Sentences with phrase «on early fathering»

The Imitation of Christ, commenting on the early Fathers of the Church, notes «how scrupulously they kept the fasts» having called attention to «the long and arduous temptations they had to suffer.»

Luther calls on the early Fathers to expound the Trinity comparing the Father to the sun, the Son to its brilliance and the Holy Spirit to its heat.

Not exact matches

In an essay for Time earlier this year, Jay - Z announced that he would be donating to organizations like Color of Change and Southerners on the New Ground to advocate for the release of jailed fathers who have not been convicted of a crime but are unable to afford bail.

In the early days, I relied heavily on my father's advice because of his near 30 years of experience owning and operating businesses.

But Williams said her father Richard Williams» hands - off approach when it came to money encouraged her to learn about finance early on.

Baseball Though the origins of baseball seemed unclear in that one article I think I remember reading on Wikipedia, the modern - day game was first invented in the early 1800s by Abner Doubleday's father, Ken Burns.

As the researchers say: «fathers who take more time - off early in their child's life will have a higher likelihood of being a hands - on caregiver than fathers who do not.»

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

In an essay for Time earlier this month, Jay - Z announced that he would be donating to organizations like Color of Change and Southerners on the New Ground to advocate for the release of jailed fathers who have not been convicted of a crime but are unable to afford bail.

Mr. Wang recalled a story of how on a long drive near his hometown years earlier his father pointed out all of the tunnels and bridges in China built using his cement.

Which brings us to a tweet earlier this month from Father Antonio Spadaro, S.J., a prominent figure on the current Roman scene.

My late father told me during the early 90's that those youth who faced some shock such as an emotional shock, they become extremely religious... so if that is true then imagine what shocks has the Arabian Spring brought and what shocks will keep on coming to all those MidEastern countries...!

This was Thomas Hardy's appellation for God, but in Footnote Heaven the moniker ought really to belong to Jacques - Paul Migne, the nineteenth - century Benedictine who singlehandedly edited and published the entire corpus of the Greek and Latin Fathers and whose edition is cited in almost every work on early Christianity ever published.

Another prominent liberal of an earlier generation, Governor Andrew Cuomo's father, Governor Mario Cuomo, a self described «progressive pragmatist,» also opposed casino gambling on the same grounds which Mayor LaGuardia did.

While Odysseus on his return to Ithaca is exactly the same as when he left two decades earlier, «what a road, what a fate, lie between the Jacob who cheated his father out of his blessing and the old man whose favorite son has been torn to pieces by a wild beast!»

Going back to the early church fathers and Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Thatcher argues that children should be «regarded as evidence of the blessing of God on marriage.»

Maybe you should go back and read the early church fathers, the men who learned the faith from the apostles and see what they have to say on this issue.

A few years ago Pope Benedict XVI gave a series of lectures on the early church fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augfathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to AugFathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine.

Evangelicals have been blessed with the recent increase of studies on the early church fathers.

Studios is aggressively marketing «Man of Steel» to Christian pastors, inviting them to early screenings, creating Father's Day discussion guides and producing special film trailers that focus on the faith - friendly angles of the movie.

In its effort to achieve a universal vision, liberalism has continued the ancient tradition including that of the Greek Fathers, so that the attack on liberalism also condemns any return to earlier forms of theology including that of Wesley.

(CNN)- Early on the morning of November 28, 2007, Jia Weihan was forced to think the unthinkable: Was her father really a bad man?

The earliest fathers were often somewhat naive, somewhat childlike in some ways, but those qualities enabled them to hold on to the truth they had learned from the Apostles and apostolic men with a ferocity that I doubt would be much reflected in our day under similar persecutions.

On the face of it the passage is a mystical experience; but the way Alyosha got to it was by way of Father Zossima's putrefying body: he had to go through that experience of radical dissociation, accept it and take it with him, an experience fully described in the earlier part of Book VII, in order to come to the insight that «the silence of earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens.»

Even while acknowledging some lat.itude in these early chapters, it appears that science is increasingly able to corroborate what we have held in faith based upon biblical texts, including bases for such matters as an ancient deluge, genetic linking back to one mother and possible on father, and the possibility of extended life - spans prior to the deluge.

This self - examination is based on a clearly delineated psychology of will that Gregory had learned from earlier church fathers (Tertullian, Jerome, Augustine) but had himself developed and refined.28 According to this psychology, the dynamics of guilt and self - alienation occur in three distinguishable stages, analogous to the fall of Adam.

Sigmund Freud commented on the death of his father: «He had passed his time when he died, but inside me the occasion of his death has reawakened all my early feelings.

This effort was in a measure successful but it is interesting to note that in the Middle Ages Peter Abelard was nevertheless driven to write his Liber Sententiarum sic et non citing over one hundred and fifty subjects on which the early Fathers were in considerable disagreement with one another!

Prior to the time of the early church father Augustine, there is little evidence of discussion on the relationship of the synoptic gospels... and on side note of text book p. 47..

Branch carefully follows King's path to the Dexter Avenue pulpit, describing his often tempestuous relationship with his father and tracing his maturation from a dandyish Morehouse College undergraduate to a thoughtful scholar - minister with advanced degrees from Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University (where he met Coretta Scott, whom he married against the wishes of «Daddy» King) In one of his all - too - rare explorations of the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement, Branch makes a solid case in these early chapters for the decisive influence of Reinhold Niebuhr on the development of King's moral philosophy.

In the Gospel of Matthew, on the eve of his crucifixion, in Gethsemane, Jesus prays in the way he had earlier instructed his disciples to pray: «My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will....

Perhaps the worst example was Father Charles Coughlin who broadcast on radio in the early 1930s, regularly preaching hatred of Jews and blacks.

In the question - answer session that followed the lecture, Pannenberg called on Christian theologians to follow the lead of the early church fathers and offer a more creative approach to the task of doing theology in the face of the world's injustices than that found in Marxist - oriented liberation theologies.

Like other early church fathers, the author warns Christians against overemphasis on dress or cosmetics.

My earliest memories of my father are as a soldier occasionally on leave during the Second World War.

See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.

By the time he reached his forties, Cheever lubricated his writing with early - morning gin, and by his fifties he was gulping cheap wine on the street with the homeless» though never in an overcoat, since his father had told him that overcoats made you look déclassé and, worse, Irish.

It is impressive to see how early they began watching the late Father John Courtney Murray, S.J.. On January 5, 1944, the magazine reported on a pamphlet in which Murray and a colleague showed how Catholics would collaborate with all who believe in God in order to «renovate secular society.&raquOn January 5, 1944, the magazine reported on a pamphlet in which Murray and a colleague showed how Catholics would collaborate with all who believe in God in order to «renovate secular society.&raquon a pamphlet in which Murray and a colleague showed how Catholics would collaborate with all who believe in God in order to «renovate secular society.»

Moreover, it is worth noting that although an innovator in some ways, using methods unique at the time, Philip always drew on the oldest sources of Christian devotion — indeed, Newman dubbed him «Man of primitive times», who would have been at home among the earliest Christians or the Church Fathers.

However, an alternative concept of Purgatory had also been influential from early on, and was especially promoted by the Church father Origen in the third century: Purgatory as a form of purification to make believers fit for heaven.

As I may have mentioned earlier, I grew up with Catholics on my mother's side and the Church of Christ on my father's side.

Their pietism, which I confused with Lutheranism, early made me restive, not least because of my precocious reading of Britannica articles on evolution and Gibbon's Decline and Fall (my father's library was short on comic books).

All four of my family names» Nuechterlein and Hubinger on my father's side, List and Strieter on my mother's» are included in the roster of the earliest settlers.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

In the two texts we commented on earlier (John 5:31 - 39; 8:13 - 18), we should be struck by an expression which indicates the externalization of testimony with respect to the intimacy of the dialogue between the Father and the Son.

One imagines Father, not yet fully awake, at the early morning Mass reading that and then thinking to himself, «What on earth did I just say?»

Cross referencing each of the codexes and manuscripts, researching the early church fathers, and reading book after book on the topic of textual criticism?

In the Fourth Gospel, Jesus breathes the Spirit on his disciples on Easter evening (20:22), and as a result his earlier promise of 14:1 — 3 is fulfilled, «In my Father's house are many rooms; and if not, I would tell you because I am going to prepare a place for you.

'» (Dies Domine, 2) The Witness of the Fathers It is also incorrect to say that the early Fathers had nothing to say on the subject of the place of the Incarnation in the plan of God for creation.

[20] Although coming from an analysis of a different «Father», the comments of Blake Leyerle, in her article «John Chrysostom on the Gaze,» Journal of Early Christian Studies, Vol.