It postpones self - realization to an eschatological future and thus draws energies away from
the present tasks of history.
Novak argues that
the present task of the Catholic Whig tradition is to «form a new synthesis of philosophical conceptions and practical institutions that do justice, together, to private rights and public happiness.»
All three questions have to do with the adequacy of the conceptual imagery and presuppositions underlying the method of demythologizing, particularly as this method addresses itself to
the present task of a postliberal theology.
The present task of New Testament criticism is to explore, by a comparative study of the several writings, the common faith which evoked them, and which they aimed at interpreting to an ever - widening public.
The present task of the Catholic Whig tradition is to form a new synthesis of philosophical conceptions and practical institutions that do justice, together, to «private rights» and «public happiness.»
Not exact matches
It's true that focusing on the
present helps you get
tasks done faster, but working on your next day's to - do lists will help in two ways: First, you'll help your future self by setting a prioritized list
of items in advance, and second, you'll be clearing your mind
of tasks you don't need to worry about today.
If you aren't sure who to delegate the
task to,
present the
task to a group
of your coworkers, and openly ask who might be the best to handle it.
Price, who has
presented his own replacement plan, is now turning to a job
of managing a massive agency that oversees the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program and other programs, and will be
tasked with implementing what Congress ultimately sends him, Childs said.
The instability and chaos
present in a post disaster zone makes it very difficult to prioritize
tasks due to the constant storm
of emergencies that happen every day.
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.»
When it comes to sales, most salespeople and entrepreneurs think
of the
task as one they can easily break down to its basic components: You meet people, you
present your products and / or services; and, if they're interested, they'll buy from you.
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.
Brought into the world as part
of Microsoft's Office 97 software suite, he was supposed to
present a friendly face to users, popping up frequently onscreen to waggle his eyebrows and offer assistance with life's little
tasks.
Drive
presents a body
of behavioural economic research suggesting that «rewards can perform a weird sort
of behavioral alchemy: They can transform an interesting
task into a drudge.»
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.
«As soon as we have the director
of Safe Sport, (the) first
task is to
present a strategic plan to accomplish all
of the things that Deborah has recommended,» Parilla said.
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.
Thus, in the terms in which I have so far
presented the theory, the attribution
of temporality to God has the great advantage
of appearing to be a perfectly reasonable next step in the positive
task of constructing and working out the implications
of a theory
of experience.
We may be led to undertake specific
tasks and missions in this life, but much
of what we are called to do has more to do with attitude and heart (Spirit) when we are
presented with people and situations.
Although Brown does not uncritically agree with everything said by theologians
of liberation, he
presents his form
of process theology more as a supplementation and conceptual grounding
of their insights than as expressing a different understanding
of the theological
task.
The translator offers a brief rationale
of his
task of presenting a rendering that is faithful to both the poetic and scientific natures
of the text.
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.
At the
present time, then, the
task is to broaden the scope and meaning
of linguistic analysis so that it can be
of service to religious language and, in our particular case, to God - language.
His
task was not to link the
present and the past but rather to forge a way from the
present to the future, and thereby to make possible a new and more radical form
of faith.
Both the lay defeatists, who lament that the Church pitiably lags behind its
present day
task, fails to act and time and time again backs the wrong horse, and the clerical triumphalists, who proclaim with ardent enthusiasm the principles
of the Church and think that the mondo megliore would radiantly dawn provided these principles were generally accepted, underestimate theoretically and existentially the proper, religious function
of the Church.
Despite these substantial issues, the common
task of the systems approach and process metaphysics is that
of «describing the
present order
of the world in terms
of principles which are the special exemplification
of the most general» (MN 124).
Rather, we must recognize that any solution arises ultimately from beyond the
present situation and that we are called to the difficult
task of discerning and embodying such a solution.
In the face
of both thinkers» categorical denial that there is any such thing as a substantial self which endures throughout the constant process
of transition, our
task at hand will be to
present their developmental insights in a language and style which truly captures the dynamic thrust
of their views.
The real
task is to explain the immortality
of the whole person without minimizing the value
of the body dimension by postponing its inclusion or
presenting it as an eventual addition to the real person, the soul.
Other
tasks, too, besides interpreting Scripture face theologians,
tasks both intramural (dealing with the church) and extramural (dialoguing with the world)-
tasks of phenomenological analysis
of theologies past and
present and
of apologetics, philosophical, evangelistic, and defensive - but these can not be spoken
of here either.
Addressing this poverty is a complex intellectual
task, one that requires articulating the humanness
of the human, and
presenting children and childrearing as fundamental to the common good.
A fifth dimension
of the theological
task is to
present theological insights in ways that captivate the human imagination and emotions, not simply the intellect.
Whether or not it is capable
of this
task was the problem
presented in the last section.
But when I have seen this, my next
task is to let the book's message universalize itself in my mind as God's own teaching or doctrine (to use the word that Calvin loved) now addressed to humankind in general and to me in particular within the frame
of reality created by the death, resurrection, and
present dominion
of Jesus Christ.
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.
Although accurate historical dating can at times be
of exegetical significance, the crucial interpretive
task lies in determining the narrative function to which such texts have been assigned, rather than in supplying a reconstructed setting apart from its
present literary (canonical) context.
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.
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.
Recognizing this inevitable and permanent tension, it is better not to go through this gospel wondering about the factual historicity
of each event as it comes, but rather to devote ourselves to the
task of understanding what the author is trying to do and say as he shapes his material and
presents his witness.
An appraisal
of the
present situation with its many conflicting tendencies should be facilitated by the categories and the perspective developed in this book, but the
task remains to be performed.
An all - too - common retroactive dismissal
of the leaving pastor's «calling» (i.e. that s / he never really had a calling because one can't / shouldn't be able to leave a «true» calling) is salt in the wounds and complicates emotional struggle
of the existential angst
of the
present in reason 8 with an additional
task of trying to defend one's historical existence, even if the defense is confined to an internal self re-assurance.
The
task of confronting the nonevangelical world over the issue
of Biblical authority is being undercut by the desire to challenge fellow evangelicals» notions
of inspiration What is distinctively evangelical needs again to be forcefully
presented to the wider Christian community.
In this case the will does not constantly become concrete in the same degree that it is abstract, in such a way that the more it is infinitized in purpose and resolution, the more
present and contemporaneous with itself does it become in the small part
of the
task which can be realized at once, so that in being infinitized it returns in the strictest sense to its self, so that what is farthest from itself (when it is most infinitized in purpose and resolution) is in the same instant nearest to itself in accomplishing the infinitely small part
of the
task which can be done even today, even at this hour, even at this instant.
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.
Cobb holds that our
task is to find a way between the Scylla
of ecological holocaust to which our
present policies are leading us and the Charybdis
of degrading poverty that would follow from deindustrialization.
Assuming the adequacy
of this sketch
of Hartshorne's understanding
of God, the
present task is to examine his conclusions in light
of the Christian's confession
of Jesus Christ.
In these terms, the proposition that Jesus lives on subjectively is the supreme instance
of some more general proposition as to individual survival after death: to reach a decision as to this supreme instance one would first have to investigate the general concept
of resurrection, which lies beyond our
present task.25 It must here suffice to answer that these proposals neither affirm nor deny the doctrine that both Jesus and the «souls
of the righteous» live on subjectively.