Sentences with phrase «of ultimate loyalty»

It is noteworthy that the «Death of God» theologians want to hold to the Christian community with Jesus as its centre as the context of ultimate loyalty.

What makes this monotheism «radical» is its insistence that God is beyond all the many, including the «many» through whom we apprehend God: Scripture, church, even Jesus Christ himself As the ground of our being and value, God alone is the proper Object of our ultimate loyalty and love.

Otherwise it would be too easy to decide that since no human cause is without sin or deserving of our ultimate loyalty, since none will result in the perfect good, we may as well just sit back and sagely observe from an uninvolved distance the vain and foolish strivings of humanity.

All religions contain, at their core, something like a «metaphysical / moral vision» about what is true, reliable and worthy of ultimate loyalty.

Since government is necessarily finite and fallible, it can not define the object of ultimate loyalty.

Whenever any persons, institutions, rituals, dogmas, or writings are regarded as worthy of ultimate loyalty, idolatry is present.

We thank thee for guidance and for strength and for blessing us with this food...» Table grace for my grandfather was a confession of faith, of ultimate loyalties.

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I think of share ownership as the ultimate customer loyalty program.

Religion as ultimate loyalty is profoundly relevant to public life, and the institutions of public education ought to promote it actively and explicitly.

The ultimate loyalty of the religious socialist will be to God, who alone brings peace and justice and bread to the «halt and the maimed» by becoming one with them — which is the ultimate blasphemy.

For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with it.

It is to be «in the world but not of the world,» free from all claims to ultimate loyalty except the vocation of witness to God's shalom.

Harrington, who understands better than many Christians the meaning of a culture's decay, actively seeks the aid of the faithful, whose ultimate loyalty can not be to the movement or even to the world which that movement seeks to transform.

Protestants today need to hear the good news that family life and work life do not have to be the ultimate loyalties of Christians.

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

But if the meaning of God for us is the gift and demand of unbounded love that authorizes trust in this love and loyalty to its cause as our authentic self - understanding, the ultimate whole of reality that we call by the name «God» has to have a unique structure in itself.

Haight sees faith as «a universal form of human experience» that «entails an awareness of and loyalty to an ultimate or transcendent reality.»

But if the kind of trust in God's love and loyalty to its cause that are Christian faith are, in fact, authorized by ultimate reality in its meaning for us, the encompassing whole of reality in its structure in itself must be as individual as it is universal, or as universal as it is individual, and hence an exception to the rule by which individuals and universals are otherwise distinguished.

Religion asks about the objects of man's trust and loyalty, the character of his ultimate concern, the final justification for his values.

In order for theological education to overcome its self - contradictions and recover unity it needs to repent its placing ultimate love and loyalty in these proximate purposes and convert to placing all its proximate goals within the context of faith in the One beyond the many.

The ultimate loyalty is a loyalty to the Absolute, and in that loyalty — not the social gospel of doing good or the corporate gospel of wealth — is the only hope of creating a «Beloved Community.»

In actual practice we constantly confuse this ultimate Object of our loyalty and love with more proximate and relative objects.

Religion demands existential involvement of the whole person; it asks about the ultimate objects of man's trust and loyalty.

In this new mode, every game counts as fans declare their loyalty to a favorite school and give the ultimate show of support in a nationwide competition.

Kokoda is the ultimate tale of survival and loyalty against the odds.

By this point, however, the entertainment quotient has already been met, and we actually do begin to care about the ultimate fate of the film's wishy - washy main character and where his loyalties lie.

From # 1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes a heart - pounding adventure of love, loyalty, and survival - as a gifted child faces the ultimate question of whether or not he can kill in order to save his loved ones.

As much as this seems like the ultimate display of canine loyalty, this behavior can really bring several problems.

This level of versatility required a highly athletic and intelligent dog coupled with an ultimate loyalty.

From the ultimate game of fetch to an unending belly rub, dogs should be rewarded for their undeniable loyalty and -LSB-...]

From the ultimate game of fetch to an unending belly rub, dogs should be rewarded for their undeniable loyalty and unconditional love.

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The ultimate icon of American patriotism, the way red, white and blue are used to express one's pride and loyalty is evident all across the USA; sometimes flown with brash presence and at other times positioned more subtly.

This is the ultimate achievement of a diverse, high performing team: the ability to combine with similar teams on the client side to dramatically improve financial results, create new opportunities for diverse populations, and increase loyalty between individual lawyer, firm, and client.

While the court's recognition of the legal significance of a lawyer's loyalty to her client's cause is welcome, analytical deficiencies in the decision make its ultimate significance for the regulation of lawyers unclear.

Named One of the 10 Best Parenting Books of the Year by Child Magazine, this revised edition teaches you to minimize stress during initial breakups and ultimate separation, explain divorce so children don't blame themselves, protect children from parental hostilities, and navigate conflicts of loyalty and alliance.