Sentences with phrase «recovery of»

The first concern is a recovery of God as justice.

He is concerned about the recovery of the Church by its true being and the message it has to proclaim to the world today..

The revulsion I speak of is not war - weariness or relativism; it is a recovery of the New Testament.

Thus, there is not much scope for the activity of recovery of the pure traditions of the past; instead there is a plethora of hybridized, living religio - cultural symbolic systems.

Each of these is a reminiscence, each a small, sometimes symbolic, and always partial recovery of Adam's original elevation.

I find no reference to the recovery of dinosaur dna.

That path required reform - through - retrieval, the recovery of an element of the tradition of which the Church had lost sight: namely, Pope Gelasius's distinction between, and affirmation of, «two authorities» in the world that should not be thought identical, or even too closely enmeshed with each other (a point underscored by Gregory VII in the Investitute Controversy).

It was, in other words, reform through re-form: reform through a recovery of the «form» given to the Church by Christ himself, who had distinguished sharply between what was owed to Caesar and what was owed to God (Matthew 22.21), thus giving the world the novel idea that religious and political authority were different.

HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED, Luk 4:19 TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.»

Hence, restoration can be understood as relief from symptoms, strengthening of ego functioning, acquisition of self - esteem and interpersonal relations skills, recovery of unique potentialities or identity formation.

Strangely enough, but not so strangely if one considers the historical period in which it was conceived, Whitehead's dipolar language promises the recovery of a long lost Christian eschatological language.

Polycarp followed Jesus Christ faithfully according to his understanding of Jesus; today to follow Jesus Christ with faith in Him is to do what Jesus did: «to bring good news to the poor... to proclaim liberty to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed and announce that the time has come when the Lord will save his people».

Most of all the Christian might rejoice in this vision, for it may well embody a recovery of what the Christian has long since lost: that is, nothing less than the meaning of the Gospel, the meaning of Jesus» original proclamation of the triumphant dawning of the Kingdom of God.

The question of revelation is a formidable question in the proper sense of the word, not only because it may be seen as the first and last question for faith, but also because it has been obscured by so many false debates that the recovery of a real question in itself constitutes an enormous task.

It is even possible to assert that human life can know a genuine recovery of innocence in spite of evil.

Brian C. Anderson is Senior Editor at City Journal and author of Raymond Aron: The Recovery of the Political, just out from Rowman; Littlefield.

The spirit of the Lord is upon me... to proclaim release for prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind; to let the broken victims go free.

Such disruption makes possible a recovery of a deeper and more adequate understanding, which is in turn susceptible to further episodes of ironic disruption.

Above all, this means a change in the meaning of work, a lessening of its pure utilitarianism, a recovery of the idea of work as a calling.

This shift derives in part from a recovery of 19th - century liberal theology's emphasis on experience as important theological data — an emphasis now embraced by various forms of liberation theology.

As would be expected and hoped, there have been a variety of serious efforts to meet the problems that beset the pulpit and to bring about recovery of power of preaching.

The recovery of the type of evangelism practiced in the third century, adapted to 20th - century circumstances, could meet the evangelistic needs of the mainline church.

The authority of hope is also profoundly related to the recovery of a meaningful past in the church.

Jesus presents his own work as the joyous recovery of the lost.

Another use of the imagination is the recovery of narrative and story as the mode of religious expression.

If so, surely healing and recovery of meaning will come out of such silence.

What we are seeing in our time, I think, is a recovery of the interest in and even the delight in the poets and the artists of vitality, enchantment, imagination, hope, and joy.

Here too we understand with the blind man that the recovery of his sight made it possible for him to follow Jesus «on the way.»

The history of Israel and the church is the history of loss and recovery of the reality of God and the resonance of worship.

He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, 19to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.»

One of the important achievements of recent scholarship has been the recovery of religious traditions of subdued cultures.

Family therapy for the close relatives of the mentally ill is still another factor which helps the recovery of the patient.

For it forms the background of the work I am currently trying to do in the recovery of the classical pastoral traditions.

He concludes: «That reflex triggered by an accurate description of homosexual behavior will be the beginning of the recovery of moral sense and sensibility when it comes to the so - called «gay marriage» debate.»

With the recovery of body - play, the capacity for greater mind - play (creativity) tends to be increased.

Niebuhr's affinities with Edwards are clear in the final lecture, «Toward the Recovery of Feeling,» which points to the importance of religious emotions for apprehending God.

This recovery of the symbolic function requires that the thinking subject be «humiliated»: that he abdicate his superior vantage point, given in the very semantics of the subject - object dichotomy.

Some of the triumphalists see him as engaged in a faithful recovery of the gospel.

No political project is more urgent for society than the recovery of classic Christian consciousness through the direct address of texts of Scripture and tradition.

Most commentators point to MacIntyre's influence on my work concerning the recovery of the virtues and corresponding criticism of modern moral philosophy, and it is true that I have learned much from MacIntyre's account of the virtues.

Here also a recovery of the revelatory function of art becomes crucial.

The Bible, therefore, does not represent him as if all subsequent history were to be regarded only as a decline or, at most, as a recovery of the original starting - point.

Community networks of groups for families of patients and ex-patients would improve the interpersonal environment which supports or sabotages full recovery of the patient.

Today we can not imagine the recovery of that simple optimism nor have we, most of us, any interest in returning to it.

Indeed, one can go further to say that in a corrupt, fallen world, the only way to the recovery of mutual interaction will pass through sacrifice unto death.

Is not the recovery of the unique Christian identity bound up with the struggle for the church's integrity?

It is perhaps this aspect of the meaning which, on the one hand, assures the recovery of the profane meaning in the religious meaning, but which also, on the other hand, gives its particular hue to the theological concept of testimony.

He was a member of the Oxford Group team that brought the Oxford Group to the famous Firestone events of the 1933 period - events that led to the recovery of Dr. Bob in Akron.

I do not deny in the least the significance of the dimension of individual freedom in God and the importance of Kierkegaard's recovery of it.

Luther's teaching on the sleep of the soul represented a genuine recovery of some elements of the first - century resurrection hope.