Sentences with phrase «renewal of»

It is, I suspect, Providence in the first place that brings us to a kind of conviction, in asking whether we will provide a vision for the renewal of the church or just nostalgic memories to be enjoyed for a season, and then forgotten.

I recently attended a small conference in Washington, DC, co-sponsored by the New America Foundation (NAF), a think tank that describes itself as «dedicated to the renewal of American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the digital age, through big ideas, technological innovation, next generation politics, and creative engagement with broad audiences.»

More than thirty years after that letter, Ramsey's achievements included pioneering work in medical ethics and an almost singlehanded (at least among Protestants) renewal of just war theory.

I find that life gets to be a drag unless I experience regularly the renewal of pleasuring.

But every choice is a renewal of relationship with the whole, with God.

Anne Philipe gives a vivid picture of the normal fluctuations in the depth and intensity of intimacy, and of the periodic renewal of significant communication which revivifies a good marriage:

Among the many important things said by the Holy Father, I believe the most important was this: «The Catholic faithful must know that bishops and priests are totally committed to the fullness of Catholic truth on matters of sexual morality, a truth as essential to the renewal of the priesthood and the episcopate as it is to the renewal of marriage and family life.»

At least in many parts of Christendom the quest for meaning, the revival of historic religious convictions about man's nature and destiny, about his lostness and his salvation, and the need to realize the significance of these convictions in relation to contemporary world and life views, have led to a renewal of the theological endeavor.

By the revival of religious emotions, by surrender to God, by commitment to an unselfish life of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, by a renewal of the practice of confession and by the sharing of religious experiences, by reliance upon divine guidance and by a revivification of first - century immediacy and spirituality, it proposes, and claims to solve, the problems of the religious crisis in a practical manner.

We tremble to pray for a renewal of creativity within the church, for we sense that it can come only by way of crucifixion.

On top of the shared communion between Catholics and Evangelicals is a shared commitment to a mission that begins with the renewal of the people of God both lay and clerical.

In fact, «the renewal of the preaching ministry is the rediscovery of its communal character».11

Instead of nourishment and energy she reaps only lassitude and disgust: whereas a genuine heavenly vision yields to her a harvest of ineffable spiritual riches, and an admirable renewal of bodily strength.

There is a burning relevance today in describing the mission of God, in which we participate, as the gift of a new creation which is a radical renewal of the old and the invitation to men to grow up into their full humanity in the new man, Jesus Christ.24

Therefore, if salvation from sin through divine forgiveness is to be truly and fully personal it must express itself in the renewal of these relations and structures.

We yearn to see people, cities and nations transformed, but we skip the transformation and renewal of our minds.

Second, the most prominent Christian understandings of Jesus Christ should be developed if they are to become sufficiently convincing to aid the renewal of our culture.

Such theology of nescience scandalises and shakes the faith of many in the Church, subverting the renewal of devotion fostered in new communities and movements.

This will further devotion to Our Lady and Fatima, and ultimately, also bring about the conversion of Russia and the renewal of the Church.

«The renewal of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious,» the report says,»... is the goal of this doctrinal Assessment.»

We would, however, note with optimism the renewal of interest in the work of Erich Pryzwara SJ.

«We are not leaving the Anglican Communion - we are seeking the reformation and the renewal of the Communion.»

Cameron was really just riding the resultant wave in favour of a renewal of authority in our culture.

In 1872 just before departing for England he had a renewal of his conversion experience.

This may in turn free the neighbor to experience the hell of his or her own feelings, looking toward a renewal of faith and courage.

In spite of these seeming exceptions, a certain amount of freedom from state interference appears a prerequisite to a renewal of vigorous life in the Church.

Mission Is campaign manager, Thomas Fowler said: «Views of mission can range from a universal «renewal of all things» to baking a cake for my neighbour.

The seasonal death and renewal of vegetation finds its representation in Inanna herself.

I believe passionately that if we are serious about the renewal of the Church we must commit ourselves afresh to proclaiming Good News to the poor.

Nothing else is so deeply Augustinian in modern thinking and in the modern consciousness itself, and if Augustine discovered the subject of consciousness by way of his renewal of Paul, it was Paul who discovered the profoundly internal divisions and dichotomies of consciousness and self - consciousness.

It could immensely further the renewal of the churches, whether in worship or in many other matters, by injecting a new spirit, and this could alleviate the need to look for new gimmicks to make the churches relevant to the modern age.

The second thing we may note is that in the plot of each of this group of myths there is both a male and a female figure, and the love affair or marriage between them is closely associated with the renewal of growth, the chief purpose of the myth.

Or is modern apocalypticism a genuine recovery and renewal of an original Christian apocalypticism, one which had perished or become wholly transformed in the victory of an ancient Christian orthodoxy, then only to be renewed in profoundly subversive and heretical expressions?

This is that unique ending which is not only a repetition or renewal of genesis, but far rather an absolutely new beginning, a new creation or new aeon, and absolutely new because it wholly transcends not only an original creation but an original eternity as well.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

To me, it seems to be a poor understanding of the process of sanctification involving: being transformed by the renewal of our minds (Rom.

The full substance of the new life in Christ «and of the church as a community of grace is maintained by the continual renewal of the faith through the Scriptures.

Therefore they have to work for renewal of religion through religion assimilating gender equality and feminist principles and values.

Theoretically a Purana is supposed to deal with five subjects: (1) the creation; (2) re-creation, the periodical destruction and renewal of the worlds; (3) the genealogy of the gods and the ancient Rishis; (4) the great time periods, each of which has a primal ancestor or Manu; and (5) the history of the early dynasties which trace their origin to the sun or the moon.

They too have to work for renewal of religion, for a new spirituality and tradition, for a spiritual vacuum can not exist in the world.

We find it in the liturgy for the renewal of the covenant in Joshua 24:2 - 13, especially in verse 12: «I sent the hornet ahead of you, which drove out before you the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.»

One of the things that does not pass away is the Something on High and the belief in God, too, though the forms may change — a change which is just as necessary as the renewal of the leaves in spring.

The reception of the Holy Eucharist is the most misunderstood aspect of the Catholic faith, and when the likes of such public policy - makers as Nancy Pelosi make a national mockery of Communion without consequence, there is little wonder why it has become a mere symbol of self - affirmation rather than the efficacious sign of personal transformation through the Cross of Christ and the «renewal of the mind» (Rom.

After deep» fragmentation, the renewal of civil community requires the catalyst of empathy.

The renovation he calls for must give attention to the ideas and spirituality of our shared past, to a renewal of prayer in all its modes, and to a liturgy that is fitting to the great events it celebrates.

It would probably still violate his sensitivity with regard to his third defining point of fundamentalism by claiming — as have all reforming movements with a vision for the renewal of the church — to have some insight into a «higher Christian life» than that grasped by many church members.

Dana Gioia likens a renewal of Catholic literature to the renovation of our lost immigrant neighborhoods: «It is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogenous, characterless suburbs of the imagination and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts.»

Gioia obviously has been thinking on them, and what he has done in his essay, I'll bet, will prove to be a giant first step toward the renewal of the Catholic aesthetic dimension that both Church and society very much need.

I'm pleased that Frank Wilson agrees with me that the Catholic hierarchy is unlikely to lead any renewal of the arts, because Bernard Zablocki disagrees.

But we are also called to contemplate on the renewal of Pentecost in our time as a sign of the coming again of Christ in power and glory to set up his kingdom that shall have no end.