rob Bell's one minute
affirmation of homosexuality
makes sense, and why I think you can use this to answer similar questions regarding similar issues:
But Robert Grant half a century ago took notice
of how difficult it was for early Christian theologians «to
make sense
of the basic
affirmation that God is love.»
All too frequently this turns out to be a substitution for the gospel; it consists
of some set
of propositions, however traditional and however true they may be, which can in fact obscure the basic
affirmations of Christian faith and
make the gospel itself
of none effect for those who hear.
Indeed, to
make this
affirmation of Christ's Lordship is to be this fellowship.
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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.
Furthermore, many
of the discussions in which philosophy plays the primary role consist in developing distinctions or new concepts that
make possible the intelligent
affirmation of doctrines that are believed strictly on the grounds
of revelation.
2, it is only as a person faces his existential anxiety and
makes it a part
of his self -
affirmation that it becomes a creativity - stimulating rather than a deadening influence in his life.
You know all
of that, but you're still able to hear these as true stories, as metaphorical narratives using ancient archetypal language to
make, among other
affirmations, that Jesus is the light coming into the darkness, to
make the
affirmation that the Herods
of this world constantly seek to destroy that which is born
of God.
Not all schools
of Buddhism
make this
affirmation.
The author
of John's Gospel
makes the same
affirmation with compact perfection: «The true
For the Christian this same constitutive function is exercised by the teaching, life and death
of Jesus Christ, and by the
affirmations about Jesus
made by his disciples as a result
of their Easter experiences.
But the intellectual
affirmation,
of course, is
made secondary to the existential appropriation
of its meaning: the eschatological requirement is the deed
of mercy.
Whatever truth there may be in the assertion that man
makes God in his own image, the
affirmation of faith carries with it a clear distinction between the concept
of God (which indeed is man -
made, just as all human concepts are man -
made) and God himself.
Following each
affirmation is a brief discussion
of what, in the current mood or plight
of modern man,
makes this
affirmation of special concern.
He refuses to take seriously the Whiteheadian
affirmation of freedom in all occasions (PR 355) and
makes a sham
of Whitehead's attempt to avoid a bifurcation
of nature.
In the paradoxical formula
of Archbishop Nathan Söderblom's Gifford Lectures
of 1931, «the uniqueness
of Christ as the historical revealer, as the Word
made flesh, and the mystery
of Calvary,» which are an «essentially unique character
of Christianity,» compel the
affirmation that «God reveals himself in history; outside the Church as well as in it» (The Living God [Beacon, 1962], pp. 349, 379).
The Bible will serve both as the first but not the exclusive source
of the
affirmations to be
made and as the total value frame in which priorities need to be determined.
He is trying to force us to recognize that in spite
of what appears to be orthodox christological
affirmations, we are embedded in social practices that deny that Jesus's life, death and resurrection
make any difference.
The declaration's negation, following immediately upon its
affirmation,
makes this clear: «We reject the false doctrine, as though the Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source
of its proclamation, apart from and beside the one Word
of God, still other events and powers, figures and truths, as God's revelation.»
In the Germany
of 1934, there was no way to
make the kind
of theological
affirmations contained in the document without being extremely political.
To celebrate our sexuality is to
make a theological and anthropological
affirmation of the pulsating dynamic
of created life, the force within us that moves us beyond ourselves toward others.
But before we come to that discussion, it will be useful for us to turn our attention to the question
of «resurrection» — first, the resurrection
of Jesus Christ, about which so much
of the earliest Christian writing found in the New Testament, and so much
of the Christian experience
of discipleship, turns; and second, to consider the point
of the continuing Christian
affirmation that those who have responded to the event
of Christ are themselves
made «sharers in Christ's resurrection».
Lindbeck's «experiential - expressivist» model does a reasonably good job
of accounting for the romantic and mystical streams
of liberal theology, but it does not account for variants
of liberal theology that
make gospel - centered claims (such as the tradition
of evangelical» liberalism), that base their
affirmations on metaphysical arguments (such as the Whiteheadian process school) or that appeal to gospel norms and metaphysical arguments (such as the Boston personalist school).
He simply affirms that
making this
affirmation is the only way
of remaining loyal to the revelatory encounter itself.
There is the bold
affirmation that through the event
of which he is the center a relationship between God and humankind, and among men and women too, has been
made possible, with its own distinctive quality.
The gospel which a preacher is to proclaim is to be seen as a bold
affirmation, based upon the earliest Christian witness and the confirmation
of that witness in the agelong Christian tradition, that we humans are loved, that we can be delivered from the lovelessness which
makes us miserable and lonely, and that we can be enabled to return love even if very inadequately and partially.
There are six stages
of willing, according to Assagioli; (1) the existence
of a purpose to be achieved; (2) deliberation on the various goals and their relative importance; (3)
making a decision on one important goal and setting aside the others; (4) confirmation
of the choice by an
affirmation of this goal by will; (5) development
of a plan to achieve the goal; (6) directing the implementation
of the plan.
This is why I think Rob Bell's one minute
affirmation of homosexuality
makes sense, and why I think you can use this to answer similar questions regarding similar issues: He doesn't theorize in a...
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.
The mysteries
of faith are degraded if they are
made into an object
of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object
of contemplation.
When applied with rigorous consistency, the negative way implies that God is neither finite nor infinite, but what is this but an admission that neither negations nor
affirmations can be
made of God?
His religious difficulty came from the kind
of theology he found around him, its habit
of identifying words in a book (written by human hands and thought by human brains) with the words
of God, also from the habit
of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts
of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite
affirmation of the freedom
of creatures to
make decisions that are their own and not God's.
The reception
of the Holy Eucharist is the most misunderstood aspect
of the Catholic faith, and when the likes
of such public policy - makers as Nancy Pelosi
make a national mockery
of Communion without consequence, there is little wonder why it has become a mere symbol
of self -
affirmation rather than the efficacious sign
of personal transformation through the Cross
of Christ and the «renewal
of the mind» (Rom.
Taylor repeatedly argues that the
affirmation of a «closed» universe (the «immanent frame»)
made possible the discovery
of certain human goods that could not have been cultivated otherwise.
Now this soul, and what is biological in man and what science
makes its evolutionary
affirmation about, can not be regarded simply as two different things, concerning which
of course opposed statements would not raise any difficulties.
Even so brief a survey
of the
affirmations of Christian faith in contrast with the assumptions
of naturalism should
make it apparent that the viewpoint from which the Christian looks at life is different.
It is, in effect, a fact
of finitude that original
affirmation can not appropriate itself in a totally intuitive reflection but that it must
make a detour through an interpretation
of the contingent signs that the absolute gives
of itself in history.
Original
affirmation has something
of the indefinitely inaugural about it, and only concerns the idea that the self
makes of itself.
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.