Sentences with phrase «ultimate commitment»

He felt that Whitehead had yielded to the natural human tendency to conceive of God in terms which offered a merely pleasant feeling about religion without demanding the kind of ultimate commitment to the creative process itself which Wieman felt was urgently needed.

But note that it can serve such a consummatory liberating function only insofar as the study provides an occasion for the development of the student's own ultimate commitment, which is to construct and practice a faith of his own.

In particular, I believe that secular studies can benefit from the framework of values and the wisdom about man's ultimate commitments generated over the centuries in the experiences of prophets and saints and articulated in fresh, contemporary language by critical theological inquiry.

It can refer to a preintellectual experience of ultimate commitment, or it can mean the discursive expression of that commitment.

When customers can be be converted to fans, business wins the ultimate commitment.

In developing their own thrust, churches should emphasize the spiritual dimension of mental health — the role of values, meanings, ultimate commitments, and relationship with God.

Thus, persons fanatically committed to doctrines of class warfare and subversion of free institutions (communists, fascists, racists) would have to be prevented by the police power of the democratic state from putting their ultimate commitments into practice.

The quality of life which springs from this ultimate commitment is the soul of democracy and the consummation of education for the common good.

Madden says that «public debate predicated on the claim that our opponents are just making errors with regard to their ultimate commitments... strikes me as a non-starter.»

Public debate predicated on the claim that our opponents are just making errors of reason with regard to their ultimate commitments still strikes me as a non-starter.

Conversation between adherents of naturalism and theism is basically an argument not between science and theology, but between two ultimate commitments, two metaphysical interpretations of the nature of the universe and the significance of human life.

Worship and work, ultimate commitment and concrete deeds, religion and ethics, form one comprehensive whole in which each dimension presupposes and leads to the other.

Ideally, the ultimate commitment was to the God revealed in Jesus Christ, and for some people this was the reality.

It was nearly as virulent as Luther himself — only it did not enquire into the doctrine behind it all, the dangerous world of ideology and ultimate commitment.

Do you believe that's the ultimate commitment when you suggest that marriage is for life?

And where do couples date each other the longest or shortest before making the ultimate commitment?

It's February, the time when many couples are thinking about making that ultimate commitment.

You've found «the one» and you're ready to make the ultimate commitment.

It's striking to see these minimal compositions in light of Hafif's ultimate commitment to the severe denial of any image in her monochromes, a move that was particularly audacious given proclamations of painting's historical irrelevance at the time.

Some people love their household items so much that they're prepared to make the ultimate commitment and marry them - even if that means physically dragging their intended inanimate object down the aisle.