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

They usually speak of more proximate contexts and goals and often manifest an almost ultimate concern in less ultimate matters.

Not exact matches

Credit concerns typically create a spike in demand for default - free assets such as U.S. government liabilities, so even though there is a much larger float than is likely to be sustained over time without inflation as the ultimate outcome, credit concerns tend to support the value of these liabilities and hence mutes immediate inflation pressures (essentially, monetary velocity declines as these liabilities are sought as a default - free store of value).

The ultimate sin as far as I and many others are concerned is this stupid belief in invisible friends.

Rather, the new NIV here makes it possible for English readers to discover a more Catholic or Orthodox or truly Lutheran Paul, one who teaches that the problem with the Jewish law is its ethnic and temporary character and that human salvation concerns our real sacramental participation in divine life, real transformation, and ultimate resurrection.

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?

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

From the inception of the enterprise in the decree of Darius, «Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices,» (Ezra 6:3) to the festal celebration of ultimate success — «They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced» (Nehemiah 12:43) the religious life of the restorers of Zion centered in the altar.

Whether it is expressed in religious terms or not, the meaning of life, values, destiny — ultimates — are matters of faith and therefore are religious concerns.

Nevertheless, as far as we are concerned, it receives its ultimate truth and fulfilment only when it is celebrated as that «communion» which takes place in the daily round of our earthly life.

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

It was Bonhoeffer's conviction that only a church whose message is a part of her own being, a church who witnesses in obedience to her own ultimate concern through her actions, is able to interpret and proclaim the word of God to a world come of age.

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

The parable following 19.11 develops this theme in that it instructs the Christians to settle down to the long haul of history in the general context of an ultimate parousia, a parousia which, however, is clearly receding both in time, so far as the Lukan hope is concerned, and in importance for the Lukan theology.

Further, these experiences are of central concern by being in some sense ultimate.

The one that has received most attention in our time is that stemming from Soren Kierkegaard and issuing in modern existentialism.18 I shall not develop this point beyond suggesting that here, too, concern with the ultimate import of the immediate situation associates ultimacy with immediacy in its concreteness.

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.

One concerns our bodily existence and its value in our ultimate destiny.

That one can dare to maintain such hope depends on acceptance of the Christian faith's promise that precisely in the relinquishing of concern for one's own security, ultimate security and meaning are found.

Too often the church has taken a stance of concern for the world, but has understood itself as a delivered community having little ultimate stake in the fate of the world.

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.

In this framework, it is indeed agape — selfless, loving concern — which is the ultimate and indeed the only imperative to be served in this or any situatioIn this framework, it is indeed agape — selfless, loving concern — which is the ultimate and indeed the only imperative to be served in this or any situatioin this or any situation.

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.

This chapter deals with religion as a particular facet of education in a democracy, but more significant is the fact that all of the preceding chapters set forth a religious point of view by demonstrating what the life of ultimate devotion means in a wide range of human concerns.

In the second place, as one community agency among many, the school also serves the ultimate social objectives indirectly, insofar as its immediate concern is to teach men who will be able to guide and carry on the activities of other agencies; so it functions as a community of teachers.

This is somewhat confusing, for we have a very similar story in John 21:4 - 14, which concerns the risen Christ and serves as a highly symbolic prediction of the ultimate success of the Christian mission.

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

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.

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).

Key concepts in the new consciousness are: subject, felt relations, internal relations, sympathy richness of experience, creative solitude, hope, faith affection new being, ultimate concern (= God), compassion and God's action in the world as internally related to all individual entities from protons to people.

Among the Greeks and even among the Indians, that the ultimate reference of concern is oneself was not in question.

Kappen says «paradoxically, in spite of his avowed atheism, Marx's philosophical concern has much in common with the ultimate meaning of human existence.

The function of worship is to make us more sensitive to these depths; to focus, sharpen and deepen our response to the world and to other people beyond the point of proximate concern (of liking, self - interest, limited commitment, etc.) to that of ultimate concern; to purify and correct our loves in the light of Christ's love; and in him to find the grace and power to be the reconciled and reconciling community.

For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with it.

Nor is Austen concerned merely with the personal fulfillment of the domestic hearth, for behind almost all her plots lurks the question of property, to which a young woman's propriety was also indissolubly linked (that fascinating etymological link between the two words property and propriety gets its ultimate elucidation in her novels).

Even «the ultimate evil in the temporal world» concerns how present actualities obstruct past ones (PR 340), not pure possibilities.

Concerned with the nature of the world ground, it is also interested in how man must relate himself to this ultimate reality in order to achieve what, in Christianity, is called salvation.

In the Aranyakas to a still greater degree it goes forward, but in the Upanishads it comes to flower.27 Here the chief concern is to ask ultimate questions concerning man, and his world, and his final destinIn the Aranyakas to a still greater degree it goes forward, but in the Upanishads it comes to flower.27 Here the chief concern is to ask ultimate questions concerning man, and his world, and his final destinin the Upanishads it comes to flower.27 Here the chief concern is to ask ultimate questions concerning man, and his world, and his final destiny.

Concern for the ultimate vindication of the martyr had been a prominent factor within Jewish thought in promoting the hope for a final resurrection.

For the Skimpoles of this world, the ultimate source of bread is the baker's van, and there is no need to concern oneself with plowing, sowing, weeding, dunging, cutting, threshing, milling, and baking — not to mention the thousands of mercantile transactions, from mortgages to tire rotations — that must be in place, and continually attended to, so that Skimpole might have his honey on toast.

Gestalt therapy challenges the «aboutism» of endless intellectualizing (in theology and philosophy) concerning the «ultimate meaning of life» which so often becomes a substitute for the direct, enlivening experiencing of spiritual reality.

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign PoweIn the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Powein life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Powein the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Powein the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

On this level, therefore, as well as on many others, as far as Hartshorne is concerned, the analysis of man «drives on (Tillich) to the question of God.32 Moreover, once one attains the vision of all things as united in the mind of God, he has reached the ultimate Hartshornian rational basis for feeling sympathetic respect for all creatures as contributing to the life of God.

But what meets us in Paul's monologue about life and death is precisely the absence of any concern with these alternatives as ultimate at all!

Similar ambivalences characterize every human situation; ultimate and immediate concerns, long - and short - range goals, big and little questions, theological and technical perspectives are involved in it.

In terms of God's concern for the world, the Church is a segment of the World, a postscript, that is, added to the world for the purpose of pointing to and celebrating both Christ's presence and God's ultimate redemption of the whole world.

I suggest the «will to belong» as more fundamental than either the «will to power» (Hocking) or «ultimate concern», in Tillich's sense of that which determines our being or non-being.

Putting politics in its proper place means seeing that it's not, to use the language of Paul Tillich, a matter of «ultimate concern.»

Spiritual intimacy is the nearness that develops through sharing in the area of ultimate concerns, the meanings of life (to both partners), their relationship to the universe and to God.

It is communication only in the sense that in the act of prayer one does «break through» the bounds of preliminary concern and reach an awareness of the ultimate dimensions of life.