Sentences with phrase «significance of all»

I never really understood the significance of Advent as a season of waiting until this year, as Dan and I have mourned alongside a dear friend recently devastated by the betrayal of someone close.

Blake named God as Urizen or Satan at the very moment when he discovered the apocalyptic significance of the death of the Christian God — as witness his first prophetic poem, America.

What is the spiritual significance of these powerful, artificial modifications of the saying and hearing of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?

Today new ways are needed to communicate the significance of Jesus.

Karl Jaspers accurately describes the significance of the new scientific attitude toward the «reason» in things:

While Lincoln, like Madison, understand the political significance of reverence for our founders he also understood the hostility to tradition inherent in modernity's iconoclastic premises, not to mention the ambiguous status of tradition in a nation forged from revolution and an extraordinary measure of political philosophy.

And thereby to be brought to our senses about the significance of our lives and deaths.

Further, they should be able to understand the loving and unique significance of conjugal intercourse, which lies not mainly in the pleasure it may give the spouses, but in the unparalleled way by which it expresses the total and exclusive self - gift they made to one another in marrying.

Simply put, it is hard to overstate the significance of Calvary Chapel in remapping Protestantism, particularly evangelicalism.

But we do believe in the eternal significance of the condescension of God, the glorious Incarnation, the singular moment in time when the God of the ancients came to earth to take upon him a body of flesh and bones.

It's no secret that Lewis spent a large portion of his life as an atheist — 30 years, in fact — but the significance of his gradual, yet dramatic conversion shouldn't be overlooked.

The significance of this doctrine has not been lost on poets and theologians, and especially on one of the greatest of English religious poets Gerard Manley Hopkins.

The broader significance of the chapter lies in whatever light it throws on the psychological understanding of authoritarian religion in general.

Richard Quebedeaux, The New Charismatics: The Origins, Development, and Significance of Neo-Pentecostalism (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1975), 111.

We are a long way from understanding how sex enters into the child's growth, and the significance of human differences.

Miss Krook's view of the significance of sexuality for love supplies the element we have found missing in the Christian tradition.

The real significance of «the Kingdom of God» for the message of Jesus does not in any sense depend on the dramatic events attending its coming, nor on any circumstances which the imagination can conceive.

If it is rare to find a bishop, shall we say, giving time and thought to understand the elements of a scientific process, it is, in my experience at least, also rare to find a scientist giving his serious attention to the meaning and significance of Christianity.

The birth of the idea of civil society in dissenting Protestantism with its notions of covenanting and «federal liberty,» while historically irretrievable, ought to caution us against dismissing the significance of religion to civil society.

They are guided to discover a sense of their place in the whole because they have been shown how to believe in the significance of the whole.

But the chief significance of this saying is negative: if many Gentiles are to bring the unrepentant Jews to shame, then clearly, belonging to the Jewish race does not constitute a right to a share in the Kingdom.

«If the Church does not regard Israel from a Christian point of view,» he remarked, «if it does not recognize the theological significance of this people, having a national destiny that can be cultivated only in Zion, the Church has no right to pass judgment on Israel.»

We who proclaim Christ ought to have enough faith that our Lord is what we claim him to be, to permit such men and women to have, if not full then some limited, participation in Christian life in the community of faith; for we are confident, or we should be confident if we really believe what we say about Jesus, that such fellowship with him in the company of his people will lead them more and more deeply into the true significance of his person.

Therefore, the realization of the existence of this Kingdom, working for its expansion, living according to its principles, and, if necessary, dying for it, is the real significance of man s temporary existence upon the earth.

This interpretation of the cross as a permanent fact rather than a mythological event does far more justice to the redemptive significance of the event of the past than any of the traditional interpretations.

Unreconstructed economists would find the claim of the lesser significance of comfort, relative to a good such as the spread of learning, inappropriate.

As the Church explores this, our understanding of the significance of a male priesthood is likely to grow.

There seems to be a prevailing sense that this moment is something of a kairos for American Christianity, a moment of deep change in the public significance of Christianity and a moment of decision in the life of the Church.

She reminds her readers of the significance of the sacraments as an extension of that healing mission.

«Our photo editor realized the significance of this historic moment, and published the picture, but in his haste he did not read the «fine print» that accompanied the picture, forbidding any changes,» the newspaper said in its Monday statement.

None of the significance of life passes him by; everything has meaning.

Building on the Platonic understanding of hell as the place where unpunished violations of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence of our free will («the other side of human dignity») and of the significance of human action, opening up trains of thought in the direction of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body - and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms of logic and reason.

As the initiate stood in the central pool, he or she could also look up at thestarry sky depicted on the ceiling, recalling the cosmic significance of the sacred rite.

The distinction drawn by Käsemann and Bornkamm is in recognition of the distinctive significance of Easter.

The young man does not catch the significance of the addition.

On another note, how can one measure the significance of a community - wide event where churches and pastors come together in unity to proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord?

Deeply indebted to the work of Albert Schweitzer from the turn of the twentieth century, he has cogently argued time and again for the historicity of the eschatological preaching of Jesus and the significance of the Passion.

A clergyman functions as a preacher when he proclaims Christ, the significance of Christ for men, and the need for acceptance of Christ as bringing wholeness of life; he is to preach for repentance and for participation in the Church which is the setting for the gospel.

Let the significance of this image sink in as you think on Jesus words in Matthew 5:41: If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.

The significance of the book lies in its insistence that Islam is not a matter of personal loyalties but a movement in which loyalty to ideals is the decisive factor.

For this new theism, the significance of Jesus is found first in his providing the classical instance of what is always and everywhere operative, although it is working against serious obstacles that yet can not defeat the cosmic thrust toward loving and sharing.

The other great doctrines of Paul — in addition to the significance of Christ's death, which after all he himself owed to the early community (I Cor.

So as to better grasp the contents of this meeting, to know the participants and understand the significance of the meeting, we invite you to take a closer look at the exchange of ideas which took place during the several days of the meeting.

On the other hand, the confusion of the two tasks has often meant that the significance of the proclamation of the «Word of God» has been lost sight of in the valid concern for the ministry of teaching.

The analysis of a characteristic prophetic form of utterance (German: Gattung) defines both the subject of «ecstatic» concentration and at the same time the nature and significance of the unmistakably non-ecstatic; that is, the role of the prophet's normally functioning senses.

The story is one of mounting personal agony for the two fathers, Kumalo and the elder Jarvis, as in different ways they search for their sons, Kumalo for the release of Absalom from the murder charge or at least the boy's repentance for his act, and Jarvis for the significance of his son's life which was devoted to the improvement of the lot of the blacks in South Africa.

Thus such traditions become kerygmatic, not by appropriating the traditional language of the Church's kerygma, but in a distinctive way: They retain a concrete story about Jesus, but expand its horizon until the universal saving significance of the heavenly Lord becomes visible in the earthly Jesus.

The significance of the master's commendation is expressed by the clause, «for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.»

It means that the significance of an individual life is not measured simply by its coming and going in the passing panorama of existence.

I would like to evaluate the original significance of martyrdom of Martin Luther King Jr. in the light of Jesus's Martyrdom.