Sentences with phrase «people in concrete ways»

Christian social ethics therefore requires a view of human fulfillment and hope that will support young people in concrete ways in the sexual crisis that has engulfed them and the society of which they are a part.

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Either way, you are leaving behind that physical life and the people in it so it would make sense to focus on that, on the things in your life that are concrete.

Such texts imply that the invisible God is made visible through the incarnation in a concrete and not simply mystical or anagogical way — that those who saw Jesus in his earthly life also «saw» the first person of the Trinity.

But although it was undoubtedly the actual personal life and character of Jesus that in large part determined the actual concrete character of the event in the more objective sense, the relationship between person and event is, in a way, revered when we consider the faith of the church.

It may be increasingly necessary, however, to allow the concrete situation, rather than the biblical revelation, to propose the «doctrinal» loci or the organizing forms in terms of which biblical faith needs to speak, because the secularism of our time has so transformed the way people think that Christian faith is now in a cross-cultural situation.

Now it will be useful for us to think about those people in their concrete situation and with their actual ways of looking at themselves and their world.

This unity is not to be taken as demanding uniformity, since different people at different times and in different places will inevitably have their own way of expressing and realizing in concrete fact their common loyalty with its common reference to Jesus Christ.

On the other hand, we have seen that a person with whom we can interact and whose concrete presence we enjoy is able to be genuinely other, and in a positive way, rather than just as a victim or as suffering.

At any rate, among such people as David Burrell, Stephen Crites, Samuel McClendon, Donald and Walter Capps, James Wiggins, John Dunne and, in a different way, Richard R. Niebuhr and William Lynch, it is a concern with concrete, ordinary experience that for some has meant a renewed interest in religious autobiography — Paul's letters, Augustine's Confessions, John Woolman's Journal, Kierkegaard's writings, the theological work of Teilhard de Chardin, Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers, Dorothy Day's autobiography and so on.

But nothing is more concrete than the differences among the racial, gender, and socioeconomic locations of persons involved in theological schooling, nor more concrete than the differences among the practices through which persons have sought to understand God, nor more concrete than the differences between the ways in which models of excellent schooling have been institutionalized.

But while the «sufferers» try to practice love of enemy in concrete ways, these people (like the prudent individuals who take the first position) make love a kind of theoretical value.

To say it another way, a child is a concrete expression of hope in the future, and when a child dies, much of a person's hope dies as well.

The viewpoint that citizenship is an ensemble of practices enables scholars to investigate the concrete ways in which states fashion citizens (Ong, 1999) as well as the ways in which people forge their collective selves as citizens (Lazar and Nuitjen, 2013).

The contributors to this series will focus on the concrete, empirical ways in which people make meaning of citizenship and the manner in which they forge and imagine membership in the political community.

The study shows that smartphones can be a valuable tool for improving mood in «concrete, everyday situations,» says Tegethoff — and that they could be a relatively inexpensive, widely accessible way to provide psychotherapy techniques to people who aren't getting them face - to - face.

Creating a sense of friendly competition in training taps into most people's natural competitive instincts, and also allows you and them to view their progress in a concrete way.

«You could say that design has power because it actually touches people in a much more concrete way, but I think that art has more wiggle room and more flexibility.»

«Although people have always taken for granted that the Whitney is a museum of American art, we're trying to signal in a concrete way that who an American artist is has always been open to question,» said Scott Rothkopf, a Whitney curator and its associate director of programs.

One Mile Film (5,280 feet of 35 mm film negative and print taped to the mile - long High Line walk way in New York City for 17 hours on Thursday, September 13th, 2012 with 11,500 visitors — the visitors walked, wrote, jogged, signed, drew, touched, danced, parkoured, sanded, keyed, melted popsicles, spit, scratched, stomped, left shoe prints of all kinds and put gum on the filmstrip — it was driven on by baby stroller and trash can wheels and was traced by art students — people wrote messages on the film and drew animations, etched signs, symbols and words into the film emulsion lines drawn down much of the filmstrip by visitors and Jwest with highlighters and markers — the walk way surfaces of concrete, train track steel, wood, metal gratings and fountain water impressed into the film; filmed images shot by Peter West — filmed Parkour performances by Thomas Dolan and Vertical Jimenez — running on rooftops by Deb Berman and Jwest — film taped, rolled and explained on the High Line by art students and volunteers) 2012, 58 minutes, 40 seconds 35 mm negative and film print transferred to high - definition video, no sound Commissioned and produced by Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Asher writes: «DeFeo's metaphysical but concrete art functions in much the same way: the act of mirroring, or flipping images over and around, of changing black to white, of cutting through the surface of something, of changing liquid to solid, of waking and sleeping, of returning a different person to the place where you began your journey: such transformations are the very sensibilities of DeFeo's art, not one of mere sentences but one of propositions, abstract, as direct as they are elusive, subtle, alive to indispensable distinctions.»

We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways to people, vivid ways that kids can understand, non-scientists can understand.

Perhaps experts in handling uncertainty such as the people who wrote the paper referred to in Judith's Italian Flag posts, and experts such as Jeroen van der Sluijs could offer something more concrete in the way of a proposal tailored specifically to this issue?

If the goal is to clear the way for a reasonable public discussion of climate change, somebody has to take the chances that come to offer concrete and easily understandable evidence that certain people are incapable of participating in such a thing.

«GreenCareers by MonsterTRAK serves as a place that connects young people and employers with the emerging sustainable economy in a concrete way, making the environment more personally relevant for both parties.»

Researchers in the U.K. claim to have found a way to use desert sand in a composite construction material that's just as strong as concrete but has only half of its carbon footprintAmount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that a person, community, industry, or other entity contributes to the atmosphere through energy use, transportation, and other means..

Every institution created under the new arrangements has a goal which can be linked to improving in some concrete way the economic and social conditions under which Indigenous people currently live.

I help people to say what they mean in a concrete way so there is an increased chance of understanding.

This difference in the way you choose to construe something — at an abstract versus concrete level — can actually predict a lot about your future behavior.1 For example, when people think about things abstractly, they tend to be more concerned with rewards and make choices that are in - line with their values and ideals (e.g., «I should read SofR so that I can enjoy better relationship success»).

This impatience manifests as frustration at the perceived lack of achievement, or in the suggestion that Indigenous people must somehow be at fault because of the persistence of the disadvantage (the lack of progress being blamed on «waste» and perceived lack of accountability of Indigenous organizations), [63] a growing intolerance to commitments being made at the highest levels to concrete measures to redress such disadvantage, and in more extreme cases, a return to discredited views which suggest that the only way to improve the situation of Indigenous peoples is for them to assimilate into mainstream society.