Oh, the desolation of old age, if to be an old man means this: means that at any given moment a living person could look at life as if he himself did not exist, as if life were merely a past event that held no more
present tasks for him as a living person, as if he, as a living person, and life were cut off from each other within life, so that life was past and gone, and he had become a stranger to it.
Not exact matches
For me, it's important to be present in the moment while I'm trying to focus on a particular task and sometimes that means blocking out all of the other noise for a bit.&raq
For me, it's important to be
present in the moment while I'm trying to focus on a particular
task and sometimes that means blocking out all of the other noise
for a bit.&raq
for a bit.»
For those not familiar with the concept, a case competition is an event in which teams of business students (typically four per team) are
presented with business scenarios and
tasked with giving a presentation, recommending to a panel of judges (playing the role of a board of directors) how the company should deal with the crisis.
A Brainstorm TECH
task force of leading educators, technologists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and investors will
present their recommendations
for addressing the persistent gap between the digital innovations in K — 12 education and what's actually available to the vast majority of children.
The changing climate will
present new risks and new opportunities as we face the very complex
task of producing enough food, feed, and fuel
for a world on its way to nine billion increasingly prosperous people.
While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the
present pontiff in that important
task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made
for the magisterial teachings of popes or church councils.
It is the
task of the
present generation to provide training in the essentials of Islam, to know Islam deeply,
for out of that knowledge of the straight path of Islam will come the unity of belief and practice which has been revealed to mankind in the Qur» an and the Sunnah.
I no longer have to represent my going to God as a departure from time and history.42 In fact, to attain God as the Absolute Future who is also the Fullness of Time, I must perforce be occupied with the
present and the
tasks of the
present,
for it is only in and through the
present that I can advance into the future.
The question I will address is whether speculation about what Jesus was in himself, especially how he was related to God (meaning how God was
present in him), is an essential or at least important
task for Christian theology.
A possible real connection with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance,
for anything in it that would be important
for the theological interpretation of human life in the
present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation and
task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.
And one of the great
tasks of all true education, social reform, and religion combined, is so to
present to men and make possible
for men those aims in life which are worth serving, that men may choose them, love them, become patriots
for them, organize their lives around them, and so harness all their fiery energies to the service of the light.
I have introduced him to the reader because in one of his essays, prepared
for a volume of which I was an editor, he dealt with the
task of preaching; and in that essay he used a phrase which is relevant to our
present discussion.
Because we ministers rightly believe that involvement in the reconciling process is a central
task, we are more reluctant than most people to step back when, at least
for the time being, the initial conditions
for that process are not
present.
Lyle Schaller writes about the importance of recognizing certain ministerial
tasks as «winners» and others as «losers» in The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church, «Winners» are the
tasks that lead people to sign up
for ordained ministry: preaching, presiding over sacraments, being
present at key life transitions such as weddings and funerals — in other words, the prominent, visible and generally rewarding parts of ministry.
In the same essay, Davison puts forward the case
for continuing to use theological language, even when it might be strange, because «it is the
task of apologetics to make things clear and on other occasions it is the
task of apologetics to cut through the vapid familiarity of our time and
present something unfamiliar, glorious and true».
This pioneer work is one of the
tasks for the
present philosophic and religious generation.
With an urgency born of this hope the church applies itself to
present tasks and strives
for a better world.
The difference in settings is important because the Church faced the
task of taking the words of Jesus to a particular audience and
presenting them as the word of the Lord in a new situation.2 It took both wisdom and courage
for the Church to assume this awesome burden of interpreting, but to have failed to do so out of an overwhelming reverence
for quotations from Jesus would have ended the work Jesus began.
A fuller understanding of revelation may eventually require such historical knowledge, but it is the
task of systematic theology, as distinct from historical theology, to sift out of the traditional material what strikes it as the content most suitably challenging, as well as Good News,
for our time and
for our
present readers.
This
task is very demanding; and that is why it is so necessary that the preacher be informed, so far as this is possible
for him or her, about what has gone on m the past, quite as much as what speaks meaningfully to
present - day thought and experience.
«Its urgency is underlined when we realize the seriousness of the human predicament and the tremendous
task waiting
for the churches at
present.»
For if the theological
task can be defined in terms of facing the tension between the old and the new, then it is only to be expected that both the speed and the extent of the change, in which we are at
present all caught up, will inevitably bring changes in theological expression greater than at any earlier period in Christian history.
The translator, Boniface Ramsey, O.P., is a seasoned student of the church fathers and an accomplished translator;
for this
task, it is not beside the point to note that he is also a pastor of a large urban parish, and thus able to
present Cassian as he was intended to be read, as a guide to the Christian life.
Fundamental to this
task is the search
for an objective ground
for value claims — a well - reasoned argument
for external standards which resists the ever -
present tendency to reduce ethics to the subjective whims and passions of personal self - interest.
Hence, the
task for contemporary Whiteheadians is to make whatever modest revisions are needed in that scheme so as to justify Whitehead's own non-systematic vision of God in dynamic interrelationship with the world as
presented in the final pages of Process and Reality.
Hence the whole revelation and gift of God to man once and
for all in Christ must be apprehended ever anew in each successive
task and danger which confronts us in this
present age.
Just because conduct is not determined by unified intelligible basic principles, but is regulated by the formal authority of the Law, the
task of the scribe is to «make a fence around the Torah,» that is, by endless acute deductions from Scripture to find rules
for cases not foreseen in the Law, which nevertheless confront men in their
present life.
For him the avenue to religious truth lay in present experience and, at least during the earlier years, «he dismissed historical study of the faith as having no resources for the present task&raqu
For him the avenue to religious truth lay in
present experience and, at least during the earlier years, «he dismissed historical study of the faith as having no resources
for the present task&raqu
for the
present task».
Seitz, in his review of The Book of J by Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg, takes both authors to
task for essentially dismissing over 100 years of scholarship in order to
present their thesis that the author of the J portions of the Pentateuch was both a woman and a secularist.
It is the
task... of the Institute to strive
for the construction of new forms that will subsume but transcend the
present pattern on both sides: new forms, that is, that will neither betray the Western academic tradition nor distort the Islamic.
There are the classics of the past, and fortunately some of the
present, which are great books
for the serious student but which are not apt to be widely understood or read by the ordinary person seeking light on his daily
task.
At
present those prisoners who work at all are working
for absurdly low wages, frequently at menial and degrading
tasks.
Alongside perplexed preparation
for manifold
tasks one finds
present in many of these men a drive toward knowledge of the essential, a search
for central Christian wisdom about the fundamental issues of life.
This is now our
task: to receive the Council by drawing upon the Spirit of the texts to find power
for Christian mission in the
present, in continuity with Sacred Tradition.
Though football is not mathematics where 2 +2 is always 4,
present Mourinho chelsea becomes our greatest
task this season on sunday and a draw
for us is like a win.
The fixture list is an ever -
present reminder of the
task in hand
for Gary Lewin and his medical team.
This
presents a very unique
task for Benitez, as he needs to make sure Newcastle United stay in the Premier League.
However, the unseeded teams lined up
for Milan still
present quite a
task.
I've just returned from the epic
task of picking out a 5oth birthday
present for my mother — hello to Mama Fry if you're reading — to find that there's pretty much no Arsenal news worth mentioning right now.
In his State of the State speech, Governor Cuomo
presented an excellent argument
for the politically challenging
task of overhauling campaign finance rules and enforcement.
For starters, it is obvious those
tasked to take decisions on behalf of the masses gave this decision a very deep thought and ensured that a lot of research into the past of these two people as well as their
present to know the risk involved in bringing them to Ghana.
It's a difficult
task for all of the roughly 50,000 participants, but training
for one of the world's most competitive races while working in a grueling round - the - clock government
presents its own set of challenges.
Alicia Melis of the Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues
presented six pairings of dominant and subordinate chimps with a deal - brokering
task.
Recording the electrical activity of neurons directly from the surface of the brain, the scientists found that
for a simple
task, such as repeating a word
presented visually or aurally, the visual and auditory cortexes reacted first to perceive the word.
Unfortunately, the commentators perhaps best equipped
for that
task — the crack analytical team of Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler — no longer
present their «Really?
The latter assumes that the
task has no value in itself, so it's better not to be
present for it.
The irony, of course, is that tomorrow, next week, and next month will
present just as many
tasks and just as many excuses
for putting off «interruptions» that could improve our well - being,» the authors conclude.
One could take Davis, who is the director of the Center
for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, to
task on the same grounds used by critics against Rachel Carson, whose book, Silent Spring, launched the modern environmental movement: Davis unabashedly makes the case against toxins and their health toll without
presenting the other point of view.
The
task force, chaired by Robert - Jan Smits, director general
for research at the European Commission, should start work before the end of the year, Nowotny says, and should
present its results by next summer.
Every now and then, you might ask your students the following questions: Are the requirements
for doing research (collecting data,
presenting data, giving literature talks, going about group
tasks) clear?