Sentences with phrase «old vision of»

I am a co-parent through step - parenthood — and though open adoption and co-parenting may be the barest things in common (it takes a certain amount of open - heartedness and transforming of your old vision of what constitutes family)-- it seems, at least to me, wholly different.

After years of therapy, Buddhist practice, her brother's suicide, two failed marriages and motherhood, she rejects her old vision of comparing the past to «radioactive waste» that must be buried.

«A lot of people are still holding on to the old vision of themselves.»

«A lot of people who are dating in their 50s probably haven't dated since they were [in their 20s]-- they're paralyzed, they still have the old vision of themselves and the old vision of the boys they were dating,» Palmer said.

A tireless door - to - door campaigner, he had the decades - old vision of bringing Kingston back to its glory days.

I am a co-parent through step - parenthood — and though open adoption and co-parenting may be the barest things in common (it takes a certain amount of open - heartedness and transforming of your old vision of what constitutes family)-- it seems, at least to me, wholly different.

Project - based learning can transform old visions of school and make learning about more than retaining information.

Now shows of Anne Truitt and Mary Corse evoke those old visions of East and West Coast well beyond urban centers alone.

Not exact matches

In the beginning, the story in Animal Farm seems quirky at best: When the de-facto leader of the animals, Old Major, dies, two pigs called Snowball and Napoleon take over and see out his «vision», which they interpret to be the driving out of Mr. Jones, the farm owner.

Romney wants voters to set off a brokered convention, where Republican insiders can hand - pick a nominee, bringing up visions of the cigar smoke - filled rooms of old.

Standing in the way of Rive's vision are utilities that fear that the technology is putting pressure on their century - old business model of big centralized energy generation.

On January 13, Big Pump Signal announced the pump of the day would be GVT, a four - month - old Russia - based altcoin created by an apparently product-less company called Genesis Vision.

The Saudi Council for Economic and Development Affairs, headed by crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the powerful 31 - year - old son of King Salman, announced that it will implement 10 new programs in the third quarter of 2017 to strengthen the objectives of Vision 2030.

What motivates young people (as it does older people) is desire, once awakened: a vision of something one wants, or wants to become.

In constructing a black liberation theology, Jones» vision returns him, in the words of poet Langston Hughes, to «rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

«Thomistic essentialism» - that old chestnut - as opposed to a «dynamic» vision of life, the universe and everything.

It has been common in recent years for scripture scholars to tell us that the idea of the separation of body and soul after death — indeed that any systematic distinction between body and soul — was alien to the Hebrew vision of the Old Testament.

The rebel's denial of what the world is or was in order to create a vision of what the world might be is similar to his blasphemy against the «old god» in the hope of finding a «new» one.

Hartshorne had grown up in a family milieu that led him early to the perception that God is love.10 As he wrote in his Preface to Man's Vision of God (1941), «a magnificent intellectual content — far surpassing that of such systems as Thomism, Spinozism, German idealism, positivism (old or new)-- is implicit in the religious faith most briefly expressed in the three words, God is love.»

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

Abraham, Moses, Isaiah and Jeremiah, and all other Old Testament prophets and saints lived with a vision of God's promised future.

Old - fashioned inversions like «visions girt» are in a realm of discourse centuries removed from the word «dirt.»

Later theology for Whitehead, hence, distorted Jesus vision of «gentleness and mercy» by an «old ferocious God..., the Oriental despot, the Pharaoh, the Hitler; with everything to enforce obedience, from infant damnation and eternal punishment,» Price (1954) 176.

I am haunted by the Old Testament statement that «without a vision, the people perish,» and by the early Christian contention that «the church is the soul of civilization.»

One of the creative process philosophers, Charles Hartshorne, states in the beginning of Man's Vision of God his conviction that «a magnificent intellectual content — far surpassing that of such systems as Thomism, Spinozism, German idealism, positivism (old or new) is implicit in the religious faith most briefly expressed in the three words, God is love».1 If this be true what is needed is not the discarding of metaphysics but the exploration of this new possibility in the doctrine of God's being.

In that case, if they were in the nature of visions (which does not imply unreality) or manifestations of a spiritual body, the old artists» picture of a material body emerging from the tomb is altogether incongruous.

There is little of art in his vision of good cooking; except for his just complaints about adulteration of food with harmful substances, he often sounds simply like an old grump complaining about the menu.

I am not inclined to that view; I tend to agree with N.T. Wright that the vision points to a moment when the new creation is made «not ex nihilo, but ex vetere, not out of nothing, but out of the old one, the existing one,» just as the resurrected body of Jesus is not a brand - new body but his old one glorified.

It is clear that this is precisely what Paul's statement is about; but because he was expressing a vision of reality that he himself was unable to spell out in a practical application to his own culture, we also have continued to stumble around in the slavery of the old law regarding relationships, catching the vision in some areas — in theory, at least — and ignoring it in others.

I turn to Part 1 — the older way of seeing God and the Bible and the vision of the Christian life that went with it.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

Except in lonely outposts of faith — the crippled child Lonnie in The Moviegoer, the fierce nun Val in The Last Gentleman, the firewatching Father Smith with his remnant of faithful Catholics in Love in the Ruins — the old Christian humanist vision is dead.

Among his writings are the following: Christian Apologetics in a World Community (InterVarsity Press 1983); Let the Earth Rejoice: A Biblical Theology of Holistic Mission (Crossway 1983); Christian Art in Asia, (Rodop Amsterdam 1979, distributed by Humanities Press); Themes in Old Testament Theology, (InterVarsity Press 1979); Daniel in the Television Den: A Christian Approach to American Culture (Western Baptist Press 1975; and Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation (Eerdmans 1971).

Similarly, Isaiah's vision of the day when the Lord would create new heavens and a new earth, the restoration of life as it should be, makes room for old age as the natural fulfillment of life.

This is an infinite which expresses itself in a narrative vision, not a predetermined narrative nor one which intends to include only a particular kind of people or a particular reality, but a story which is much more open than the old story used to be — a story, indeed, with many strands rather than with one, and a story which is not going to any predetermined place but which is constantly open to the best possibility that is relevant for it.

McLaren's vision is that each of us, whatever our theology, old or new, will learn something of Jesus from one another that we would otherwise have missed.

But old - time religion was out of fashion among the greens, and the McConnells» vision of world peace also included peace in the womb.

Stories abounded of hard - pressed couples for whom the «rhythm method» had failed, and Pope John XXIII's vision of openness to the world had become for many Catholics a desperate desire not to be seen as «old fashioned.»

The question was an age - old debate between big and small visions of government.

They say it makes mincemeat of the New Testament, where (it is alleged) the Old Testament focus on a particular land is replaced by the vision of a whole world; 2.

But, I question what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic writers of an earlier day, seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions of existentialism rather than offering a vision of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence of grace.

And it shall come to pass afterward [i.e., after the calamitous Day of Yahweh] that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

Well, as it turned out all my fears, which the night before the test resulted in me tossing and turning prior to sleep and having visions and thoughts of never, ever getting a driver's license, were for naught because old Bob though limited to one eye, passed the test with pretty much the same score he received in 1963.

Interestingly, and in contrast to the Old Testament parallels, there is no vision of the warfare that will bring down «Babylon.»

With all the magnificence of its imagery and the splendour of its visions of the majesty of God and the world to come, we are bound to judge that in its conception of the character of God and His attitude to man the book falls below the level, not only of the teaching of Jesus, but of the best parts of the Old Testament.

Clearly enough this hope for a fresh outpouring of the Spirit which will cause our old men to see visions and our young men to have dreams is a call for risk and adventure.

Though his massive Church Dogmatics took on the appearance of an old - style dogmatism, his theological vision throughout this epochal work remained distinctively pluralistic and open - ended.

The churches must plan systematically to expose every parishoner to the biases and distorted values systems of our culture in the light of the prophetic visions of the Old Testament and the harsh demands of the New.

Not only in its litanies of worship, not only in its understanding of the nature and character of God, but in its vision of the future, the Old Testament is ambiguous.