Sentences with phrase «which particular community»

The psychologist interprets this as due to the fact that the adolescent is unconsciously under the pressure to do that which his particular community expects of him.

Not exact matches

If you have a particular cause that's near and dear to you, consider a donor - advised fund that's offered through a community foundation, which are charitable organizations with a local focus.

Getting content placed on this particular publication's site, which publishes a quarterly magazine, weekly newsletter, and blog, would not only expose our client to hundreds of other companies in the space, but also help him make professional connections within this business community.

By midday, Mr. Frazier was joined by a handful of other executives as a voice of dissent in the business community, which has particular sway of the president, himself a businessman.

Largely I would echo what Christine has already said about the way in which we feel accepted within our community, but if you'll bear with me for a little bit, I'd like to attempt to explain to Trey in particular what I see as the difference between this type of acceptance and the attitude of the many Christians who view homosexuality as sinful such as what you have encountered with your sister.

Religion, and Christian communities in particular, can and should, says the author, model the civic culture for which he hopes - a culture that will retrieve and rehabilitate the best of the liberal Enlightenment tradition.

Can't be a Christian without belonging to the Church (by which I mean the community of all faithful people, not any particular denomination — sorry Rome).

Negatively, it will have to address itself to the ideological appropriation of Christian faith, which is inevitably the case where theology is claimed by a particular human community alleging privileged access.

Now, I realize I could just as easily call it «How to be Decent to One Another on the Internet» or «How to be Human on the Internet,» but given this particular community of readers, I wanted to frame the discussion around specifically Christian values and concerns, (many of which also apply to those of other religious persuasions, of course).

IMO, what makes this particular situation so brilliant for examination is that there is destruction in both forks of the emergent movement, which was itself a response to destructiveness inside the Evangelical community.

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Hebegan by asserting that «the promulgation of the great doctrines of religion... [can] never be a matter of indifference to any well ordered community,» «A republic» in particular required «the Christian religion, as the great basis, on which it must rest for, its support and permanence.»

Distinguished men of letters, essayists, novelists, and poets, have recently asserted their conviction that the only thing which can save our sagging culture is a revival of religious faith, but many of these men make no contact whatever with the particular organizations in their own communities which are dedicated to the nourishment of the very faith they declare necessary for our salvation.

Natural theology is a branch of theology because the theologian in appropriating it must recognize that his selection expresses his particular perspective formed in a community from which he speaks.

Whether or not the minister uses religious tools in a particular relationship, the counselee knows that he represents the religious community and the vertical dimension of existence upon which both can draw in counseling.

Precisely because a theological school engages in transactions of material goods and services, including police and fire protection, with the particular community in which it is set, its location there is concrete.

Every new settlement of that community, every new disjunctive multiplicity of attained actualities, gives rise, through the transcendent process of transition, to a new occasion in which that particular settlement is reproduced and in which the settlement as reproduced is then synthesized into a final unity of experience by the immanent process of concrescence.

In summary we may say that, since we are products of our setting and the particular values of our community, it is this concrete experience which we must bring to Scripture and in terms of which we must understand its message.

That key point is that communities (or, in Whiteheadian language, structured societies of a particular complexity) exercise an agency which is not simply reducible to the agency of their constituent actual entities.

In light of that pivotal text, Volf understands the church as «a community of grace» which gathers in Christ's name in a particular locality.

Often it is through this network that pastors are called when a vacancy exists and through which problems arising in a particular community are resolved.

What is perhaps most frustrating about engaging in such conversations within the evangelical community in particular, however, is that differences regarding things like Calvinism and Arminianism, baptism, heaven and hell, gender roles, homosexuality, and atonement theories often disintegrate into harsh accusations in which we question one another's commitment to Scripture.

Just which members are so bound will depend upon variables specific to particular communities — such things as the authority structures in place, or the function of representative intellectuals.

At Corinth, the oral performance of the letter has particular significance to the Pauline apostolate; since Paul's bodily presence had been deemed weak, Paul establishes a new presence, that of Paul - in - the - letter, which, when embodied by the reciter, gave Paul restored visibility in the community.

For example, until recently a British magistrate in India, where an Indian citizen had to be judged on the basis of the law of his particular religious community, had to be instructed in Hindu requirements as set forth in the Code of Manu, as well as in the Koran, which is the basis of Moslem law.

The model will depend on particular church polities, on the size and nature of the community in which the church is situated, and on the distinctive characteristics of the congregation itself.

The third factor which is both obstacle to and reason for giving new emphasis to the neglected function of the church as critic grows out of the fact that the churches reflect the assumptions and attitudes of particular communities, often of a particular social class or residential area.

This community is not only the particular church group to which we belong, but the whole living body of those who in all times have sought God and been found by Him.

With those who contend that «God is dead» I am at one in attesting the demise of a particular form of theistic belief which not only is unreasonable to contemporary men, but has also proved incapable of doing justice to the historic witness of the Christian community.

He criticized Bultmann and other demythologizers for demeaning the biblical worldview in the course of adapting Christianity to a modern one: «We ought not to overlook the fact that this particular worldview contained a number of features which the primitive community used cautiously but quite rightly in its witness to Jesus Christ.»

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

Scholars agree that the general structural form of what we now call the «ordained ministry» — according to which a particular person is given general oversight of all the activities of a particular Christian community — did not emerge in the church until early in the second century.

I only know personally of two successful christian communities where believers live either together or buy up houses on a particular street and run businesses (other than some cult communities which are differently run — they are not, I think what we are talking about here) and share resources.

The impressive contributions which this particular group of ministers is making in the educational and community leavening areas are evidences of what can and is being done.

Which is to say, the leader of the community in this or that place acts as the designated «elder» and performs what can rightly be known as priestly functions, even if that particular word is not employed.

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 proclamation sees mission in the perspective of the Word to be proclaimed, inculturation sees mission in the perspective of the flesh, or concrete embodiment, which the Word assumes in a particular individual, community, institution or culture.»

The Eucharist is by ecumenical consensus the corporate act in which «the community of God's people is manifested,» and it is of crucial importance that the identity - defining rite of the Christian community is precisely a rite of remembrance, an act in which the many are united in a common turning in the Spirit to one in particular, to the Palestinian Jew Jesus, through whose life and in whose person the salvation of the God of Israel is confessed to have been conclusively bestowed on humankind.

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

In response, I assert that what is crucial for the picture of Christ, if it is to qualify as an «historical» symbol, is not that it corresponds to the life once lived by a particular individual but that it exists, embodied in the corporate life of the Christian community, as the sacramental word by which the community is continually re-created.

Why wouldn't you (particularly you) take it as a series of historical documents (which they are), that have errors (as all historical documents do), and that relate the experience of a particular community or group?

Knowledge about individual community leaders, the history and development of a town, the way decisions are made in its institutions and social groups, the deals being made in the world of politics and business, the norms and values in the arts and sciences, the presuppositions and operational concepts of the professions — this is grist for the mill of a core group which has the responsibility of planning strategy for the mission of a particular church in an American community.

If it is granted that there is no theological or institutional way to guarantee that church and ministry will not fall into ideological captivity, should not a theological picture of ministry more powerfully include ways in which the ultimate purpose of ministry can and must set it in tension with the concrete actuality of a particular church community at a particular time?

Yet, as any one who has lived long in a particular community will gladly testify, what the New Testament calls «the fruits of the Spirit» have been vividly manifest in countless lives which have been rendered radiant and selfless by their Christian faith.

It is expressed more narrowly as identification with the particular political community to which they belong, or as patriotism.

In my view, the story that any particular church tells of itself necessarily participates in the imagination by which other societies have wrought their awareness of their own community.

Thus we know that the event upon whose unity and complexity we have been insisting throughout this discussion culminated in the formation of the community in which God makes himself known in a particular concrete way as both righteous and forgiving and through which the new life of the Spirit, the distinctive Christian life, is imparted.

This synthesis incorporates the ways in which a community lives out its faith, as well as the spiritual principles that regulate its conduct and impose a particular style on its religious identity.

The particular focus concerned models of urban agriculture that supported livelihoods and income generation, and which enabled improved access to good food for low income communities.

The services, which are provided by community organisations, target men at a range of relationship stages, including pre - and post-separation, and at particular life and relationship transitions, such as following the birth of a first child or the breakdown of a relationship.