This is an RPG that mixes the soul
of its preceding chapters together with a look at what the future of Final Fantasy might be, but in most of what it does, it never feels confident enough to truly step out from the shadows of its siblings.
Further, the use of the term «American» as a synonym for the United States in
some of the preceding chapters feels presumptuous to me in my Canadian setting and therefore even more so for people who belong to the other Americas.
David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci
of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.
This chapter deals with religion as a particular facet of education in a democracy, but more significant is the fact that
all of the preceding chapters set forth a religious point of view by demonstrating what the life of ultimate devotion means in a wide range of human concerns.
These generally follow the order
of the preceding chapters and, in the main, are drawn from their contents.
Chapter 16 — Conclusion highlights key conclusions and implications
of preceding chapters, as follows:
A passage quoted near the end
of the preceding chapter summarized a part of this discussion with an emphasis on the relation of persuasion to necessity.
This type of occasion was barely introduced near the end
of the preceding chapter.
Insert a page break at the end
of the preceding chapter to begin each new chapter on a brand new page.
the expanding chapter outline that nests on top
of the preceding chapter levels [navigation noted in the image]
Not exact matches
Because the author is outside
of the story, she can read over an event and then go back to the
preceding chapters and drop in clues or accentuate the pathos
of the characters.
Nevertheless, the message
of Jesus has vital relevance, in elements which have been pointed out in all the
preceding chapters.
The
preceding chapters are replete with examples
of our estrangement in the world
of today.
The key to our grasping the relationship between science and religion lies especially in the notion
of perception that we have developed in the
preceding chapters (especially Ch.
It requires, instead, the transformation
of the tradition sketched in the
preceding chapter into a political theology in the sense that it must become committed to the indivisible salvation
of the whole world.
As we found in the
preceding chapter, and in the present one too, this process has a strong Christological foundation and it was the genius
of Bonhoeffer that he tackled the problem
of religion without for a moment losing sight
of Christ.
In the course
of this learned work — 18
chapters preceded by an Introduction by the editors — an impressive amount
of accurate scholarship is devoted to exploring Irenaeus in three parts: his life, his writings and his legacy.
In the
preceding chapter there was an outline
of the constituent elements that make up a natural sequence
of prayer, with a more detailed analysis
of the place
of adoration and thanksgiving.
I challenge all readers to read the
chapters preceding Isaiah 53 (
chapters 41 thru 52) and you will see for yourself that the author
of Isaiah is referring to the nation
of Israel as the «suffering servant», not to the future messiah, and therefore, not to Jesus.
When to this we add what has been said in the
preceding chapter about the «risen life» in God, made specifically available to men and women through their participation in Jesus Christ «risen from the dead», we have a «de-mythologized» portrayal
of what «happens after death» which speaks deeply to authentically Christian faith.
If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the
preceding chapter has validity, then talk
of the resurrection
of Christ is a way
of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship
of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence
of his presence and activity in the world.
Not all religions have a body
of sacred scriptures such as that described in the
preceding chapter, not even all
of those which had reached the stage
of writing.
She regrets the tendency
of donors in the «70s «to emphasize redistributive goals while downgrading the importance
of growth» (although in the
preceding chapter she cites evidence that greater equity — the redistribution
of assets and social services — tends to promote growth).
Nevertheless, a clear difference exists, and it is possible to formulate the distinctive role and structure
of the dominant occasions
of experience in the two cases in the categories worked out in the
preceding chapter.
In he
preceding chapters the functions and the status
of models in science and in religion were discussed.
The definition
of sin which was given in the
preceding chapter therefore still needs to be completed: sin is, after having been informed by a revelation from God what sin is, then before God in despair not to will to be oneself, or before God in despair to will to be oneself.
The first part
of this Appendix will summarize the interpretations already set forth in the
preceding chapters, but will do so in a more systematic and technical way than the individual
chapters allowed.
Throughout the previous pages (and
preceding chapters) we have been speaking about the priority
of theology and its critical role.
In the
preceding chapter we were considering the bearing
of our thesis upon the problem
of Christian unity.
(54) A number
of factors have already been stated explicitly or by implication in the
preceding chapters.
The three
preceding chapters have attempted to outline the biblical basis
of Christian ethics.
(1) The priority
of «the spiritual,» and
of theology, is a paramount thrust in the analysis and description
of preaching in the
preceding chapters.
In the
preceding chapter the emphasis was placed upon the fact
of the event; in this and the following
chapter the stress will fall upon the necessity
of regarding the event as one indissoluble whole and
of finding its significance in its character as a whole rather than in some particular part or aspect
of it.
With this survey
of variant views in the meaning
of the kingdom
of God as a base
of procedure, let us review the types
of eschatology that were outlined in the
preceding chapter.
Since completing this last
chapter I have read three works that advance the discussion
of the
preceding pages, especially the section on prophetic preaching.
We have already seen some
of its bearings in the
preceding chapter, and also the historical exegesis
of Matt.
This hard - fisted «fascist» who in the
preceding chapter wipes away his potential opposition in a smear
of blood appears now a Jekyll to his previous Hyde.
As we have seen in the
preceding chapters, each
of these roles is a door opening into a whole realm
of mental health opportunities.
This distinct existence has been established in Whiteheadian terms in the
preceding sections
of this
chapter.
The formal designation can be made easily enough: When we refer to «Jesus Christ,» we are referring to the historical reality about which we were thinking in the
preceding chapter — the reality from which the Christian community took its beginning and by which the continuing character
of that community has been determined, the reality in and through which the revelation
of God, known within the church, took place.
As explained in
chapter two and the
preceding sections
of this
chapter, Hartshorne's ultimate entities, the actual occasions
of experience, are all social by nature.
In the
preceding chapters it was insisted that Jesus had an eschatological outlook, though not so otherworldly and nonethical an outlook as some premillenarians, adventists, and contemporary dialectical theologians have ascribed to him, and that he probably anticipated an end
of the existing regime in the not distant future.
In the
preceding chapter, while we were relating Christian revelation to the existence
of the individual, we noted how the content
of revelation has the capacity to erode our customary self - deception.
In the interlude
preceding Chapter 2, Wesley highlights the life and writings
of Henri Nouwen, who, (I had never realized this before reading Wesley's book), was a celibate gay Christian.
But we may profit from still another brief summary
of the relevant affirmations
of process thought, about which so much has been said in
preceding chapters.
In the
preceding chapter, while speaking
of the relationship
of Christian revelation to the life
of the individual, I emphasized how revelation in principle delivers us from the need for self - deception.
Throughout the
preceding chapters I have repeatedly emphasized the promissory nature
of revelation.
The
chapter is
preceded by a graphic picture
of the judgment scene, clearly showing the characters who participate in it.
Even in the
preceding chapter, where I focused upon the development
of his views, I largely identified myself with my presentation
of his thought in Process and Reality.
It is my contention that the first
of these areas
of incoherence can be rather easily resolved into coherence if the conclusions
of preceding sections
of this
chapter (See especially sec. 1.)