Sentences with phrase «of ordinary»

The term «transfiguration,» or we might say «transformation,» points to the process by which a phenomenon that is a part of ordinary experience comes to assume a controlling interpretative role in man's understanding of himself and his world.

Sharing a meal is not something new to Christians, but making an intentional effort to share a meal with persons from a different community or perspective may be something out of the ordinary.

But these responses go against the grain of ordinary human suffering, and against the bloodiness of natural history.

True, it is an interruption of our ordinary tasks; we do lay down our work as though it were a day of rest, when the penitent (and it is only in a time of repentance that the heavy - laden worker may be quiet in the confession of sin) is alone before Thee in self - accusation.

But the diptych of juxtaposition does not wish to emphasize growth but miracle, not organic and biological development but the gift - like nature, the graciousness and the surprise of the ordinary, the advent of bountiful harvest despite the losses of sowing, the large shade despite the small seed.

Any such hint, which might call for «asceticism» toward the goods of ordinary life, begins to be rejected.

Our «highest spiritual ideals and aspirations also threaten to lay the most crushing burdens on humankind,» and Taylor therefore finds it quite understandable that the modern self might turn from such lofty aspirations to the goods of ordinary life and the satisfactions of creative self - fulfillment.

Attempts to reconceive the contexts of ordinary life and neighborhood, to replicate with more a sense of realism than an impulse toward beautification, to help imagine the lives of the people who built and used old houses of worship, make preservation worthwhile.

'' [The Christians] were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reas semble to partake of food — but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.»

So architectural and artistic preservation, when it values sacred space in the context of ordinary surroundings, assists in the hallowing of the rest of life, decades later.

(Taylor does not, I think, give enough attention to the way in which these first two features of the modern identity» inwardness and affirmation of ordinary life» may be in tension with each other.

It is fair enough to question the true significance to the lives of ordinary Americans of some items in Frank's litany of backlash issues.

This miracle, it is true, because of its ordinary occurrence, is made less account of by...

As the theological matrix for this affirmation of ordinary life gradually fades» as it is seen less as a Calling» the bourgeois ethic's relation to Deism emerges.

A sufficient answer, surely, is not that the machinery of the world «requires» (per Leibniz) an infant to suffer, nor (per ID) that the periods of ordinary natural history require it.

Both of these thinkers tend to confuse the social nature of I - Thou with the social nature of I - It, the reality of true dialogue with the indirect togetherness of ordinary social relations.

When in the middle of «sin,» in decisionlessness, the will awakes to decision, the integument of ordinary life bursts and the primeval force breaks through and storms upward to heaven.

Nonetheless a continuing and increasingly important task of ordinary teachers and parents will be to develop in young people the trained perception and critical judgment that will enable them to use published materials profitably and responsibly.

And Santorum's speech wasn't great, although it contained a promising theme about Obama's schoolmarmish snobbery that's full of contempt for even the conscience of the ordinary believer.

Are the definitions of ordinary algebra merely self - consistent conventions?

The case I like to give my bioethics students to illustrate the point — not least because it was pivotal in the historical formulation of the ordinary / extraordinary distinction — is the battlefield amputation of a limb without pain medication, in order to save a soldier's life.

The objects of our ordinary experience, things such as rocks, trees, animals and persons are composites or groupings of what we have been calling occasions of experience.

I've gotten a couple of emails and learned some stuff from reading the open thread over there at THE LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN.

Because the institutions of education are the prime agencies of persuasion in society, they should as far as possible be separate and independent of the ordinary channels of political power.

But how this is a problem can be seen only after we first descend to the level of an ordinary temporal occasion, A, and ask how it can prehend a past occasion, X, which is part of A's actual world.

Yet even admitting all this, I suspect that there is no part of the Old Testament about which scholars are in less agreement than this present passage, for none of the ordinary rules by which the scholars separate the Yahwist document, the Elohist document, and the Priestly document, for example, seem to pertain to this passage.

The underemphasis on the empirical way is particularly important because it has not only discouraged the aesthetic appreciation of the power of art and of the world of ordinary experience, it has also discouraged the moral action which such appreciation might engender.

Something like that is the point of Lewis's sermon «Learning in War - Time,» a sermon preached in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin on the evening of Sunday, October 22, 1939 — when people in England had a genuine crisis, very much out of the ordinary, on their hands.

What else, indeed, could have led him to speculate that sight involves no bodily disturbance — at least none of any ordinary type — except the fact that he did not feel any.

Turn it into one... and you ask too much of it, of yourself and of ordinary people, invited nervous breakdowns all around.»

Letty Russell has described the importance of «kitchen table» theology, which begins with the faith stories of ordinary women grouped around kitchen tables or in other everyday settings.

In an effort to press their faith into the crannies of ordinary life, Puritans of old and new England wrote books on everyday activities with titles like Husbandry Spiritualized and Navigation Spiritualized, Trading Spiritualized and Weaving Spiritualized.

For Whitehead God is a metaphysical necessity, not as the world's creator, ex nihilo but as that foundational actual entity which is the home of eternal objects and the medium by which they can become objects of that aspiration on the part of ordinary actual entities which is the moving force of the world.

I understand God not as something or someone out there, but as The Sacred, the Spirit, a non-material level of reality that is all around us, as real as the world of the ordinary.

However, he is out of the woods now, for last summer the Vatican directed that a Roman Catholic priest who has been diagnosed and treated, as an alcoholic may request permission of his Ordinary on concelebrating.

It illumines the everyday, so that we may find in it shafts of the divine glory that point to God, so that we may sense the eternal significance of ordinary life.

The editorial columns of ordinary newspapers in the United States are now using the word triage relative to the food situation.

I wondered why an indigenous Korean understanding of the impact of the gospel on the lives of ordinary people, i.e., a Korean evangelical theology, had been jettisoned in favour of a second - hand Western evangelical theology.

Today, Christians of integrity are thrown back upon the never reducible testimony of Scripture, Tradition and the divine Spirit — a testimony that defies possession, but also manifests an exceptional trust in the insight, imagination, reasonableness and spiritual courage of ordinary human beings when they are modest enough to ask for what they do not and can not possess.

Indeed, fundamentalist leaders frequently gave themselves the title of» «Dr.,» effectively saying that the institutions of the secular elite did not own the title, and that proven ability in the rough - and - tumble world of ordinary affairs — putting up radio stations and running colleges in remote mission outposts — was credential enough.

Most of the ordinary objects of human interest — such as food, companionship, vitality, and security — are good.

Even before quantum physics it was clear to some that it was vain and useless to try to plot the paths of the micro-constituents of ordinary perceptible things.

But for the most part, they remained invisible, ghostly observers of ordinary life, which they condemned in exquisite writings distributed in plain cover editions along the banks of the Seine.

The reason, though offered as much by faith as by sight, is that in Jesus Christ, as the apostle put it to the Colossians, «all things hold together,» even the well - publicized actions of well - known figures and the day - to - day activities of ordinary people carried on with never a thought about the scrutiny of history.

He comes from a long tradition of Christians working to improve the lives of ordinary people, particularly the less fortunate among us.

The terminology of ordinary language is stretched somewhat in intelligible ways for the sake of metaphysical generalization.

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).

How Christians have lived, whether in going to the lions under Nero's sadistic mania or in being Christian in the ordinary events of ordinary living, has been an indisputable witness.

This miracle, it is true, because of its ordinary occurrence, is made less account of by us.

which deals with the angels sorting out the good and the bad at the time of judgement, and not of ordinary christians judging others as not «real» christians.