Sentences with phrase «shaped and formed by»

I was brought up to believe that no - one is a self - made man or woman — we are all shaped and formed by our families and communities.

A more provocative interpretation is that Binoche's words help explain a world shaped and formed by political power, and how moral demands have followed this pattern, thus becoming the real business of cultural map - making.

As Ineson says: «For all this we are going to need leaders whose characters have been shaped and formed by their faith in Jesus.

Since starting her interior design and decoration firm in 1983, Shelley has transformed numerous spaces of all shapes and forms by providing a full service approach.

Not exact matches

Mnuchin responded to calls to resign by defending Trump, saying that «the president in no way, shape or form, believes that neo-Nazi and other hate groups who endorse violence are equivalent to groups that demonstrate in peaceful and lawful ways.»

Developed by local design firm Myron Creative, the new logo features bold, interwoven lines that form the shape of a «V» — intended to represent the connected and inclusive nature of not just our organization, but the Greater Vancouver business community.

Gen - Y will form 75 % of the workforce by 2025 (by Business and Professional Women's (BPW) Foundation) and are actively shaping corporate culture and expectations.

Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.

Whether you are currently single or married, it's important to prepare yourself for the realities of marriage by understanding that each of the six categories above will come with a set of obstacles in some way, shape, or form; and then do your best to learn and prepare for those times.

The Church does not seek a direct role in politics; the Church forms the people who can shape the culture that makes democratic self - governance work: «It is by forming consciences that the Church makes her most specific and valuable contribution to society.

Bachelor subculture, he holds, shaped and was shaped by city life and contributed to the diversity of America by encouraging new forms of social order different from, and in some ways richer than, family life.

By conceiving of collegiality in terms of «support groups,» the authors fail to appreciate the potential for strong forms of collegiality that have the character of friendship, in which fellow pastors share each other's lives and help shape each other's character.

To see belief not as a set of beliefs but as a story, an experience of coming to belief, means that theological reflection ought itself to be shaped by the story, take to itself, both in form and content, the story.

The model necessitates looking at three interrelated stages of the process: first is the shape of the symbolic world shared by the participants; second (and hardest to get at) is the set of experiences and convictions that generated a reinterpretation of that world; third.is the collection of literature containing (in quite diverse forms) that reinterpretation.

That way of living — shaped by memory, bounded by tradition, directed to the future, formed to meet obligations both sacred and profane, and ultimately answerable to permanent truths — can not be embodied in the practice of lone individuals, because at its essence it is about relational commitments.

In Shaping of a Life, Phyllis Tickle reflects on how she has been formed and informed by the office.

The latest episode in this long and continuing story was frst fully broken shortly after the Synod's decision in July by The Catholic Herald, who had a long news piece, an article by «fying bishop» Andrew Burnham (who had just returned from discussions in Rome), and an opinion piece by Damian Thompson containing «well - informed» speculation as to the shape of any agreement over some form of corporate solution to the Anglo - Catholics» problem.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

While respecting the universal principles of the Church, the Christian by his own conscience and his own inquiry, which is a duty incumbent on him as an individual, has to seek for the concrete prescription by which he will shape his own life and endeavour to contribute to determining the actual form taken by public life.

To those who have been abused in any way shape or form by MD or other religious leaders... please know that you are not alone, and I as well as others support you, hang in there, you are a warrior..

I don't get it... we re supposed to have a seperation of church and state in our politics yet we find that our political world is constantly guided by flawed religious beliefs... now religious beliefs are creeping into the workplace, at what point would someone possibly be denied a job because a perspective employer finds out that a perspective employees religious beliefs don't follow the employers... sorry guys religion doesn; t belong in politics or the workplace in any way, shape or form.

The example and presence of -LRB-» Protestant Establishment «-RRB- Society, felt so vividly in America right up into the 1960s, and whose own «last days» are portrayed by Stillman's METROPOLITAN, is by the late 70s no longer there to shape the way democratic people form the «small private associations» they inevitably do.

I stumbled into the evangelical world by a kind of accident 15 years ago when some colleagues and I wanted to understand how the culture of a seminary shapes the ministers who are formed there.

You obviously don't think you're wrong, however I think unlike our friend «why» here, I hope you can understand that morality does not come from the bible and one doesn't need the bible in anyway shape of form to live a morally good life by yours or gods standards.

By suggesting a correlation between how well a college actually succeeds in forming and shaping students» lives during their academic journey and well - being after graduation, the report offers an opportunity for further debate over how best to cultivate the life of the mind.

We shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art and imagination of man, let alone that He is in the shape of a turkey.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

Both give direction to the community, formed by those who are united in a particular religious experience, and this community is actively shaping and developing its religious experience in thought and in action.

As long as one's size and sense of worth are measured by the strength of one's capacity to influence others (and this influence always takes the form of shaping the other in our image), as long as power is associated with the sense of initiative and aggressiveness, and passivity is indicative of weakness or a corresponding lack of power, then the natural and inevitable inequalities among individuals and groups are the means whereby the estrangements in life become wider and deeper.

Pope Francis has been formed by experiences very unlike the factors that shaped John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI.

Islam, for hygienic reasons and in order to form kind and good habits, forbids Muslims to eat pork, animals dead by themselves, animals not killed by Muslims, blood, food given to gods, snakes, poultry which eats meat, and sea food not shaped like a fish, and forbids smoking, drinking, and the use of narcotics.

Their bodies were subjected to physical discipline, and their souls were in - formed by ancient Greece's traditions and customs, chiefly by studying Homer, so that the young would emerge deeply shaped by the dispositions that make for good citizens.

This would be accomplished by means of a form of paideia that would cultivate in them the «philosophical virtues,» shaping in them habits of analytical and critical thinking.

Telecommunications technology has released ways of speaking into our culture that are constrained by these same forms and structures shaped by print.

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It may be defined as that society, with its own geographical area, which was subject to the rule of Christ, and whose culture and way of life had become so permeated and shaped by Christian beliefs and values as to form a cohesive whole.

The US was based on Christianity while Canada was formed by the Briti / French gov.. One secular one Christian for this discussion I am more interested in the lies and the taking away of US history to change the shape of the country.

Noll argues that all this new Christianity has been shaped largely by American evangelicalism, and he suggests that the crucial elements are American forms, not American influence.

Homileticians» interest in the ways that the literary forms, designs, and shapes of scripture «come through» in the design of the sermon can be complemented by understanding how a literary - rhetorical form, such as a sermon, comes through the body and voice of the preacher.

Why, as the white radiance comes through the dome, with all sorts of staining and distortion imprinted on it by the glass, or as the air now comes through my glottis determined and limited in its force and quality of its vibrations by the peculiarities of those vocal chords which form its gate of egress and shape it into my personal voice, even so the genuine matter of reality, the life of souls as it is in its fullness, will break through our several brains into this world in all sorts of restricted forms, and with all the imperfections and queernesses that characterize our finite individualities here below.

A woman who is «physically injured» by someone and a child is lost due such an injury does in no way shape or form mean an abortion.

The point here, however, is to draw out implications of the narrower truth that a Christian congregation's social form is also shaped by its social space, which in turn is importantly and distinctively, if not exhaustively, shaped by the way biblical writings are used in the congregation's common life.

And what «legacy» could you possibly have that would be affected in any way, shape, or form by a bunch of rabid idiots mumbling over a section of ground?

This is not to deny that both the social form and the social space of Christian congregations are also deeply shaped by social forms and cultural symbols prominent in the congregations» host cultures.

Theology must be formulated in the terms of the social mind of the time, which meant, for the Chicago thinkers, in democratic categories and thought forms shaped by the influence of modern science.

The collaborative interplay of the Unholy Trinity of the entertainment industry, big business, and legal institutions has ensured that the most important decisions of our day, those which set the moral boundaries or our civilization, those Rieffian interdicts which frame our forms of life, are no longer significantly shaped by our democratic institutions.

The present form of the narrative has certainly in some measure been shaped by Israel's annual celebration of the Sinai Covenant, as each year the making of Covenant was re-enacted, and the structure of the Covenant itself renewed.

«actual occasions» are shaped not only by logical reasoning, but includes all aspects of one's subjective experiences, including the use of ones imagination, aesthetic feelings, and other forms of non-cognitive and unconscious influences.

The form critics attempted to isolate the discrete units of oral tradition preserved now in the written Gospels, and they assessed how the form of each individual pericope had been shaped by the sociological context in which it originally had been used.