Sentences with phrase «sense of what»

Such stories give the members of the community a sense of their origins and destiny, a sense of what is important, a sense of common purpose.

I think a lot of you will resonate with my story and the stories of so many others who are trying to make sense of what it means to be part of the Church at this time in history.

It sounds melodramatic but I bet you have a sense of what I'm talking about.

An obligatory gender regime leaves young people without a clear sense of what it means to be a man or a woman.

Only by remaining clear about their mission can faith - based schools provide a sense of what matters in life.

As more victims came to their shelters, and as the nuns struggled to make sense of what they were facing, these communities began working through religious, political and commercial channels to stem the flow of slave trafficking and meet the women's physical, emotional and spiritual needs.

When I read the book South and then came across this recruitment ad, I am reminded of my own sense of what I'm to do.

This last thought may make my hero J. Gresham Machen spin in his grave, but: In spite of the theological problems in the mainline, those traditions do at least have some sense of what it means to be the church within a culture, rather than seeking in vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean Point.

I suspect these people struggle in prayer and with themselves trying to make sense of what is happening.

When we look at what the most ardent supporters of amnesty want, we get a better sense of what they truly value.

There are a few points in the book in which it would appear that the authors depart from their own sense of what is licit and illicit out of deferrence to certain academic Catholic bioethicists who persist in arguing for the permissibility of so - called «borderline» assisted reproductive techniques such as Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer (GIFT) and Artificial Insemination by Husband (AIH) or insist that the Church may still allow for so - called embryo adoption.

Rather, it was one woman's story about her journey to both make sense of what the church has told us the Bible calls us to be as women, and to truly understand what God's Word actually has to say about women.

I was surprised to discover how readily my memory of the text had accommodated itself to my sense of what would be fitting.

Once we set Jesus in the context of a larger scriptural story, however, and come to grips with his sense of what exactly the new the new covenant would mean and how it would both fulfill and transform the old one... we discover a much richer, and more narratival, sense of «fulfillment,» which generates that subtle and powerful view of scripture we find in the early church.»

Others see the same unfairness and ask themselves, «Where do I get my sense of what is fair and unfair?

For example, I am not opposed to the idea of exaggerated numbers in some of these accounts, as I think it helps make much more sense of what is happening and helps explain some of the problems inherent within the text.

Ring fails to give readers any sense of what's at stake in this important debate between intentionalism and textualism.

Religious conservatives will need a robust religion and a sense of what is, in fact, to be conserved.

I wrote above that «the most primordial sense of what it is to be feels «being» to be vibration» The language of «sensation» is deliberate.

Her perception is convoluted to the FAR FAR RIGHT that she has no sense of what America is..

A full sense of what we know as history was still not awakened in these religious situations.

Boldly he confronted the sacred tradition and said repeatedly: «You have heard that it was said... but I say...» This rash effrontery was more than some conscientiously could stand; their whole sense of what was sacred made them enemies of this bold impostor — as he seemed to them.

The WCC, if it does what its constitution says it should do, is crucial to maintaining a sense of what members» actions mean for all Christians — and the instruments for acting upon the conclusions.

The work of many Biblical scholars, for example, is shaped much more by the state of their discipline and the sense of what its new methods can learn than by the Christian faith of the scholars.

I take this to assert that the most primoridal sense of what it is to be feels «being» to be vibration.

The sexual revolution we really need will be built, then, on a better sense of what happens even in marriage if sex is to remain creative.

By imaginative role taking, we can discern a sense of what it means to live in a different location, we can begin to be present with people whose life experiences are different.

By this I do not mean that the aesthetic is evil in itself but that attention to evil is an integral part of the electronic church's sense of what is beautiful.

Dissident South Africans develop a sense of what is currently getting by and the brave push against this moving edge until they meet rock.

Those who speak for the church have, very commonly, a fine sense of what is morally unacceptable in particular human situations.

In his Presidential Address to the North American Patristic Society in 1994, Frederick W. Norris acknowledged that «some of the most interesting voices interpreting early Christian texts are Christian theologians from Africa, Asia, and Latin America,» and that some of them «make historical comments and acknowledge that their sense of what the texts mean is formed by their present commitments and their membership in specific communities.»

I would also suggest that we use our sense of what constitutes a biblical view of good life to enable us to become faithful, whole - life stewards of Jesus.

They generally see beauty (and all values) as simply the creation of estranged human subjects, who project their own individual or communal sense of what is beautiful, and therefore valuable, onto the universe.

Nonetheless, it does not considerably deepen, but merely broadens our sense of what the universe is.

God can no longer be counted on in making sense of what is happening.

Nothing is more inadequate than this idea for making sense of what the term Torah has signified within Jewish experience.

They suggest that we use our biblical sense of what matters most.

In other words, Christianity offers a framework which makes sense of what isotherwise a happy coincidence.

James advocated, consequently, not merely an empiricism, but a radical empiricism — a thorough or root empiricism including not only the five senses but a sense of what is interesting, a «dumb sense,» a «seeing and feeling of the total push and pressure of the cosmos» (PRAG 9).

Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets, when he's less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak.

I felt so close to him that night and then I suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of what I was before the Lord.

In this way, this election gives many white evangelicals a sense of what it's like to be a black believer in America today.

How can one know a god to be false unless he has some sense of what the true God would be?

But because our sketches of a future for humanity and the cosmos are usually too small and insufficiently inclusive, God's own vision of the future bursts them asunder and invites us continually to widen our sense of what is possible.

Self - involved, self - righteous, and sullen, the adult Scout is a young woman trying to make sense of her relationship to the town, or more precisely, trying to make sense of what it means to remain in continuity with this world when its aggressive reaction to national events is at odds with her own, which, it has to be said, is not without some unseemly elements (as when she assures a relative that while she supports civil rights, she'd never want to marry a black man, personally).

But it would also, he suggests, give us some sense of what any reasonable person would say about the historical Jesus and thus might provide «a starting point for dialogue between Christians and Jews, between various Christian confessions, and between believers and nonbelievers.»

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

The identity of power with vulnerability is a great stumbling block to our ordinary sense of what is rational.

Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and science, how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.

His concern is not to adjust Christian theology to the predominant contemporary sense of what is credible and important.