Sentences with phrase «than unity in»

It is heretical to say, as did Nazi theologians, that national solidarity is more sacred than our unity in Christ.

But there's more to being an American than unity in freedom.

Not exact matches

Together, with more than 200 other CEOs with nearly 15 million employees, we stand united against racism and in support of unity and healing.

When we give in to this need for self exaltation, and organize others around our cause, then we recognize it as the warped type of social engineering you describe, where the goal is uniformity, not unity — promoting our own agenda, rather than participating in God's mission.

As for Augustine's intellectual life, Brown sees more unity in Augustine's thinking than he did earlier.

Among the segments of society that persist in virulent anti-Semitism there is no more unity - or relevance to wider society - than among the KKK, Black Panthers, or any other random assortment of racist detritus.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

Hence, while the presiding occasion contributes more to the unity of the society than any of the subordinate occasions, the objective unity of the society is still provided by all of the occasions acting in concert, not by the dominant occasion alone.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Few things bless a church more than the precious gift of leaders who serve together in unity for the joy of their people.

Hebrew thought developed this idea rather than immortality, first, because the Hebrews had a vivid sense of the goodness of material bodily existence; and second, because they understood the necessary unity of the person not as a soul - in - body but as a whole living, feeling, thinking personality.

Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.&raquin the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.&raquIn truth you are my Lord and my God.»

So, why is this piece of op - ed higher up on the home page than the new Egyptian president urging unity in a country on the verge of civil war, and the story of the brave park ranger who gave his life for another on Mount Rainier?

As for the prospect of «church unity,» it is fair to say that the book is stronger in good intentions than on proposals or expectations.

The first description points to a level of mental functioning in which bodily experience is merely registered without much enhancement of the mental pole in the occasions other than perhaps a general feeling tone; the second points to an habitual form of bodily unity; and only the third suggests a flight from environmental obligations in the interest of greater depth of experience.

For their part, AHA inserted «a brief description of the history of the Pledge of Allegiance, including the information that «under God» was only added as recently as 1954 in response to the Cold War and that some Americans feel that the Pledge should focus on unity rather than religion.»

From Mark: In these theological / political times, where it seems so important to be in the right «camp» lest we be cast out from fellowship with others because we do not hold the «correct» views, how do you suggest moving forward toward greater unity, rather than greater divisioIn these theological / political times, where it seems so important to be in the right «camp» lest we be cast out from fellowship with others because we do not hold the «correct» views, how do you suggest moving forward toward greater unity, rather than greater divisioin the right «camp» lest we be cast out from fellowship with others because we do not hold the «correct» views, how do you suggest moving forward toward greater unity, rather than greater division?

Usually this is the moment in my story when I am told that my discomfort is solely my problem and my responsibility to wrestle with and get over, that everyone feels a little out of place when they are new, and that my identity should be first and always that of a Christian seeking unity rather than division, especially along racial and ethnic lines.

But more often than not, those of us who express concern are encouraged to quiet down and make nice in the name of Christian unity.

Yet if there is a new vision of «pan-Orthodox and ecumenical unity» in the Eastern church, no one is more responsible for it than this man, whose desire for an open church is matched only by his love for American baseball.

Tribal customs and antecedents are more important than sectarian beliefs in maintaining unity among the people of the Arabian Peninsula.

Because the reasons for the division between the Churches are so complex, there is no other way than to discuss each single cause by itself in order to remove or at least to weaken each obstacle to unity individually.

In any case it should be clear that we do not create unity, no more than we bring about righteousness by means of our works, but that on the other hand we should not sit around twiddling our thumbs.

In After Strange Gods he hinted darkly at the kind of oppression his society might lead to: «What is still more important [than homogeneity of culture] is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of freethinking Jews undesirable.»

From the gospel accounts of his spoken words at the Last Supper, the unity of Catholic tradition holds that the Real Presence is divinely given in the sacrament of the Eucharist — substantively more than any lesser parallelism on our part of either seeing or hearing.

I think most of us are familiar with the concept of praying for other people, and so I will not belabor the point, other than to say that the primary prayer requests of Jesus for others is that they would remain faithful to God, and in unity with one another.

For example, Pannenberg insists that we take as our starting point the three persons who are implicated in Christian revelation and expounded in the early creeds, rather than beginning with a single essence or any theory of the unity of God.

To say that there is not unity in the canon and biblical theology, though not everything is explainable since God is larger than we, would similarly disqualify you from being a pastor in our church.

What I am proposing is that such regnant societies may not be necessary in every instance, that the structured society itself, as a process of a higher order than its constituent parts or members, possesses its own unity and exercises its own agency, quite apart from whether it is organized monarchically or democratically.

Catholics, meanwhile, were indeed in the middle of what some scholars have called a «Catholic Renaissance» where they expressed their group's unity more profoundly than before.

Furthermore, precisely as a community (or, in Whiteheadian terms, a structured society), they possess a higher unity and greater actuality than would theoretically be possible for each of them as individual persons, i.e., as separate personally ordered societies.

More disturbing to many, especially in the difficult ecumenical situation in Germany, where the shrinking number of Christians is almost evenly divided between Protestant and Catholic, he has said that the unity of the church perhaps requires a papacy and that quite possibly the only churches that will survive far into the third millennium are Catholic, Orthodox, and Evangelical rather than mainline Protestant.

For the unity and variety of the portraits of «Jesus through the centuries» has demonstrated that there is more in him than is dreamt of in the philosophy and Christology of the theologians.

Paul also experienced an internal unity in Christ; he was more than a Pharisaic Jew, more than a Hellenistic Jew; from his conception he had been «in Christ» and as an adult he realized that being «in Christ» meant having the power of God, the power of Being itself.

And at the Mass at Yankee Stadium: «Here we are reminded of a fundamental truth: that the Church's unity has no other basis than the Word of God made flesh in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Religion, therefore, becomes (as it has often been characterized in the press) a sectarian concern rather than a basis of unity.

Henry is torn between the emerging parties, insisting on the one hand that he is closer to Lindsell than to Fuller Seminary (where he once taught) but on the other hand scrambling in a number of interviews, articles and reviews to counteract the book's threat to the evangelical unity to which he has given so much of himself.

But of course the principle of the asymmetrical identity of a unity and a multiplicity allows for more than one sense in which there are discontinuities in the human subject.

Church unity is expressed primarily in annual or quadrennial meetings rather than in integrated mission planning and cooperation.

We can't choose not to seek unity anymore than we can choose not to seek love, when Jesus discusses a desire for unity in John 17 he would certainly find pursuing unity without love to be absurd, but as He and Paul in 1 Corinthians labored to demonstrate the two are inextricably linked an mutually necessary, your unity isn't genuine if you are not building it on love, but neither is your love genuine if you are not growing in unity.

Ivor Leclerc (3) has recently shown that although Whitehead has - done more than other atomists in explaining the kind of unity possessed by compounds and organisms, he still fails to do justice to the distinctive characteristics that emerge and function at these supraparticle levels.

Like Dostoievsky, he has embraced rather than chosen between the opposites of self - affirmation and turning to God, of the individual and society, but he has gone beyond Dostoievsky in his ability to bring these opposites into true unity.

«The unification must be accomplished before a man undertakes some unusual work,» but any ordinary work that a man does with a united soul acts in the direction of new and greater unification and leads him, even if by many detours, to a steadier unity than he had before.

It is this close unity of the Mediterranean ecology, which was in mind when Boissevain pointed out in his review of the book, The People of the Mediterranean, that it is more than just a place of meeting, trading and war.

Their narrative faithfully portrays the movement of the drama, with its fundamental unity and continuity, even though in fact the interval between the arrest and the session of the council, and between that and the trial before Pilate, may have been more considerable than appears.

It is certainly far more persuasive than simply pointing out that the natural world appears to have «an «internal finality», or that it displays «a remarkable unity and finality in its dynamic development».

This may prove a better pedagogy for our growth in unity than other paths.

...) Somehow, it seems to me that unity will not be achieved with those terms, seeing how many interpretations are available now and the bottom line of our selfishness not addressed in any way, shape or form, other than to try to be «nicer».

Schools that are racially integrated — assuming that the way integration is achieved promotes unity rather than division in the community — will have the greatest need and opportunity to provide those daily experiences that make this real for children.

In such a world of sinful, broken unity, any participation in war is a compromise of what God intended and risks serving chaos rather than shaloIn such a world of sinful, broken unity, any participation in war is a compromise of what God intended and risks serving chaos rather than shaloin war is a compromise of what God intended and risks serving chaos rather than shalom.