Sentences with phrase «upbuilding as»

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First, as just indicated, the layman is the «ultimate consumer» for whom the church exists, and there can be no «upbuilding of the Body of Christ» unless laymen are being built up in the power of the gospel.

In the church as the body of Christ the cross came to mean the extending of self - denial to incorporation into a community where the personal religious quest of each member was subordinated to the upbuilding in love of the whole.

Postmodern theology will be oriented to the upbuilding of human community, and community with the natural world as well.

Concern for fairness and for upbuilding community is not viewed as rational within the system.

Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.

When one of her works was included in a group show at Betty Parsons in March 1952, the New York Times critic Howard Devree compared it with Nell Blaine's «intricate upbuilding» in a scene suggestive of mountains, stating: «Perle Fine's canvas has reached the utmost in economy in two areas of bluish - green bordering a sweep of white as if the shadow of a cloud had all but obscured a landscape.»