Recent popes have been at pains to stress
the personal lived reality of the Catholic faith.
Not exact matches
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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personal essays, interviews, and artwork present firsthand the
realities of everyday school
life for the children of immigrants.
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