Sentences with phrase «seen as a unity»

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Instead, see this as essential for building unity among your members.

Diplomatic observers said the European Union was wary of China's growing investment in the Balkans, central and eastern European countries and poorer EU members - which Beijing sees as gateways into the more developed European market - as it threatened unity and solidarity.

um what are you nuts most of the people in BC has said they do not want another pipeline not ever so how is building a pipeline a matter of national unity i could see it as a matter of duty for us to stand in unity with the first nation people here in BC against the pipeline i really do nt see how building a pipeline could be a national issue because simply put pipelines do nt help the nation

In March of 2014, the leaders of all the autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Churches met in Istanbul, the sacred see of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which historically (since at least the fifth century) coordinates such assemblies, facilitating unity while serving as a center of appeal among these churches.

Because they see themselves as agents of reconciliation and unity, the revisionists have difficulty seeing that their position is in effect exclusionary.

As the Patriarch sees the matter, the council's main task is to bring conciliarity on a worldwide level back into the life of the Orthodox Church and to engage the issue of Christian unity on a variety of levels.

As for Augustine's intellectual life, Brown sees more unity in Augustine's thinking than he did earlier.

While we do not have any exegetical basis for calling them «heretics,» we nevertheless can see their teachings as dangerous for Christian unity without condemning them to hell (They might end up there, but it's not our job to send them).

For it endues us with super-vitality; and therefore introduces into our spiritual life a higher principle of unity, the specific effect of which can be seen — according to one's point of view — as either to make human endeavour holy or to make the Christian life fully human.

Against the Hegelian tendency to identify God with man and to see the doctrine of Incarnation as expressing this unity, Barth stressed with new force the transcendent otherness of God.

(1) The concrete universal as the individual seen in conjunction with the thought structure implied in it, that which makes it an intelligible unity, is neither a naively conceived sense - object, nor an abstract logical universal.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

By restricting the activities of foreign organizations and what are seen as non-Russian forms of religious belief, the Russian government has consolidated its religious support and made an intentional (and enforceable) display of Russian cultural unity in the face of the external pressures of consumerism, individualism, and secularism.

As I dream for my children I have come to see how easy it is for fear to trump hope; for a desire for their safety and comfort to displace a desire that they would experience and participate in Christ's radical love; and for uniformity to be mistaken for unity.

There is no necessary unity among all these forms of dynamic existence, so far as we can see.

The Orthodox Church, seeing the Father as the source of unity, holds that the Holy Spirit proceeded only from the Father.

I can either express this directly by using an expression like «momentary selves,» supplemented by a speculative device designed to give some sort of unity to the otherwise unacceptable implication of a crumbling of each «momentary self» into a dust of pure momentary «events,» or I can go the way of many neurologists who see the «momentary self» as the result of successive integrations of the nervous system in its constant reactions to internal and external stimuli.

These, then, are the several levels of unity that bind together the diverse topics of the chapters to follow: first, the curriculum of education; second, the major problems of contemporary civilization; third, the values by which education is seen as a moral enterprise; and fourth, a concept of value as devotion to worth rather than to satisfaction of desire, together with an ideal of democracy as the social expression of basic moral commitment.

'' • Diverse yet has unity (as nature exhibits diversity)» A bear, a shark, and a birch tree are never seen as one creature though.

We saw something similar as the corrections of the English translations of the Mass were adopted over a year ago, when bringing the American Church into prayerful unity with the rest of the Catholic world (where «and with your spirit» had never been dropped) was an occasion for high drama and sad, heavy sighs among American Catholics in habitual tension with Rome.

Yet the basic structure of the divine interpersonal process, as we have seen above, is that of a democratically organized structured society; even more generically, it could be described as a self - sustaining unity in totality of functioning parts or members.

Having sketched «cartoon» images of nine different kinds of Protestant ministry, the author finds a unity within the diversity in these images as seen in the centrality of the Bible in each, the being engaged with all kinds of people, and always on the same level with them.

Note the implication in the first clause there: There are «those who no longer see the full, visible unity of the Church as an achievable goal.»

«In the face of those who no longer see the full, visible unity of the Church as an achievable goal,» he said to a delegation of Finnish Lutherans visiting Rome this past Friday, «we are invited not to give up our ecumenical efforts, faithful to that which the Lord Jesus asked of the Father, «that they may be one.

However, Whitehead sees mans religious experience as providing a stabilizing unity and teleology to an otherwise largely banal existence.

We should emphasize the unity of God and see the «natures» as abstractions, descriptions from particular viewpoints of how God as a whole functions in relation to the world and to the eternal objects.

As we have seen, what the examination of perception brings to light for Whitehead is an occasion of experience which is a self - creative process, a subject synthesizing past objects into a novel unity.

But if we condemn those who disagree with us as «heretics,» or if we smugly think that their disagreement with us is «persecution for our faith» which therefore proves our view is correct, we will never grow in unity with one another, and we will never learn to see our own doctrinal and theological missteps.

As a result, most of those who think and write about this problem do so from the standpoint of a choice between that attitude which sees good and evil as part of a higher unity and that which sees them as irreconcilable oppositeAs a result, most of those who think and write about this problem do so from the standpoint of a choice between that attitude which sees good and evil as part of a higher unity and that which sees them as irreconcilable oppositeas part of a higher unity and that which sees them as irreconcilable oppositeas irreconcilable opposites.

This Christian stress on sociality, which (as we shall see in the next chapter) is the natural reason for the existence of the Christian community as well as of other human groupings, has a close relationship with the fourth assertion: that each of us is an organic unity, body - mind - spirit.

Whitehead the pluralist saw the great monistic metaphysicians as endeavoring to exhibit the unity and solidarity which the universe undoubtedly has, while failing to do justice to the equally evident plurality of individual existents.

In most of the points that are to be regarded as historical (Denzinger 2123), it is not difficult to see that, as regards creation, the special creation of man, the equality of the sexes, 6 the unity of the human race (from the experience of the unity of the history of redemption), man's original condition (which in Genesis has not the fullness of content which can be recognized only since Christ).

Furthermore, even then it would have to be recognized that the boundary between what would be called «experience» and the unconscious is vague and fluctuating, and that, for most purposes, they must be seen as constituting a unity.

Niebuhr said that, contrary to these two alternatives, the biblical view sees man as a unity of body and spirit, of freedom and creatureliness.

His proposed solution lies in seeing the church as a unity of act and being.

It sees experience as consisting of discrete «buds,» each of which enjoys its own subjectivity during its brief growing together into a unity; it then perishes as a subject, «living on» only in so far as its influence is felt by other moments of experience which make it ingredient — «objectively immanent» — in themselves.

Like Nietzsche, Whitehead sees the unity which underlies all things as a unity of process, that is, as a temporally continuous whole which is self - unfolding, open - ended, and essentially incomplete.

For as Nietzsche sees it the world as we interpret it is really nothing more than a work of art which we have created through the will to power (which is Nietzsche's way of characterizing the chaotic nature of the unity which underlies all things).

This does not mean that co-operation or federation of our denominations is unesteemed, but all such measures are seen as way - stations toward a unity that is both spiritual and structural.

Hahn sees the importance for Benedict of the liturgy, and the liturgy's relationship to Scripture: «In the unity of the Last Supper and the crucifixion, Benedict is able to articulate the true depth of Scripture as the saving Word of God, for the redemption of the cross is renewed in the Eucharistic Prayer, the oratio.

Thus (provided always that we accept the organic nature of the social phenomenon) we see being woven around us, beyond any unity hitherto acknowledged or even foreseen by biology, the network and consciousness of a Noosphere (It should be noted here that by its nature as a centrated, «reflective» collectivity, the Noosphere, while occupying the same spatial dimensions as the Biosphere, differs from it profoundly in its structure and quality of vital completion.

But I do know this: Whenever I enter into discourse or debate or conversation, and I see the person as fundamentalist or Republican or homophobic or antagonist or (fill in the blank) rather than a human being with stories and ideas and passions, I almost always fail at being a promoter of unity.»

In his address to the conference, Henry Smith Leiper said, «And because of what we have seen of the dependence of the world mission on the Church, we who have had active service in the mission field know that as truly as a world mission without an urge to unity is unthinkable, a Christian Church without a consciousness of world mission ought to be also unthinkable».30 He then added, «am ecumenical movement without a sense of world mission to spread that community is a complete anomaly.

[25] With these two strands intertwining in the existential experience of Ignatius, it is possible to see how the emergence of theological affirmations about Christ emerge here in a context of existential imperatives, like the reality of schism, division, and breakage of unity, as well as the approach of the gift of death.

It appears to us, as it does to many other critics, (see WM; see also PS 2: 216 - 21; PS 3: 15 - 25; PS 5: 195 - 203) that Whitehead himself here commits the «fallacy of misplaced concreteness» inasmuch as he puts a dubious multiplicity in the place of clear - cut unities.

He has to see that in its finished form the book reads as smoothly and connectedly as possible, although symposiums seldom do succeed in having the unity of a book written by one person.

You see, my experience now is just as much one thing as all the previous experience that I remember — all that complexity has produced a new mode, a unity.

The work of editors is seen as not merely editorial but in fact creative, presenting a unity often transcending the multiple and at points contradictory sources employed.

Here, as we shall be seeing, the Christian community comes together to be made into the unity which is described in the phrase, «the Body of Christ.»

When we recognize the indissoluble unity of the mental and physical poles in God as in other actual entities, we have no difficulty in seeing that even when the mental pole of God is primarily involved, God as actual entity is involved.