Sentences with phrase «unity of purpose which»

When he proclaims that he always does what is pleasing to his Father (John 8:29) this argues a complete unity of purpose which expresses itself also in a human nature aware that it achieves its fullest stature in doing the will of God.

Only by proposing such a theological development can we realistically hope to emerge from our present problems, regain that unity of purpose which is so urgently needed and which is a sign of the Spirit and renew the Church in preparation for a new evangelisation of the world in the coming century.

The crusaders» attack on Islam provided Muslims with a unity of purpose which had evaded them since the death of Muhammad in the seventh century.

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In contrast, this is a work of theology in which a unity of purpose between scientific understanding and religious truth is assumed.

God is the only personality which has the transcendence, the authority, and the unity of being and purpose to define morality.

The unity of control and direction, which is material being as it builds through time and space to its climax in man, is but the partial expression of a greater reality, a Law that defines and drives the unfolding a deeper purpose aligned on a yet higher goal.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort — Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 529f.13

They discerned the purpose for which they had gathered to be fourfold: (1) to impart vigour to the Christian life of the faithful, (2) to adapt to our own times those structures subject to change, (3) to promote unity among Christians, and (4) to strengthen whatever serves to call all people into the embrace of the Church.

Although we would rather talk of the coherent unity of the causal complex, because, even when the development of a complex entity can be traced through contributary causes, the interlocking patterning of those causes through time and space and the higher meaningful unit of organisation which they produce still reveals order and purpose in the system which points to Transcendent Mind as First and Final creative cause.

Whitehead himself was quite explicit about cosmology: «The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.

That Jesus as the Christ in fact manifested such a unity of purpose with God, as Cobb describes, is a matter which perhaps is certain only within the community of those who have opened themselves (been opened to) his continuing personal influence.

The two metaphysical aspects of the notion of «importance» were referred to earlier: first, the unity — «subjective form» — which results from the gradation of alternatives in terms of their intensity and, secondly, the sense of purpose itself — «subjective aim» — which determines that gradation.

Emotional maturity is judged by such criteria as sense of proportion, correspondence of feelings with reality, unity of purpose, and flexibility — all of which are of an esthetic nature.

The President General, Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs hinted that the purpose of the visit was to further entrench the relative peace, unity and love among Nigerians which according to him remains the only channel to national growth and development.

Everyone in the house listens to President Jimmy Carter's «crisis of confidence» speech in which he claimed that the «fundamental threat to American democracy» came from a crisis of confidence, reflected in the growing doubt about «the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.»

«The abiding appeal of art,» he announces in the Renoir book, «springs from the presence in it of the characteristics which lend interest and poignancy to life itself: movement, contrast, rhythm, symmetry, coherence of parts, unity of form and meaning, and individuality of purpose.»

Consider what Nikolai Fedorov wrote in 1880s: that the ultimate function of the museum is to unify progressives and conservatives, vitality and death: «And our age in no way dares to imagine that progress itself would ever become the achievement of history, and this grave, this museum, becomes the reconstruction of all of progress's victims at the time when struggle will be supplanted by accord, and unity in the purpose of reconstruction, only in which parties of progressives and conservatives can be reconciled — parties that have been warring since the beginning of history.»

29 That said, where a court of a Member State is called upon to review whether fundamental rights are complied with by a national provision or measure which, in a situation where action of the Member States is not entirely determined by European Union law, implements the latter for the purposes of Article 51 (1) of the Charter, national authorities and courts remain free to apply national standards of protection of fundamental rights, provided that the level of protection provided for by the Charter, as interpreted by the Court, and the primacy, unity and effectiveness of European Union law are not thereby compromised (see, in relation to the latter aspect, Case C - 399 / 11 Melloni [2013] ECR I - 0000, paragraph 60).

In his address, the Prime Minister said: «There is probably no aspect of public policy on which there is more unity of purpose and readiness to give others the benefit of the doubt.