Sentences with phrase «styles of life»

There is a need for the churches to change their own attitudes and styles of life and let themselves be renewed by the Gospel which is entrusted to them, that they may serve humankind with a true interpretation of what is going on in the many struggles, pointing to Jesus Christ as the one in whom God sums up all things?

Furthermore, there is a centrist political pull that seeks to draw nations together within a new political order or geo - political system, defined not in terms of national sovereignty or cultural identity but in terms of the economic well - being and styles of life of certain powerful nations.

In the absence of an alternative the whole world is now suddenly thrown open to a global culture symbolized by Western ways in drinks, clothes, movies and music, styles of life and value systems, all of which have a powerful influence on the minds of people, particularly of the younger generation.

The citizens of each country have their unique capabilities, national characteristics, and styles of life.

It is also called conversion, metanoia, total transformation of our attitudes and styles of life.

The theology of the prayers, hymns, and sermon should call individuals away from immature, reality - manipulating styles of life.

At this level contact is needed not only with secular futuristic institutes and universities but also with local churches, with ecumenical and denominational headquarters, with the ghettos, the marketplaces, and wherever new ideas, values, styles of life, and socially effective forces are coming into being.

The religio - cultural traditions of the peoples all around the world are sources of life, giving identity, values, styles of life, perceptions and senses.

«I have saved enough money to elevate my style of living or to fund a long - held dream — such as a special vacation, a boat, or a collectible — but I'm postponing any such expenses until I retire or am closer to retirement age.»

«Her style of life and what she does and how she conducts herself isn't the Christian way, and we're Christians,» he said.

No longer constrained my brother and I live an abundant style of living together even though we both have eyesores.

This style of living emerged in the mid-nineteenth century and offered men who were dislocated from family — usually immigrants or young workmen looking for opportunities in a new city — a supportive environment with more than just a room and bed.

It is not intellectual belief or momentary experience that is revealed in these stories, but the style of life or belief chosen through a myriad of decisions and now come to a head that is revealed.

The rules of monogamy, the proscription of sexual intercourse outside marriage, the traditional rules of sexual restraint, are important for the Christian style of life.

The biblical understanding of life never had a chance to shape its own culture and ethic, and thus to create a context for sexuality within a Christian style of life.

It offers us a brief glimpse of a style of life that supports life.

Like Jains, many Hindus are vegetarian — especially most Brahmins, unless they have adopted a Western style of life.

That distinction being presupposed, let us first ask what is to be said on the question of mutability or immutability of canon law and the Catholic style of life bound up with it, if we may so describe all the practices, rules, modes of behaviour in a Catholic's church life and his secular life lived on Christian lines, which hold good or previously held good through education, church precept etc..

Within the next decade we shall have assiduously to canvass the question whether the religious orders and congregations will really put into practice the Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life, whether they will produce a style of life and of government which, on the one hand, is truly suitable for our time and, on the other, is seriously engaged only in the service of Christ.

Piety and learning should unite in a style of life that characterizes the seminary as a whole, as a unique community of scholars and ministerial students.

There really is change in the Church, therefore, change which is different in nature and magnitude according to whether it concerns style of life, law, dogma or non-defined but authentic doctrine.

Both Bethge's work, and the excellent biography by Mary Bosanquet, The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, give a clear vision of the man, his style of life, his activity, his hopes, fears, aspirations, faith, and loyalty to Jesus Christ.

Both white and black missionaries understood conversion to Christianity as meaning adoption of a European style of living.

My favorite everyday dictionary, the American Heritage, gives it a go: «A way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of an individual or group.»

If all actions and attitudes are functions or components of one's style of living, then it would appear that one is free to choose whatever style one finds appropriate.

The hi - tech multimedia, dictated by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, style of life, perceptions of beauty, and religious mystery in life, as well as ethnic, national identities of persons and community to the market wasteland of cultural life.

We have abandoned our identity as a counterculture / counterchurch movement with a dissident piety and distinctive style of life.

Similarly, he judges his true followers to be those who practice a style of living based on the needs of the poor (Matt.

This emphasis upon the present and the past among the poor may be born of a lack of hope; but in some cases it may be a product of an honest cultural difference indicating a more self - accepting and less acquisitive style of life, a style which should be respected and not automatically deemed inferior to the more ambitious future - oriented activities of the middle classes.

Indeed the style of life that is governed by rules or principles has not yet been liberated.

In them God has already commanded styles of living wherein there is freedom «from the anxiety and the uncertainty of decision.

They present some behavior or style of life as desirable (or undesirable) and propose ways to attain (or avoid) it.

If our style of life is a materialism, it is of an oddly disembodied kind, and does more to shield us from the senses than to liberate them.

America evaluates achievement largely by a man's income and what it procures (home, car, clothes, and style of life, such as that associated with «suburbia»).

The simplest way to characterize this note is to say it is a remarriage of theology with ethics, or a renewed insistence that Christian faith inexorably involves a style of living in a concrete, actual time and place.

In the first place, an open - ended style of life featuring dialogue and discussion of issues, a lack of finality, and the spontaneity of conversation characterizes our way of life.

The participants were asking their churches and themselves to be more closely and extensively identified with the poor and the oppressed and to find new styles of living to express more credibly the identification.74

He wondered if he was also rejecting the Christian way or style of life.

torching the mosque, retorching the mosque, not letting some people get same treatment because of the color of their skin, not letting some people basic civil right because of their style of living..

In an interview, he said: «My style of life is neither that of a bourgeois nor of an ascetic in the traditional sense.

Many moral values become part of an individual's ideals or style of life in early childhood.

We would undoubtedly stop short of longing for the early death about which Paul speaks, but we share the same temptation, to retreat from the world into a churchly style of life which equates Jesus» presence with the church and not the world and which unwittingly denies God sovereignty over the whole world of which he is creator and lord.

The early Church witnessed to its Risen Lord in a variety of ways, most specially in the style of life of its members.

The Christian style of life is always a matter of word and deed.

The call to a connecting, communicating, cooperating style of life is written into the nature of Nature, according to Thomas.

The Jesus of the postpatriarchal church would more likely be the central figure in a community of Jewish women and men who participated in a new style of life together, one that profoundly threatened the established patriarchal powers of both Jews and Romans.

He must deal with the church, with the powers of a feudal society, and with the disciplines, temptations, and style of life of a monastic order, as he seeks heroically to have that order conform to the spirit of love.

Salvatore Rino Fisichella, a Catholic archbishop, said of members of his own church: «Looking at us probably no one would recognize we are Christians today because our style of life is the same as non-believers.»

And doctors strive to change patterns of appetite, most generally those for a style of life directly productive of disease and death.

His life provides an image ofauthentic human existence, a style of life, a norm ofintegrity and love, which shapes our own self - understanding and action.