Sentences with phrase «of radical commitment»

It convinced people that following Jesus meant a life of radical commitment to his teachings, especially as crystallized in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt.

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While the benefits of working on a remote team can be tremendous, being successful requires radical commitment from your team's leadership.

«Engaged scholarship» brings into the heart of the discussion considerations related to emotion, commitment, personal identity, subjective reception, and radical enactment in the public arena.

If the radical self - assertion which makes it impossible for man to achieve the authentic life of self - commitment is identical with sin, it must obviously be possible for man to understand his existence altogether as a gift of God.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

But no matter how broadly the image of discipleship is conceived, its foundation is radical commitment.

In his more recent writings, he even attempts to combine an ironic sense of the radical contingency of our language, desires, and beliefs, with a strong commitment to liberal political values, such as the need to fight against pain and suffering and the importance of achieving solidarity as members of a community.

Only if the Christian Movement is able to demonstrate, concretely in deed and word, how Jesus Christ reveals the radical world - commitment of a God who is (as Paul reputedly said on Mars Hill) «not far from every one of us,» will it manifest biblical faithfulness in the multi-religious and multi-threatened world that is and is coming to be.

Radical generosity begins with a commitment to live with our eyes open, ready to distribute some of the resources that God has freely distributed to us.

However, once that mainstream had been established, a certain underground ethic intensified and regularized rock's radical commitment, gathering cultural strength, and from 1988 - 1997 it actually grew popular, probably with the economic prosperity provided by Anglosphere conservatives and the security provided by the collapse of the USSR subconsciously giving many persons permission for indulging in greater radicalism.

At the same time he was a person of intense action and radical commitment.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

Conservatives mock radical college professors and celebrities who pop off about politics, but those (sometimes ridiculous) lefties are actually making an effort to reach that vast muddle of Americans who don't already have firm political commitments.

Such dialogue is also a practice that ought to cease: it has no discernible benefits, many negative effects, and is based upon a radical misapprehension of the nature and significance of religious commitments.

In a review of J. A. T. Robinson's The Roots of a Radical, Don Cupitt beautifully summarizes Robinson's spirituality: «One should be firmly rooted in a few central values, commitments, and doctrinal themes, while being open and exploratory at the edges.»

I was interested in people like John Woolman and Bonhoeffer: Christians whose deep commitment led to radical stances, not of an ascetic but of a worldly sort.

They are not really radicals at all, when they suggest the necessity of starting entirely fresh, and demand that there be no commitments of any kind to the religious traditions of the past.

I appropriate this, without the principle of being and radical monotheism, in my minimalist naturalism through the notion of critical commitment to ideal transcendence and consequent care for the total community of being.

The fact that the Christian passion for humanity may resemble other forms of humanism which appear to owe nothing to specific Christian origin or inspiration, and that humanists outside the Christian tradition can make a common commitment with Christians to enlarge and enhance the human and humane, does not mean that these individuals» differing sources of humanism are to be treated deprecatingly or indifferently; Christians will see in those sources evidence of the radical freedom and the unpredictable activity of the Logos, to which the Fourth Gospel first gave witness.

In that radical commitment to real dialogue across theological and creedal divides, he was faithful to the teaching of two of his masters: Arthur Carl Piepkorn, who helped plant the seed of Richard's ecumenical work by teaching him to think of Lutheranism as a reform movement within the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of Christ; and Abraham Joshua Heschel, who inspired Richard to enter into the divinely mandated entanglement of Jews and Christians of which St. Paul wrote to the Romans.

But it should now be clear to white and black churchmen alike that the theological differences between them are very real, and that they form barriers which, in my opinion at least, are insurmountable for the present generation unless, of course, white churches are ready to make a radical commitment to the fight for justice on behalf of the oppressed.

But perhaps because of its unusualness, Ellis was able to introduce an idea that remains as radical and tantalizing today as it was in his time: trial marriages, in which he envisioned couples exploring a temporary union of varying levels of commitment that allowed them to have sex, access birth control and have an easy divorce if desired, as long as no children were involved.

It has always been a major obstacle to the creation of a Parliamentary Party with a radical commitment.

This «very strong sense of mission» makes it a «radical government, but it also has commitments in terms of constiutional reform».

The ironic title, originally bestowed in criticism of the radical policies pursued by local Labour politicians, was in fact happily embraced by those it was intended to denigrate, including Michie, whose lifelong commitment to the pursuit of socialism never wavered.

Even if Ms Greening agreed with Lord Ashcroft and the Daily Mail etc it would be unlikely that David Cameron and Nick Clegg would support a radical pruning back of the UK aid commitment.

n contrast, the Liberal Democrats consciously positioned themselves as the main party political advocates of radical constitutional reform, with successive manifestos setting out their commitment to the fundamental re-balancing of power within the British state.

I don't want to mention too many names but Karen Bradley (formerly of the Tory policy unit), Philippa Stroud (because of her lifelong commitment to social justice), Liz Truss (a radical thinker on public sector reform), Harriett Baldwin (because of her knowledge of the financial world) and Fiona Bruce (because of her legal and business background) are just five stars - in - the - waiting.

Through Mr. Gershman's lens we see the Albanians» commitment to care for those in need, to foster hospitality in the face of radical hatred, and to Besa, the country's code of honor,» said Assemblyman Gjonaj.

Everlane's commitment to «radical transparency» and focus on high - quality, honestly priced basics has resonated with consumers and the company is reportedly valued at «north of $ 250 million.»

A decade ago a commitment to an African - inspired superhero with a nearly all - black cast may have seemed radical, but if reports of pre-ticket sales are any indicator, Black Panther arrives at a time when audiences are clamouring for greater diversity.

Bringing in a «trust buster» to help reinvent a monopoly public school system was hailed by many education reformers (myself included) as a stroke of genius and more proof of Mayor Bloomberg's commitment to radical change.

He winds up faulting constructivists not for their ideas, with which he is generally sympathetic, but for their lack of radical fervor, as «their work is marked by a flirtation with but never full commitment to» the cause of revolution.

Interview — Dr. James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Mass., describes his secondary school's commitment to 21st Century education and how it led naturally to a radical move to a nearly all - digital school library.

Womack, who shocked Bachelor fans by rejecting both of his final bachelorettes in one of the most controversial finales in the series» history, returns three years later, having undergone a radical personal transformation he feels sure has readied him to make a genuine commitment to a relationship.

Ismail supports his post-E3 tweets regarding how he sees Sony's indie policy at the moment, telling me that «the lack of indies at the E3 showcase is such a radical shift from the indie focus of earlier E3s that many independent developers are wondering whether working with Sony right now offers any stability, and stability is what those developers need when making commitments about console development.»

Everywhere we turn today the radical impulse that motivated modernism — its commitment to transgression — is treated as the object of parody and insult.

VISION The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is dedicated to Peter Cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous public discourse foster a just and thriving world.

This is a period of radical innovation and the moment when O'Keeffe's commitment to abstraction is firmly established.

But of course, also, its radical social and political histories, its artistic community, which I have long admired from afar, and the incredible commitment that the city has shown in the realm of culture, which is made manifest through its diverse institutions.

A more rigorous engagement with «pure Abstraction» was left to Mondrian, but this involved the suppression of the space - making properties of colour, entrapping primary colour of minimal sensuosity within a prison of black bars, and a commitment to a radical «flatness».

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is dedicated to Peter Cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous public discourse foster a just and thriving world.

When the former Santa Monica Museum of Art rebranded itself as the Institute of Contemporary Art and moved into its current home in Downtown L.A. last year, it was a formal show of commitment to maintaining its relatively radical pedigree while integrating a forward - thinking, community - centric approach.

He criticized policies like granting carbon credits to polluters as a «ploy» that would «provide a quick and easy solution under the guise of a certain commitment to the environment,» but would not «allow for the radical change which present circumstances require.»

Ultimately, the latest scientific understanding of climate change allied with current emission trends and a commitment to «limiting average global temperature increases to below 4C above pre-industrial levels», demands a radical reframing of both the climate change agenda, and the economic characterization of contemporary society.

Further conflation is apparent in the same article (discussed at Climate Etc.) and even phrased using terms of (religious) culture: «It is to find the essential balance between orthodoxy and heresy, between a total commitment to the status quo and the blind pursuit of new ideas, between being open - minded enough to accept radical new ideas and so open - minded that your brains fall out.