Sentences with phrase «of radical break»

But whatever he may have intended, the cardinal can not have meant that Amoris Laetitia is a «paradigm shift» in the sense of a radical break with previous Catholic understandings.

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The idea of such a radical break attracted Branson, who stopped eating beef in 2014 out of concern over deforestation and slaughterhouse practices.

Ahead of the make - or - break vote in Athens's parliament, Tsipras held back - to - back meetings as he attempted to rally support for measures at total variance with the rationale of his radical left party.

In this book, DeMarco examines how to break free of the Monday - to - Friday «slave cycle,» how to create a radical but successful business framework and how to really get motivated.

These people are doing more than charity; they are breaking the cycle of fear and scarcity through radical acts of generosity.

As a follower of Jesus, I believe that the only thing that breaks us free from the fear of scarcity is a radical act of generosity.

This was a form of liberalism, but one that was a radical break from the tendency of earlier liberalism to be in close association with culture.

First, he offers radical acceptance of the individual, often by breaking cultural barriers.

I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with women he called «co-workers.»

This emptying is the meaning of his power: to break open the solitude of our selfishness in a new radical openness to the beloved — an openness that leaves nothing of itself so as to be wholly the beloved's.

Most of them deny that there was a radical break at any point.

The radical Christian, who is in quest of a total redemption, must repudiate every religious promise resting upon a perpetuation of man's fallen state, and recognize in the orthodox image of the crucified Christ an image of the victory of that Satan who would bind man to a broken and shrunken condition.

The conception of the self - revelation of God as radical novelty over against any world highlights God's radical eschatological breaking - through of all automatic self - containing loops of rules.40

We may go beyond the traditional theories of atonement and ask a radical question: «What account would be given of atonement if we were to interpret it from the standpoint of the most realistic analogies we know to human love when it deals with broken relationships and the consequent suffering?»

So the evolution of the Church's understanding of the gospel over the centuries is not a matter of «paradigm shifts,» or ruptures, or radical breaks and new beginnings; it's a question of what theologians call the development of doctrine.

A chief difference was that the former, unlike the latter, were led by chief executives of exceptionally sturdy ego who, in their campaigns to consolidate enough power to make a radical break with their collegiate past, used that power as well to sever any capacity of the church to obstruct their personal sovereignty.

A widely publicised conflict broke out in one of the synagogues between a conservative elderly rabbi and a radical young rabbi who was all for change.

The neocons were for the most part disillusioned liberals (or radicals) who broke with their former allies over what they considered the febrile, guilt» ridden anti-Americanism embraced by much of the left in the wake of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

Dr. Napier suggests that for Elijah to slaughter the prophets of Baal is a call to a radical separation and break between the two altars.

To repent is not merely to be sorry for mistakes, it is to make a radical break with one's present way of life.

The Church of England and the Methodist Church have been challenged to «break the logjam» in relations between them in a set of radical proposals to both bodies.

Jeremy Corbyn's radical brand of politics could make or break the Labour Party he now leads.

The radical contingencies are what inspire a sense of awe and wonder: the fact that I exist at all, and the further fact that I am who I am; a «miraculous» recovery by someone who was given no chance to live; a sudden break in a stormy sky where the sun bursts through.

It is because of this that he emphasises that we should «shun idols, guard our eyes from «vanities / nothings» (pp. 44, 48) so that we can «adore the God of Jesus Christ who out of love made himself bread broken, the most effective and radical remedy against the idolatry of the past and of the present.»

The conception of organism as fundamental for nature involves a radical break with a mechanistic or substance concept of nature.

My break with American values, when it came, was quite radical, and I went through a period of almost total rejection of my own society.2 That experience too must influence my present views.

Liberation theology, as I understand it, makes a radical break with Protestant liberalism's feeling of absolute dependence on Schleiermacher.

Covenant requires a radical break not only with uncritical, scholastic notions of God, but also with contemporary views that vote for detachment.

Early on, in a radical act of dispossession, Francis broke decisively with his former life as a soldier and playboy.

Every grand new global initiative that has been launched in the past decades has been described as a radical break from business as usual as it demands more billions for the funding of business as usual.

That was a radical break from the norms of the surrounding pagan culture.

And the ruling in Griswold itself was not so much a radical break with the past as it was the culmination of a process that began with the nation's experience of World War II.

The degree to which modern philosophy represents a radical break with all traditional ideas is only gradually becoming clear, in part because the early modern philosophers were concerned to disguise the full implications of their teachings.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Some historians of the American experience emphasize the radical break between the ancient, classic tradition of the «liberal» arts and the modern liberal tradition.

Jesus represented the promise of a new beginning, a new fulfillment, a radical change in man's tragic and broken condition.

Unfortunately there was a radical break in the history of Jerusalem in the second century, which to some degree interrupted the local tradition of the sacred sites.

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Scotland, of course, is a proud football nation, one half of the first ever international fixture, and birthplace of the radical, game - breaking idea that sometimes it might be a good idea to pass the ball from one player to another.

Cheerios went so far as to present a moving portrayal of two gay adoptive dads for its Canadian campaign (2)-- something this radical has certainly yet to appear in British TV ad breaks.

As for recent privatisations, the Royal Mail had been in state hands long before Labour dreamt up its post-war nationalisation programme, making its sale seem like a truly radical break with the past, not just a resumption of «normal service».

Having attempted to wipe the slate clean, breaking free of the party's record in government but retaining pragmatic attitudes to the key issues which will face Britain in the next five years, Miliband seems to be taking his party back to the «restless and radical» mood of 1997.

But Cuomo being silent and not speaking up against some of the radicals led by de Blasio who are threatening and demanding that they don't move in and come in — give me a break.»

Allies of policy chief Jon Cruddas broke cover yesterday to demand he «goes big» with a more radical set of policies.

The report argued that trade union practices are in need of radical modernisation, and went as far as to call for the break - up of some unions.

More importantly, by entering the Democratic Party, Sanders broke with the socialist principle of independent working - class political action.1 He became the «sheepdog» herding progressives, who had the option of voting for the Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka in the general election, back into a party run by the billionaire class he professes to oppose.2 Nevertheless, the broad liberal to radical American left is now discussing what socialism is and debating whether the Left should be inside or outside the Democratic Party — or both inside and outside.

@TheDarkLord: The whole point of Corbyn's leadership was a radical break with the past.

«We are the radicals now, breaking apart the old system with a massive transfer of power from the state to citizens, politicians to people, government to society,» he told the conference.

It inspired a revolution in education spending, a radical expansion of universities and colleges and ground - breaking new ideas like UnionLearn.