Sentences with phrase «one's very identity»

Indeed, chile has become central to the diet, culture, economy, and very identity of the state since at least 1913, the year following the achievement of statehood.

In his desire to become like God, Adam's very identity as the image of God was broken.

The result is a haunting, emotional tale about a teenage girl's unraveling, and a boy whose very identity feels entwined in a house condemned for demolition.

Our conviction that we belong to a meaningful and redemptive history could hardly take shape outside the life of a community whose very identity is based on hope in that promise.

These athletes haven't let anything get in the way of participating in this year's games, from injuries to their very identities.

But now it is obvious that, whatever agreement there might be on these issues, a more fundamental breach exists over the very identity of God.

Well - meaning efforts to draw the tribal peoples into the economy of the new country are experienced by these peoples as a threat to their very identity.

So when I step back and I say, «Hey man, maybe everybody shouldn't be able to have access to everything,» it's almost like someone is pulling the rug from your very identity.

It is a condition of their very identity which they can not change.

Even Marxist class analysis is experienced as one of these Western ideas that have suppressed those that are bound up with the very identity of the people.

«My political beliefs are part of my identity; to call them into question is to call my very identity into question.»

That is, the discipline involved in learning some concepts shapes our very identities as persons, whereas the discipline through which other concepts are learned does not.

This «one magnificent sweep of creation», to use Holloway's words, re-founds and renews the Church's theology of creation as well as filling out our insight into the very identity of Jesus Christ.

Living forms are actively orientated towards each other for their very identity and fulfilment.

But framing this as a culture war between Christians and LGBT people suggests that they have to choose and further marginalizes LGBT Christians by denying them their very identity.

Learning the concept «love,» however, learning the abilities and capacities needed to love someone over an extended period of time through a variety of circumstances, involves shaping, often deepening and changing, one's very identity.

Our mission focuses have changed our very identity as church.

which too often has become your ticket to sympathy, and sometimes your very identity.

It's as tangible as the pots and pitchers she has lavished on me over the years, but it also embodies her very identity as Wife, Mother, Daughter, Friend, Nurturer.

Their liberalism moves very swiftly from sexual ethics to sacramental theology, and thence to other foundational issues — the nature of the priesthood, the authority of the Bible, the very identity of Jesus Christ.

Our very identity obliges us to active faithfulness of this double kind.

In that case, it seems that fortuity has blindly formed us in such a way that a commitment to «reason» is a part of our very identity.

These concerns suggest the counter question and its ecclesial overtones in Protestant theology today: Have we so allowed the world, with its question of suffering and its plea for hope, to set the church's agenda that the very identity of Christian faith and validity of the church are imperiled?

We need a vision whereby the very identity of Christ, in his human and divine natures, as the physical and spiritual centre and fulfilment of creation, is the basis of his active redemption of us since sin.

We can say more: he is the very identity of our humanity in the first place.

Or, rather, world and individual identity here come together and are indistinguishable — thereby truly paralleling Zen — but their very identity is of such a kind that the individual not only wills but also enacts his total responsibility for the world.

It ought to govern even more than our intellects and our moral reasoning, though that is a tall order already; it ought to govern our very identities and desires.

Nor is it just his situation that is changed; his very identity is changed as he becomes no longer merely Hannah's son or Eli's helper, but the one who stands coram deo, in God's presence.

How does one extricate themselves from a system that is so well established and so interwoven with their very identities and roles?

Any attempt to make themselves the centre of the liturgical action contradicts their very identity as priests.

We believe that Divine Revelation is the ultimate act of compassion, for it is the life - giving outreach of God, whose very identity is Love, and who knows the path to human fulfilment and lasting joy far better than we do.

Many say their very identity has been changed as a result of extended involvement in their group.

In the Synoptics, the title «Savior» is used only once: Here in Luke 2:11, where Jesus» saving work is related not to his coming again nor to his work as risen Lord, but to the very identity and significance of his person.