Sentences with phrase «upon the community by»

«It's about the questions brought upon those communities by globalization and urbanization.»

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Take this discussion a step further by incorporating customer feedback and producing iterations of the product based upon the discussions held in the community.

A social media savvy business encourages collaboration across teams, surfaces expertise from subject matter experts and can scale brand and community engagement by drawing upon the collective wisdom of employees and customers.

Would the First Nations communities of Siksika or Morley have been as hard hit by the 2013 flood if this suggestion had been acted upon?

The progress made by General Mills in 2017 demonstrates the company's long - term commitment to protect and restore the resources upon which its business and communities depend, with an increased focus on improving the resiliency of its supply chain.

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

It has become so settled in the mind of the denominational community that «Asking Jesus into the heart» has become the defacto method for becoming a Christian, fearing baptizing converts immediately upon profession of faith will cause them to be «saved by works».

They were regularly the focus of community activities which could, especially upon the death of an emperor or a commemorative day associated with one of his family, become quite intense, and were unmatched by festivities undertaken for the sake of any other deities.

The acute sufferings of that time brought to a head the misgivings about God's providence in history which had been aroused by long - continued misfortunes and disappointments; for these sufferings not only fell upon a people which had made sincere and persistent efforts to observe the law of God in its corporate life, but they fell most heavily upon the best members of the community.

For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.

Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.

Matthew 18 described how the community could live as a free congregation of brothers without having any members placed in positions of superiority and control, held together only by brotherly service, imposed upon all» (Schweizer, p. 398).

In addition to leading activism efforts in our local communities and providing pastoral care to those devastated by the verdict, we also took to Twitter, blogs, pulpits and conference podiums to call upon white Christians to wake up to the reality of racism in America.

Those who believe that the only fruitful thinking is that which attempts strenuously to clear the slate of all received opinion and to attain to methods that can be approved and accepted by men of all cultures, will disapprove of the continuance of a mode of thought that recognizes its dependence upon the particularities of one community.

atoms... all brought about by the scientific method have evidence as to their the reason why things are the way they are... NOT god... in EVERY instance god has proven not to be what it is... the reason a volcano explodes is not because the wrath of god is upon a community... we understand the process behind the event but we didn't always KNOW that.

Anyway, all these ex-gay camps were legally sanctioned (although they were greatly frowned upon by the medical community).

There is, for instance, the conclusion to a C. S. Lewis Lecture on Christian apologetics: «This means, of course, that we need to rethink the Christian basis for a liberal society, in which the rights of individuals and communities are founded upon a Christian understanding of man which is widely shared by non-Christians.

Frei calls upon the Christian community to regain «its autonomous vocation as a religion» by telling its distinctive stories about how God worked in the life of Israel, and God's self - revelation in the life of Jesus Christ.

Even if it is misconceived, though, the question is still pressed upon us: Is it permissible in our political community for public decisions to be based on moral values informed by religion?

By «Christ,» Kaufman means (and claims that at least parts of the New Testament mean) not just Jesus but «that larger, more complex reality surrounding and including and following upon the man Jesus: the new Christian community with its spirit of love and freedom, of mutual sharing and forgiveness of one another.»

Norman, upon returning home to Australia, was ostracized by the Australian community and shunned by the Australian Olympic Committee.

Selfishness must be transformed by enlarging the idea of what the self is, expanding the personality until it takes in our friends, our community, our nation, our world, so that one does not need to stamp upon his self, but can say,

What it is to suggest is that the default basis for evaluating institutions, society, affiliations, memberships, and even personal relationships becomes dominated by considerations of individual choice based upon the calculation of individual self - interest, and without broader considerations of the impact one's choices have upon the community — present and future — and of one's obligations to the created order and ultimately to God.

We have, therefore, more than the outline of Mark to rely upon; it is supplemented and confirmed by the tradition recorded in the speeches of Acts — themselves perhaps embedded in old Judean, Jerusalem, or Caesarean sources, oral or written, which had come down from the primitive community and were incorporated by the author of Acts in his volume.

Liberalism introduces a particular cast to its preliberal inheritance mainly by ceasing to account for the implications of choices made by individuals upon community, society, and future generations.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

11Apparently, he (and his community) could not quite believe that God was utterly atemporal, but he still could reconcile his views with Greek immutability by drawing upon the traditional view of creation in seven days.

By chanting, dancing and clapping, the community provided a base beat upon which the singer would create his or her own distinctive musical text.

Josiah Royce with a quite different philosophical orientation from Ritschl expressed the same truth when he described the Church as the community which is sustained by its memory of the atoning deed of Jesus.21 What is supremely important here is that knowledge of God's forgiveness does not depend upon a private and subjective illumination of the individual believer alone.

It arises in the shared experience of the community of those who through Jesus of Nazareth and what has followed upon his life have discovered that God stands by man even when man is in the wrong.

I did not mean to imply that pacifists of the messianic community have consciously built upon liberal — humanistic pacifism (though my sentence can be so read — mea culpa), but only to point out what should be obvious to all: that the inroads pacifists of the messianic community have made in Roman Catholic and Protestant mainline circles can be traced to a prior acceptance of liberal — humanistic pacifism by many in those circles.

And in the final word, of course no one is exempt from covenant definition, not even the king.30 The influence of the covenant concept upon the ideal structure of the community is illustrated in the Decalogue, which rests upon and is unified by the covenant principle: its negatives are an effort to guarantee with a minimum a community in which the man - man relationship and the man - God relationship conform to Yahweh's will.

I've experienced powerful moments of true community within the church only to have them eventually wrecked and ruined by well - intentioned people trying to turn it into something greater, or packaging it and marketing it for church growth purposes, or inflicting it with pressure to subscribe to a homogenous ideology and lifestyle, or imposing a vision upon it that turns it into an end rather than a thing of beauty in and of itself.

All I can try to do now is to remind you that the process of reflection upon the God of Jesus, by which I mean upon the good news announced by Jesus, that the kingdom of God is at hand, was begun and carried on by people whose thinking was determined by the fact that they belonged to a particular community.

If we exact hate, discrimination, injustice, exploitation, or injury upon any other human being, then we have to be willing to be accountable when we are challenged by the international community.

While I can never recall another instance when Egyptian Christians were so full of rage that they became so bold as to shed decades of fear taught to us by the various and numerous terrors inflicted upon us by members of the Muslim community, I can recall dozens of dozens of instances of Christians being killed by this same community over the past three or four decades.

In this account, autonomy is dependent upon community; our abstractive capacity is supported by internal relations.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

On the contrary, the strength of the enforcement devices, the clerical and moralistic character of the legal approach at large, the duty of disclosure, the close control exercised by the community upon the individual and upon the law, if compared with the analogous legal institutions of the Latin countries, seem to disclose rather a more collectivistic than a more individualistic character of the common - law system....

The need for such work was impressed upon the Churches by the constant movement of population from the midst of settled communities with churches to the frontier with few social and no religious institutions.

In trying to develop upon the emphasis of Our Faith Story the most that OTWTL can affirm of the Church's role is this: «conversion is essentially a response to an encounter with Christ as truth mediated in the community of witness, that is the Church... (such that) we are «re-narrated» as we take on an identity which is conferred by grace.

In its memory of Jesus the Church has the foundation of its existence in the memory of the deed of Jesus who acted in absolute loyalty to the community in the midst of its disloyalty.19 Royce's analysis, however, needs to be deepened by an understanding of suffering, which Williams understands not so much in terms of undergoing pain as «being acted upon or being conformed to another in a relationship.

Ahmadiyvah — branch of the Qadiani sect founded at Qadian (now in India) by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (died 1326; A.D. 1908); the Ahmadis look upon their founder as a renovator of Islam while the rest of the Qadianis accept him as a prophet after Muhammad; the general Muslim community does not recognize the distinction and regards both groups as heretical.

«They assure that our students have the foundation to succeed in their field upon graduating and are much appreciated by our community.»

The partnership with USCM builds upon long - standing work by the non-alcoholic beverage industry to support nutrition education for children, strengthen communities and empower consumers.

o Spa and Salon Treatment blocks, up to 30 treatments per hour, which includes a personalized welcome flier for the group o Fitness Activities and Classes, such as Fun Run, outdoor meditation or Yoga, and Zumba o Ten - minute Chair Massages, ideal for groups, particularly upon arrival o Biometric Health Screenings and Wellness Fair, up to 32 guests receive confidential health screenings followed by fun, interactive demonstrations o Tennis — Tournaments, CardioTennis, or round robins for larger groups o Gift Baskets filled with spa wear, shoes, healthy items and supplements from the Well & Being Community Market

«We look forward to building upon this success by working with the provincial football associations and community to increase the number of Safe Contact trained coaches across Canada.»

a. Although purees are generally frowned upon by the baby led weaning community, you can still always consider mashing your apricots and serving them as a sort of spread on top of small pieces of toast for a tasty breakfast - style treat for your baby.

PAHJ calls upon the insights of Joseph Campbell's Great Monomyth Wheel — the universal structure of storytellers — that helps us as individuals and communities to create and understand the personal and collective stories / mythologies we live by.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.