Sentences with phrase «predicament many»

Even the vilest offenders in that predicament would join the stampede out of the prison of Hades and Death, had «Life» come walking by with the keys in His possession.

Applies the learnings from existential therapy to help readers understand the human predicament and rediscover their selfhood.

The effective pastor is one who has learned as a result of his own involvement in the human predicament and can admit to his own experience of «caughtness.»

Phoenician sailors, more deeply religious than the PL, determine who is to blame for the predicament and what to do about it.

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament.

His essays on civil rights, for example, are heartfelt and penetrating, but are not even a very good description of the predicament of the American liberal.

The Rich Man and Lazarus story backs up the futility of relying on the Law regarding Hades and Death, notably in the messages that there was a great (un-bridgable by the Law) gulf fixed which Jesus was yet to bridge and that the mention of Moses not being able to prevent both the rich man and his relatives being in the same predicament.

Now it is briefly said, no dependency, or making, as such, has the nature of an accident with respect to the terminus to which it tends, but it does have a being in such a way that it is indirectly or reductively predicated of its terminus; under which consideration local motion is reductively in the predicament of «where», alteration of «quality», etc...

This second point leaves me in something of a predicament.

For Chagall, not alone among Ashkenazi artists, Jesus on the cross represented the painful predicament of all Jews, harried, branded, and violently victimized in an apparently God - forsaken world.

Not only was this myth meaningful within Israel and the former generations of Christian believers, but also to us living in the new world, three thousand years later, it still speaks powerfully, as it lights up for us our human nature and our human predicament.

To think constructively about the future of Catholicism, we need to understand the shape of our predicament.

In Jesus story, the separated son was capable of realising what was good and what his predicament was, the separated son had an idea in his mind about the way to go to return to his father.

It has to do with our moral predicament symbolized by the Fall and alluded to on page 154.

The latter represents the human moral predicament, the fate of the tower representing the human intellectual predicament.

Reformed Church of Highland Park's pastor, Seth Kaper - Dale, is familiar with the predicament facing some of his congregants.

You will note that I ought to proceed somewhat leisurely, if only for the sake of the illusion; for 1843 years is an exceptionally generous allotment of time, likely to put me in a predicament the opposite of that in which our philosophers find themselves, whom the time usually permits only an indication of their meaning; and the opposite also to that of our historians, who find that not the material, but the time, leaves them in the lurch.

Meanwhile, the theological response to this wide - scale predicament seems sadly lacking.

The preceding chapter was primarily concerned with the predicament arising from regarding knowledge like a substance to be neatly divided into parcels called disciplines.

Rachel Carson's landmark book, Silent Spring, said that our environmental predicament flowed from our (foolhardy) desire to control nature.

Thus, in our present predicament perhaps the most fundamental of all moral tasks is the abolition of war.

What we often lose is our ability to appreciate the value of an idealized world wherein we are able to raise ourselves above the follies of our own predicament.

This is the human predicament.

So here lies Christianity's present predicament.

Is this «vision» of how - it - is the best way to talk about and understand the human predicament?

The awareness of the predicament (on the part of both the politicians at the microphones and the voters in the streets) conceivably could lead to a reconstitution of the American idea, but the finding of the phoenix in the ashes presupposes a debate rising from an intellectual structure a good deal sturdier than the one lost in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

First, I am not offering a prescriptive model but rather looking for resources to deal with the present predicament in India from the actual lived realities of specific communities.

6 Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer, «Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament», in Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, Breckenridge and van der Veer, eds, Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1993, p. 12.

Surely the predicament of this German scholar illustrates a principle which goes far beyond his own situation.

A sermon should help us discern both the character of our predicament and possibilities for change.

But he shared our predicament of living in a world in which traditional values have collapsed.

This is at the root of our modern predicament as a current example will illustrate.

In our individual occasions of experience we are collectively deciding the very fate of process on this planet, and the size of this moral predicament is truly overwhelming.

He wanted to know if I knew of any student in the predicament he had been in.

No lesser a Christian than Martin Luther understood our predicament: Anyone, he wrote in ìOn Temporal Authority, î who tried ìto rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and the sword on the plea that all are baptized and Christian, and that, according to the gospel, there shall be among them no law or sword» or the need for either»... would be loosing the ropes and chains of the savage wild beasts and letting them bite and mangle everyone, meanwhile insisting that they were harmless, tame, and gentle creatures; but I would have the proof in my wounds.î I do not believe that Hauerwas sees America's enemies as harmless, tame, and gentle creatures.

Our predicament is not a local matter, but a matter of planetary concern because Western man, partly through his aggressiveness, though chiefly through his technical prowess, is the dominant man on the planet.

«Its urgency is underlined when we realize the seriousness of the human predicament and the tremendous task waiting for the churches at present.»

The second reason for the inclusion of all in our predicament is the fact that Christian culture has penetrated other cultures much more than they have penetrated ours.

Since the phase of man's life which makes modern man's situation most obviously different from that of all his ancestors is technical or mechanical achievement, it is reasonable to suspect that our predicament is associated, in some way or other, with this development.

Our predicament is a commentary, not on instruments and instrument makers, but on the human inability to employ both scientific knowledge and technical achievement to bring about the good life and the good society.

It is the new birth to a new life, because as he took our predicament on the cross, he also took us into a new life in his resurrection.

Materialism and dualism lack these resources and are in Hume's predicament about causality.

Both individuals and churches face this predicament.

It appears that Thomas is proposing something unusually sweeping: God is not some false answer to the human predicament, nor simply the brutal cause of their distress but the very predicament itself.

The predicament, therefore, is not merely the predicament of Western man, but of man.

In this issue Fr Tolhurst uses Newman's 1852 phrase «The English Church was, and the English Church was not, and the English Church is once again» to reflect upon our current predicament.

First, I will outline more fully my own sense of our present predicament.

Since the Bible is an inspired book, God is the primary author of Scripture, and since He has a view toward the redemption of all humanity from the predicament we find ourselves in, God's primary intended audience is all people throughout time.

Many Christian activists, especially the most innocent and high - minded among them, seem not to understand the true nature of their underlying predicament.

The quality of inward total surrender is the key to escaping the alcoholic predicament, almost regardless of to whom or what one makes this motion - whether to Jesus, a Hindu guru, Nature, Buddha - Dhamma, or any other spiritual icon.