Sentences with phrase «struggles of»

It has been true in all the struggles of the new nations for independence.

In this volume in particular we see into the intimate struggles of a man navigating the complex geography of familial ties and relationships.

This was true in all of the early struggles of the industrial workers.

But in our context today where millions of people are in hunger and live in sub-human conditions on account of the unjust socioeconomic and political structures of our country, faith in Jesus Christ would mean to identify ourselves with the struggles of the poor and the oppressed for justice and liberation.

Some of the most commanding ideas and most significant theological controversies in the Old Testament, from the days of the Exile on, were associated with the struggles of Judaism over this confusing and often agonizing problem of individual injustice in a world governed by «powerful Goodness.»

More immediately, morality was mediated through the extended family (with all its connections to caste), which remains very powerful in India; sometimes in those temples where pundits gave discourses about the perennial struggles of good and evil; and most frequently by the practical decisions of the panchiat, the intercaste village council of the five leading elders.

The answer should not have been to downplay regular confession, but to link it to priestly formation which imparts a clear awareness of the stages and struggles of the spiritual life.

But almost every element of this dynamic of human dissolution has also been aided and abetted by Republican policies, if in different guises: commercial self - interest, disregard for the poor and the survival struggles of economically battered workers, lack of interest in environmental self - discipline and generational concern for the future, disrespect for the Nations.

Nothing extraordinary, just the average stuff one hears about in the middle class struggles of aging in America.

Thus Jesus Christ and the New Humanity offered in this are presented as the spiritual foundation, the source of judgement, renewal and ultimate fulfillment of the struggles of mankind today for its humanity.

The political approach was used in the struggles of public - interest groups, with church organizations in the lead, to achieve media reform during the l960s and 1970s.

The large number of churches of eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Caribbean and Latin America, have brought with them into the Council the hopes, the aspirations, and struggles of their peoples, races and nations.

Afghanistan, where all the planning for the attack on September 11 allegedly was undertaken, was a clear case of a victim in the geo - political and ideological struggles of the contemporary world.

For when the struggles of youthful adolescence are all over there is spiritual adolescence of maturity, We all have to deal with it if we are to see life through.

Populist conservatives would also need to show that while Huckabee can talk with some eloquence about the struggles of a single mother, he'll follow that with meandering, bizarre stories about students and their desks rather than conservative policy solutions.

Hurt is hurt, and every time we honor our own struggle and the struggles of others by responding with empathy and compassion, the healing that results affects all of us.

Under the pressures of the religious struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the fractured church turned to the arts a embellishers of the words that had severed the Word into sectarian and polemical forms.

It affords readers with the history required to really understand the present climate and contains the struggles of both the Catholic and the Reformed traditions.

Reducing the struggles of the past to conflict between «the Christians» and «the culture» disregards the fact that slavery, Jim Crow, Native American removal, and all sorts of racial and gender inequalities have all flourished in a supposedly Christian culture.

Huckabee has to combine his instinctive understanding of the struggles of people at or under the median, with an agenda for addressing those concerns.

In the concentration camps and battlefields and political struggles of our day the Christian faith has its witness in men and women whose separate hopes have been shattered and yet whose hope has never been taken away.

But with this important exception, the Bible contains reflections of every human interest — not only religion, but also history, philosophy, poetry, drama, great addresses, stories, letters, law - making, the struggles of war, the pursuits of peace.

Here is the ethical frontier in the major struggles of mankind today.

If science and technology are ever to be liberated from tutelage to the dominative powers of history, if the drama is to be «interrupted» redemptively rather than destructively, then Christian theology, which has itself been enticed time and again to legitimate dominative power, can contribute to that future by mediating more dialectically to the present the subversive memories of God's identification with the struggles of victims everywhere in the mystery and message of Christ Jesus.

On this score, Christopher Wells is more attuned to my concerns, when he notes that the U.S. Anglican — Roman Catholic Consultation's recent statement on «Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment» properly called on each Church to «share» in the moral struggles of the other, rather than to use them as clubs with which to beat the other.

This was the beginning of another disaster, as the kingdoms were drawn into the power struggles of the Near East.

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

For that matter, why endure the daily struggles of this thing called life?

A few years ago, the center - left Third Way Foundation produced a report called Wayward Sons, about the struggles of low - skilled men (and the struggles of their children — especially their male children) since 1970.

We rested on a twin bed together, equally exhausted by the struggles of...

The explanation for this failure to mix lies in the ambivalence toward the Church that followed bitter church - state struggles of the nineteenth century.

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political,...

Recollection of Roosevelt's attacks on the «economic royalists» may provoke nostalgia on the left for the heroic struggles of yore, but employed in today's very different economic situation such attacks would meet among most Americans blank incomprehension.

Sometimes we don't want to minimize the accomplishments and the struggles of others, so we hold back.

From the perspective of the day to day struggles of the people for justice, for freedom and love, we interpret the meaning of tradition.

In contrast, denominational leaders often advocate full understanding of and involvement in the struggles of people seeking equality and justice.

These publicists are aware of the irony of their position — that their own «upward social mobility was, in large part, made possible by the struggles of those in the civil rights movement and the more radical black activists they now scorn.

That said, I am the only Christian within my program, and struggles of faith are not something I can readily discuss with my peers.

But evangelicals, for whom the intense struggles of the fundamentalist / modernist controversy are still a living and determinative memory, are jittery, fearing that the book might herald a new era of faculty purges and organizational splits — a replay of earlier conflicts, this time rending the evangelical world apart.

First: The historical - political analysis of patriarchy and the struggles for democracy provided a reconstructive model that could make the agency and struggles of women historically visible.

Shaw argues that the present struggles of the Church to be who she is amid governmental mandates and the ascendant «state religion» of secular humanism are the legacy of Baltimore's Cardinal James Gibbons and other early churchmen who found America to be so accommodating to religion as to warrant a reciprocal accommodation to nationalism.

The most interesting connection between Croydon's Stormzy and California's Kendrick Lamar is not their shared ethnicity or gritty raps which depict the struggles of their respective neighbourhoods, but the strong themes of God and faith throughout their music.

Those of us who want to help Israelis and Palestinians resolve their conflict must have empathy for the internal struggles of the many Jews who care deeply about justice, but who have great difficulty thinking about or considering involvement in working for peace in the Middle East.

Above all, foreknowledge prevents God from sharing and suffering in the moral struggles of humanity (FG 245f).

I had to ask: What is the relation between the struggles of black people in the U.S. and the struggles of people in the Third World?

I look back at the struggles of my past in light of who I am today, and I see God's hand and purposes every step of the way.

It is the coming to a head of the struggles of all the cosmic ages for a significance that might validate their labored journeying.

When the bishops of Athens and Jerusalem turned deaf ears to struggles of social and moral importance, Jakovos committed the American Orthodox church to the black civil rights movement and marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama.

Real changes occurred within each, and in addition, a recognition of common interests emerged that has, to some degree, withstood the struggles of the ensuing period.

We hope to be able to sustain the struggles of the various groups and beyond that to show reciprocal support.