Sentences with word «rootedness»

Not every congregation does all these things, but the more they engage in these intentionally denominational choices, the stronger their overall sense of rootedness in the tradition.

As Yoder says, «What must replace the prolegomenal search for «scratch» is the confession of rootedness in historical community.

It has moreover taught Jews to treat Judaism as an all - embracing civilization which can elicit from them «a sense of spiritual rootedness in Eretz Yisrael, a feeling of oneness with the forty - century - old People of Israel, a desire to understand its language and literature, a yearning to cherish its aspirations, and an eagerness to live its way of life, with its mores, laws, and arts» (GIM 394, 451).

Anpo Wicahpi, the Pine Ridge Girls» School, is an all - girls school that uses an empowerment and cultural rootedness approach to transform Lakota girls, living in one of the poorest counties in America into strong, activist, vocal community leaders.

This linkage of virtue with rootedness is common among conservatives and Christians but rarely examined.

The programme's sensitivity to longer - term perspectives exposed the historical rootedness of modern political practices.

In advocating rootedness, Yorck explicitly rejected both Christians and Jews as rootless.

Instead, the logical subjects in a potential pattern are divested of all formal content, leaving only their bare rootedness, their bare actuality.

Is there rootedness?

This abolition of the reference to objects that we can manipulate allows the world of our originary rootedness to appear.

Rogers» folk rootedness emanates from a childhood love of nature and the outdoors, having grown up in rural Maryland.

Her stories about her big hair and self - tanner keep her audience in stitches — and also reveal her unmistakable rootedness in Southern Baptist culture.

His own experience of suffering, his utter rootedness in prayer, allow him to do so with authenticity.

It simply lacks the identity and the resources that come with historic rootedness, a point which makes it perennially vulnerable to becoming simply American culture in a Christian idiom.

Strong community requires strong rootedness in shared tradition.

For Smith, his standing as a family man was about community rootedness, and, in line with his labour market experience outside politics, meant «I can bring that normality, that sense of what our communities want» to the Labour leadership.

Then Grandfather Serge begins to tell her stories that sound half - crazed, about her grandmother's wanderlust and his own rootedness, and about a lake in the desert and a tree that made it so no one would ever die.

The spouse's social rootedness and career advancement often takes a backseat, chalked off as a sacrifice involved in serving the country.

Upon returning to Japan in 1973 Kusama embodies the trauma of the globalised subject, whose loss of rootedness leads to periodic mental health crises.

Their sculptures interweave aspects of the craft and folk heritage of Mexican culture into relevant social narratives, linking a sense of both ancestral rootedness and contemporary dislocation.

This is precisely why they emanate a conflicted aura, itself a legacy of our anthropological rootedness in ritual.

The sculpture's weight obviates any possibility of takeoff, of course, but the tension between rootedness and skywardness is exquisite.

Up - rootedness often goes hand in hand with a certain fragmentation of the mind, placing a person forever «out of place», in a perpetual state of passing - through, living in provisional conditions, forever expecting to pack and move on when conditions demand it.

Divorce often disrupts the adolescent's sense of security and rootedness at this critical juncture.

Rural lives are often governed by the whims of the powerful, robbing them of physical and spiritual rootedness.

He spoke of a typical «Evangelical thinness of treatment» regarding our cultural rootedness.

Composed of dissected postcards, the 1980 - 81 work references the artist's memory loss after a serious car accident as well os displacement and loss of rootedness in the African diaspora as a result of slavery.

Greenleaf's book is now about 30 years old, but in it you see a depth and rootedness that most writing in this genre lacks.

Perhaps, in these personal and collective ways, we can redeem a sense of the rootedness Weil describes: one new relationship, lasting connection and encounter with the family of Christ at a time.

Proctor's father's religion, as portrayed in this book, is a matter of traditions, rootedness, community, and guidance for right action.

Still, it's so alluring, this idea of rootedness.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence of the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life, birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»

Or again, just as the very existence of the plant implies its rootedness in the ground such that its very posing of the question, «Is there a ground?»

And, this whole conversation renders Palestinians and their love of / rootedness in that land invisible, which troubles me greatly.

To the neo-conservatives of the moment, no such theological strategy for embracing pluralism without forfeiting mind, negativity, argument, rootedness, tradition, particularity can ever succeed.

Religions tend to collapse as religions whenever their rootednesses in particularity is ripped away by later reflection.

The reason I've always felt was that they lacked the rootedness in the Church that was available to Catholics of our generation and thus needed to maintain boundaries that Benedict felt free to ignore.

The creative kingdom is there where form and formation thrive, and rootedness is a mighty helper to the individual to remain therein.

Faithfulness to Christ supports our recognition of our rootedness in the Bible and the history it recounts, but it alters the nature of Biblical authority as it opens us to awareness of the patriarchal character of all our Scripture and tradition.

The disciples» experience of the resurrected Christ heightened and transformed their perception of the authority of Jesus, but historical research confirms the rootedness of the claim of authority in Jesus himself.

Sometimes the rootedness of trees grounds you in unshakeable ways.

«Constitutive attachments» are seen by Sandel as giving agency «moral weight»; the self is «encumbered» with an identity that because of its density, complexity, and rootedness is only partially open to revision.

The hunger is real and legitimate for a «still point to a turning world,» for a solid bottom, for groundedness and rootedness.