Sentences with phrase «ultimate concern»

Every conviction on matters of ultimate concern is determined by factors peculiar to an historically - formed community or to the private experience of some individual.

One must be honest with oneself about what one regards as of ultimate concern.

The decisive aspect of estrangement, be it in youth or adulthood, comes from choosing to make ultimate that which is not of ultimate concern for our lives.

That the task of Christian theology is to help the churches determine what should be taught about matters of ultimate concern in our world.

2 Various answers were proposed: Schleiermacher tried to base the presence of God in feelings of absolute dependence, Barth in direct revelation from God, Bultmann in existential experience of pure inwardness, Thomism in the analogy of being which leads to the awareness of Supreme Being, Tillich in asking the right questions about ultimate concern.3

So when something upsetting happens to them against their will, rather than get consciously angry, mean, manipulative or deceitful, they drive these unpleasant thoughts and feelings deep underground and cover it all in a sentimental spirituality laced with ultimate concern for the church, God's will, and mission.

Your God is that reality which elicits from you your deepest feelings and your most ultimate concern, he said.

Paul Tillich's experience and faith in ultimate concern came to him through Christianity.

According to Tillich, man's ultimate concern points to being itself which can not be limited by any distinguishing characteristic whatsoever.

Is the historical Jesus as such the necessary ultimate concern to whom the kerygma points?

I mean, after all, the main body of my work is — it's involved in ultimate concerns so to speak, my ultimate view of the nature of living, where the collages are much more — though they're still relatively abstract — they have much more to do with my everyday personal life.

In fact, the criticisms of corrupt religion made by secularists and humanists, as well as even more vigorously by prophets, saints, and reformers within the traditional religions, are themselves evidence of ultimate concerns for truth and right, which express the authentic spirit of the religion of reverence.

Furthermore, the work of the theologian can be distinguished from that of some philosophers only to the degree that the theologian acknowledges, and the philosopher resists, dependence on any particular community of ultimate concern for his perspective.

Because he is a voracious reader who goes in for heavy reading about ultimate concerns, his humor can be appreciated especially by those familiar with the pretentiousness of some religious and philosophical literature.

«Our ultimate concern is for the intellectual health of society, but there are issues here that are more immediately germane to investors,» Fraser - Jenkins said.

As with any time you're dealing with money, security is one of the ultimate concerns.

For Hobbes, felicity — the fugitive enjoyment of a desire, including our deepest, most human, and noblest desires — isn't the ultimate concern or purpose of human life.

Looking back, especially at some of the disputes I had with certain people, and some of the struggles and problems we faced as a church, I now believe that my ultimate concern was for my own prominence and power, and that I would get a paycheck.

The latter concern is still shared by Bart, so much that he even describes them as «on the same team even if we call our ultimate concern by different names.»

If we grant that Tillich's ultimate concern (he defines faith as being ultimately concerned) produces an existential intensity which deepens man's participation in being, his existence in the immediate moment, does it follow that Tillich has followed Nietzsche's «Dionysian» program of transforming the transcendent into the immanent?

It is a commitment to ultimate concern, which is God.

Its source for all humans is the same, call that source what you will — ultimate concern or God.

Taubes makes the telling point that Tillich's «depth» of being — which is reached by the «ultimate concern» of the existing person — is not a transcendent reality lying beyond the world, but is instead the ultimate ground of the being which we now are.

We are estranged from self when we choose to make ultimate in life something which is not of ultimate concern.

Paul Tillich, a great theologian of the twentieth century, defined God as a person's ultimate concern.

If that Tillichian definition is accepted, then there is no such thing as an atheist, for every life has an ultimate concern.

Does your ultimate concern give you slavery or freedom?

These attempts are highly problematic, and in any case questions of ultimate concern can not be treated in this way.

By theology in the broadest sense I mean any coherent statement about matters of ultimate concern that recognizes that the perspective by which it is governed is received from a community of faith.2 For example, a Christian may speak coherently of Jesus Christ and his meaning for human existence, recognizing that for his perception of ultimate importance in the Christ event he is indebted to the Christian church.

What is the nature of your ultimate concern?

But neither politics nor patriotism was of ultimate concern.

While support helped people cope with joblessness, however, we found that their ultimate concern was to find a job.

In existentialism the living situation is no mere center of practicality, shorn of ultimate concern.

Yet freedom, however important, was not their ultimate concern; the Christian faith was.

Religious groups satisfy the need for «an object of devotion,» or what Tillich calls «the dimension of ultimate concern.»

One thinks of Tillich in whom this motif was in tension with a more temporal perception of ultimate concern, and of Heidegger who has done so much to provide categories for modem theology.

For most people, marriage is an ultimate concern, which means premarital practices are cultural liturgies that constitute the shape of the marriage just as religious liturgies shape our worship.

And when our rituals are connected to matters of «ultimate concern,» as Smith puts it, they «constitute and function as liturgies.»

The only cure for this crippling influence is a strong and independent organized teaching profession, whose members are protected against outside interference in the performance of their professional functions and who recognize and accept their responsibility for dealing knowledgeably and impartially not only with the proximate issues of life but also with the ultimate concerns of faith through which the particulars of life gain their deeper significance.

Tillich defines faith not as person - to - person trust but as «ultimate concern», unconditional demand, the final ground of a person's values and the justification for his decisions.

An indefinable longing is met by the ultimate concern for that moment.

Late in his life he went on a journey to Asia with the purpose of finding out if those who had no contact with Christianity had also discovered the ultimate concern and its manifestation in a new being (Tillich 1961).

A final criterion is the adequacy of the symbol to religious experience — its authenticity in expressing the state of a person grasped by an ultimate concern and in representing that which concerns him ultimately.

Whatever its object, ultimate concern is a total perspective involving the whole person and requiring his unreserved allegiance.