Sentences with phrase «present life of a community»

Key events in the past continue to illuminate the present life of a community.

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The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

The «humility» that is usually (but not always) present in 12 - Step Program communities comes from «bottoming - out», coming to the end of one's psychological / social resources while experiencing life's challenges.

The Gospel presents the figure of the Christ as the expression of a non-coercive love which draws the world in its freedom toward a finer community of being.49 As Whitehead envisions the Christian message, Christ taught, lived, and died with the authority of a supreme ideal.

If, however, instead of correct belief about God's self - revelation in Christ, experience of the living God present by the power of the Spirit in Jesus Christ is at the heart of Christian fellowship, then the Christian community becomes a circle of friends who strengthen each other in their search for deeper awareness of divine reality and love.

Catholic identity was presented almost entirely in terms of belonging to the local community, with little mention of supernatural relationships or a personal spiritual life.

This was symbolized by a table - fellowship which celebrated the present joy and anticipated the future consummation; a table - fellowship of such joy and gladness that it survived the crucifixion and provided the focal point for the community life of the earliest Christians, and was the most direct link between that community life and the pre-Easter fellowship of Jesus and his disciples.

Fourth, God intends the fullness of life for the human community to be a present goal, not the endpoint of history.

The Rev. Joseph W. Knowles describes the goals of the Renewal Center Mission as (1) developing the Life Renewal Center through small «groups,» (2) giving attention to the use of present structures to focus the whole life of the church as a healing community, (3) developing a program of supervised clinical pastoral education for theological students, and (4) maintaining a Residential Center halfway house for twenty men and women who have been previously hospitalized for mental illnLife Renewal Center through small «groups,» (2) giving attention to the use of present structures to focus the whole life of the church as a healing community, (3) developing a program of supervised clinical pastoral education for theological students, and (4) maintaining a Residential Center halfway house for twenty men and women who have been previously hospitalized for mental illnlife of the church as a healing community, (3) developing a program of supervised clinical pastoral education for theological students, and (4) maintaining a Residential Center halfway house for twenty men and women who have been previously hospitalized for mental illness.

He has since come to feel that in Hasidism the essence of Jewish faith and religiosity was visible in the structure of the community but that this essence has also been present «in a less condensed form everywhere in Judaism,» in the «inaccessible structure of the personal life.»

For Mark's «theological idea» was not so much the present reality of the divine person, the exalted Lord of his community, nor yet was it the glorious and unique historical person, Jesus of Nazareth, but the mysterious, half - divine, apocalyptic «Son of Man» who had lived incognito upon earth, died, and risen again.

These writings have their being, as they had their origin, within the life of a community which traces its descent from Abraham and Moses, from prophets and apostles, and plays its part in the history of our own time; and the Scriptures not only recall its past, but serve the needs of its day - to - day existence in the present.

The New Monastics are present day communities of Christians, living in the corners of the American empire, living and hoping for a new and radical form of Christian practice.

In contrast, the neo-Freudian Erich Fromm becomes quite unrealistically utopian in his hope for the «sane society» of reasonable men, and he never asks where the individual can find in present history the community which can sustain the spirit which must live in this threatening and imperfect world.2

The question is being asked whether the price for the present pattern is not too high, whether we could not, without losing me many good things in our society, have a freer impulse life, a richer imaginative consciousness, be less alienated from our bodies, be capable of more profound intimacy with a few and more community with many others.

Barth's doctrine of the threefold Word implied simultaneously the indissoluble unity of the Word with the texts, tradition and present life of the church, along with the necessity of always distinguishing between the Word and the text, the text and the community, and the present creeds and future possibilities.

(Mark 10:23 - 27) Renunciation is the rule for all, (Mark 8:34 - 37; 10:21, 28:31) and the compensations are as simply and absolutely set forth as is the requirement: the good things of this life, such as they are, the blessings of family and of property, will be shared by all within the community, «now in this present time: houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.»

But afterward, by what have been called «many infallible signs,» the members of the early Christian community were convinced that he was not a figure in the dead past but was somehow wonderfully alive as their present, living, and active Lord.

The presence of both of these psalm - like pieces in present context simply testifies again to the faith of the believing community that the life of God impinges on the course of human events with power, purpose, and compassion.

In a number of different connections in the present discussion we have spoken of the new life which constitutes the evidence of the living risen Christ in the community of Christians.

The interpretation of the present nature of human beings in any situation, as «made in the image of God» and as «brothers for whom Christ died» should be as Persons - in - Relation and destined to become Persons - in - Loving - Community with each other in the context of the community of life on earth through the responsible exercise of the finite human freedom reconcileCommunity with each other in the context of the community of life on earth through the responsible exercise of the finite human freedom reconcilecommunity of life on earth through the responsible exercise of the finite human freedom reconciled to God.

The first of these alternatives is exemplified in the Fourth Gospel, where the meaning of the return of Christ is all but exhausted in the coming of the Spirit upon the church and where the whole content of redemption is involved in the incarnation, which is a past event — present and future only in the sense that it is perpetuated in the life of the community.

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.

Practical theology, emerging out of life in a faith community, is a doxological mode of reflection that, by placing itself within the context of the church's service to God, attempts to facilitate the goal of a faithful life in the present on behalf of God's future.

But from the past and from the future comes the call to glimpse what our present life can be, and so Christians must discover how to address the issues of life, both as individuals and as a gathered faith community.

This means that the purpose of interpretation and preaching is to present a life - world that is credible, that can be appropriated, out of which the community is authorized and permitted to live a different kind of life.

But exactly what he said and exactly how he acted is filtered, for all of time, through those who saw and heard him: «The only knowledge we possess of the Christ event reaches us via the concrete experience of the first local communities of Christians who were sensitive of a new life present in them.»

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.

Though the problem is so rooted in the nature of both Church and secular society that it is always present, yet it has a peculiar urgency for the modern church which is confronted with unusual evidences of misery in the life of human communities and of weakness within itself.

There is every reason to believe that a life of material austerity, of pride and pleasure in the quality of workmanship rather than in the amount consumed, a life lived in a warm and supportive community, would be far healthier for our society, ecologically and sociologically, than our present dominant pattern of ever - accelerating consumption.

Our ways of entertaining the experience, of interpreting the Bible, of living in the community change, but the pattern itself is exhaustlessly both beyond change and yet present for change.

It has not, however, been as prominent in the actual life and thought of religious communities — even in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the argument from design was frequently presented by Christian apologists.

But the person of Christ is central also because the community has come to know the power of reconciling love at work in his life and thereby in the present also.

The more faith becomes a present experience, the more we are willing to let the outward forms of past generations die, that the living church may show itself for what it is — the community of faith.

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

First, Jewish communities resisted and have continued to do so up to the present time; and among the Christians themselves, many areas of life, public and private, were never really Christianized and remained more or less heathen.

The Spirit is known in the Christian community, but those who recognize the Spirit see his activity in the whole of life, present everywhere, filling all things.

Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.

Or if they are already in it through present membership, we are preaching with the purpose that they may grow in the knowledge and love of Christ, the Church's Lord, more fully appropriate his grace in the community of his people, and more profoundly realize what it means to be incorporated into his ongoing life in the fellowship of the Church.

«The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human — at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life - systems, in a time - developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience... The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.»

Parents have a profound positive impact on children, families and communities when they are lovingly present and supportive in the lives of children.

Among many of those present were Northern Manhattan elected officials, community leaders, and individuals whose lives have been personally affected by gun violence.

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It's nice to see someone who always take time out of their busy lives to stay active and present in the blogging community!

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Accustomed to life in New York, the tight - knit family is ill - prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents.

«Black Lightning: Season 1,» the CW's newest superhero series, presents a comic - book hero (Cress Williams) dealing with age, parenting, community duty and personal responsibility in a show that speaks to the lives of black teens and young adults in urban America.

Dano is less a man out of time than simply removed from the life around him (his thin, tentative smile and shrinking violet body language presents repression without suggesting the yearnings beneath it) and the film's evocation of his inner life plays like bad community theater rather than a richly detailed fantasy of an idealized existence.

Qualified students will be flown to Ecuador and escorted to the indigenous Yasuni community where they will live in comfortable surroundings and involve themselves in a study project of their choosing tied to their present college disciplines.