Every judgment as to what is good must be made on the basis of what
this particular concrete experience or action does for the movement of life toward the Kingdom.
First,
particular concrete experiences are ingredient to the sermon, not just the introduction to solicit interest as some older theories held but throughout the sermon.
Not exact matches
In summary we may say that, since we are products of our setting and the
particular values of our community, it is this
concrete experience which we must bring to Scripture and in terms of which we must understand its message.
But the definite shape and power of religious
experience is based on its involvement in the
concrete occasion with all its
particular relationships.
: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with
particular,
concrete historical or individual
experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal
experience» (page 179).
This will be done in such a way of course that, as the
experience of pagans and also of Christians shows, a right orientation towards God can be accomplished in the
concrete, «subjectively», even where extremely grave errors are present regarding
particular specific maxims of morality and religion.
In each of these passages, Whitehead affirms that we directly
experience particular actual entities as
concrete particulars.
For a fine exposition of the process - relational vision, appropriating the insights of psychology, and
concrete in its orientation, dealing with the issues of death and dying, loss and bereavement, see Kinast, Robert L., When a Person Dies: Pastoral Theology in Death
Experiences (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1984); also by the same author, an excellent delineation of the major tenets of process thought and process theology in
particular, is «A Process Model of Theological Reflection» The Journal of Pastoral Care 37 (June, 1983), pp. 144 - 156.
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Those nineteenth - century artists were committed to depicting subjects available to
concrete sense
experience, which were located in the here and now, and were often
particular, common and easily overlooked.
They often have many years of
experience in their
particular field, such as
concrete contracting or masonry.