Sentences with phrase «personal lived reality»

Recent popes have been at pains to stress the personal lived reality of the Catholic faith.

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Quite possibly, we are standing on the precipice of a virtual reality revolution that will further enhance our personal and work lives in ways we can't yet imagine.
The new reality is a self - directed career with multiple employers, personal responsibility to save adequately for retirement and future living expenses in an extended retirement period with less and less provided by government.
Every detail of her personal life became public, and the realities of an inherently sexist industry emerged with every script, role, public appearance, and magazine cover.
Let's put it this way, reality took hold and I realized that what you believe is your own personal choice, however, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Mohammed, Buddha and the many other deities and prophets out there just want us to live our lives as good people.
I've had seasons of utter personal darkness where the one point of contact and truth I desired was a manifestation of God's reality in my life and circumstances.
You are challenging these people to face reality, and take personal responsibility for their lives.
Also, while you may be able to «find» meaning in life as an atheist, this meaning can not possibly be anything more than personal (subjective) wish fulfillment in denial of greater reality, that there is no meaning.
Calvin understood Christianity as a faith that engages the realities of both personal and public life.
the loss of the fully personal to the imperialism of a single - visioned mindscape, we are led to entertain the possibilities that human life is larger than currently conceived, and that the experience and concept of play might provide the contemporary person with a way into these larger realities.
However, unless that vision is rooted in the sacramental and liturgical realities it proclaims, and in a personal life of the spirit, and unless that formation is translated into action in the moral and social life of the individuals and group, there will be little or no harvest.
At a personal level the prayer of the Divine Office also strengthens the virgin in her own seeking of Christ by uniting her with the whole Church, and that discipline and objective reality of the Office will sustain her in the inevitable times of aridity in her spiritual life.
Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and human authority, it is a gross distortion of all of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the kind of relativism which makes the existence of God and the reality of revelation (the basis of all western religious traditions) so utterly irrelevant for public life.
Thus, the central challenge posed by black theology is that neoclassical metaphysics consider the realities of oppression as among the most important, if not the most important of the relevant empirical facts to be used together with non-empirical principles for the illumination of value problems of personal and social life.
I approach the Bible in all three connections as the communication of doctrine from God; as the instrument of Jesus Christ's personal authority over Christians (which is part of what I mean in calling it canonical; as the criterion of truth and error regarding God and godliness; as wisdom for the ordering of life and food for spiritual growth; and, thus, as the mystery - that is, the transcendent supernatural reahty - whereby encounter and fellowship with the Father and the Son become realities of experience.
The exploration of personal development and of family life in the larger context of social and spiritual reality.
As Protestant ministers were groping about for a solution that would embrace both a personal and social reality, a brilliant Lutheran theologian, J. H. W. Stuckenberg, worked out a solution in terms of the New Testament teachings of Jesus as related to all of life.
Before I state it, however, I must say that there is no reason why the more traditional position, both about life beyond death as a subjective (and hence personal) reality for each of us and also with respect to the traditional portrayal of the «last things» (including an intermediate state), may not be accepted by those who find it compelling.
If Dunne is reckoning correctly, the age when people take death seriously as a personal reality, a point that today occurs before midlife, was near the end of the average life span for people in the ancient world.
Well, some people say they believe that, but nobody (except, maybe, the very rare [in our country] real Buddhist) really lives as if personal reality is nothing but an illusion to be gotten over.
On the one hand, he studies the Bible because it witnesses to the reality of God, and because he wants to let that reality be effective in his personal and corporate life.
Such a notion he finds incomprehensible, for he can see God at work only in the reality of his personal life and in his transformation.
The eschatological reality becomes congruent with and partially confirmed in a man's life experience when absolute limits, boundaries, inescapable facts confront him in the realization of his personal, social, and national experience.
Worship is the act whereby the reality of God is made present and the resonance of that reality is heard in our communities and in our personal lives, dominating the instability of the times.
If Christianity continues to tell you that WHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejected.
Then again, Reality is very hung up about sex as well, and like a conservative, loves telling other people how to live their personal life and what they can't do with their bodies.
... That being said, here are my «top books» of profound interest: Letter to the Romans, by apostle Paul Proverbs, by Solomon Now That I Believe, by Robert Cook Reality Theory & Control Therapy, by William Glasser Handbook of Personal Evangelism, by Stanford & Seymour Exposition of Hebrews, by Arnold Fruchtenbaum The Gift of GOD, by Richard Seymour Sin, the Savior, & Salvation: The Theology of Everlasting Life, by Robert Lightner Systematic Theology, by Norman Geisler Systematic Theology, by L.S. Chafer Getting The Gospel Right: A Balanced View of Salvation Truth, by Gordon Olson Getting the Gospel Wrong, by J.B. Hixon His Needs Her Needs, by Willard Harley *** grin ***
Why, as the white radiance comes through the dome, with all sorts of staining and distortion imprinted on it by the glass, or as the air now comes through my glottis determined and limited in its force and quality of its vibrations by the peculiarities of those vocal chords which form its gate of egress and shape it into my personal voice, even so the genuine matter of reality, the life of souls as it is in its fullness, will break through our several brains into this world in all sorts of restricted forms, and with all the imperfections and queernesses that characterize our finite individualities here below.
In theological terms conversion is used to describe the moment when a person for the first time comes to a personal realization of the grace and forgiveness of God and accepts that theological reality as relevant for his or her life.
Nicolai Berdyaev felt profoundly the break between the personal reality of love in human life and the demands of finite historical existence.
Religious or «faith» knowledge, on the other hand, should be subject to quite different tests: the understanding of ultimate reality it mediates, the kind of religious experience it inspires, the quality of personal and communal life it makes possible, and so on.
The idea is to get kids thinking about the realities of college life and focus on the fact that it is a time of great personal development.
It went on to say that, «Wear Red Day is an important effort on the part of the American Heart Association to help women understand the reality that heart disease affects people of both genders, so that they can assess their own personal family history and lifestyle risk factors as well as make health choices that will enhance life for themselves and their families.»
«(T) he reality is that in both cases, both people have things in their personal lives that maybe if they could redo it, they would do it differently,» he said.
Whether you're interested in taking a closer look at the academic career path, changing jobs, or assessing other aspects of your work life, a personal development plan can help you define and explore your goals and map out ways to turn them into reality.
They are Saucha (cleanliness or personal hygiene, including mental purity), Santosa (means contentment), Tapas (self discipline), Swadhaya (means self - study, which can mean studying the nature of one's own mind and doing inquiry into one's own reality) and Iswara Pranidhana (which means total acceptance of life, facing all life situations with equanimity.
He started seriously researching personal and preventative natural health therapies when he was struck with the reality that heart disease ran deep in his family and if he didn't change the way he was living — he might go down that same path.
In reality, I know how to operate more tools than the average male and actually use power tools in my personal life for many DIY projects as well.
While crossing that big personal change in my life, * ele * has born: * ele * is not only my nickname it's also my project, my passion which coincides with my job; it's the mirror of my endless and precious parents education, it's especially a dream that is fading into reality.
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Taking inspiration from the personal life of his leading man (Lustig is a widowed grocer upon whose stories the screenplay is loosely based), Weinstein draws on his experience as a documentary film - maker to conjure a drama rooted in the reality of these characters and their community.
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris - Perry Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 28.00 392 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-16541-8 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is concerned with understanding the emotional realities of black women's lives in order to answer a political, not a personal, question: What does it mean to be a black woman and an American citizen?
With astonishing, deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
Soon forced to face the reality of having to earn a living, he applies for a position as the personal assistant to Buck Howard, an entertainment icon who has been reduced to performing in modest, half - filled venues in tiny towns all over the country.
Demonstrating the realities of living a life in exile, undercover, City of Ghosts spotlights their determination to keep resisting despite grave personal risk, all for the sake of their homeland's future.
«Right to life» and «reproductive rights» are big conceptual phrases that don't capture the reality that pregnancy is a personal, emotional event that happens to one specific woman at a time.
Moving personal essays, interviews, and artwork present firsthand the realities of everyday school life for the children of immigrants.
At the IAA this year, one can experience the assistant systems of the BMW Personal Copilot live with the help of virtual reality — in the new BMW 6 series Gran Tourismo.
Claudie's secrets were her personal life - the reality of her daughter - the mystery of her daughter's father - and her uniqueness within the community.
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