Sentences with phrase «re-humanizing contemporary experiences»

The point here is basically that each way of conceiving of evangelicalism produces a different population when each net is used to pull out of both church history and contemporary experience a coherently related and defined subset.

In Turin, Benedict observed that «humanity has become particularly sensitive to the mystery of Holy Saturday,» because the «hiddenness of God» has become so much a part of our contemporary experience of Christ that it functions existentially, almost subconsciously, in our spirituality.

His formulations are important when they stimulate people's formulations of the meaning of their contemporary experience with man and God.

The dualistic model of classical understanding — spirit / matter, mind / body — is not adequate to interpret our contemporary experience.

This excerpt from a recent article provides an example of applying an OT legal prohibition to contemporary experience that would not occur to most Christians employed in our tragically corrupt business sector where greed influences so many management policies:

It underscores the contention of the Reformers, however, that reformation should not be seen merely as a past event but should always be a contemporary experience.

Thus contemporary theology is stalemated between a longstanding affirmation which does not touch the lives of many, and an appreciation of the needs and aspirations of contemporary experience which has great difficulty in being theological.

As I have indicated, Frei distrusted theologies that began with contemporary experience, and he was reticent in discussing his own religious life.

The problem of Santa Claus theology is that it emphasizes belief for belief's sake, or affirms a belief which no longer accords with contemporary experience.

Well, foolish or not, theology tries to answer it, speculatively but consistently with what is known from tradition as well as what is seen, maybe for the first time, in contemporary experience.

The norm has continually to be expressed and embodied afresh in terms of contemporary experience.

This conviction also allows for the conscious use of social science and contemporary experience to increase our understanding of the faith.

When this happens, it may no longer be true that the Scriptures possess intrinsic authority based on contemporary experience.

In their contemporary experience they have dealt with both types of ministers and have found virtues and vices attached to both types.

What would it mean to go to the scriptures — for example, to the Pauline metaphor of the body and its members — with such contemporary experiences and questions fully present and articulated?

Tradition and Contemporary Experience.

In any event, what is said, like what is done, in the worship of the Church must be sufficiently in line with the inherited usage that it is recognizably Christian in its historical emphasis, while at the same time it is sufficiently intelligible to contemporary experience and understanding.

These sources include the Bible, the tradition of Christian thought (especially from the early church and the Reformation), culture (including philosophy, science and the arts), and the contemporary experience of God's community, including popular religion.

Dynamic Transcendence: Correlation of Confessional Heritage and Contemporary Experience in a Biblical Mode of Divine Activity

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

Constructive theology, aware of God's continuing revelation in the present, is a hermeneutical mode of reflection that, by exploring our particular historical, social and cultural situation in the light of the church's tradition, attempts dialectically to make sense of both our contemporary experience - knowledge and our tradition.

Moreover, he shares the liberal concern that interpreters of the Bible should be in dialogue with all that has gone on in «the great romance of culture «13 and all that is happening in contemporary experience, in Ricoeur's hands interpretation is always confronted with the perspective of «counter disciplines»: physiology, psychoanalysis sociology, anthropology, linguistics, the history of philosophy.

It involves building connections between the traditions of Christian faith and the aspirations and values that emerge as many traditions and philosophies test the limits of humanity and community in contemporary experience.

But it seems to me that the contemporary experience of God as Good is just a projection of human altruism.

We have seen how in each of the other two types of doctrine of love contemporary experience raises questions which have forced a reconsideration of the meaning of love within that perspective.

It is our cultural analysis, contemporary experiences, and rational explorations that raise the formative questions and perceptions.

The illustration suggests that he should study the theological resources of Scripture, history, and doctrine; and study also, with equal seriousness, what he knows of the related meanings from his own authority of both traditional and contemporary experience; and how to recognize the authenticity of the dialogue, both historical and contemporary, be - tween God and man and the dependence of each on the other.

There can be no doubt that Dr Tillich was outstanding among the distinguished thinkers of our day who have been working towards a reconception of the faith in the light of contemporary knowledge and contemporary experience.

Instead of grounding her thinking here simply in scripture and tradition, Farley draws as well on secular perspectives and contemporary experience.

Even efforts to speak of God in distinction from contemporary experiences are affected by those contemporary experiences.

For example, Pinnock says that evangelicals seek to maintain doctrinal continuity with the apostles and the early church while liberals work inductively from contemporary experience (13).

It is possible to start something new, using images from the past but transforming their meaning and imbuing them with contemporary experience.

With the growing prison population in many western countries, fathering from prison is emerging as a further significant context in which to understand the contemporary experience of fathers in families.

For, the first chapters of the Book of Genesis were never meant to be taken as history or science, as «eyewitness» accounts, either of God or of someone impossibly «interviewing» God, but as a spiritual, theological, and mystical statement about God's relationship with the world; as an «aetiological myth,» to use Rahner's phrase, that provides an explanation, based on the human author's contemporary experience, of how things must have gotten to be the way we see them.

BASI Pilates preserves the classical repertoire and the essence of Joseph Pilates» philosophy while supplementing it with the contemporary experience and scientific knowledge.

Again and again in these radiant, probing poems, McLane excavates the layers of contemporary experience and gets at the heart of what it means to be human.

- USA Today «One of our most astute diagnosticians of contemporary experience, conflict, unhappiness, and regret.»

Kuta, Legian and Seminyak are relatively crowded areas that are home to several beach clubs, nightclubs and modern cafes, and especially popular among young tourists seeking a contemporary experience.

From internships to school visits, study holidays to gap years, Edinburgh and indeed Scotland offers a fantastic mixture of both traditional and contemporary experiences for all ages.

Row NYC transforms your stay into a completely contemporary experience — with a front row view to Times Square that's truly incomparable.

A lifestyle hotel inspired by the spirit of Dubai, Venu offers guests a contemporary experience underpinned by the Jumeirah Group's reputation for quality and service.

Storm King Rooms also offer a more contemporary experience, but without televisions and telephones.

A love letter to Japanese action games like No More Heroes and Godhand, it also stands on its own terms as a singular contemporary experience, one that feels right at home on Nintendo's Switch console.

Furthermore being a remake, Pokemon SS / HG offers a contemporary experience complete with pleasant visuals and competitive online play.

As quarter - century old NES memories gradually give way to contemporary experiences, Pit's adventures endure.

a London - based writer, editor, and programmer, Shields is working on «A Heavy Nonpresence,» an oral history project that will collect interviews with black adults and children about their contemporary experiences with the British welfare state.

Los Angeles - based Njideka Akunyili Crosby is presenting a new suite of paintings that visually and materially explore the intersection of her Nigerian heritage and family memories with her contemporary experiences and relationships in America.

Her complex multilayered pieces poetically blur the categories of fact and fiction, past and present and evoke the dislocating sense of in - betweeness that shapes contemporary experience.

Camille Henrot told us about the thinking behind her unique alchemy of the Internet and myth, Margaret Lee explained how the aesthetics of Chinatown helped her crack the code on contemporary experience, Jordan Wolfson spoke about using «anger as a frequency» in his hypnotically engrossing videos, Amy Sillman was both hilarious and incisive on the subject of what it means to be a painter today, and Paul Chan offered up a text interview that was totally unexpected, amazing, and an artwork in its own right.

The interest in the figurative never goes away, and I love that it reappears in a fresh way that reflects contemporary experience.