Sentences with phrase «visionary reason»

The task of the church is to be the bearer and nourisher of Christian visionary reason in a society increasingly dominated by technological reason.

The immediate concern of visionary reason is some particular situation before us right now in all its complexity and with all its inevitable compromises.

The ultimate concern of visionary reason is to form a society in which all evil has been put down.

Visionary reason is the gift that the prophet Joel says the Spirit will pour out on us in the latter days.

Briefly put, by visionary reason I mean the creative imagination God gave us to guide our lives toward desirable goals in pursuit of the good life.

In order to accomplish these tasks, individuals and churches will need the gift of what I shall call visionary reason.

Another chapter will contend that technological reason needs to be under the direction of visionary reason.

The final part of this book is to spell out in some detail the ethics of the Kingdom of God, and to specify what mission the church might undertake as the bearer and nourisher of Christian visionary reason.

On the other hand, visionary reason, with its goals and values, guides our entire life.

This is why visionary reason needs to come into the picture: it deals with these fundamental issues of what the truly good life is and how it is to be achieved humanely.

Visionary reason is rooted in the evolutionary origin and history of life.

In these everyday settings what I have called technological reason and visionary reason intersect and overlap.

Likewise, a space team designing Skylab, an economist working on the challenge of inflation in the midst of recession, and a pastor searching for ways to revitalize a congregation show in many forms the interdependence of technological reason and visionary reason.

Ideally, the church should be the bearer of Christian visionary reason.

Judged by the ideals of the Kingdom, most forms of visionary reason are deficient in ways that range from ignorance to idolatry.

The visionary reason of God is at work in the whole process of nature.

Just what is visionary reason?

Yet each has a theoretical side.7 Visionary reason is practical in nature.

The task of visionary reason in this situation is to keep pressing the questions about what human life is and what it ought to be.

Christian visionary reason acts in accordance with the ideals of the Kingdom of God.

The goals of visionary reason can be worked out in detail only by those who know the facts of every particular situation.

It all depends on whether visionary reason can keep the logical tendencies of technological reason under control.

Technological reason and visionary reason may sound remote from everyday life.

Guided by intelligence and imagination, the human search for the good life is a reflection of the visionary reason of God.

For visionary reason, better means more beneficial to people.

Why is it important that technological reason be the servant of visionary reason?

To dream and to do, to imagine and to invent, to will and to work, to envision the distant goal and to institute a present plan — these are the inseparable twins that define the role of visionary reason.

The way technological reason and visionary reason interact with each other will in large measure decide whether the future should be welcomed or dreaded.

I have spoken of the church as the bearer of Christian visionary reason.

I do so in order to give some specific illustrations of how visionary reason might respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Not exact matches

An entrepreneur and strategic visionary, Tom is a highly collaborative leader and this is one reason behind his success at CHANDOS.

This strategy failed miserably: in part, because the Speech contained absolutely nothing that would indicate he had a visionary strategy for the country; in part, because the Speech was anything but Conservative; and in part, but more importantly, because he decided, for some unknown reason, to take a scorched - earth approach to «eliminating» three senators.

Neither Democrats nor Republicans nor independents can articulate sound reasons to oppose this visionary socioeconomic experiment.

Stressing that it was ultimately about who can deliver and improve on the lives of the people, Dr. Bawumia noted that even though he is from the North, he won't just campaign on that fact but indicated that the most important reason why the NPP must be voted for in the December election is that the Nana Akufo - Addo — Mahamudu Bawumia — NPP is the competent and visionary team that can be trusted to change the lives of Ghanaians positively and bring the development, jobs and prosperity desired.

It has a look and energy that has the stamp of artistic visionary Tim Burton all over it, and for good reason — director Henry Selick had just finished directing two films produced by Burton, The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, and it's adapted by Sam Hamm, who worked on the Burton comic book flicks, Batman and Batman Returns.

Portability factor aside, many of the industry's leading visionaries opt for large screen displays for a reason.

This afternoon, the visionary Gary Ryan Blair, The GoalsGuy is Judith's guest — there's a reason why the 60 % of the Fortune 500 hire him.

I suspect that one reason Walker never looks as if he trying to be a primitive is because, like Hartley, he is ultimately a visionary painter for whom the Maine coast becomes a springboard for all sorts of metaphysical speculation.

I've met more discerning curators, sharp - eyed collectors, in - it - for - the - right - reasons gallerists, civic - minded philanthropists and visionary museum directors than I can name.

, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 14th Annual Inliquid Benefit Auction, Gallery Joe Booth, Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2013 In Front of Strangers, I Sing: 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2012 Transformations, Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA All About Etchings, Chris Neptune Gallery, Washington, DC 2011 Something French, Art Gallery at City Hall, Philadelphia, PA Exhibition of Select Prints, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2010 Prints by Gallery Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Selections from C.R. Ettinger Studio, 2000 - 2010, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2009 50 very small drawings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2008 The Figure Today, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY The Figure Today, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Fantastical Imaginings, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE Group Show, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD 2007 Magical Realism, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA 2006 Art on Paper 2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC 2005 Telling Stories: The Narrative in Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA Collaboration As a Medium, Edison Gallery, Washington, DC (traveling Art Place, Baltimore MD and more sites) 2004 Figure Out: Drawing as Narrative, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2002 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 2001 Ten Contemporary Artists, 5 x 2, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 2000 Drawing With Color, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA When Reason Dreams: Drawings Inspired By the Visionary, the Fantastic, and the Unreal, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Body Dismorphia, Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA curated by Jeanne Jaffe Allentown Art Museum, 27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Allentown, PA (Juror: Judith Tannenbaum, Curator, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI) 1999 Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Institute of Contemporary Art, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (catalog) Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA (Nov. - Dec.)

There were a host of reasons — strategic, economic, military, visionary and more.

For these and other reasons, I argued last time that the Kyoto approach to climate change — through the setting of targets — could prove to be like the League of Nations approach to preserving peace: idealistic and visionary yet impractical, ultimately ineffective and perhaps even counterproductive because of the valuable political capital it consumes.