Sentences with phrase «own particular communities»

There is not much in terms of academic learning happening at this particular community college.

For in America today, the usual secularist reaction in dealing with any message brought to society by a particular community is automatically to assume that the message is from a «special interest group,» one whose motives are those of self - interest, even when hidden behind a rhetoric of altruism.

Even the various forms of theological activity can be redescribed in narrative terms, as when Newbigin writes of «the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel»: interpretation of Scripture for Newbigin is not so much what a particular scholar writes as what a particular community of believers enacts.

And if the secularists doing the balancing are old - fashioned Enlightenment rationalists, the development of this consensus will become one where the rights of the individual remain the ultimate criterion for judging the often conflicting claims of various particular communities.

Flannery O'Connor, too, is sometimes concerned with that particular community of thought, and rather devastating in her satirical treatment of it.

«I came to realize that without a vessel for beliefs, without an unequivocal commitment to a particular community of faith,» he wrote later, «I would be consigned at some level to always remain apart.»

Now, I realize I could just as easily call it «How to be Decent to One Another on the Internet» or «How to be Human on the Internet,» but given this particular community of readers, I wanted to frame the discussion around specifically Christian values and concerns, (many of which also apply to those of other religious persuasions, of course).

How many of those are in a particular community?

Nonetheless, fourthly, the Consultation recognised a phenomenon called «the historical divergence» of God's Word, whereby the Word of God of one community is enshrined by the cultural modes of a particular community.

These theological convictions about how God works in the world through particular communities that contain in their narrative life the seeds of their own — and the world's — redemption were the first source of Hopewell's interest in congregations.

I think people will see for themselves just how the community responds and just how people draw together in light of this tragedy and I hope that will go some way to dispel myths that terrorism is associated with any particular community.»

Precisely because a theological school engages in transactions of material goods and services, including police and fire protection, with the particular community in which it is set, its location there is concrete.

Rt Rev Martyn Snow, Bishop of Leicester said the deadly explosion in the city should dispel myths that terrorism is associated with any particular community.

Moreover, priestly religion in all its expressions binds its adherents to a particular Word and a particular community as the sole arena of the redemptive sacred.

The psychologist interprets this as due to the fact that the adolescent is unconsciously under the pressure to do that which his particular community expects of him.

Sometimes the most secular of scholars found that what Frei was doing, with his attention to narrative and his interest in the language that shapes a particular community, made more sense to them than the work of many theologians much more systematically concerned to address other academic disciplines.

Both Alasdair MacIntyre and Peter Brown (writing about the classical polis and Augustine respectively) have emphasized that in the premodern world human identity was bound up with particular communities and particular places.

b) Some of the discussion about conversion tends to concentrate on the rejection of proselytism as an illegitimate way of adding members to one's own particular community.

My personal experience with folks in that particular community is that they LOVE this country, they are so happy to be here, and most of them raise their kids to be pretty Americanized.

But these buildings also tell us about the particular people who commissioned, designed and built them, and how a particular community aims to live out its faith.

Often it is through this network that pastors are called when a vacancy exists and through which problems arising in a particular community are resolved.

One of the patron saints of this particular community of Dutch Calvinists is Abraham Kuyper, who died in 1920 after a career as a philosopher - theologian, founder of the Free University of Amsterdam, and prime minister of the Netherlands.

Again, a story from the Jewish tradition: Based on circumstantial evidence, a character - assassinating lie was told of a much - respected elderly man in a particular community.

This suggests, in passing, that the moral stances Taylor is delineating may be permanent possibilities of the human spirit, not quite so tightly built into particular communities of discourse at particular points of historical development.

More work in the line of H. Richard Niebuhr's still suggestive notion of a «confessional» theology that authentically re-presents a particular community's vision of reality without rendering that vision merely private strikes me as the kind of direction to pursue.

Paradigm preference can be discussed only relative to a particular community.

This ideal community may or may not be identified with a particular community of the past, for example, the mythical community of the beginning or the historical first circle or brotherhood.

Just which members are so bound will depend upon variables specific to particular communities — such things as the authority structures in place, or the function of representative intellectuals.

Sandel wants to locate identity in the history of particular communities, networks of friendship, and the molding of character.

So it's not surprising, Tocqueville goes on, that even Greek philosophy seem to have been distorted by an aristocratic prejudice: Most human beings are necessarily chained to the «cave» or process of socialization of a particular community, and only philosophers are truly free.

The third factor which is both obstacle to and reason for giving new emphasis to the neglected function of the church as critic grows out of the fact that the churches reflect the assumptions and attitudes of particular communities, often of a particular social class or residential area.

That's the meaning that it has come to possess for those within that particular community.»

If that were the method of his revelation, we should have to charge God with arbitrary favoritism in revealing himself to one particular community rather than to another.

Some well - respected evangelical scholars think this means Paul did not permit a woman of that particular community to teach and dominate a man for selfish gain resulting in licentiousness (see recommended reading).

There is growing recognition today of how language shapes a particular community of faith.

Panikkar then introduces another criterion: the Christian has to be recognized as such by the others, more specifically, by a particular community.

Christian theologians explore their faith within a particular community and tradition, though «keeping faith with tradition... is not at all being bound by the letter of the law; it is more a matter of the company you keep — or the books you reach for first — when you want to do your best thinking.»

All I can try to do now is to remind you that the process of reflection upon the God of Jesus, by which I mean upon the good news announced by Jesus, that the kingdom of God is at hand, was begun and carried on by people whose thinking was determined by the fact that they belonged to a particular community.

The emphasis here is that theology should be done for and within the context of a particular community.

Why wouldn't you (particularly you) take it as a series of historical documents (which they are), that have errors (as all historical documents do), and that relate the experience of a particular community or group?

Marriage is, as Russell argues, a biological institution to beget and rear children for the ends of particular communities.

The increasing use of themes in Masses and the construction of liturgies for particular community events are recent attempts to elicit more of the intensity dynamic in the Church.

The fact that it is not realized empirically means that it transcends any particular community.

Many think that they are addressing books and articles to one particular community (normally their own), but these are in fact read by others, and especially by that other community that they are about.

Theologically, such television organizations, in their relationship with their audiences, are deficient in two characteristics that have traditionally been seen as essential to identifying a body as a church: they have no sacramental dimension to their worship and there is no meaningful sense of their audiences being a particular community in Christ.

1) It will demand that we recognize our own interconnectedness, that we understand ourselves as distinct persons and particular communities embedded in an interdependent social and natural world.

Yet, as any one who has lived long in a particular community will gladly testify, what the New Testament calls «the fruits of the Spirit» have been vividly manifest in countless lives which have been rendered radiant and selfless by their Christian faith.

Earlier I characterized a school as «a particular community of persons whose central purpose is to understand some subject truly.»

A school we might say is a particular community of persons whose central purpose is to understand some subject truly.

When we preach to a congregation in a particular community in this country, we are very much aware that members of our congregation are concerned, not only about the issues of the local community, or about those relatives who live with them, but also about loved ones who may be far away.