Sentences with phrase «of its actual lived experience»

It will contrast the idea of the artist as remembered culturally with the nervousness and uncertainty of the actual lived experience, a recurring theme in both Sutcliffe and Eatough's work.

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The actual experience of marriage shattered my idealism because when you're living with someone day in and day out, you quickly move from

The actual experience of marriage shattered my idealism because when you're living with someone day in and day out, you quickly move from expectations to reality.

If examining rational arguments, perceiving God in transcendent experience, and delving deeply into difficult questions are what drew me closer to Christ, seeing Christ work in the lives of actual Christians is what opened my heart to Him in the first place, allowing me to see how He had been working in my own life all along, even when I had refused to seek Him.

The result is basically a «convertive piety» with its call to self conscious conversion, the experience of the «new birth,» and a life of «holiness» that is demonstrably and empirically distinct from the rest of the world in its expression of «actual righteousness.»

Insistently attentive to horrendous evils in the actual lives of persons, she boldly draws on both philosophical and theological resources (the two, she says, are inseparable) to support her claim that the person experiencing evil can reach the firm and reasonable conclusion that evil has not defeated the goodness of God.

This means that religion must arise from the actual life experiences of people and not be dogmatically imposed upon them.

In spite of this, it is still true that universal religion must be based upon universal experiences which can be successively illustrated in actual life situations.

The danger here is that such speculation will lose touch with actual experience and lead a life of its own, unchecked by reference to concrete reality.

Your religion shall change from the mere intellectual belief in traditional authority to the actual experience of that living faith which is able to grasp the reality of God and all that relates to the divine spirit of the Father.

And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

To the mature person, analytic skills are important and understanding is essential, but these are only part of a holistic understanding of life that is generated from actual experience with God and the Word.

The derivative notion of «society» is essential to his metaphysics, for it serves to link his speculative conception of actual entities with entities of ordinary experience, such as material bodies and living organisms (including cells and molecules).

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

The idea that «religion» describes people who are not sincere in their faith flies in the face of billions of actual people's lived experience.

His assumption that the kind of life he prizes can stand up rootless against the contemporary storm has nothing to commend it in the actual experience of men.

That supernatural order of life which the apocalyptists had predicted in terms of pure fantasy is now described as an actual fact of experience.

Webb - Mitchell believes that pilgrimage is the richest paradigm for describing Christian growth: «The length and breadth of the Christian life is a pilgrimage and... it is through the actual practice of pilgrimage that we may best understand the experience of growth and change.»

Using his experience as a detective, Wallace showed the «Chain of Custody» of the evidence which was recorded in the New Testament Gospels and how they went from the actual life of Jesus to the «courtroom» or the Council of Laodicea in 363 AD where the four Gospel accounts were officially accepted into the New Testament canon.

Although they will in their future life be confronted with handicaps, sometimes very severe, their future prospects and their actual experienced quality of life can not be predicted with such certainty at birth that their lives can be regarded as hopeless or meaningless («quality of life judgments» as such being unacceptable in this decision making).

It allows no room for people's actual lived experiences and as people of faith — we are called to love each other.

The minimal claim of process thought is that «by reason of the relativity of all things» each actual entity is preserved everlastingly in the divine experience.154 «God is immortal,» Hartshorne writes, «and whatever becomes an element in the life of God is therefore imperishable... I think the idea of omniscience implies that we have such an abiding presence in the mind of God.

The aspect of process philosophy to which I have most particularly drawn your attention is its concept of immanence, whereby it affirms an actual sense in which one entity is immanent in another; a sense in which the experiences of one individual «live on» in those of another, the subjectivity of these experiences passing from the former to the latter.

Fortunately, the converse of Pope Paul VI's prediction holds good: those who reject artificial contraception and live according to the teaching of the Church contribute to a general raising of morality, and very often have the actual experience of a better relationship of mutual love and life.

What does this mean for the actual, on - the - ground experience of living alongside the plurality of religious communities — and nonreligious ones too — that we can not escape or ignore in our world?

Once for all God has secured the saints» will against basic disobedience because he has won their hearts for himself by their actual experience of the kind of life he offers.

As Dean Willard Sperry has said, «Christianity, thus interpreted, becomes not an added entity outside the major tasks of daily life,... but the sum of all particulars of unselfish and sacrificial service in the day's work, and an experience of actual community of sustaining spirit.

----- So I answer her and you, knower of all things, guru of my life experiences, the man with the crystal ball, ---- wait a minute; are you telling me as I describe my relationship with God that I haven't had an actual experience, as I describe to Lynn with God?

Many scholars have consequently interpreted it as a resurrection narrative which has been read back into the earthly life of Jesus.34 Whether it stems from an actual experience of the disciples, or whether it is a symbolic account of the much more complex spiritual experience of the disciples after the crucifixion, it is very difficult to determine.

But the soul, or rather each occasion of its life, like every other actual occasion of experience, is relational or social in its essence.

Since God is for Jesus not an object of intellectual investigation, his affirmations of faith about God have not the character of universal truths, which are intellectually valid without being grounded in the actual life experience of the believer.

This trust in life and the actual experiences which it entails are part of human existence that can be far better explained, as Birch and Cobb affirm, by an ecological model rather than an older mechanical one.

But suppose we begin, not where Athanasius ended, but where Athanasius himself began, with the actual experience of new life in Jesus Christ; and that we do our best to understand the new life with the resources available to us, as he did with the resources available to him.

In the course of addressing these difficulties, I will anchor my discussion firmly within the actual experiences of common life within the present - day academy.

On the other hand, the purpose of the classical disciplines of the life of prayer — such as postures, directing of thoughts, or devotional objects — is to provide what have proved in actual experience to be the most favorable conditions for real prayer.

Our actual experience of our common life is not remote from the alienation of Marx, the technical rationality of Weber, and the normlessness of Durkheim.

@Donovan... I speak only for my experience and not to convert anyone... I study biochemistry, I work on a membrane protein that requires proof, it requires pictures of gels and actual empirical data... I have no problem with this fact based way of seeing life...

However expert he may be in his own particular field, his actual experience of life is far smaller than he realizes.

Thus each such unifying experience, being a transformation of the data available to that perspective from incoherence into coherence, would by definition specify a separate actual entity in the life of God.

To the extent that we attempt to cling to a transcendent realm, a realm that has become ever darker and emptier in the actuality of our experience, we must be closed to the actual presence of the living Christ, and alienated from the contemporary movement of the divine process.

It springs from the experience of the poor, the Oppressed and the marginalized people and is based on their actual experience in daily life.

It's the actual spiritual experience and the miracles that I've seen with my own eyes that it couldn't have been no one but God that perform such wonderful deeds in my life as well on some of the people that I prayed for, including their healing.

Although we can articulate how ambiguity and how commitment structure each phase of the microscopic process by which an actual occasion realizes itself, we must also spell out just how ambiguity and commitment structure the macrocosmic process of commitment that structures ordinary experience, the moral life, social existence, responsibility for our past acts.

Moreover, the basic principle of motivation — in fact, the «glue» of the whole universe — is the «intrinsic value of experiencing,» «the appeal of life for life, or feeling for feeling, of experience for experience, consciousness for consciousness — and potential enjoyment for actual enjoyment» (BSI 203).

It is the fusion of these three elements in his representation of Jesus» life and teaching that makes it a matter of the greatest difficulty to distinguish in any particular discourse between what rests upon a deep understanding of the true meaning of Jesus» actual words and what is read into them in the light both of experience and of preconceived ideas as what the Word of God should fittingly proclaim.

Thus the stress of Hasidism is on the actual consummation of religious life — the inward experience of the presence of God and the actualization of that presence in all one's actions.

While the debates rage on about whether Noah is biblical enough, Heaven is For Real true enough, and God is Not Dead profitable enough, Philomena delivers a quiet, understated, and powerful portrayal of the actual human experience, where clear - cut lines between good and evil, heroes and villains, right and wrong might be good «story-wise» but don't reflect the reality most people of faith actually live in.

So based on actual real life experience, I'm prepared to give Ray Borg the benefit of the doubt.

Although the actual curriculum changes based on the individual facility, most will include a combination of academics, life skills experiences and various therapy modalities, like recreational and experiential options along with the usual group, family and individual therapies.