As a legislator, Mr. Codey has been sympathetic to the Church's more temporal concerns.
But they saved their enthusiasm for more temporal concerns, like his attacks on the Bush administration and his promises to promote equality, education and health care.
Yet Scheijen suggests that such temporal concerns were not the measure by which Diaghilev was meant to be judged.
ECK departed from Sant Mat by multiplying the number of spiritual exercises and adding many more temporal concerns (healing, harmony, and problem solving).
For you could say that what preoccupies Antigone, who as we know is attracted to universals, is simply another "absolute": the absolute personhood of the dead man, stripped of all labels, all categories — at least those imposed by temporal concerns, by politics and war.
In Aquinas's version, consideration of the essential ordering of the causes or reasons proceeds independent of temporal concerns.
He was convinced that a bill might be passed for regulating the temporal concerns of a religious society, which would not violate the Constitution; but did not say, till he could examine whether this was such a bill or not.
In such a polity one would, of course, find a church and a state, though Maritain would see them as cooperative entities, with the state occupying itself with those matters that, while focusing on temporal concerns, addressed the needs of the whole of the human person, and with the church focussing on spiritual matters.
I brought the conversation back to temporal concerns.
But the wonder of "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" is how it applies this even to the most temporal concerns.
In his work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (Mee-high Chick-sent-me-high-ee), the former head of psychology at the University of Chicago, outlines his theory of the flow state as "an optimal state of intrinsic motivation, characterized by a feeling of great engagement, fulfillment, and skill -- and during which temporal concerns (time, food, ego-self, etc).
