Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that attitude, they are the despair of law-enforcement, welfare, health and academic officials who try to help them become assimilated in the city. A proud people, they are slow to accept relief-but they often hand over their money to credit gougers (poorly educated, many cannot read the large print, much less the fine) for 21-in TV sets and for the chrome and aluminum baubles they have seen on the screen. Most of them live crowded together in slum tenements, but family ties are so strong that relatives from the South are always welcome-even when their...
...quiet the screams of French businessmen who claimed that vast new imports of duty free Monégasque products were cutting into their domestic markets, France suggested that Rainier modify Monaco's tax privileges. Rainier refused, huffing "Neither I nor the Monégasque people can or will accept these demands. They mean the end of our liberties...
...living Christ?" says Barth. "We may believe in him only if we believe in his corporeal resurrection. This is the content of the New Testament. We are always free to reject it, but not to modify it, nor to pretend that the New Testament tells something else. We may accept or refuse the message, but we may not change...
...apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings." In place of the divine No uttered by God, Barth in Dogmatics writes about the divine Yes spoken to those who accept God's revelation in faith...
...when it is obedient to what God says. Hence there can be no theology apart from prayer, and no theology apart from God's revelation. The revelation of God is a continuous act: God still speaks to man through the words preached by his church to those who accept Christ. Since this revelation continues within the body of those who witness to God, there can be no theology apart from the church and what it believes. Barth, of course, is appalled at the divisions of Christendom; yet he thinks that most of those differences are the result...