Sentences with phrase «wholeness which»

«I am most interested in its potential to see awareness as a human presence, which heals by seeing the wholeness which is already intrinsic in each of us.»

Rather, members of the university must bind themselves together in the passion for human wholeness which was at the center of Christ's message and mission.

This experience releases the blocked inner strivings toward wholeness which are the gift of God.

This question will be used as a searchlight in exploring the untapped resources for wholeness which exist so abundantly in that living, interpersonal organism which is the local church.

As we begin to value women and the «feminine» attributes (love, compassion, caring, service, nurturance) equally with men and the «masculine» attributes (strength, courage, power, assertiveness) we may begin to achieve the wholeness which is our only salvation.

There is no doubt that they have experienced a quality of childlike wholeness which enables them to feel this new joy.

Not exact matches

Christians will also need to manifest loving community and family wholeness, which our broken culture desperately needs in the wake of the sexual revolution.

In a world in which all barriers to action and expression have been crushed, we are no longer open to Bonhoeffer's quiet but firm recognition when he writes: «The peculiar fact that we lower our eyes when a stranger's eye meets our gaze is not a sign of remorse for a fault, but a sign of that shame which, when it knows that it is seen, is reminded of something it lacks, namely, the lost wholeness of life, its own nakedness.

The Cross was an instrument of death but I think as a symbol it represents wholeness with it's different dimensions in which the celts were able to expand on its significane.

Here is a consistency to which I bear witness: we are always meant for community and love, always meant for wholeness and for shalom.

The opposite of the state of estrangement is expressed in various words: at - one - ness, salvation, wholeness and in Whitehead's term «Peace», which is a harmony of all harmonies.

A clergyman functions as a preacher when he proclaims Christ, the significance of Christ for men, and the need for acceptance of Christ as bringing wholeness of life; he is to preach for repentance and for participation in the Church which is the setting for the gospel.

If one's dis - ease is in part an existence without a meaningful story by which to integrate present, past, and future, then a prescription for wholeness will also include a means by which to write anew one's story.

This comparison of an actual entity to the structure of a linguistic proposition can be misleading, however, since the concrete wholeness of a process is the creating subject (which is closer to the simple predicate linguistically) and the subject / whole's parts are objects (the subjects linguistically).

In many black churches the healing function in pastoral care — i.e., the function in which a «representative» Christian aids another in restoration to wholeness, including a new level of religious insight — is greatly aided and abetted by the message of black theology, which motivates black people to claim their personhood despite the massive attempts of a racist society to deny their humanity and set in motion a vicious self - hate syndrome.

But, from his clinical experience, he developed a theory of personality that provides resources which are useful for facilitating growth in people all along the continuum of wholeness.

From his fullness [remember, the Word is of God and bears, not part of God, not just his breath, which conveys the spoken word, but all of God, all of his wholeness, his pleroma] we have all received grace upon grace..

The implicate order is the proposal of another order which will be suitable for this unbroken wholeness, not the Cartesian order.

Therefore, this notion of unbroken wholeness seems to be the one common feature which might unite relativity and quantum mechanics, whereas they fall apart on the attempt to describe in detail how things happen.

Biblically, the concepts of salvation and shalom describe a condition of community wholeness, in which each individual is in good health only when he or she is an integrated member of God's people.

In whatever manner they are made, race classifications are, like all other modes of classification, abstractions, which can not faithfully represent persons in their wholeness.

Beyond the anger — if we can keep on talking to each other long enough — awaits a relationship between the sexes which can provide the basis for a benevolent society and fullness (wholeness) of life for everyone.

This is no intuitive perception but a bold swinging into the other which demands the intensest action of my being, even as does all genuine fantasy, only here the realm of my act «is not the all - possible» but the particular, real person who steps up to meet me, the person whom I seek to make present as just so and not otherwise in all his wholeness, unity, and uniqueness.

The wholeness of the religious person includes thought «as an autonomous province but one which no longer strives to absolutize its autonomy.»

To become aware of a man, therefore, means in particular to perceive his wholeness as person defined by spirit: to perceive the dynamic centre which stamps on all his utterances, actions, and attitudes the tangible sign of oneness.

He does so, however, not through any attempt to recapture organic wholeness in the classroom nor through any positing of organic wholeness in society, but through the dialogical relation in which the I and the Thou remain separate and really «other» beings.

Buber's early essays on Judaism set forth with marked clarity the concern for personal wholeness, for the realization of truth in life, and for the joining of spirit and of basic life energies which consistently appears in all of his later writings and determines, as much as any other element of his thought, his attitude toward evil.

Dewey calls this value «quality,» but by the term he means neither mathematical nor secondary qualities; he uses the term to refer, first, to the wholeness or deeper reality, in some aspect of the world, often as that wholeness is presented in a work of art. 24 If this were called the objective locus of quality, the subjective locus would be the emotional intuition of the objective quality; this subjective quality gives the experience itself the unity which makes it that particular experience.25 It is this empirical discernment of quality which provides the substance of the derivative and propositional resolution of the conflict between the individual and its environment.

At this point it is sufficient to say that for the moment we recognize that we are not what we might be, that human existence is in defection from its proper fulfillment, and that we are in need of the wholeness of life which will put us on the right path and enable us to become more and more what God intends for us to be.

The wholeness of an occasion in its subjective unity is the vital and exclusive actuality which is completely lacking in the inclusiveness of the primordial vision taken by itself.

Only I - Thou sees this wholeness as the whole person in unreasoned relation with what is over against him rather than as a sum of parts, some of which are labeled objective and hence oriented around the thing known and some subjective and hence oriented around the knower.

Buber defines «philosophical anthropology» as the study of «the wholeness of man,» and he lists the following as among the problems «which are implicitly set up at the same time by this question»:

When it has passed beyond what we called at the beginning its «critical point of socialization'the mass of Mankind, let this be my conclusion, will penetrate for the first time into the environment which is biologically requisite for the wholeness of its task.

Second, we give thanks to God for the pull to wholeness and goodness which results in so many particular concrete instances of good.

This is «redemption», not as if it were merely a rescue from human failure but as an indication of and an empowering for the «wholeness of life» (shalom, as the Hebrew has it) which God purposes for men and women both in their personal existence and in their social belonging.

A new experience of wholeness for both women and men can result from the conjoining of the «masculine» and the «feminine» in which all human powers are quickened.

But if we stop pursuing justice, peace, healing and wholeness for our lives and for our world, we become supporters of that which we oppose.

If we stop pursuing justice, peace, healing and wholeness for our lives and for our world, we become supporters of that which we oppose.

We may recall that Christianity is in the first instance a gospel, a proclamation, in which it is declared that the eternal Reality whom men call God has crowned His endless work of self - revelation to His human children by a uniquely direct and immediate action: He has come to us in one of our own kind, the Man of Nazareth, uniting to Himself the life which, through His purpose, was conceived and born of Mary, and through this life in its wholeness establishing a new relationship to Himself into which the children of men may enter.

In the prison writings we find Bonhoeffer's insistence upon «a full life», the severe criticism of fellow prisoners who «miss the fullness of life and the wholeness of an independent existence», and a constant return to the theme of involvement in the world — these give some indication of the direction in which Bonhoeffer's thoughts move.

As Whitehead and Lonergan, among others, emphasize, our creative conscious participation in reality and life generates the concerns and emphases of our questioning.6 The heuristics of such a participatory and empowerment notion of understanding and scientific performance correlate with an understanding of reality as an ecologically inclusive wholeness, the emergent probability of which is oriented towards ever greater freedom and justice (LL 79 - 109, I 115 - 39).

The emphasis on wholeness, the interconnectedness of everything with everything else which is so characteristic of Whiteheadian metaphysics, nourished Suchocki in her own feminist aspirations toward integrity, i.e., a self - image which would be peculiarly her own and yet would be in line with the legitimate expectations of others ~ she commented, «we women are weavers, weaving the intelligible pattern of our lives out of the fabric of intensely personal experiences of sharing life with others.

The good life from which wholeness results is one in which proper precautions against injury are habitually taken.

So we have to take from the traditions as well as from modern developments certain values which do justice to the wholeness of human existence and find a new way of going forward fighting against both the traditional and modern injustices.

What are some of the conditions and habits of life which engender personal wholeness?

We would honor personhood, expressed in the sacred bodies that we each possess, through which the self is manifested — the holy and precious self; for our wholeness would be such that we would never need to use another person in any relationship, whether it be physical, emotional, or spiritual.

And what can this mean except that, like those planetary orbits which seem to traverse our solar system without remaining within it, the curve of consciousness, pursuing its course of growing complexity, will break through the material framework of Time and Space to escape somewhere towards an ultra-center of unification and wholeness, where there will finally be assembled, and in detail, everything that is irreplaceable and incommunicable in the world.

Those who think on Marxist lines believe that all that is necessary to inspire and polarize the human molecules is that they should look forward to an eventual state of collective reflection and sympathy, at the culmination of anthropogenesis, from which all will benefit through participation: as it were, a vault of intermingled thoughts, a closed circuit of attachments in which the individual will achieve intellectual and affective wholeness to the extent that he is one with the whole system.

If fully awakened, they could release new forces of healing and wholeness in the stream of our world that could turn the tide for millions of persons toward that fullness of life which is mental health.

Christianity all along has had, but mislaid, these specific tools which Dr. Mowrer and others have shown to be potent methods for restoring wholeness to a troubled human being.