In reconceiving the relationship between ancient philosophy and emergent Christianity as a rivalry between strong traditions of life, Rowe, a new Testament scholar, argues for the exclusive commitment to a community of belief and a particular form of philosophical life as the path to existential truth.
To reform tradition, you had to change the shared commitments of a community.
There is always an authenticity to conversations that arises only with commitment to a community of this nature.
They have never been "good soldiers" in the struggle and gone on to the next level of commitment of being a community-center director or a group-home or substance-abuse counselor or a youth mentor in a church or in a reading-partners program.
But one way to look at the events of this month at Gallaudet is as an extraordinary demonstration of commitment, by a community of stakeholders, to maintaining the integrity of their cultural center.
This priority is timely, and reflects a growing commitment of the research community to adopt a collaborative, rather than competitive, approach to clinical research.
So in the context of our discussion of the relation between individual and society, we were taught, both in the context of the moral philosophy section and in the context of the political philosophy section, that if we want to make real our commitments to living as members of a community, we need to have a vivid way of representing before ourselves that we are only one among many.
This pilot project is an example of how, with a small investment and the strong commitment of community leaders and members, a safe source of water can be made available for multiple communities.
A large commitment of community workers Kalthouma Daouda, who has been a midwife for 14 years, is one of the social mobilizers working ahead of the tetanus vaccination campain to get as many women of child bearing age vaccinated against this often deadly disease.
We need a commitment of the international community to save motherhood in Afghanistan.
