Sentences with phrase «way of understanding self»

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Though many do not see the necessity of buying gold and silver right now, by this time next year in 2016, we believe that the necessity of understanding the best ways to buy gold and silver will be self - evident by that time.

Only in productive work and learning processes can their individualism be broken down in such a way that it is transformed from morally based (that is to say as individual as ever) self - sacrifice to a new kind of political self understanding and behavior.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

Thomas Day is writing about the culture of American Christianity and what it does to our understanding of God, self, and community — as reflected in the way Christians worship.

Just because we are so very ignorant of the big picture and often only want to see it in our own egotistical self centered way, does not mean it has a lot to answer for; it only means we need to grow up and try to understand the big picture more than we usually do.

Some may wish to use it as an historical book; after all, it is a collection of writings bound up together in one volume, telling us of the way in which the Jewish people came by God's self - disclosure to a deeper understanding of the God they worshipped and a more adequate conception of his purpose for his «chosen» race.

Only when the decision is made as a matter of deliberate policy can the school's ways of relating to its immediate situation truly be governed by its overarching end, be open to self - criticism, and become an integral part of the effort to understand God truly.

Further, they should be able to understand the loving and unique significance of conjugal intercourse, which lies not mainly in the pleasure it may give the spouses, but in the unparalleled way by which it expresses the total and exclusive self - gift they made to one another in marrying.

The overarching goal to understand God must also shape the ways in which all the school's practices are institutionalized so that self - criticism is an institutionalized feature of those practices.

If any members of the Church including also individual bishops were to demand that the Church should alter her constitution in a way contradicting her dogmatically defined self - understanding, such movement in favour of change would actually no longer take place within the Church but outside, for those demanding such a change could no longer belong to the Church in the full sense of a visible society.

This seems to be the way Locke interpreted his own philosophical innovation — famously trading our equality under God in the 2nd chapter of the 2nd Treatise for equality via individual autonomy understood as self - ownership in the 5th chapter.

Stories that define a community different from the world around us because of the way these stories shape our self - understanding, a community that may sometimes be wildly radical politically and on other issues seem conservative, but will not let anyone else's vision set its agenda.

Illustrative of this fact is the way a study of Buddhism can enrich our understanding of the human self and God.

It does not easily occur to us that this may be a way of speaking of one's self - understanding.

An understanding of revelation as the gift of an ever - more - inclusive future rooted in the kenotic love of God can help transform the Church's self - understanding in a way that would make it more closely related to the needs of our contemporary world.

(Originally they did not conceive of themselves as starting or belonging to a new religion, since this was not even a formal concept in their self - understanding, but as followers of the hodos, or the «way.»)

Others among the Sufis held fast to shari`a, but understood it in ways which were much wider and more liberal than the interpretation of the orthodox, looking upon the law as either a system of self - discipline or as a set of symbols representing hidden religious meanings.

To compare the several structures of existence with each other, it is necessary to employ terms foreign to the self - understanding of some of them and even to use terms employed by them in ways not identical with their own usage.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

Sexual fulfillment is so important to contemporary understandings of self - actualization and identity that anything standing in its way instantly becomes hateful and unacceptable.

If Jesus thus employed a familiar way of speaking, not just casually but in circumstances which made it the vehicle of a partly veiled assertion of his vocation, then «Son of Man» came to be something like a self - designation replacing the traditional title of «Messiah» That is how the writers of the gospels seem to have understood it.

Whereas Feuerbach understood the consciousness of God as man's consciousness of himself, Marx investigates the nature of the man who can develop the self - consciousness only in an alienated way.

The «relatin rationis» of God to all created events in the universe is another way of stating this noncoercive Divine Presence or Mystery grounding all cosmic and human actualities, beckoning human freedom towards noncoercive world and self understanding and acting.

The major consideration must be the nature of the self, but briefly we understand the whole person in the following way.

Both saw that some human pain and torment are punitive, that some trouble is disciplinary was taken for granted, that in one way or another the cosmic process should not in the end be ethically unsatisfactory, that the whole experience of suffering remained mysterious, but that the climactic element in the New Testament's contribution to the understanding of suffering is to be found in its treatment of vicarious self - sacrifice.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

If the Trinity is not to be understood tritheistically, the generation of the Logos from the Father is God's self - expression, whereby God's nature is articulated in ways at least partially accessible to discursive reason.

It is hard to think one's way back to the times before Vatican II, before ecumenical and self - critical Catholicism, before non-Catholic awareness of intra-Catholic conflict and the like, to reconstruct a plausible basis for such understandings.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

Certainly one of the indisputable offices of theology is to open the mind of the present community to the way in which the primitive Church apprehended the event that became the focus of its self - understanding.

Gay and lesbian persons respond by offering, from their experience, a variety of ways of imagining not only their own self - understanding, but the way we are called to be Church.

Not exclusively, of course, but in a singular way related to her self - understanding.

Yet I argue that participation in initiatives to restore a civil society in America, with appropriate reflective self - understandings, could meet the needs and activate the worldly spirituality of precisely those millions of middle - of - the - road citizens looking for the sorts of moral meanings, the kinds of religious roots, these communities used to represent and in some ways still do.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

In some ways all of this remains quite abstract because the notions of sinner and creature still sound more like self - understanding than characteristics of a craft.

The way to an answer leads through the mystery of self - giving and the paradox of the Gospel as we try to understand the relation of the love of God to the human loves.

We can understand many ills of the spirit and even of the body as caused by the damming up of the way to a life of free and self - giving love.

It had made him devote the rest of his life, at the cost of immense risk and suffering, to the one task of spreading the good news: that God had said «Yes» to Jesus; thus his way of life had been vindicated; that what he did and said had been true after all; that love, understanding, forgiveness, self - sacrifice are the real things that matter in the end.

We must develop an understanding of the Word which takes into account the ways in which all these literary forms convey sense to our self - reflection.

The particular way constancy of character is emphasized implies a substantialist view of the self and an essentialist understanding of Christianity.

In that way the role of creator may be understood as shared between God and past occasions along with the self - creation of the new occasion.

It took the destruction of the people of Korah by Almighty God to make Israel understand that it was God who had appointed Moses to lead them and that self - made leaders such as Korah would not work in the way of delivering Israel another country.

At the heart of Hampson's misreading is her reduction of Lutheranism to a dialectic between two ways of understanding the relation between self and God.

Before we can explain why persons might be persuaded by Christian theism rather than, say, Romantic harmony with nature or Nietzsche's defiant assertion of the self's powers, we have to understand how any of those systems could articulate ways that persons actually live.

Glendon and Weigel understand the sundry worlds of moral purpose and self - interest that must be addressed in more imaginative ways.

Instead of thinking out the full metaphysical implications of the basic understanding to which they have come in reflecting on the meaning of faith and justice for our self - understanding and praxis, they have either settled for talking merely about the meaning of ultimate reality for us or else taken over traditional metaphysical ways of talking about the structure of ultimate reality in itself that are doubtfully consistent with their own basic understanding.

Yet with our understanding of the way that life is involved with life, of the manner in which self and society are bound together, of the way in which small groups within a nation act for the whole, it seems that we must move toward a conception similar to the Hebraic and medieval one.

But that's not how Ellis was understood by most, and there is a direct line to be drawn between the Ellis article and the self - conscious if tacit defensiveness of the Land O» Lakes statement, which seemed to say, yes, we're second - rate, maybe even third - rate, and the way to be first - rate is to be like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the rest of what would be called, in twenty - first - century Catholic academic jargon, «aspirational peers.»

And just as in human contacts the new understanding created by encountering another in love and trust is kept pure only when it permanently retains its connection with the other who is encountered, so too the self - understanding granted by faith never becomes a possession, but is kept pure only as a response to the repeated encounter of the Word of God, which proclaims the act of God in Christ in such a way as continually to represent it.

He understands and appreciates us, but he has an uncanny way of sniffing out our self - righteousness and hypocrisy.